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Plot Summary:
After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry. After consummating his revenge and be rejected by the girl, the man leaves town. She is pregnant and her boyfriend prefers to let his son give antesque. The young man overcomes his macho pride and agrees to marry the helpless mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
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Memories of the Future (1969)
Plot Summary:
Memories of the Future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min
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Los hermanos Muerte (1964)
Plot Summary:
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Blood Loss (2008)
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Jake Reid's father died in a bloody massacre 15 years ago in Covelo, California, after participating in a botched robbery-the loot from which was never found. Jake comes to this small western town to dig up the past and to dig up the money-he digs too deep. As he uncovers the circumstances of his father's death, Jake enlists the help of the daughter of a man his father killed, and fends off the town's brutal sheriff. But Jake isn't the only one looking to haul away the money. Escaped from prison, and on the run, Jake's father's surviving partner in crime shows up in town to finally collect his ill-gotten gains. The sheriff, the outlaw, the locals and the girl go straight to what they know-the gun-and Jake, caught in the crossfire, must decide who's side he is on.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Return of Desperado (1988)
Plot Summary:
Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron. McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Duelo indio (1961)
Plot Summary:
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas.".
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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Los Marcados (1971)
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El Pardo ha hecho del pueblo un lugar donde la justicia y el respeto no existen. Mercedes, consumida por el alcohol, vive en la amargura de los recuerdos de su vida junto a el. Pero a la llegada de "El Marcado"(Antonio Aguilar), a quien el pueblo ofrece una recompensa por deshacerse de los males que le agobian, todo cambiar.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
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Macho Callahan (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, freeze frame
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Law of the Lawless (1964)
Plot Summary:
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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The Father (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
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Everything in Vain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
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Johnny Hamlet (1968)
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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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Deadly Trackers (1972)
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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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Hot Snake (1978)
Plot Summary:
A psychopath named Jenkins is wanted by the law. There is a $5,000 reward for his capture but Jenkins has the supernatural help of a witch named Ramona, which gives it the power to see the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Gun And The Pulpit (1974)
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In the days of the "Wild West", a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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La diosa del puerto (1989)
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After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
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Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
Plot Summary:
A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Plot Summary:
Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, wild
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Two Violent Men (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two violent men bent on revenge in the old west.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Scarlet Worm (2011)
Plot Summary:
An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, retro, controversial, spaghetti western, wild
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The Shooter (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story is of a small town in the early west and of a 'shooter' of reputation that drifts into it and stands up to the controlling family that runs it. But far from a John Wayne, this hero is caught and brutally beaten and left to die, only to be saved by a prostitute that has also suffered under the hand of this group of desperados. The only one possible to stand up to the shooter is another solitary man who joins with the notorious family although he is deputized as the town's sherif.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, humorous, bloody, suspense
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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
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Glenn Ford plays Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Plot Summary:
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
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The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game with which he was shortly murdered there after but not before getting through the troubles that come with the Elders name.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense, romantic, road movie, clever
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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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Justice (2017)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. Marshal seeking justice for his brother's murder defends a small town from a corrupt Mayor and his henchmen with intents to revive the civil war.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense
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The Gopher (1970)
Plot Summary:
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, allegory, experimental, cult classic, controversial, bloody, art house, stylized
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Nevada Smith (1966)
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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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Joe Kidd (1972)
Plot Summary:
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, light, enigmatic, bleak, breathtaking
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Death Rides a Horse (1967)
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Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy. The film has lapsed into public domain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, realistic, exciting, tense, serious, grindhouse, euro western, epic, disturbing