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Plot Summary:
Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Best tv shows and movies like Alive or Preferably Dead (1969):
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Now They Call Him Sacramento (1972)
Plot Summary:
After stealing money transported in a train, Sacramento, Big Jim and Tequila arribe to "La Paz" town. They rent a room there in order to hide the money but Sacramento and Big Jim, while Tequila is sleeping, run away with the money. Tequila follow them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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One Dollar Too Many (1968)
Plot Summary:
Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West. The motley threesome are forced to form an uneasy alliance in order to find $400,000 dollars in stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming (1971)
Plot Summary:
Steve McGowan has proposed to avenge the death of his father, murdered by one of the followers of Chief Miller. This engages the services of a famous gunslinger called Sabata and instructs him to kill Steve. The fate joins Steve and the Mexican bandit Leon Pompero, and together they decide to defeat the murderous gunman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Ben and Charlie (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that he does not want to hear from him again. But his wish won't be granted as the the two men constantly forced to reconnect while still hating each other's guts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny
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A Bullet for a Stranger (1971)
Plot Summary:
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django Defies Sartana (1970)
Plot Summary:
Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gianni Garko stars as the Holy Ghost, a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick (Chris Huerta), the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny
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Train for Durango (1968)
Plot Summary:
2 buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending
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Death Walks in Laredo (1967)
Plot Summary:
Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father. Source: SWDB http://www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Algeria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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They Died with Their Boots On (1978)
Plot Summary:
Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, action thriller
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Arizona Colt Returns (1970)
Plot Summary:
The rough and tough bounty hunter suddenly becomes the hunted when a $1,000 reward is put on his head for a stagecoach robbery he didn't commit in this action-packed sequel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Killer Caliber .32 (1967)
Plot Summary:
Super cool Silver kills the seven members of a masked gang, one by one. Saloon girls and poker games enliven this action-packed movie which culminates in the unmasking of the evil gang's boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)
Plot Summary:
The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sabata the Killer (1970)
Plot Summary:
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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One Against One... No Mercy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bill learns that his father, during the American Civil War, was accused of theft and killed. Convinced of his innocence, Bill discovers the true robbers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Seven Guns for the MacGregors (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Don't Wait, Django… Shoot! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Deep West (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Yankee gunman, Hallelujah, is hired by Mexican Juarista, General Ramirez to confiscate a case of jewels to fund the revolution. For this, Hallelujah will receive a percentage. But other parties are interested in the case and when they turn out to be fakes, it all deteriorates into a cat and mouse style game with Hallelujah, gunrunners, the French, and a Russian outlaw(!) all searching for the real jewels. - SWDB.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)
Plot Summary:
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered. - filmaffinity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shanghai Express (1986)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, fast, spaghetti western, spoof, slapstick comedy
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Bad Man's River (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma stars as a cool, cocky mercenary enlisted by a sheriff to infiltrate a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ennio Morricone provided the score to this early spaghetti western hit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, euro western, mind twisting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, mind bending
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Buddy Goes West (1981)
Plot Summary:
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, funny, euro western, rough, spoof
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Man of the East (1972)
Plot Summary:
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A couple of two-bit thieving brothers try and keep a promise to their dying father: stick together and become successful outlaws. Bambino reluctantly agrees to show younger Trinity the ropes, but their gentle demeanors tend to diminish their haul by repeatedly helping the selfsame family they initially held up. Fun ensues in town and at the local Spanish mission where they are taken for federal agents, mistakenly so identified by Trinity's young love interest, daughter of the aforementioned family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, epic, grindhouse, euro western, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Wanted (1967)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma, elected sheriff by his small town, is unjustly accused of murder and forced to flee. The man behind the false charge is a lurid figure who leads a band of cattle rustlers. Our hero tries to prove his innocence by getting rid of his enemies one by one. -From http://www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Man from Nowhere (1966)
Plot Summary:
Bandit Gordon frees a group of prisoners, forcing them to join his gang or die. Arizona Colt, declining to do either, heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's men murders saloon girl Dolores, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer for the price of five hundred dollars and Dolores' sister, Jane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Companeros (1970)
Plot Summary:
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny, epic, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic
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Day of Anger (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lee Van Cleef stars as Talby, a sadistic gunfighter who rides into town and takes on a young outcast as his apprentice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, art house, action adventure, historical drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic