20 movies like Silver River, ordered by similarity : California(1946), The Long Riders(1980), Stormy Trails(1936), Day of the Outlaw(1959), Vengeance Valley(1951), Four for Texas(1963), Johnny Guitar(1954), The Battle at Apache Pass(1952), Four Fast Guns(1959), Vera Cruz(1954), Unforgiven(1992), Beyond the Purple Hills(1950) ...
Western
USA
1948
110 Minutes
Errol Flynn Ann Sheridan Thomas Mitchell Herman Brix Tom D'Andrea Barton MacLane Monte Blue Jonathan Hale Alan Bridge Arthur Space Art Baker
veteran best friend rival singer husband lawyer engaging confident tense missouri town riverboat nevada bank casino gambling finance mining new life independence
After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.
Western
USA
1946
97 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Barry Fitzgerald George Coulouris Albert Van Dekker Anthony Quinn Frank Faylen Gavin Muir James Burke Edward Ciannelli Roman Bohnen
deserter poker player prospector saloon girl irishman landowner engaging melodramatic spirited gutsy california wagon train mining town saloon small town graveyard california gold rush self-sacrifice marriage of convenience mining
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Biography, Western
USA
1980
100 Minutes
David Carradine Keith Carradine Robert Carradine James Keach Stacy Keach Dennis Quaid Randy Quaid Kevin Brophy Harry Carey Jr. Christopher Guest Nicholas Guest
outlaw bank robber brother traitor girlfriend marshal confident tense melodramatic minnesota texas countryside hideout bank love triangle assassination james-younger gang bank heist sibling rivalry jesse james
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Western
USA
1936
60 Minutes
Rex Bell Bob Terry Lois Wilde Lane Chandler Earle Dwire Lloyd Ingram Carl Hackett
rancher cattle rustler lawyer bank robber banker outlaw melodramatic engaging thrilling town ranch bank office wild west bank robbery false accusations lawsuit greed siblings deception
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
Western
USA
1959
91 Minutes
Robert Ryan Burl Ives Tina Louise Alan Marshal Nehemiah Persoff Venetia Stevenson Donald Elson Helen Westcott Robert Cornthwaite Jack Lambert
cattleman farmer cavalry captain wife foreman brutal confident gripping tense bitters, wyo. mountain ranch feud bank heist outlaws hostage situation small-town life rivalry sacrifice transformation
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Western
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Robert Walker Joanne Dru Sally Forrest John Ireland Carleton Carpenter Hugh O'Brian
foreman rancher brother rival mother wife tense thrilling colorado ranch jail household adoption jealousy sibling rivalry framed illegitimate child infidelity rivalry revenge
The sons of a Colorado cattle baron, one biological and the other adopted, resent one another and fight for control of their father's cattle empire.
Comedy, Western
1963
124 Minutes
Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Anita Ekberg Ursula Andress Charles Bronson Victor Buono Richard Jaeckel Mike Mazurki Jack Elam The Three Stooges Yaphet Kotto
businessman rival beautiful woman outlaw banker townsperson madcap amusing spirited unrestrained galveston, texas desert stagecoach riverboat casino wilderness gambling teamwork scam robbery
Con men (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin) and their girlfriends fight, then unite, over a floating casino in 1870 Galveston.
Western
USA
1954
110 Minutes
Joan Crawford Sterling Hayden Mercedes McCambridge Scott Brady Ward Bond Ben Cooper Ernest Borgnine John Carradine Royal Dano Frank Ferguson Paul Fix
owner rancher friend townsperson cowboy gunslinger intense thrilling saloon small town hideout arizona robbery mob violence showdown passion railroad rivalry quest underdog
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
John Lund Jeff Chandler Susan Cabot Beverly Tyler Bruce Cowling John Hudson James Best Regis Toomey Richard Egan Hugh O'Brian Palmer Lee
american pioneer love interest native american native american chief soldier engaging gory gripping intense powerful tense united states new mexico territory battlefield ranch civil war territorial disputes fight to the death rivalry
When Cochise bands together with Geronimo and other Indian tribes, Major Colton abandons his fort, heading towards Fort Sheridan, through Apache Pass. The only thing in his way are the Indians he used to call his friends.
Western
USA
1959
72 Minutes
James Craig Martha Vickers Edgar Buchanan Brett Halsey Paul Richards Blu Wright Richard Martin John Swift Paul Raymond
gunslinger townspeople lawman outlaw widow loner brooding dark suspenseful intense engaging tense arizona false identity saving the town gunfight murder shoot-out outlaws discovery
In 1873, the town of Purgatory hires a town-tamer but the evil saloon owner hires 3 gunfighters to kill the town-tamer.
Western
USA
1954
94 Minutes
Gary Cooper Burt Lancaster Denise Darcel Cesar Romero George Macready Ernest Borgnine Charles Bronson Sarita Montiel
countess veteran gunslinger outlaw secret agent emperor gritty tense thrilling mexico small town desert unlikely allies gold teamwork rebellion greed betrayal quest rivalry
During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
Western
USA
1992
130 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman Richard Harris Jaimz Woolvett Saul Rubinek Frances Fisher Anna Levine David Mucci Rob Campbell Anthony James
gunslinger sheriff prostitute writer cowboy confident dark intense small town wyoming kansas vigilantism murder aging rivalry pursuit 19th century
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
Western
USA
1950
69 Minutes
Gene Autry Pat Buttram Jo Dennison Don Beddoe James Millican Don Reynolds Hugh O'Brian Roy Gordon
gene autry judge son saloon owner brother bank manager spirited confident small town saloon bank law office dance hall hideout bank robbery frame-up father/son relationship murder gambling will and testament
Hick town sheriff Gene must arrest Jack Beaumont even though he believe Jack innocent of his father's murder. Which, of course, he sets out to prove.
Western
USA
1962
94 Minutes
Randolph Scott Joel McCrea Mariette Hartley Ron Starr R. G. Armstrong Edgar Buchanan John Anderson L.Q. Jones Warren Oates James Drury John Davis Chandler
lawman frontiersman daughter drifter brother engaging amusing rousing sad sierra nevada mountains mining camp countryside middle age friendship robbery father/daughter relationship romance greed fall rivalry
An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Western
1965
132 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Lee Van Cleef Gian Maria Volonte Josef Egger Mara Krup Rosemarie Dexter Klaus Kinski Mario Brega
bounty hunter rival colonel outlaw woman adult gritty intense emotional wild west texas new mexico train saloon bank teamwork crime murder betrayal partnership
A man with no name (Clint Eastwood) and a man with a mission (Lee Van Cleef) hunt a Mexican bandit (Gian Maria Volonte) for different reasons.
Western
USA
1941
64 Minutes
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Carol Hughes Frank Darien Joe Strauch Jr. Pauline Drake Ivan Miller Sam Flint
gene autry love interest lawyer sidekick henchman friend engaging suspenseful spirited endearing texas ranch mine jail town inheritance schemes land dispute murder plot unlikely romance
Gene inherits a gold mine and a whole lot of trouble as well.
Western
USA
1942
62 Minutes
Johnny Mack Brown Tex Ritter Fuzzy Knight Jennifer Holt William Farnum Harry Woods Kenneth Harlan Pat O'Malley Roy Brent Edmund Cobb
soldier father friend editor daughter government official tense thrilling confident texas small town jail ranch father/son relationship land grab civil war reconstruction rebellion intimidation betrayal rivalry
Jim Malloy (Johnny Mack Brown) returns from the Civil War to Texas to find his father, Colonel Malloy (William Franum), leading a band of land grabbers and carpet-baggers during the Reconstruction Era.
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Helena Carter Hugh Marlowe Forrest Tucker George Reeves Gertrude Michael
cavalry captain native american native american chief native american warrior rival army officer brash gutsy patriotic rousing tense montana battlefield dakota territory fort rivalry demotion battle of the little bighorn love interest love triangle
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Western
USA
1953
77 Minutes
George Montgomery Tab Hunter Helen Westcott John Dehner William Bishop Douglas Kennedy Jack Elam Joe Haworth Hugh Sanders Willis Bouchey James Millican
lawman bank robber outlaw nephew uncle wyatt earp gutsy rousing wild bank stagecoach missouri frontier ranch old west framed showdown bank heist marriage pacifism
Outlaw Matt Ringo escapes prison and wants to co-opt his former outlaw brother Billy into robbing a Wells Fargo money shipment, but Billy has gone straight, the town Marshal is Wyatt Earp, and the Clinton gang wants in on the deal.
Western
USA
1953
77 Minutes
George Montgomery Tab Hunter Helen Westcott John Dehner William Bishop Douglas Kennedy Jack Elam Joe Haworth Hugh Sanders Willis Bouchey James Millican
lawman bank robber outlaw nephew uncle wyatt earp gutsy rousing wild bank stagecoach missouri frontier ranch old west framed showdown bank heist marriage pacifism
Outlaw Matt Ringo escapes prison and wants to co-opt his former outlaw brother Billy into robbing a Wells Fargo money shipment, but Billy has gone straight, the town Marshal is Wyatt Earp, and the Clinton gang wants in on the deal.
Western
Australia
1982
102 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Tom Burlinson Sigrid Thornton Jack Thompson Lorraine Bayly Tommy Dysart Bruce Kerr
cowboy rancher father daughter rival young man heartwarming powerful spectacular australia mountain ranch countryside mine home father/daughter relationship ambition honor horse breaking sibling rivalry
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.