Films and TV shows that feel like (Ghost) Riders in the Sky by Johnny Cash

A cowboy glimpses a spectral herd of damned riders thundering across the stormy sky, a warning to change his ways or join their endless chase.

1. Unforgiven (1992): A dark, haunted Western about a killer facing his past and judgment on the frontier.
2. The Searchers (1956): Obsessive riders chase across vast Western landscapes in the classic of relentless pursuit.
3. Pale Rider (1985): A mysterious preacher-like stranger arrives as a possibly supernatural avenger of the dead.
4. High Plains Drifter (1973): Eastwood's ghostly Western of vengeance, guilt and a town's reckoning.
5. True Grit (2010): Rugged, biblical-toned ride through hard country with grim frontier justice.
6. Walk the Line (2005): Johnny Cash's own story of sin, guilt and redemption.
7. Deadwood (2004): Gritty, fatalistic frontier world of damned and desperate men.
8. Hell or High Water (2016): Modern West with doomed riders, fate closing in, and a Cash-worthy weariness.