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10 Best Movies Like Red River

If you loved Red River, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fort Apache

Fort Apache

1948★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form a...

#2
Second Chorus

Second Chorus

1941★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the...

#3
Riders of Destiny

Riders of Destiny

1933★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Western. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle...

#4
Hangman's House

Hangman's House

1928★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. ...

#5
The Sea Hornet

The Sea Hornet

1951★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attemp...

#6
The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew

1968★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red River for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him....