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Plot Summary:
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Japan, Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Kill or Be Killed (1966)
Plot Summary:
A violin-playing gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family and is accused wrongly for killing 2 deputies. He is saved by an old man, who helps him to get revenge and to prevent the girl he loves from marrying a murderer. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Western, Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Gun Shy Piluk (1968)
Plot Summary:
Law and order in the town of Boise are threatened by the Mason gang. When they murder Piluk's son, the old man vows to take his revenge, despite his apparent inaptitude for killing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Posse from Hell (1961)
Plot Summary:
Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others disply only revulsion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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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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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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The Silent Stranger (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The Stranger to return the scroll to Japan. Once there he finds himself stuck in the middle of two rival clans and decides to play them off one against each other to free the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, fast paced, euro western
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Clint the Stranger (1967)
Plot Summary:
In CLINT THE STRANGER (CLINT EL SOLITARIO), also widely known as CLINT THE NEVADA'S LONER, Martin plays Clint Harrison, a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns to his home town to discover that his wife (Marianne Koch of FISTFUL OF DOLLARS fame) has taken his son and fled north to escape his unsavory reputations. Following her in an attempt to make amends, he rides into the middle of a land-grab war between a group of desperate farmers and an unscrupulous rancher named Shannon (Walter Byrnes from THE BIG GUNDOWN) and his brutal foreman (the always reliable Fernando Sancho). Promising his wife that he won't use this gun, Clint must stand by as Shannon's men eliminate the farmer's in a series of well-staged set pieces calculated to make the audience anticipate the inevitable moment when Clint is forced to turn his guns and settle accounts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django, The Last Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lessons in death lead to the ultimate showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Johnny Hamlet (1968)
Plot Summary:
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 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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A Man Called Django! (1971)
Plot Summary:
Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy
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Vengeance Is Mine (1967)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Two Faces of the Dollar (1967)
Plot Summary:
A teacher, a gunman, an ex-Colonel and a beautiful girl decide to steal a big load of gold stored in Fort Henderson. The task is not easy, because the fort is very well guarded, but with adventurous stratagems.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town our hero Durango (Tab Hunter) delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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No Graves on Boot Hill (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three men, Jerry (Hill), Reno (Wood) and Paco (White), meet in the same prison and in their cell they find a Mexican boy condemned to death for murder. One night the three convicts are mysteriously released by a priest and the father of the Mexican boy who promises them a reward of $30,000 if they can find the real murderer within ten days. Certain that the Mexican boy is not guilty, Reno and the others organize a plan which leads to the unmasking of the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Kill the Wickeds! (1967)
Plot Summary:
A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more or less plotting against the bandits.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Ramon the Mexican (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ramon avenges his brother's murder and kills the Baxter Family. The surviving Slim Baxter joins for his revenge a troubled gang, which has also a lot to settle with Ramon. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, learning
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968)
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While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge (helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits). Along the way he learns that it was the father of his fiancée that had armed the bandits to avenge himself of some outrage he had suffered in the past from Cjamango's family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Deadly Trackers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Western, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Vengeance (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Hell to Pay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds-one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women-in a small mining town torn apart by civil war. When they fall for the same woman, the brothers become divided; and one man is left to face a band of ruthless killers on his own. A tribute to the great American Western, Hell to Pay is a gritty and mesmerizing tale of love, honor, duty, treachery and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: hood
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Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Plot Summary:
Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, wild
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Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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California (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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No Room to Die (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. Hi's gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Plot Summary:
Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their end of the deal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django the Bastard (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Union soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, gothic
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Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Christmas Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph "Joe" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak (Alejandra Rojo) dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father (Jack Taylor) will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He will become a troubled teenager, and will end up learning how to shoot. Joe will also reject his father's pacific attitude.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Texas, Adios (1966)
Plot Summary:
The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt's younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his "son". Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, grindhouse