
50 Movies Like Bone Tomahawk (2015) You Need to Watch Next
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 dis
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If you loved Bone Tomahawk (2015) by S. Craig Zahler, 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 Cujo, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in the West. 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.
50 Movies Similar to Bone Tomahawk

Cujo
1983 · Lewis Teague
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
In common: Drama · Horror

Django Unchained
2012 · Quentin Tarantino
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
In common: Drama · Western

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Sergio Leone
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
In common: Drama · Western

El Dorado
1966 · Howard Hawks
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is tryi
In common: Drama · Western

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
In common: Drama · Horror

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit
In common: Drama · Horror

True Grit
1969 · Henry Hathaway
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', a
In common: Drama · Western

Rio Bravo
1959 · Howard Hawks
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
In common: Drama · Western

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
2024 · Kevin Costner
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after kil
In common: Drama · Western

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Andrew Dominik
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 brothe
In common: Drama · Western

Carrie
2013 · Kimberly Peirce
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
In common: Drama · Horror

The Babadook
2014 · Jennifer Kent
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
In common: Drama · Horror

mother!
2017 · Darren Aronofsky
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
In common: Drama · Horror

Stagecoach
1939 · John Ford
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
In common: Drama · Western

Dances with Wolves
1990 · Kevin Costner
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlike
In common: Drama · Western

True Grit
2010 · Ethan Coen
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
In common: Drama · Western

The Revenant
2015 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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.
In common: Drama · Western

Hostiles
2017 · Scott Cooper
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 reser
In common: Drama

Candyman
1992 · Bernard Rose
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
In common: Drama · Horror

Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In common: Drama · Horror

A Quiet Place
2018 · John Krasinski
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
In common: Drama · Horror

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
2011 · Tom Six
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
In common: Drama · Horror

Midsommar
2019 · Ari Aster
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where t
In common: Drama · Horror

It
2017 · Andy Muschietti
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
In common: Drama · Horror

It Chapter Two
2019 · Andy Muschietti
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating
In common: Drama · Horror

The Hateful Eight
2015 · Quentin Tarantino
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
In common: Drama · Western

Bird Box
2018 · Susanne Bier
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
In common: Drama · Horror

The Host
2006 · Bong Joon Ho
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
In common: Drama · Horror

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · Carles Torrens
When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out
In common: Drama · Horror

Interview with the Vampire
1994 · Neil Jordan
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
In common: Drama · Horror

Martyrs
2008 · Pascal Laugier
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell o
In common: Drama · Horror

The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
In common: Drama · Horror

Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Polanski
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
In common: Drama · Horror

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Joel Coen
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 perf
In common: Drama · Western

Jacob's Ladder
1990 · Adrian Lyne
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around hi
In common: Drama · Horror

The Craft
1996 · Andrew Fleming
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
In common: Drama · Horror

Session 9
2001 · Brad Anderson
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
In common: Drama · Horror

Suspiria
2018 · Luca Guadagnino
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the night
In common: Drama · Horror

Secret Obsession
2019 · Peter Sullivan
Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’
In common: Drama · Horror

The Shallows
2016 · Jaume Collet-Serra
While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requi
In common: Drama · Horror

I Saw the TV Glow
2024 · Jane Schoenbrun
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, ho
In common: Drama · Horror

Audition
2000 · Takashi Miike
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interv
In common: Drama · Horror

The Exorcist
1973 · William Friedkin
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
In common: Drama · Horror

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · John Ford
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed
In common: Western

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 · Sergio Leone
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing
In common: Western

A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Sergio Leone
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold i
In common: Western

The Searchers
1956 · John Ford
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
In common: Western

3:10 to Yuma
2007 · James Mangold
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling
In common: Western

Unforgiven
1992 · Clint Eastwood
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutal
In common: Western

The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · Clint Eastwood
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 unprot
In common: Western