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Plot Summary:
Near the end of the Civil War, imprisoned Confederate raider Giuliano Gemma is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos. Soon Gemma slips his treacherous escort and attempts to complete the mission himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, perverse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
Plot Summary:
After three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former Sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. He was framed by three men and wrongly convicted of the murder of his father. Now he looks for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Return of Ringo (1965)
Plot Summary:
Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, grindhouse, exciting, sentimental, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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California (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Finger on the Trigger (1965)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a ragtag group of just-discharged Union soldiers clashes with a band of renegade Confederates over a golden treasure hidden in a deserted town in the Oklahoma Territory. Soon these rivals must make common cause in the face of an Indian attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, 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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The Price of Power (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Pinkerton detective agency uncovers a plot to assassinate President James Garfield in 1881 Texas. The film, a "political" Spaghetti, is a very overt mirroring of the JFK Assassination in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Minnesota Clay (1964)
Plot Summary:
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gentleman Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Return of Clint the Stranger (1972)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film and essentially uses the same plot. George Martin returns as Clint (renamed Trinity in some countries), an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. One major differences in the plot when compared to the first film is the addition of Klaus Kinski as a ruthless bounty hunter. The bounty hunter tracks Clint down and forces him to return to his violent ways to protect himself and his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic
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Dead Are Countless (1969)
Plot Summary:
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Johnny Yuma (1966)
Plot Summary:
Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sartana, bounty hunter and gunfighter, witnesses the robbery of a shipment of gold. He finds his way into town where he meets with a lot of suspicious stares from the locals. He also meets with Samuel Spencer, who seems to own the company in this company town. The gold shipments are being stolen, so Spencer agrees to hire Sartana to protect the next gold shipment. Numerous dull-witted villains make attempts on Sartana's life, but he survives. Eventually, Sartana's nemesis Sabbath (he of the white coat and parasol) rides into town. With a showdown inevitable, Sartana and Sabbath square off to settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized
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Dynamite Jim (1966)
Plot Summary:
Set during the American Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Day After Tomorrow (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Proud and Damned (1972)
Plot Summary:
A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful military dictator who forces them to spy for him or help the local village fight for its independence. Follow Sergeant Hansen and his men as they make a decision that could cost them their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA, Colombia, Philippines, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent 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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Gunfight at Red Sands (1963)
Plot Summary:
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Coffin Full of Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Return of Sabata (1971)
Plot Summary:
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, euro western, cult classic, offbeat
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The Bounty Hunters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Keoma (1976)
Plot Summary:
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, grindhouse, perverse, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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Django Strikes Again (1987)
Plot Summary:
Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practice a little liberation theology.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Colombia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Barquero (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Rio Lobo (1970)
Plot Summary:
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: harsh, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, surprise ending
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A Time for Killing (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, costume drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Day of Anger (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lee Van Cleef stars as Talby, a sadistic gunfighter who rides into town and takes on a young outcast as his apprentice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, art house, action adventure, historical drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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They Were Called Graveyard (1968)
Plot Summary:
Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barretts' land and money. At first Luke trusts him, but while looking for his forgotten identity he discovers the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense