Movies like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
The best movies like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) are The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), Calamity Jane (1953) and A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975). If Butch and Sundance: The Early Days hooked you with its western and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)7.6/10 from 2,593 votes
- NewestChasing Papi (2003)Released 2003
- Same seriesButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The 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
Calamity Jane (1953)
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom Noon Till Three (1976)
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, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne More Train to Rob (1971)
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Support 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 thisBandolero! (1968)
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCharro! (1969)
Vince Hackett's gang steals a prized victory canon from Mexico and blames the deed on ex-member Jess Wade, who wants to go straight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlazing Saddles (1974)
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 Villain (1979)
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Simpson wants the money and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlong Came Jones (1945)
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Why it matches: Same series: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRooster Cogburn (1975)
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 hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Sam Whiskey (1969)
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
Pocket Money (1972)
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisLucky Luke (1991)
Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Big Man (1970)
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like this4 for Texas (1963)
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & western
SnoozefestMovies like thisWyatt Earp (1994)
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
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 thisChasing Papi (2003)
Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that he choose just one girlfriend -- but can he choose in time before they discover his deception?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShanghai Noon (2000)
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe White Buffalo (1977)
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung Guns II (1990)
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days?
The closest matches to Butch and Sundance: The Early Days are The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), Calamity Jane (1953) and A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Butch and Sundance: The Early Days?
People who watched Butch and Sundance: The Early Days most often go on to The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), Calamity Jane (1953) and A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975).
What is the highest-rated movie like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), rated 7.6/10 by 2,593 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days?
Chasing Papi (2003) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Butch and Sundance: The Early Days part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Are there English movies like Butch and Sundance: The Early Days?
Yes: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), Calamity Jane (1953) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976).
How are movies similar to Butch and Sundance: The Early Days chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.