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Plot Summary:
Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Road Hustlers (1968)
Plot Summary:
A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gunfight at Rio Bravo (2023)
Plot Summary:
When mysterious Russian gunslinger Ivan Turchin rides into a small Texas town, he runs afoul of a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds. Outmanned and outgunned, the town must put their trust in Turchin to protect them from annihilation at the hands of the bandits. The gunslinger finds allies in the form of Marshal Austin Carter and Sheriff Vernon Kelly, and together the three must make a desperate stand against impossible and violent odds.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Black Hat (2011)
Plot Summary:
A drifter is a town's last hope of salvation from outlaws, but he can't escape the past he's trying to forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Last Manhunt (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President Taft coming to the area, the local sheriff leads two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Belles of Taekwondo (1975)
Plot Summary:
Carter Wong plays a young chinese martial arts student who travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Soon he comes up against a vicious gang who want all the local martial arts schools to join their evil association. But before he can defeat the bad guys, he has to learn to master his own strong desire to fight.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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For One Thousand Dollars Per Day (1966)
Plot Summary:
Hud's parents were murdered, their land stolen and now Hud will dish out justice to the guilty - the three Clark brothers know they are in danger but they don't know from where the blow will come.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Return of Desperado (1988)
Plot Summary:
Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron. McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, spaghetti western, slasher horror, wild
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Desperado (1987)
Plot Summary:
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Jesse James: Lawman (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a small town is overrun by the gang of outlaws. The Mayor finds that they are under the thumb of the gang's leader, villainous Hoyt Killian. The town's sheriff takes it upon himself to hire famed outlaw Jesse James to infiltrate the gang and stop their evil plans from inside their ranks. Its outlaw versus outlaw and to the winner goes the town and it's secret treasures.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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The Rogues of Flat Oak (2018)
Plot Summary:
Upon their arrival in Flat Oak for a semi-centennial celebration, renowned shootist Mance Dixon and his friend Clabe run into a surviving victim of a vicious vigilante group known as The Tramplers. Offering her protection once in town, matters become complicated when a con artist posing as a mythologic killer lends his services to a large cattle baron heading the hired killers. After further run-ins with a demented family and a trio of scalphunter brothers, all roads lead back to Flat Oak for an inevitable massacre that will forever alter the fate of the once-peaceful town.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Buckskin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. Once there, Wesley Porter must confront the demons of his past and navigate the savage Native's traps in order to bring himself and the young man home alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Bounty Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two rival bounty hunters are after the same killer, but find they have to join together to fight off his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town our hero Durango (Tab Hunter) delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Gun And The Pulpit (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the days of the "Wild West", a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Angels Die Hard (1970)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Hawken's Breed (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving her from a rouge group of Shawnee Indians. After taking up residence with an old fur trapper and old friend named Jeb Kline, Hawken later meets Spirit again whom runs away from a local fur trader named Tackett, whom she is sold to. Soon, Hawken is up against Tackett and a posse of hired killers, as well as a greedy and racist land owner, named Hickman, who's long abused son Noel whom narrates the entire story, comes to his and Spirit's aid to help them survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Desert Kickboxer (1992)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing cop abandons the violent life after he accidentally kills his opponent during a match. After quitting, he heads for the Arizona desert to live alone and occasionally work tracking drug runners for the area sheriff. One particularly wily Mexican drug lord, Santos, has been a real thorn in tracker Joe Highhawk's side, so when he encounters the beautiful Claudia and her simpleton brother Anthony running for their lives because she, an accountant, embezzled $20 million from Santos, he decides to help them. This actioner follows what happens next. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of danger, and double cross until the exciting final standoff between the kickboxer and the villain.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Fire! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Legend of Butch & Sundance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Just before the turn of the Century two young outlaws team up for a historic ride. Based on historical references, the "True Story" of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, exciting, campy
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The Winds of Autumn (1976)
Plot Summary:
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, tension, suspense
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Shadow on the Mesa (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wes Rawlins is considered one of the best bounty hunters in the West. His life changes when he finds out that his mother is dead and the man responsible is still at large. Wes believes that his long lost father Ray Eastman is responsible and sets out to find him seeking revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Old Henry (2021)
Plot Summary:
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, southern gothic, perverse, surprise ending, suspense, wild
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Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Plot Summary:
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Billy the Kid (1989)
Plot Summary:
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, 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