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10 Best Movies Like True Grit

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

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#1
The Green Berets

The Green Berets

1968★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Grit for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to...

#2
Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn

1975★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Grit for fans of Western. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hun...

#3
El Dorado

El Dorado

1966★ 7.4

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

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival ...

#4
The Sons of Katie Elder

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965★ 7.0

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

The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt bus...

#5
Big Jake

Big Jake

1971★ 6.9

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

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson....

#6
Fuller Report, Base Stockholm

Fuller Report, Base Stockholm

1968★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Grit for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Dick Worth (Ken Clark) is an American racing driver in Stockholm to put on an exhibition that his boss Bennet (Jess Hahn) hopes will result in orders for cars, and instead gets dra...