Movies like Fort Apache
If Fort Apache's mix of apache nation, colonel and slaughter stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Fort Apache's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Directed by John Ford · 123 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso directed by John Ford · With John Wayne · Shares: black and white
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of…
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Dead Man
1995 · Directed by Jim Jarmusch · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: black and white, 19th century
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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News of the World
2020 · Directed by Paul Greengrass · 118 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: american civil war, 19th century
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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12 Angry Men
1957 · Directed by Sidney Lumet · 97 min8.6
Why you'll like itWith Henry Fonda · Shares: black and white
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
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Dances with Wolves
1990 · Directed by Kevin Costner · 181 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…
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Open Range
2003 · Directed by Kevin Costner · 139 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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The Man from Laramie
1955 · Directed by Anthony Mann · 103 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: apache nation
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose…
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Wyatt Earp
1994 · Directed by Lawrence Kasdan · 191 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and…
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Heaven's Gate
1980 · Directed by Michael Cimino · 217 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers.
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The Dead Don't Hurt
2024 · Directed by Viggo Mortensen · 130 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: american civil war
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada.
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Ride with the Devil
1999 · Directed by Ang Lee · 138 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: american civil war
Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · Directed by Walter Hill · 115 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: apache nation
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless.