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Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1978.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
Plot Summary:
(1965) James Mitchum George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Jill Powers, Eduardo Ciannelli. After a search for his father's killers, Mitchum returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute. Good western with a helluva cast. Great to see Ciannelli in one of his last films. Color, scope, 35mm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Apache Blood (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. His journey becomes a deadly adventure. His life will be threatened by the hostility of the desert, snakes, hallucinations and of course his encounter with his enemies….
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse
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A Thunder of Drums (1961)
Plot Summary:
Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under the command of the tough Captain and he does not seem to be able to do anything right. Lt. McQuade also has trouble with Tracey, but it will be the renegade Indians that will test him and teach him the importance of following orders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, wild
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Apache Fury (1964)
Plot Summary:
In an old fort dedicated to the service of change of chivalry, show up three hired murderers and warn Lohman, the manager, who is about to get a stagecoach traveling in the former judge who unjustly condemned to five years in prison , and of course the husband murderer now promised the judge, Ruth, indicating further that brings a suitcase with many dollars. However, Lohman rejects the suggestion of the bandits. But when the judge and his girlfriend, the fort was attacked by Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Gatling Gun (1971)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shanghai Joe (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, cult film
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Desert Kickboxer (1992)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing cop abandons the violent life after he accidentally kills his opponent during a match. After quitting, he heads for the Arizona desert to live alone and occasionally work tracking drug runners for the area sheriff. One particularly wily Mexican drug lord, Santos, has been a real thorn in tracker Joe Highhawk's side, so when he encounters the beautiful Claudia and her simpleton brother Anthony running for their lives because she, an accountant, embezzled $20 million from Santos, he decides to help them. This actioner follows what happens next. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of danger, and double cross until the exciting final standoff between the kickboxer and the villain.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Geronimo (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: costume drama
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Apache Uprising (1965)
Plot Summary:
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Rio Conchos (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Young Guns of Texas (1962)
Plot Summary:
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Blood on the Arrow (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican-American sheriff must resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, clever, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
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The Devil's Backbone (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, serious, realistic
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Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
Plot Summary:
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort. Desperate to rebuild the life he once knew, Cable ultimately joins forces with Vern Kidston, his Union adversary to make a last stand for the one thing worth fighting for -- his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, wild
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Stagecoach (1986)
Plot Summary:
Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Billy Two Hats (1974)
Plot Summary:
An aging outlaw helps a young half-breed learn the ropes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Big Jake (1971)
Plot Summary:
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, tense, entertaining, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, independent film, neo western
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Red Sun (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his fellows.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, euro western, wild, cult film
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Return of the Seven (1966)
Plot Summary:
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, humorous, bad ending
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, whi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, factual, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, anamorphic, cult classic, sincere, rough
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Shalako (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, spaghetti western, independent film, euro western, wild, cult film
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Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
Plot Summary:
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton (Kiley). Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Plot Summary:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.`.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, retro, spaghetti western, independent film, suspense, wild
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The Condor (1970)
Plot Summary:
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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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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Young Guns II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, period piece, anamorphic, cult classic, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, dark comedy
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The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 228000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense