Movies like The Last Son (2021)
The best movies like The Last Son (2021) are True Grit (2010), Slow West (2015) and The Sisters Brothers (2018). If The Last Son hooked you with its western and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNo Country for Old Men (2007)7.9/10 from 14,059 votes
- NewestThe Isolate Thief (2026)Released 2026
True Grit (2010)
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSlow West (2015)
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sisters Brothers (2018)
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHostiles (2017)
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNews of the World (2020)
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOld Henry (2021)
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDesperate Riders (2022)
After Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout, the boy asks Red for help protecting his family from the outlaw Thorn, who’s just kidnapped Billy’s mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into beautiful, tough-as-nails Leslie, who’s managed to escape Thorn’s men. The three race to stop Thorn’s wedding to Carol with guns a-blazing - but does she want to be rescued?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Magnificent Seven (2016)
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Old Way (2023)
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he killed years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Revenant (2015)
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hateful Eight (2015)
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Salvation (2014)
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Proposition (2005)
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHell or High Water (2016)
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHostile Territory (2022)
Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack discovers that his wife has tragically died and his children, presumed to be orphans, are heading deep into the West on a train crossing enemy lines, with the intent of being placed into new homes. Calgrove and another soldier team up with a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they try to stop the train.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisButcher's Crossing (2023)
In the 1870s, a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a team of buffalo hunters led by a man named Miller. Together, they embark on a harrowing journey risking life and sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOutlaws and Angels (2016)
A gang of cold-blooded outlaws narrowly escapes a blood-soaked bank robbery in a grimy frontier town. With a notorious bounty hunter hot on their trail, these nefarious criminals desperately need a place to hide out before night falls. Fate brings them to the home of the Tildons, a seemingly innocent family with two feisty daughters. As the men settle in, an impetuous game of cat and mouse plays out during the cold, black night. Come morning, nothing will ever be the same.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Power of the Dog (2021)
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Homesman (2014)
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBone Tomahawk (2015)
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMeek's Cutoff (2011)
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Soldier's Revenge (2021)
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother, Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBadland (2019)
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Shoot Out (2021)
Soon after a newlywed learns that her husband had her father shot down, she flees from the Callahan ranch in fear. She's rescued by a gunman who safeguards her at a remote outpost as he staves off her husband's attempts to reclaim his bride.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Timber (2015)
In the wild west, two brothers embark on a journey to collect a bounty in a desperate attempt to save their home: but what they find along the way is more than they bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Furnace (2020)
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
The Isolate Thief (2026)
One bitter-cold winter during the Civil War, a young woman becomes the lone caretaker of a remote Union Army outpost. When a stash of stolen gold falls into her lap, a gang of vicious outlaws comes looking for it. As they turn her home into a battleground, she must stay one step ahead of them in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Terror on the Prairie (2022)
A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both western
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Last Son?
The closest matches to The Last Son are True Grit (2010), Slow West (2015) and The Sisters Brothers (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Last Son?
People who watched The Last Son most often go on to True Grit (2010), Slow West (2015) and The Sisters Brothers (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Last Son?
No Country for Old Men (2007), rated 7.9/10 by 14,059 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Last Son?
The Isolate Thief (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Last Son?
Yes: True Grit (2010), Slow West (2015) and The Sisters Brothers (2018).
How are movies similar to The Last Son chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Last Son, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.