Movies like The Duel

24 films close to The Duel (2016) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.

The Salvation

2014

murder · Drama, Western

In a Valley of Violence

2016

murder · Drama, Western

Bone Tomahawk

2015

murder · Drama, Western

Oh Mercy

2019

murder · Drama

The Return

2006

murder · Drama

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955

murder · Drama, Western

Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

2014

murder · Drama

Cold in July

2014

murder · Drama

The Funeral

1996

murder · Drama

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006

murder · Drama

The Masque of the Red Death

1964

murder · Drama

The Revenant

2015

murder · Drama, Western

The Sword of Doom

1966

murder · Drama

The Promised Land

2023

murder · Drama

Kuroneko

1968

murder · Drama

The Element of Crime

1984

murder · Drama

My Friend Dahmer

2017

murder · Drama

Hostiles

2017

murder · Drama, Western

The Reflecting Skin

1990

murder · Drama

Cut Bank

2014

murder · Drama · with Liam Hemsworth

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

2009

murder · Drama

One Deadly Summer

1983

murder · Drama

Dead Man

1995

murder · Drama, Western

Twelve

2010

murder · Drama

Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.