Movies like The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The best movies like The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) are Rancho Deluxe (1975), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) and Carry On Cowboy (1965). If The Ballad of Cable Hogue hooked you with its comedy and western, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThey Call Me Trinity (1970)7.5/10 from 1,528 votes
- NewestThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)Released 2018
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarry On Cowboy (1965)
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Professionals (1966)
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoin' South (1978)
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisCat Ballou (1965)
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Catlow (1971)
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSupport Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisJunior Bonner (1972)
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSupport Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoot Hill (1969)
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisSkin Game (1971)
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
The Rounders (1965)
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Lemonade Joe (1964)
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSomething Big (1971)
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Cowboy John O'Hanlan is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He sets out to claim it, only to discover it's a brothel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTake a Hard Ride (1975)
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisDirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so the soldiers at the nearby fort (the main customers) won't go to Little Big Horn. Dingus tries to stir up more trouble and get involved with the pale, baby-talking Indian, Anna. The film is a send-up of the oft-repeated phrase "the Code of the West" and exaggerates it and what it stands for into the ridiculousness that it is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Kid Blue (1973)
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
The Over the Hill Gang (1969)
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMcLintock! (1963)
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIrma la Douce (1963)
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoss Nigger (1975)
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)
In a small border town, a sheriff and his 'associate', involved in an operation in which they divert marijuana through the border, must kill another smuggler who has gone into business for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Ballad of Cable Hogue?
The closest matches to The Ballad of Cable Hogue are Rancho Deluxe (1975), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) and Carry On Cowboy (1965). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Ballad of Cable Hogue?
People who watched The Ballad of Cable Hogue most often go on to Rancho Deluxe (1975), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) and Carry On Cowboy (1965).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Ballad of Cable Hogue?
They Call Me Trinity (1970), rated 7.5/10 by 1,528 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Ballad of Cable Hogue?
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Ballad of Cable Hogue?
Yes: Rancho Deluxe (1975), The Hallelujah Trail (1965) and Carry On Cowboy (1965).
How are movies similar to The Ballad of Cable Hogue chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Ballad of Cable Hogue, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.