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Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Bandidos (1967)
Plot Summary:
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 86%
They Died with Their Boots On (1978)
Plot Summary:
Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, action thriller
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Ringo, Pray to Your God and Die (1967)
Plot Summary:
Instead of fighting over newly gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collects the money) and Rocco (a righteous ex-sheriff who doesn't and shows off even more skill in using his pistol) on their plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending
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One Against One... No Mercy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bill learns that his father, during the American Civil War, was accused of theft and killed. Convinced of his innocence, Bill discovers the true robbers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django, The Last Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lessons in death lead to the ultimate showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 84%
Johnny Hamlet (1968)
Plot Summary:
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
Plot Summary:
Johnny fights the banker Burton, who tries to acquire with the help of the strange bandit Martinez, in an unlawful way, all the gold mines in the nearer environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Days of Violence (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968)
Plot Summary:
While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge (helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits). Along the way he learns that it was the father of his fiancée that had armed the bandits to avenge himself of some outrage he had suffered in the past from Cjamango's family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Deadly Trackers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Western, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Awkward Hands (1970)
Plot Summary:
Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Vengeance (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django, a Bullet for You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and took refuge at the home of Jimmy and Mary, two brothers who live in a small farm. She cared for and healed him, explaining the concern he feels for his brother to the company he keeps. Sam discovers that Jimmy is one of the outlaws pursued and, despite their friendship, goes on his quest to catch a bandit.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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Blood at Sundown (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Halleluja for Django (1967)
Plot Summary:
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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I Want Him Dead (1968)
Plot Summary:
Clayton's sister is raped and murdered. Time for lethal revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 85%
Stagecoach of the Condemned (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Corazzari and his gang are in jail awaiting trial. They hire Fernando Sancho's gang to kill the only witness who then take all the passengers of a stagecoach hostage, in Richard Harrison's inn, because they are unsure which of them is actually the witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Man, a Horse, a Gun (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 89%
Pray to God and Dig Your Grave (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings. Instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners, but his relationship to his old friend Cipriano, who had turned in the meantime to a simple bandit, destroys his plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Three Bullets for Ringo (1966)
Plot Summary:
Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay of a crooked Mayor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 76%
No Room to Die (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. Hi's gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 80%
Man from Nowhere (1966)
Plot Summary:
Bandit Gordon frees a group of prisoners, forcing them to join his gang or die. Arizona Colt, declining to do either, heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's men murders saloon girl Dolores, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer for the price of five hundred dollars and Dolores' sister, Jane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 82%
The Price of Power (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Pinkerton detective agency uncovers a plot to assassinate President James Garfield in 1881 Texas. The film, a "political" Spaghetti, is a very overt mirroring of the JFK Assassination in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Plot Summary:
Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their end of the deal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 86%
For a Few Extra Dollars (1966)
Plot Summary:
Near the end of the Civil War, imprisoned Confederate raider Giuliano Gemma is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos. Soon Gemma slips his treacherous escort and attempts to complete the mission himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, perverse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
The Return of Clint the Stranger (1972)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film and essentially uses the same plot. George Martin returns as Clint (renamed Trinity in some countries), an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. One major differences in the plot when compared to the first film is the addition of Klaus Kinski as a ruthless bounty hunter. The bounty hunter tracks Clint down and forces him to return to his violent ways to protect himself and his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
Day After Tomorrow (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Keoma (1976)
Plot Summary:
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, grindhouse, perverse, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic