Alex Cox turns Nikolai Gogol’s classic con-man tale into a dusty, offbeat Arizona western, with Cox himself playing Strindler, a stranger buying names of dead Mexican laborers during the 1890 census. Part satire, part spaghetti-western fever dream, Dead Souls mixes frontier scams, politics, songs, and strange humor perfectly onscreen here.
Start with these films if Strindler’s crooked frontier left you craving more.
Straight to Hell
Walker
Tombstone Rashomon
Repo Man
Searchers 2.0
Dead Man
El Topo
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
The Great Silence
A Bullet for the General
The Mercenary
Compañeros
Duck, You Sucker
Face to Face
Tepepa
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Django
Once Upon a Time in the West
Cemetery Without Crosses
Keoma
The Shooting
Ride in the Whirlwind
Greaser's Palace
Zachariah
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Little Big Man
The Hired Hand
The Missouri Breaks
Heaven's Gate
Cabeza de Vaca
Lone Star
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Proposition
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Meek's Cutoff
The Homesman
Slow West
Bone Tomahawk
The Power of the Dog
Bacurau
No Country for Old Men
Highway Patrolman
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wild Bunch
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Milagro Beanfield War
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Dead Souls is the kind of oddball western that sends you hunting for stranger trails. These picks keep that same mix of dust, danger, satire, and crooked souls alive today.
