Movies like The Life Timer (1913)
The best movies like The Life Timer (1913) are The Bravados (1958), Terror on the Prairie (2022) and Two Rode Together (1961). If The Life Timer hooked you with its western, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedAppaloosa (2008)6.6/10 from 1,153 votes
- NewestThe Five (2023)Released 2023
The Bravados (1958)
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerror 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Rode Together (1961)
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Five (2023)
A scorned woman enlists the help of five strangers to execute a bank robbery. Tensions rise as the men anxiously await her arrival with the money, leaving the crew to wonder if they have been betrayed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
SnoozefestMovies like thisDecision at Sundown (1957)
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man Called Sledge (1970)
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 begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBilly Two Hats (1974)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirecreek (1968)
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLawman (1971)
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 later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRamrod (1947)
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 alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan Without a Star (1955)
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRough Night in Jericho (1967)
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlaming Star (1960)
Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarquero (1970)
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRun for Cover (1955)
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJubal (1956)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Violent People (1956)
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Call of the Wild (1972)
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part of how he survives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAppaloosa (2008)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both western
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last of the Duanes (1919)
Buck Duane guns down the man who killed his father and flees from the law. He rescues a girl he once loved from outlaws, but the wife of outlaw chief has her own designs on him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Red Glove (1919)
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Vanishing Pioneer (1928)
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
Alice of Hudson Bay (1915)
Trapper John Gale lives in the Canadian backwoods with his daughter, Alice. Gale catches Ralph Martin stealing from his traps and a confrontation ensues. During the fight, they recognize each other as former clerks from the East, where Gale had been wrongly accused of murder. Spurned by Alice, Ralph notifies the Mounties of John’s whereabouts even though he is the guilty party.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
Vanishing Men (1932)
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Flyin' Buckaroo (1928)
Bill Mathews mistakenly comes to believe that his sweetheart, Sally Brown, prefers the company of his brother, Henry, to that of his own and dejectedly goes to the city, where he finds work driving a truck. Six months later Bill returns home; that very day, the Delno gang robs the bank and kidnaps Sally. Bill follows the outlaws in a plane and parachutes into their mountain hideout; he captures Delno's men and rescues Sally, who quickly convinces him that she has never loved another.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Fighting Trail (1917)
15 chapter adventure tale starring forgotten serial queen Carol Holloway. The chapter titles were: (1) The Priceless Ingredient; (2) The Story of Ybarra; (3) Will Yaqui Joe Tell?; (4) The Other Half; (5) Torrent Rush; (6) The Ledge of Despair; (7) The Lion's Prey; (8) The Strands of Doom; (9) The Bridge of Death; (10) The Sheriff; (11) Parched Trails; (12) The Desert of Torture; (13) The Water Trap; (14) The Trestle of Horrors; and (15) Out of the Flame.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Castle Ranch (1915)
Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy the land back at a lower price after learning of the discovery. Todd's secretary informs Sally, who warns Algy, but he reveals he already knew about the oil and had planned the whole scenario. This not only wins him the land but also Sally's affections, as Todd loses both.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Girl of the Golden West (1930)
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
The Millionaire Cowboy (1913)
During a wonderful exhibition of horsemanship and cowboy skill. "Dud," the foreman of the Diamond S ranch, is handed a telegram summoning him to Chicago to claim a fortune left him by an uncle. There he falls in love and marries the stenographer in the office of his attorneys, after a year he tires of the monotony of the life he leads and wires for the entire outfit to come to Chicago and wake the town up. They carry out instructions elaborately much to the embarrassment of Mrs. "Bud." After they leave, "Bud" embraces his wife and to her great relief, whispers, "Never again."
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both western
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Life Timer?
The closest matches to The Life Timer are The Bravados (1958), Terror on the Prairie (2022) and Two Rode Together (1961). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Life Timer?
Start with The Bravados (1958), the closest match to The Life Timer.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Life Timer?
Appaloosa (2008), rated 6.6/10 by 1,153 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Life Timer?
The Five (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Life Timer?
Yes: The Bravados (1958), Terror on the Prairie (2022) and Two Rode Together (1961).
How are movies similar to The Life Timer chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Life Timer, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.