Movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Name: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Released: 1966

10 films to watch after The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

1

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Fit 72%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
2

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Fit 70%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
3

The Hateful Eight (2015)

Fit 68%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
4

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Fit 66%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
5

True Grit (2010)

Fit 65%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
6

Hombre (1967)

Fit 61%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
7

Sabata (1969)

Fit 59%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
8

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Fit 57%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
9

Joe Kidd (1972)

Fit 55%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
10

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Fit 50%

Shares Western with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.