Movies like The Western Code (1932)

Loved The Western Code? Here are 21 films with a similar feel, picked from what fans of The Western Code watch next and from titles with the same mix of western. The Western Code was directed by John P. McCarthy.

1

Appaloosa (2008)

6.6 Also western

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
2

El Dorado (1966)

7.4 Also western

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 rancher that is trying to steal their water.
3

Hud (1963)

7.3 Also western

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous…
4

Extreme Prejudice (1987)

6.3 Also western

Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a crew of rogue soldiers…
5

Dead for a Dollar (2022)

5.8 Also western

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of…
6

Texas Rangers (2001)

5.9 Also western

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have…
7

The Comancheros (1961)

6.7 Also western

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
8

Lawman (1971)

6.6 Also western

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox…
9

Forty Guns (1957)

6.6 Also western

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered…
10

Man Without a Star (1955)

6.4 Also western

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
11

Jubal (1956)

6.9 Also western

Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
12

Gunfight at Rio Bravo (2023)

6.5 Also western

When mysterious Russian gunslinger Ivan Turchin rides into a small Texas town, he runs afoul of a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds. Outmanned and outgunned, the town must put their trust in Turchin to protect them from…
13

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

6.6 Also western

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
14

The Kentuckian (1955)

5.8 Also western

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
15

Ramrod (1947)

6.5 Also western

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering…
16

Day of Reckoning (2025)

5.9 Also western

Put-upon lawman John Dorsey is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden to hold outlaw Emily Rusk hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on…
17

Wild Rovers (1971)

6.1 Also western

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling…
18

Billy Two Hats (1974)

5.8 Also western

After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
19

Barbarosa (1982)

5.9 Also western

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law…
20

A Man Called Sledge (1970)

6.1 Also western

James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they…
21

The Texas Rangers (1936)

6.6 Also western

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.