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10 Best Movies Like The Desperate Trail

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

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#1
Open Range

Open Range

2003★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman....

#2
From Noon Till Three

From Noon Till Three

1976★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorse...

#3
Hell or High Water

Hell or High Water

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas....

#4
The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead

1987★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope....

#5
Silverado

Silverado

1985★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corr...

#6
Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder

1971★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate Trail for fans of Western & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge....

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