20 movies like Beyond the Purple Hills, ordered by similarity : Colorado Serenade(1946), Big Calibre(1935), The Deadly Companions(1962), Hell or High Water(2016), 20 Mule Team(1940), A Fistful of Dynamite(1971), The Long Riders(1980), Four Faces West(1948), The Far Country(1955), Rebel in Town(1956), Stagecoach Outlaws(1945), Gun Glory(1957) ...
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
1946
68 Minutes
Eddie Dean David Sharpe Roscoe Ates Mary Kenyon Forrest Taylor Denny Meadows
judge cowboy sidekick saloon owner bandit drifter confident crafty gutsy thrilling wild west saloon mine ranch small town robbery murder plot musical performance secret identity father/son relationship
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job and they are aided by undercover man Nevada.
Western
USA
1935
59 Minutes
son mad scientist murderer sheriff beautiful woman lawyer confident outlandish rousing border town jail ranch laboratory cave bank murder investigation false accusations robbery on the run
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1962
90 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Brian Keith Steve Cochran Chill Wills Strother Martin Will Wright Jim O'Hara
outlaw veteran bank robber saloon girl son gunslinger dark thrilling arizona ghost town wild west desert bank bank robbery accidental killing guilt promises death of child burial rise
An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Katy Mixon Dale Dickey Kevin Rankin
divorce brother son ex-convict banker texas ranger brooding raw intense texas house bank casino car office brother relationship foreclosure desperation search family
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
Western
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Wallace Beery Leo Carrillo Marjorie Rambeau Anne Baxter Douglas Fowley Noah Beery Jr. Berton Churchill Arthur Hohl Clem Bevans Charles Halton Minor Watson
mule-team driver saloon owner daughter clerk prospector friend engaging rousing death valley saloon bank desert rooming house office fugitives blackmail mining murder prospecting failing business
In California's Death Valley, in 1892, Borax ore miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade Borax ore surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.
Western
1971
139 Minutes
Rod Steiger James Coburn Romolo Valli Maria Monti Rik Battaglia Franco Graziosi Antoine Saint-John Goffredo Pistoni Roy Bosier John Frederick Anthony Vernon
revolutionary bandit bank robber soldier military officer prisoner cool confident mexico small town bank cave revolution robbery political repression transformation pursuit 1910s
A thief and a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary inadvertently become embroiled in the Mexican Revolution.
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
1948
90 Minutes
Joel McCrea Frances Dee Charles Bickford Joseph Calleia William Conrad Martin Garralaga Raymond Largay John Parrish
cowboy sheriff nurse bank robber gambler rancher intense suspenseful new mexico small town bank train saloon wild west bank heist foreclosure romance showdown chase organized crime
In New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral, in exchange for an IOU but the marshal and his posse chase after him.
Western
1955
97 Minutes
James Stewart Ruth Roman Walter Brennan Corinne Calvet John McIntire Jay C. Flippen Harry Morgan Steve Brodie Royal Dano Gregg Barton Chubby Johnson
cowboy partner lawman saloon owner townsperson miner suspenseful gritty wyoming yukon mountain small town saloon ship klondike gold rush cattle drives double-cross lawlessness romance wealth
Two Wyoming cattlemen (James Stewart, Walter Brennan) drive a herd to gold-rush Alaska and find trouble.
Western
USA
1956
78 Minutes
John Payne Ruth Roman J. Carrol Naish Ben Cooper John Smith Ben Johnson James Griffith Mary Adams
robber father son brother young boy mother fiery tense gripping rousing arizona small town family home ranch desert bank death of child false accusations cowardice accidental killing
After the Civil War, in a Yankee town five Confederates find trouble when one of them accidentally shoots a local young boy.
Western
USA
1945
58 Minutes
Buster Crabbe Al St. John Frances Gladwin Ed Cassidy I. Stanford Jolley Kermit Maynard John L. Cason Bob Kortman
cowboy saloon owner bank robber yokel sidekick outlaw positive spirited thrilling wild west jail bank stagecoach heist showdown mistaken identity prison break schemes heroism rescue
Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1957
89 Minutes
Stewart Granger Rhonda Fleming Chill Wills Steve Rowland James Gregory Jacques Aubuchon Arch Johnson William Fawcett Carl Pitti Lane Bradford Rayford Barnes
cowboy cattleman preacher father son grocer bleak confident tense wild west ranch small town saloon cattle drives father/son relationship defending the helpless frontier justice homecoming homesteading fall
A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.
Western
USA
1932
62 Minutes
Ken Maynard Cecilia Parker Sheldon Lewis Lafe McKee Frank Brownlee Jack Clifford George Gerwing Edward Piel Sr. George Chesebro Bob Burns Jack Kirk
cowboy love interest outlaw vigilante father sheriff engaging suspenseful wild west canyon cabin prison missing persons framed murder false accusations father/son relationship impersonation quest pursuit
Maynard hears the cry of the weird masked "phantom" of Tombstone Canyon. The plot thickens when Maynard discovers a man with a key to his past has been murdered by the phantom.
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
1956
66 Minutes
Herman Brix Richard Arlen John Carradine Faron Young Lloyd Corrigan Angie Dickinson Damian O'Flynn Irving Bacon Tom Hubbard Ron Kennedy Bill Ward
gambler sheriff son gunslinger saloon owner resident thrilling melodramatic small town courtroom saloon hotel law and order corruption justice masculinity crime father/son relationship rivalry growing up
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1932
60 Minutes
farmer adoptive brother father son cattleman daughter intense spirited engaging homestead ranch bar frontier old west competition romance land dispute murder father/son relationship brotherhood
Ken not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the conflict between the cattlemen and the sheep men. It gets worse when Butch kills Judy's father.
Western
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Jane Russell George Brent Scott Brady Forrest Tucker Andy Devine Jack Lambert John Litel Ray Teal Rory Mallinson Roy Barcroft Hollis Bane
outlaw brother marshal native american gambler saloon owner spirited sultry tense intricate oklahoma saloon small town jail desert hideout belle starr love triangle robbery gambling
In Oklahoma, outlaw Belle Starr joins the Dalton gang but she causes a romantic rivalry and a rift between the gang members, especially on the eve of the planned robbery of a bank where a posse is secretly waiting in ambush.
Western
1957
92 Minutes
Robert Wagner Jeffrey Hunter Hope Lange Agnes Moorehead Alan Hale Jr. Alan Baxter John Carradine Rachel Stephens
brother outlaw bank robber mother confederate soldier brooding gritty spirited tense missouri minnesota farm bank jesse james bank heist train robbery loyalty retribution family adventure
Misfit Missouri brothers Jesse and Frank James (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) turn to crime in the post-Civil War South.
Western
USA
1932
59 Minutes
Lane Chandler Sally Darling Neal Hart Yakima Canutt John Ince Charles Whitaker
gunslinger adoptive father love interest rival father son engaging wild west small town ranch saloon family home land dispute murder father/son relationship showdown mentorship adventure quest 19th century
Gunfighter Ken Wayne gets hired at Thorton's sheep ranch to help fight the cattleman Moran and his gang. In Moran's gang is Whispering Carlyle, the man that raised Wayne and taught him how ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1935
53 Minutes
John Wayne Marion Burns Yakima Canutt Reed Howes Denny Meadows Bert Dillard Jack Jones Nelson McDowell Archie Ricks Tex Phelps James Sheridan
beautiful woman brother son murderer boyfriend father spirited wild emotional wild west saloon train tracks house father/son relationship vengeance love triangle sabotage jealousy dueling love
Just as John travels to visit his father, he witnesses his death and suffers a gun wound - a beautiful woman is kind enough to help him bring the killers to justice, but jealousy from another man may cause problems.