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Plot Summary:
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, offbeat, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surprise ending, buddy comedy, dark comedy, tense, light
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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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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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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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Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Plot Summary:
Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty--fit for either shooting to bits or hanging from a tree, whichever comes first. Precisely half of Ride in the Whirlwind's 82 minutes is devoted to tapping the matter-of-fact, absurdist horror of that situation. In the remaining half, the two surviving cowpokes (Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell) seek shelter at a farmhouse where they reluctantly threaten the farmer, accept breakfast from his wife, flirt with his daughter (Millie Perkins), play some checkers, and hope to remain undetected till nightfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, existential, cult classic, independent film, stylized
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The Cowboy Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, buddy comedy, feel good, semi serious, realistic, funny, action comedy, witty
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Stagecoach (1986)
Plot Summary:
Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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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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The Scalphunters (1968)
Plot Summary:
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, cult classic, slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The Comancheros (1961)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, tense, sentimental, light, sexy
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The Texican (1966)
Plot Summary:
Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads north to find his brother's killer. After battling bounty hunters he arrives in Rimrock, a town controlled by Luke Starr. Starr is the man he wants but he unable to find any evidence until he is given an item found by his brother's body.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, retro, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Gunfight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Cross rides into town, having failed as a gold prospector. His reputation is such that everyone expects him to shoot it out with Tenneray, who capitalizes on his legend by working at the saloon to "sucker fools into buying drinks." To the town's surprise, Tenneray and Cross take a liking to one another. There is no hostility between them whatsoever.Tenneray is desperate for money, however. He comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner. Unfortunately, by killing Cross, he reasons to Nora, his wife, "I could lose my best friend." The actual gunfight is shot in a low-key and unromanticised fashion, and is over in a couple of seconds. In an extended fantasy sequence near the end, the widow of the defeated gunfighter imagines what might have happened if her husband had won.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Plot Summary:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, satirical, exciting, tense, spoof, funny, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Will Penny (1967)
Plot Summary:
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, wild
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Guns of Diablo (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bronson and Russell are up against some bad guys who run the town to which the pair have gone for supplies. Bronson runs into an old girl friend, Oliver, who is now married to his enemy Merlin. Bronson had long ago broken Merlin's arm, and now the man wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Molly and Lawless John (1972)
Plot Summary:
Western - Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself. - Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulager.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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Bandolero! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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Purgatory (1999)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven...or screw up and go to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, offbeat, dark fantasy, spaghetti western, wild, cult film
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Monte Walsh (2003)
Plot Summary:
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, period piece, sentimental, gloomy, surprise ending, wild
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game with which he was shortly murdered there after but not before getting through the troubles that come with the Elders name.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense, romantic, road movie, clever
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Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Santee (1973)
Plot Summary:
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, cult film
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El Dorado (1966)
Plot Summary:
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, entertaining
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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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Young Guns II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, period piece, anamorphic, cult classic, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Hour of the Gun (1967)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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The Appaloosa (1966)
Plot Summary:
Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit. The Appaloosa (also known as Southwest to Sonora) is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, shot in Mexico. The 2008 Appaloosa film (starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen) is not related nor a remake of this film, although it has almost the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense, mind blowing, tension, suspense, wild
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The Last Outlaw (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the southern cause, but after losing his family he became cold hearted and ruthless. His second in command is Eustis (Mulroney), whom Graff has trained on the strategies of leadership and combat command.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: brutal, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Joe Kidd (1972)
Plot Summary:
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, light, enigmatic, bleak, breathtaking
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Into the West (2005)
Plot Summary:
Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as they struggle to find their place in a country confounded by turmoil and change.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min
Plot tags: epic, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, educational, historical drama, contemplative, period drama, wild
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Young Guns (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, harsh, serious, exciting, epic, hood, period piece, realistic, dark comedy