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Plot Summary:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, satirical, entertaining, spoof, hilarious, slapstick
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Lust in the Dust (1984)
Plot Summary:
A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, funny, perverse, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, sex comedy
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City Slickers (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, entertaining, captivating, clever, touching, satirical, smart
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Evil Roy Slade (1972)
Plot Summary:
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, offbeat, humorous, not serious, campy
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Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
Plot Summary:
While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlehan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliche ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, semi serious, spaghetti western, campy
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The Night Before Christmas (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, spaghetti western, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, touching, entertaining, cult classic
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Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)
Plot Summary:
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, intense, exciting, semi serious, funny, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense
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The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, entertaining, satirical, absurd, light, humorous, melancholic, cult classic, feel good
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic criminal Paris Pitman ends up in jail, then attempts to escape the prison of warden Lopeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, spaghetti western, slapstick comedy
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4 for Texas (1963)
Plot Summary:
Frank Sinatra plays a tough guy who hooks up with fellow rat packer Dean Martin to open a casino in this western.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, exciting, light, sexy, biblical
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired", and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, campy
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Lucky Luke (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, cult classic, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
Plot Summary:
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives he find's his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to out-smart and defeat Lundy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Carry on Cowboy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Plot Summary:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, retro, action adventure, exciting, feel good, realistic, not serious
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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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Boot Hill (1969)
Plot Summary:
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, action comedy, euro western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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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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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, euro western, parody, cult film
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
Plot Summary:
A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, detective
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Catlow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Catlow is a 1971 western based on a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a outlaw determined to pull off a gold robbery and co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, exciting, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Three Amigos (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, feel good, light, talky, not serious, spoof, slapstick, cult classic
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The Dictator (2012)
Plot Summary:
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 329000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: hilarious, parody, funny, absurd, humorous, entertaining, realistic, political, spoof, witty
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Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, not serious, parody, slapstick, psychological, road movie, feel good, black comedy
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Beerfest (2006)
Plot Summary:
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic, grindhouse, hilarious, sex comedy, teen, parody
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Ted 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, not serious, parody, action comedy, absurd, psychedelic, feel good, entertaining
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 434000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, controversial, funny, parody, dark comedy, satirical, slapstick, hilarious
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Movie 43 (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing several of the stories in his script, Wessler becomes agitated when Schraeder dismisses his outrageous ideas, and he pulls a gun on him and forces him to listen to multiple other stories before making Schraeder consult his manager, Bob Mone, to purchase the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, not serious, spoof, absurd, cult classic, humorous, sexy, offbeat, black comedy
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, exciting, feel good, humorous, hilarious, action comedy, action packed, slapstick
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Ted (2012)
Plot Summary:
John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 644000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, buddy comedy, hilarious, not serious, parody, entertaining, absurd, feel good, teen