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Plot Summary:
A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Vengeance (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Confederate captain's younger brother is flogged to death in a Union stockade. The captain vows revenge. Two years later he finds the men responsible running a rustling operation in a small western town.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mission in Kabul (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch, a weigh station for stage coaches. While waiting for the gold to arrive they encounter a stranger, John Webb, who wants half the gold in exchange for guiding them safely to Mexico. Reluctantly, Dan agrees and they set across the brutal desert for a race to the border with the Rangers hot on their tail. Is John who he says he is? Is he really after the gold or does he have an ulterior motive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, wild
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Alien Thunder (1974)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Canadian Mountie Dan Candy's pursuit of a Native American that killed his partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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Death Does Not Count the Dollars (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Country Trip of Sgt. Tsybulya (1979)
Plot Summary:
On the way to Partisans camp Sgt. Tsybulya suddenly lands in the middle of German troops. Now he must find a way to return to the Red Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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The Seventh Bullet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Despite the restoration of Soviet power in the area, Basmachis continue to arrive from across the border, bringing death and destruction to peaceful villages. One of the bands of rebels is led by Khairulla who is pitted against the militsiya (local militia) leader Maxumov. At first it seems hopeless for Maxumov as the rebels capture most of his men, winning them over to his side. He has only one strategy left; to give himself up, and try to explain to the people that Khairulla has deceived them, turning the soldiers back to revolution. Later in pursuit of his enemy, he chases Khairulla across a river. He has only one bullet left -- the seventh, and he must not miss his target!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Adventure, War, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Implacable Three (1963)
Plot Summary:
Guzman, a rich U.S. landowner is forced to leave for a short time, leaving his pregnant wife alone in the ranch. That night, a group of bandits, believing that the house is empty, enters with the purpose of stealing. She surprises them and they kill her. When Guzman returns, he finds in the fingers of his dead wife the tie pin of the murderer. Then, with the help of a Portuguese and a Mexican friends,he begins his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Mystery, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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Hole in the Forehead (1968)
Plot Summary:
A stranger and a bandit seek out a trio of playing cards that will lead them to hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Gunfight at High Noon (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three unequal brothers seek revenge for the murder of their father. Each of them goes a different way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, crying
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Execution (1968)
Plot Summary:
Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one. He is actually the outlaw's honest younger brother Bill, who works in a traveling circus. Will Clip be able to find the stolen gold? Maybe ... but only if a gang of vicious Mexican bandits - to say nothing of Bill's circus troupe - allow him to. Which they do not seem willing to do.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Road to Fort Alamo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a bank. They get the money but a shoot-out occurs, an old woman is killed, and the gang acrimoniously splits up. Later some members of the gang meet up with some real U.S. Cavalry soldiers and together they must fight off new Indian attacks.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult film
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Seven Hours of Gunfire (1965)
Plot Summary:
When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 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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Red Diplomatic Couriers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Soviet spies are delivering top-secret mail to Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Ringo: The Lone Rider (1968)
Plot Summary:
A town is being terrorized by a gang of marauders led by Bill Anderson, a clever bandit boss. The town's leadership is deciding to do something against the problem, but it does not believe bringing in the military will be a solution. It is agreed upon that they will request help from the well-known Pinkerton agency. At the same time, Ringo, a gunslinger, is chasing after the bandits. He suspects a deeper-sitting conspiracy than random bandit assaults. He joins forces with the newly arrived under cover Pinkerton agent, to uncover a plot between a local businessman, the Mexican revolution and bandit's heist loot of gold. But the bandits have long planned to move on. Disguised as Mormons, they are moving west to start a new life of farming during the day and robbing stage coaches at night. Ringo and the agent track them down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: 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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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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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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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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Dead Men Don't Count (1968)
Plot Summary:
Damon and Steffen are paired up bounty hunters falsely accused of murder in a lawless town ruled by racketeering lawmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Moon Rainbow (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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Jericho (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man, Jericho (Mark Valley), wanders into a town and gets embroiled in a deeper mystery than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo western
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I Want Him Dead (1968)
Plot Summary:
Clayton's sister is raped and murdered. Time for lethal revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Stagecoach of the Condemned (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Corazzari and his gang are in jail awaiting trial. They hire Fernando Sancho's gang to kill the only witness who then take all the passengers of a stagecoach hostage, in Richard Harrison's inn, because they are unsure which of them is actually the witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Man Called Noon (1973)
Plot Summary:
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: UK, Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, cult film
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Last Gunfight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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They Were Called Graveyard (1968)
Plot Summary:
Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barretts' land and money. At first Luke trusts him, but while looking for his forgotten identity he discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense