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Plot Summary:
U.S. marshal Britt MacMasters returns from a mission to find his father wounded and his son kidnapped by the outlaw Jed Blake. Hot on their trail, Britt forms a posse with a gunslinging deputy and a stoic Pawnee tracker. But Jed and Britt tread dangerously close to the Red Desert’s Sioux territory.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: harsh, melancholic, stylized, serious, talky, captivating
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Posse (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Western
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: multicultural, anamorphic, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, independent film, wild
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The Warrant (2020)
Plot Summary:
After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, brutal, captivating, dark, suspenseful
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Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
After retiring from his life as an outlaw, ranch owner Nathaniel Reed quietly leads an honest existence with his devoted wife, Laura Lee. But his gun-slinging past suddenly comes back to haunt him when he learns that the man he once maimed during a stagecoach robbery is now a U.S. Marshal who will stop at nothing to find vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, action adventure
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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother (AnnaLynne McCord), Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Bounty Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Outsider (2019)
Plot Summary:
A railroad worker unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of a group of corrupt lawmen in the Old West. When tragedy forces him to seek justice, he soon sets out on a bloody quest for revenge to wipe out his ruthless enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dead Men (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Struthers and his brother Jake find themselves on the run after a band of men begin murdering their family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, period drama
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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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The Rare Breed (1966)
Plot Summary:
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama, cult film
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Plot Summary:
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, neo western, cult film
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The Quick Gun (1964)
Plot Summary:
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hard Bounty (1995)
Plot Summary:
Donnie and her whores strap on guns, saddle up, and ride out seeking justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, action adventure, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, crying, independent film, weeping
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Lone Rider (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosperous ranch now dangerously in debt to the town's ruthless leader, and Bobby's childhood friend, Stu Croker (Vincent Spano). Bobby will now face off against his former friend to take control from Stu.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic
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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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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
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Yuma (1971)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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God's Gun (1976)
Plot Summary:
Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance), who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cat Ballou (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious, captivating, humorous, witty, parody, spoof
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Retribution Road (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bank robbery gone wrong leads to a horrific crime and the capture of the most relentless outlaw in Texas...the infamous Johnny Rios. Incarcerated, Rios ups the ante with a daring ultimatum that gives the sleepy town of Wardlaw a rude awakening as their courageous Sheriff prepares for the shoot-out of a lifetime - one that could either put this town on the map or annihilate it all together. The laws they live by are the laws they’ll die by on RETRIBUTION ROAD.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cry Blood, Apache (1970)
Plot Summary:
Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold mine.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, cult film
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Joshua (1976)
Plot Summary:
A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Nevada Smith (1966)
Plot Summary:
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: stylized, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro, gloomy, brutal, enigmatic
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful
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Wyatt Earp's Revenge (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. Together with his friend Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman and Charlie Bassett he goes hunting for the perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, rough
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The Gunslingers (2009)
Plot Summary:
While roaming the wild plains on a quest to find a cache of hidden riches, sharp-shooting bounty hunter Butch (John Elliott) and his outlaw companions come across a deadly gang with supernatural powers in this stylized Western. As the hunt for the gold treasure becomes competitive -- and violent -- Butch, morally questionable Rattler Fenton (Brad Allen) and vengeful Akemi (Narisa Suzuki) must confront the evil and powerful Mondego (Ben Hall).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Plot Summary:
This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 344000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, tense, suspenseful, visually appealing, stylized, clever, scenic, visual, realistic, breathtaking
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True Grit (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 353000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scenic, visually appealing, serious, captivating, dark