A Million Ways to Die in the West

50 Movies Like A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) You Need to Watch Next

2014·Seth MacFarlaneiRank50
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As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

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If you loved A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) by Seth MacFarlane, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Blazing Saddles, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, They Call Me Trinity. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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