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Plot Summary:
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fort Utah (1967)
Plot Summary:
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
The Virginian (2000)
Plot Summary:
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, intense, realistic
Similar in 79%
The Quest (1976)
Plot Summary:
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt Russell), whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin (Tim Matheson), a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tv series pilot
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Gun Street (1961)
Plot Summary:
In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Marked for death are Dr. Dean Knudtson, his wife Janice, formerly married to the killer, and Jeff Baxley, on whose testimony the man was originally sent to prison. Sheriff Charles Morton and deputy Sam Freed head a posse tracking down the killer in the desert. The man is found dead of the wounds inflicted by a prison guard trying to prevent his escape. The sheriff resigns his job and heads west with Joan. Written by Les Adams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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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 Hanged Man (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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Gunfight at Yuma (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seven Years after his wife's murder and the events that changed his life, Caleb Williams has become a gunfighter known as The Tailor.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, spaghetti western
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Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
Plot Summary:
After three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former Sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. He was framed by three men and wrongly convicted of the murder of his father. Now he looks for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gun Fight (1961)
Plot Summary:
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Red Headed Stranger (1986)
Plot Summary:
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man she had left him for. It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-Loving preacher to ruthless outlaw.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, 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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The Virginian (2014)
Plot Summary:
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)
Plot Summary:
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Animals (1970)
Plot Summary:
A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving her for dead, but she is rescued by Chatto, an Apache chief. He restores her health and aids her in her bloodthirsty quest for revenge. With her sanity wavering, will Alice be able to find the men who tortured her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending, spaghetti western
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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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Hard Ground (2003)
Plot Summary:
Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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Specialists (1969)
Plot Summary:
Bret Dixon (Johnny Hallyday) returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, offbeat, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Gentleman Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead Are Countless (1969)
Plot Summary:
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Taggart (1964)
Plot Summary:
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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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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The Meanest Men in the West (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Desolation Canyon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a bank robbery, the responsible gang stops by the home of one of their members and kidnaps his son. The sheriff enlists the aid of a retired gunfighter, who is the boy's grandfather. On the gang's trail, they find there are two bounty hunters also after the gang for crimes in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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The Gundown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
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6 Guns (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her family is gunned down in cold blood, a young girl convinces a bounty hunter to train her as a gunfighter so she can seek vengeance with a six-shooter.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, rough, realistic
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Gunfight at La Mesa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge Carter. As the mystery unravels, Tate and Samuel enlist help from an unlikely source, the mob, in order to bring to justice the man ultimately responsible, the evil Harcourt Simms.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, scary