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Plot Summary:
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, light, humorous, exciting, funny, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, realistic
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Backtrack! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sent to Mexico to buy a bull, a Wyoming cowhand (Doug McClure) teams up with three Texas Rangers to solve a robbery/murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, saga, semi serious
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Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)
Plot Summary:
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, intense, exciting, semi serious, funny, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense
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The Villain (1979)
Plot Summary:
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, exciting, captivating, spoof, period piece
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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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The Rowdy Girls (2000)
Plot Summary:
A hooker, a bank robber and an innocent young woman clash over love and loot from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, semi serious, humorous, grindhouse, realistic, romantic, hot, campy
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic criminal Paris Pitman ends up in jail, then attempts to escape the prison of warden Lopeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, spaghetti western, slapstick comedy
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The Cherokee Kid (1996)
Plot Summary:
Isaih Turner didn’t want to be a hero-all he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were cruelly murdered by the wealthy and powerful Cyrus Bloomington, the young Isaiah grew up with one air in mind: to find the man who killed his folks and take him down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Big Money Rustlas (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Insane Clown Posse heads back to the Wild West in this prequel to BIG MONEY HUSTLAS. Nothing happens in the dusty town of Mud Bug without the approval of gambling magnate Big Baby Chips (Violent J), and the locals turn and run when his henchmen come out to play. But when swaggering sheriff Sugar Wolf (Shaggy 2 Dope) teaches the locals to fight back, Big Baby Chips and his gang head for the hills in a hail of gunfire.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, surprise ending, parody, cult classic, independent film, rough, offbeat, underground film
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Lightning Jack (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, spaghetti western, parody, light, clever
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Waterhole #3 (1967)
Plot Summary:
James Coburn is a con man and grifter who comes across a map that leads to a fortune in stolen US Army gold. Carroll O'Connor is the crooked sheriff who stays on Coburn's tail.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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4 for Texas (1963)
Plot Summary:
Frank Sinatra plays a tough guy who hooks up with fellow rat packer Dean Martin to open a casino in this western.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, exciting, light, sexy, biblical
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired", and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, campy
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Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant. Within six hours after leaving his jail cell, he evens the score with Hayes by holding up the Bank of Texas for $20,000 in gold. Hayes, in his fury, gets himself out of retirement to take up the chase once more.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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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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Bad Man's River (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Six Gun (2008)
Plot Summary:
When three cowboys show up dead, Tommy, a hard-drinking, retired bounty hunter whose ranch is on the brink for foreclosure, must saddle up one more time to stop the bandit and collect a ransom. Prepare yourself to go back in time to the real old west, when he takes the law into his own hands and kills anyone in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, semi serious, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
Plot Summary:
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives he find's his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to out-smart and defeat Lundy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Plot Summary:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, retro, action adventure, exciting, feel good, realistic, not serious
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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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Boot Hill (1969)
Plot Summary:
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, action comedy, euro western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Plot Summary:
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, buddy comedy, spoof, funny, grindhouse, parody, humorous, slapstick, epic, fast paced
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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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Catlow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Catlow is a 1971 western based on a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a outlaw determined to pull off a gold robbery and co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, exciting, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Plot Summary:
Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty--fit for either shooting to bits or hanging from a tree, whichever comes first. Precisely half of Ride in the Whirlwind's 82 minutes is devoted to tapping the matter-of-fact, absurdist horror of that situation. In the remaining half, the two surviving cowpokes (Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell) seek shelter at a farmhouse where they reluctantly threaten the farmer, accept breakfast from his wife, flirt with his daughter (Millie Perkins), play some checkers, and hope to remain undetected till nightfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, existential, cult classic, independent film, stylized
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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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Doc West - Part 1 (2009)
Plot Summary:
After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker game gone bad Doc West finds himself in the local town jail. When his past is exposed and a battle amongst the town breaks out in gunfire he will have to choose sides, between the outlaws or the law-abiding citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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House of My Father (2012)
Plot Summary:
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, surreal, satirical, entertaining, not serious, spoof, stylized, light
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Plot Summary:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, satirical, exciting, tense, spoof, funny, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Barbarosa (1982)
Plot Summary:
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, offbeat, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surprise ending, buddy comedy, dark comedy, tense, light
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Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Plot Summary:
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 473000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, sentimental, not serious, entertaining, saga, humorous, cult classic, exciting, epic