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Plot Summary:
ad feedback A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: wild
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Mustang Country (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: neo western
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 323
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
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Duration: 96 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 685
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 152
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 311
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
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Country: USA, Germany, Canada
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 867
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
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Country: USA, Mexico
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 303
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 121000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
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