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Plot Summary:
An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Trail of the Falcon (1968)
Plot Summary:
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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Stagecoach (1966)
Plot Summary:
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gun-slinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband. All have secrets but when they are set upon by an Indian war party and then a family of outlaws, they find they must all work together if they are to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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The Red, White, and Black (1970)
Plot Summary:
Told by a U.S. Army colonel and his wife, this vintage Western set in post-Civil War Texas chronicles the exploits of the all-black 10th cavalry regiment, which was formed in 1871. Cesar Romero plays the unit's commander.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965)
Plot Summary:
Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, independent film
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Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995)
Plot Summary:
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Jonathan of the Bears (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, independent film
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Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
Plot Summary:
During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, brutal, euro western, perverse
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Posse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. He succeeds, but instead of cheering him, the public turns against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, spaghetti western
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Children of the Dust (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the Oklahoma Territory of the late 1880s, Gypsy Smith (Poitier) is a gunslinger of African American and Cherokee descent. Smith helps African American homesteaders to settle the territory under the specter of Jim Crow. Meanwhile, a young Native American raised by Whites (Wirth) must choose between the woman that he loves (Going) or his Cheyenne heritage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags:
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The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, beard, and mustache and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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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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Apache Rifles (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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The McMasters (1970)
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' ex-master Burl Ives magnanimously gives the former slave a plot of land, but only Native-American David Carradine and his tribesmen are willing to work for a black man. The "invasion" of Indians serves to stir up the racial divisiveness even farther, thanks to local rabble-rouser Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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I Will Fight No More Forever (1975)
Plot Summary:
Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995)
Plot Summary:
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Crazy Horse (1996)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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American Outlaws (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jessie James.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: intense, humorous, entertaining, exciting, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with T.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious, period drama
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Last of the Dogmen (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, anamorphic, serious, independent film, black comedy, neo western
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In a Valley of Violence (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul in his quest for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, retro, suspense, perverse, cult classic, spaghetti western
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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 Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
Plot Summary:
Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, surprise ending, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, period piece, visual
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Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fleeing religious persecution in Germany, the Leininger family seeks a new start in uncharted country - America. It is the mid-1700s and British and French forces are struggling for control over the abundant resources of this new territory. Carving out a homestead can be arduous work, but the Leiningers labor joyfully. Then the unthinkable: In a terrifying raid, Delaware warriors kidnap the two young Leininger daughters and attempt to indoctrinate them into native culture. Through their ordeal they never lose hope and "their faith becomes their freedom".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 953
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, captivating, emotional, christian film, realistic, stylized, freeze frame
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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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Into the West (2005)
Plot Summary:
Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as they struggle to find their place in a country confounded by turmoil and change.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min
Plot tags: epic, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, educational, historical drama, contemplative, period drama, 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
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
Plot Summary:
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: scenic, touching, breathtaking, sentimental, epic, sincere, emotional, period piece, inspirational, melancholic
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Seraphim Falls (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, intense, atmospheric, rough, captivating, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, realistic, scenic, meditative, factual, serious, bleak, existential, spaghetti western