Movies like Django (1966)
The best movies like Django (1966) are China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), God's Gun (1976) and Django Strikes Again (1987). If Django hooked you with its action and western, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOnce Upon a Time in the West (1968)8.3/10 from 5,126 votes
- NewestDjango Strikes Again (1987)Released 1987
- In ItalianChina 9, Liberty 37 (1978)Also in Italian
- Same seriesDjango Strikes Again (1987)Django
China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & western
God's Gun (1976)
Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & western
Django Strikes Again (1987)
Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practice a little liberation theology.
Why it matches: Same series: Django · both western & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisFace to Face (1967)
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSabata (1969)
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMinnesota Clay (1964)
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Keoma (1976)
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hellbenders (1967)
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKill and Pray (1967)
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & western
A Bullet for the General (1967)
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor a Few Dollars More (1965)
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Return of Ringo (1965)
Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCompañeros (1970)
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohnny Hamlet (1968)
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
Sartana, bounty hunter and gunfighter, witnesses the robbery of a shipment of gold. He finds his way into town where he meets with a lot of suspicious stares from the locals. He also meets with Samuel Spencer, who seems to own the company in this company town. The gold shipments are being stolen, so Spencer agrees to hire Sartana to protect the next gold shipment. Numerous dull-witted villains make attempts on Sartana's life, but he survives. Eventually, Sartana's nemesis Sabbath (he of the white coat and parasol) rides into town. With a showdown inevitable, Sartana and Sabbath square off to settle the score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Blindman (1971)
A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
SnoozefestMovies like thisBandidos (1967)
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAt the End of the Rainbow (1971)
Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisoned unjustly for three powerful American bankers, to seize the gold mine that had Emiliano. During flight, the landowner dies and in his last moments asked Roy to recover the mine and save Jessica, daughter of his former foreman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAny Gun Can Play (1967)
A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & western
Beyond the Law (1968)
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Gundown (1967)
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDuck, You Sucker (1971)
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Grand Duel (1972)
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDjango Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan of the East (1972)
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in the West (1968)
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFour of the Apocalypse (1975)
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Django?
The closest matches to Django are China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), God's Gun (1976) and Django Strikes Again (1987). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Django?
People who watched Django most often go on to China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), God's Gun (1976) and Face to Face (1967).
What is the highest-rated movie like Django?
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), rated 8.3/10 by 5,126 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Django?
Django Strikes Again (1987) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Django part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Django, which includes Django Strikes Again (1987).
Are there Italian movies like Django?
Yes: China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), God's Gun (1976) and Django Strikes Again (1987).
How are movies similar to Django chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Django, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.