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Plot Summary:
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
Best tv shows and movies like Bad Man's River (1971):
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Dallas (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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From Noon Till Three (1976)
Plot Summary:
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, thinking, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spaghetti western, black comedy, neo western, dark comedy
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Sam Whiskey (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Great Treasure Hunt (1972)
Plot Summary:
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind man wants to get his mitts on the crooks' gold. He can't do it alone, so he hires the quartet of soldiers-of-fortune to help him. There's bloodshed in abundance in pursuit of that goal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sartana and Trinity set out on a grudging relationship hell bent for gold and comic brawls. - East West DVD sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Lightning Jack (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, spaghetti western, parody, light, clever
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Shanghai Express (1986)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, fast, spaghetti western, spoof, slapstick comedy
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Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant. Within six hours after leaving his jail cell, he evens the score with Hayes by holding up the Bank of Texas for $20,000 in gold. Hayes, in his fury, gets himself out of retirement to take up the chase once more.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Pancho Villa (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
Plot Summary:
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma stars as a cool, cocky mercenary enlisted by a sheriff to infiltrate a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ennio Morricone provided the score to this early spaghetti western hit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, euro western, mind twisting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, mind bending
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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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Blood Money (1974)
Plot Summary:
During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged - and he never profitted from Wang's death, has he buried him with the photographs of his four widows, and a few worthless papers. Meanwhile, Ho comes to America in search of his uncle's fortune, and must get Dakota free, as he his the only man who can lead him to Wang's tomb. They open the tomb, retaking the pictures of Wang's widows. It happens he reads the papers and knows that Wang had one quarter of a map tattooed in each of his women's buttocks. Now, the difficult part will really start... Treasure hunt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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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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Two Violent Men (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two violent men bent on revenge in the old west.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Plot Summary:
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, buddy comedy, spoof, funny, grindhouse, parody, humorous, slapstick, epic, fast paced
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, sexy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Ace High (1968)
Plot Summary:
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Beyond the Law (1968)
Plot Summary:
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, dark comedy, cult film
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Four Rode Out (1969)
Plot Summary:
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Boss Nigger (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spaghetti western, funny, independent film, exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dynamite Jim (1966)
Plot Summary:
Set during the American Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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The Train Robbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, surprise ending, wild
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971)
Plot Summary:
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Yuma (1971)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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God's Gun (1976)
Plot Summary:
Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance), who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Return of Sabata (1971)
Plot Summary:
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, euro western, cult classic, offbeat
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Barquero (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Sabata (1969)
Plot Summary:
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, grindhouse, euro western, offbeat, serious, surprise ending