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Plot Summary:
The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Bandidos (1967)
Plot Summary:
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Last of the Badmen (1967)
Plot Summary:
Kitosh, a young cowboy working for Don Jaime Morelos, is beaten almost to death under his employers orders for flirting with Don Jaime's frivolous wife. Full of hatred towards Don Jaime, Kitosh leaves the ranch and begins life as an outlaw joining up with renowned bandit Tracy the Black. Tension sets in between the two men because Kitosh kills only when he has to, whereas Tracy kills just for the fun of it, deriving a sadistic pleasure from other people's suffering. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Dollar Between the Teeth (1967)
Plot Summary:
Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 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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Ringo, Pray to Your God and Die (1967)
Plot Summary:
Instead of fighting over newly gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collects the money) and Rocco (a righteous ex-sheriff who doesn't and shows off even more skill in using his pistol) on their plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending
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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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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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Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
Plot Summary:
Johnny fights the banker Burton, who tries to acquire with the help of the strange bandit Martinez, in an unlawful way, all the gold mines in the nearer environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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$1,000 on the Black (1966)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
Plot Summary:
(1965) James Mitchum George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Jill Powers, Eduardo Ciannelli. After a search for his father's killers, Mitchum returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute. Good western with a helluva cast. Great to see Ciannelli in one of his last films. Color, scope, 35mm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Days of Violence (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968)
Plot Summary:
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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Django Kills Softly (1967)
Plot Summary:
Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who'd been trying to buy safe passage for his cargo from a Mexican bandit named El Santo. Django finds that Sanders has been killed and that his rival, a man named Thompson, is now trying to deal with El Santo. Django, after a brief involvement with a beautiful young widow named Linda -- who has information on a lost gold mine -- becomes entangled in this situation by agreeing to escort a shipment through El Santo's territory.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Awkward Hands (1970)
Plot Summary:
Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 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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Django, a Bullet for You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and took refuge at the home of Jimmy and Mary, two brothers who live in a small farm. She cared for and healed him, explaining the concern he feels for his brother to the company he keeps. Sam discovers that Jimmy is one of the outlaws pursued and, despite their friendship, goes on his quest to catch a bandit.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963)
Plot Summary:
European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Halleluja for Django (1967)
Plot Summary:
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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Reverend's Colt (1970)
Plot Summary:
Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him for the robbery. The sheriff saves him from lynching by putting him in jail. Then he asks the priest to find the gang and the booty; thus Miller becomes the Reverend Colt. His exceptional skill means that he can shoot hats off people's heads and their pistols from their pockets, but he never kills.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 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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Three Bullets for Ringo (1966)
Plot Summary:
Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay of a crooked Mayor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Blindman (1971)
Plot Summary:
A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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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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The Return of Clint the Stranger (1972)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film and essentially uses the same plot. George Martin returns as Clint (renamed Trinity in some countries), an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. One major differences in the plot when compared to the first film is the addition of Klaus Kinski as a ruthless bounty hunter. The bounty hunter tracks Clint down and forces him to return to his violent ways to protect himself and his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic
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I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sartana, bounty hunter and gunfighter, witnesses the robbery of a shipment of gold. He finds his way into town where he meets with a lot of suspicious stares from the locals. He also meets with Samuel Spencer, who seems to own the company in this company town. The gold shipments are being stolen, so Spencer agrees to hire Sartana to protect the next gold shipment. Numerous dull-witted villains make attempts on Sartana's life, but he survives. Eventually, Sartana's nemesis Sabbath (he of the white coat and parasol) rides into town. With a showdown inevitable, Sartana and Sabbath square off to settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized
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Day After Tomorrow (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964)
Plot Summary:
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic