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Plot Summary:
An Indian village is attacked by the American army. The Indians are cruelly killed. One of the soldiers called Harmonika is disgusted by the murders of the innocent women and children. He decides to leave the army. He goes to live with the Indians and falls in love with an Indian woman. He becomes a friend with Harter Felsen, one of the bravest Indians. He understands that they are not beasts and he respects them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Western, Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Blue Bird (1979)
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In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to the United States. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: East Germany
Duration: 96 min
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Johnny Greyeyes (2000)
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Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
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Yanco (1961)
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The engaging and sentimental tale begins when the little boy (Ricardo Ancona) starts manifesting a greater and greater talent at music and at the same time, a supersensitivity to sounds. His overly astute hearing drives him into the woods and away from the cacophony of the town's hustle and bustle. Once in the woods, he meets a kindly old hermit who teaches him how to play the violin he made. After the old man dies, the violin ends up at a pawn shop, and each night the boy sneaks in to play it in secret. It is this haunting, nightly music that sets the town on edge -- people think an evil spirit is on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, minimal cast
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Savage Land (1994)
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Set against the spectacular Rocky Mountains, this adventure is reminiscent of the Disney live-action classics (such as "Old Yeller" and "Escape from Witch Mountain"). Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time, and the pursuing baddies, this unlikely team must trek over the mountains to reach safety. This is a video to buy and keep in your collection... great mid-winter rental when cabin-fever makes you long for the great outdoors!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Magnificent Bandits (1969)
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Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a (crazy?) hermit who thinks he has been sent (= espedito) by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired (and of course double-crossed) by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides ….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, cult classic, euro western
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
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Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Apache Blood (1973)
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After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. His journey becomes a deadly adventure. His life will be threatened by the hostility of the desert, snakes, hallucinations and of course his encounter with his enemies….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse
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Old Shatterhand (1964)
Plot Summary:
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, 70mm film
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Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
Plot Summary:
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Winnetou (1963)
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The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, cult film
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Trail of the Falcon (1968)
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In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, an area which has already been allocated to the Dakota Indians as a winter reservation in a treaty. Nevertheless, gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Indians using brutal methods like slaughtering entire herds of buffalo. The Dakotas take their revenge by attacking a Union Pacific train. While Chief Farsighted Falcon and his men are out hunting, Bludgeon and his gang massacre the Indian village. The Dakota warriors retaliate and soon the gold diggers' town becomes the scene of a giant battle. Only the advancing cavalry manage to head off certain defeat for the Whites. Farsighted Falcon conquers Bludgeon in single combat, however. Gathering up the remaining members of his tribe, he leads them to safety elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Winnetou - A New World (2016)
Plot Summary:
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, stylized, intense, intercultural, inter cultural
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Elijah (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Elijah Harper.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Fish Hawk (1979)
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A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Showdown at Williams Creek (1991)
Plot Summary:
True story of a former British soldier on trial for murder in the 19th century Northwest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Legend of Custer (1968)
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Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Sacred Ground (1983)
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SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Return of Josey Wales (1980)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it-he lives. In this Western drama, some friends of gunfighter Josey Wales (Michael Parks, who also directed) are killed South of the border, so he heads to Mexico to confront a crooked local chief of police and get a good buddy out of jail. After Josey arrives, he manages to free an Apache woman and two inmates, as well as his friend Ten Spot. But soon the going gets rougher for everyone concerned. This sequel to Clint Eastwood's classic The Outlaw Josey Wales is a rendering of good guys versus bad, with an emphasis on gunfights.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Naturally Native (1998)
Plot Summary:
Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity issues and each has chosen a very different career path. Now dedicated to starting a Native cosmetic business, they attempt to overcome obstacles both in the business world and in the home. A touching love story of family and culture, Naturally Native also interweaves a subtle, but strong wake-up call regarding the treatment of Native people in corporate America. Naturally Native also provides some insight into tribal infrastructure and gaming issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chingachgook: The Great Snake (1967)
Plot Summary:
Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the clutches of an enemy camp of Huron. Joined by his trusted huntsman Deerslayer, the two confront racist pioneers and brutal British soldiers in their quest. Deerslayer catches the desire of Judith and thus the jealousy of her suitor, Harry. The action of the story functions like a seesaw, characters continuously traveling back and forth between a house on the lake and the Huron camp until the violent climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: East Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, intense, exciting, serious, realistic, euro western, cult film
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When the Legends Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980)
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Walks Far Woman is a squaw of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She then is adopted by the Sioux, the tribe of her mother, and there she tries to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Chato's Land (1972)
Plot Summary:
A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, atmospheric, brutal, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, wild
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, exciting, sincere, realistic, political, historical drama, anthropological, epic
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Plot Summary:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.`.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, retro, spaghetti western, independent film, suspense, wild
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Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
Plot Summary:
Shunka Wakan (Richard Harris), formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son (Michael Beck) defend their tribe against gold rushers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, saga, spaghetti western
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. They must regain their land, led by Horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, light, inspirational, sexy, enigmatic
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Hostiles (2017)
Plot Summary:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, psychological, captivating, motivational, heartbreaking, serious, tear jerker, spaghetti western