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Plot Summary:
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving her from a rouge group of Shawnee Indians. After taking up residence with an old fur trapper and old friend named Jeb Kline, Hawken later meets Spirit again whom runs away from a local fur trader named Tackett, whom she is sold to. Soon, Hawken is up against Tackett and a posse of hired killers, as well as a greedy and racist land owner, named Hickman, who's long abused son Noel whom narrates the entire story, comes to his and Spirit's aid to help them survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
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A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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When a small town is overrun by the gang of outlaws. The Mayor finds that they are under the thumb of the gang's leader, villainous Hoyt Killian. The town's sheriff takes it upon himself to hire famed outlaw Jesse James to infiltrate the gang and stop their evil plans from inside their ranks. Its outlaw versus outlaw and to the winner goes the town and it's secret treasures.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
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Jimmy Dean's popular 1950 song is translated into a feature length movie about a young couple who elopes to escape the girl's evil stepfather.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Plot Summary:
A mystical love story... combining elements of Hudson's "Green Mansions" and the works of Jean Genet. Unique, inimitable and wholly unforgettable!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Red, White, and Black (1970)
Plot Summary:
Told by a U.S. Army colonel and his wife, this vintage Western set in post-Civil War Texas chronicles the exploits of the all-black 10th cavalry regiment, which was formed in 1871. Cesar Romero plays the unit's commander.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Fighting Mad (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 308
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Duration: 99 min
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Plot Summary:
Western based on the novel by Marilyn Durham. A defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
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Sacred Ground (1983)
Plot Summary:
SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Desert Kickboxer (1992)
Plot Summary:
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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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Apache Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tommy is an innocent cavalry officer who falls in love with a beautiful Apache woman after rescuing her from a nasty gun smuggler named Honest Jeremy. When Jeremy and his gang find Tommy, gruesome violence ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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The McMasters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' ex-master Burl Ives magnanimously gives the former slave a plot of land, but only Native-American David Carradine and his tribesmen are willing to work for a black man. The "invasion" of Indians serves to stir up the racial divisiveness even farther, thanks to local rabble-rouser Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
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Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
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IMDB Votes: 521
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 688
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 64000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64000
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
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Country: USA
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