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Plot Summary:
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, sitcom, slapstick comedy, situational comedy
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be whore named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious
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The White River Kid (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer, who is running from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, erotic
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Gangster Exchange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. If he fails his boss will stick his sword where the rising sun don't shine. Marco's a muscle mountain enforcer working for a family of ex-commandos from the Bosnian war. He's an entry-level thug with dreams of rising up the ranks. But in the Bosnian mob, promotion is spelled AK-47. When a bloody New York mob war erupts and Hiro and Marco snatch the toilet. It's worth millions - if they can find somebody who can decipher the Japanese chemistry formula. Wounded, hunted and dragging a 50-pound toilet made of heroin; they race around New York. Through sleazy alleyways, bouncer brawls, sniper shoot-outs and a biker war they're on a quest to find a Japanese chemist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, exciting, clever, independent film, fast
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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Plot Summary:
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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No Sweat (1975)
Plot Summary:
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, black comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)
Plot Summary:
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered. - filmaffinity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Lucky Luke (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, cult classic, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
Plot Summary:
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (1975)
Plot Summary:
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Western, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, parody, funny, spoof, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Buddy Goes West (1981)
Plot Summary:
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, funny, euro western, rough, spoof
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Blood Money (1974)
Plot Summary:
During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured, sentenced, and is about to be hanged - and he never profitted from Wang's death, has he buried him with the photographs of his four widows, and a few worthless papers. Meanwhile, Ho comes to America in search of his uncle's fortune, and must get Dakota free, as he his the only man who can lead him to Wang's tomb. They open the tomb, retaking the pictures of Wang's widows. It happens he reads the papers and knows that Wang had one quarter of a map tattooed in each of his women's buttocks. Now, the difficult part will really start... Treasure hunt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Man of the East (1972)
Plot Summary:
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A couple of two-bit thieving brothers try and keep a promise to their dying father: stick together and become successful outlaws. Bambino reluctantly agrees to show younger Trinity the ropes, but their gentle demeanors tend to diminish their haul by repeatedly helping the selfsame family they initially held up. Fun ensues in town and at the local Spanish mission where they are taken for federal agents, mistakenly so identified by Trinity's young love interest, daughter of the aforementioned family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, epic, grindhouse, euro western, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, sexy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Django Meets Sartana (1970)
Plot Summary:
The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ace High (1968)
Plot Summary:
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, euro western, parody, cult film
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Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demoralizer of Troops), an artifact that ends up in the hands of a very short, wacky dictator who is ready to use it for criminal purposes. The T.I.A Chief, though, is firm in his resolve: if he wants to get the D.O.T. back, he must NOT count on his agents Mortadelo & Filemon. But when the crime fighting duo discover that the T.I.A. has engaged a cocky and slimy detective from outside the agency, they decide to act at their own risk, even if that risk involves all of Humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, parody, humorous, witty, not serious, surreal, spoof, spy comedy, slapstick, stylized
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They Call Me Renegade (1987)
Plot Summary:
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spaghetti western, cult classic, slapstick, exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Boss Nigger (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spaghetti western, funny, independent film, exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Last Gunfight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Johnny Oro (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ringo's nemesis returns to town and wants revenge for the murder of his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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In Security (2013)
Plot Summary:
The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Camouflage (2001)
Plot Summary:
Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, detective, feel good, sentimental, touching, funny, spoof, slapstick
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No Problem (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sanjay and Akshaye, childhood friends and small time crooks rob a bank managed by Paresh. The two of them specially, Akshaye, on and off contemplates changing tracks and leaving the world of crime. Sanjay on the other hand almost every time manages to do something which closes all doors for Akshaye to change his life. This bank robbery also does the same. Akshaye is back where he belongs. Paresh is accused as an accomplice of Sanjay and Akshaye since the two had stayed in his house the night before the robbery.Paresh swears he will not return without the proof of his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick, fast, neo screwball comedy
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Entertainment (2014)
Plot Summary:
Akhil (Akshay Kumar) finds out that he is the heir of 3000 crore rupees as he and his mother were abandoned by his diamond baron father (Panna Laal Johari) who is now dead. However, his life goes Topsy-turvy when he learns that the empire goes to entertainment (a dog).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick
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Companeros (1970)
Plot Summary:
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny, epic, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic