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Plot Summary:
A look at a group of Union and Confederate cavalry from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Once Upon a Time in Tombstone (2020)
Plot Summary:
This movie delivers all of the great characters you would expect in a film about Tombstone. The Earp Brothers, The Clanton Brothers, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo etc. and great gunfights. What the film delivers, is a multitude of pieces of the puzzle that complete the story, not just about why the gunfight happened but the real history about what led up to it.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Advance to the Rear (1964)
Plot Summary:
Slapstick rules in this 1964 Civil War comedy about miltary misfits and their incompetent commanders. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Jim Backus, Andrew Prine, Alan Hale Jr., Jesse Pearson, Michael Pate, James Griffith, Preston Foster, Yvonne Craig and the ever ubiquitous Whit Bissell.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972)
Plot Summary:
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, black cinema
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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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The Dalton Gang (2020)
Plot Summary:
When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, stylized
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Louisiana (1984)
Plot Summary:
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: France, Italy, Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags:
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The Macahan's (1976)
Plot Summary:
TV Movie sequel Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, help's move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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The Red Badge of Courage (1974)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, beard, and mustache and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Pharaoh's Army (1995)
Plot Summary:
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Desperados (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the closing days of the Civil War, fanatical Parson Josiah Galt and his three sons, Adam, Jacob, and David, are leaders of a gang of southern marauders. Josiah, driven by his lust for revenge for the death of his Indian wife, attacks the Kansas town of St. Thomas. David, recalling his dead mother's prophecy of doom upon the family and repulsed by the carnage caused by his father and brothers, breaks with the gang after his brother Adam tries to rape one of the town's young girls. David is captured by his own men and brought before his father, who accuses him of treason and sentences him to be executed. David escapes, joins his wife, Laura, and together they flee to Texas, where they live for 6 years under an assumed name. After the war, Parson Galt and his sons continue to loot and pillage, and they eventually reach the Texas town where David, Laura, and their young son, Pauly, live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Warrant (2020)
Plot Summary:
After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, brutal, captivating, dark, suspenseful
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A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner (George Hilton) travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Outsider (2019)
Plot Summary:
A railroad worker unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of a group of corrupt lawmen in the Old West. When tragedy forces him to seek justice, he soon sets out on a bloody quest for revenge to wipe out his ruthless enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Bravos (1972)
Plot Summary:
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Cold Day in Hell (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, independent film
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The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
Plot Summary:
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, spaghetti western
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Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Plot Summary:
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: retro, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, brutal, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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The Raiders (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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How the West Was Won (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Saga of the Macahan's.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: atmospheric, vintage, wild, masterpiece
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Wicked Spring (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, epic, emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, contemplative
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The Colt (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, exciting
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One-Eyed Horse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of Gatewood's brother under the watch of (then) Union Officer Curry has consumed Gatewood and fueled his desire for revenge. Free from jail, Gatewood discovers that Hadley and his world is changed, and that a "new order" of law and prosperity is now the battle cry of the people. His beautiful daughter, Helen has grown his business into a thriving concern and she makes her father promise that he'll forget his past vendetta. Curry has a successful business and willful daughter of his own, and his main concern is for her safety, once it becomes known that Gatewood still wants him dead. As Justin Gatewood methodically hatches his plan for Curry's utter destruction, the entire town is caught in the crossfire, but most tragically, so are the daughters of both.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Shenandoah (1965)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, sincere, rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, technicolor, tense
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Keeping Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, historical drama, independent film, realistic
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful