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Plot Summary:
A young cowboy, Johnny, playing in a rigged poker game is forced to shoot one of the other players. The cowboy takes quick leave as he is accused of murder and a reward for his capture is posted. After being wounded, he finds refuge on a ranch and becomes involved with the family. While he is away, a gang of Mexicans kills the McGowan family except for Sally, who manages to escape and find Johnny who is now out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Cjamango (1967)
Plot Summary:
Just when Cjamango has won a bag of gold in a poker game, he is attacked by the gangs of El Tigre and Don Pablo. As he recovers from the injuries caused by the attack, Cjamango becomes attached to a Mexican boy, Manuel, and to a beautiful girl, Perla. El Tigre and Pablo are meanwhile at odds with one another about the gold, and Cjamango tries to play them against themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Hole in the Forehead (1968)
Plot Summary:
A stranger and a bandit seek out a trio of playing cards that will lead them to hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Bullet for a Stranger (1971)
Plot Summary:
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Last of the Badmen (1967)
Plot Summary:
Kitosh, a young cowboy working for Don Jaime Morelos, is beaten almost to death under his employers orders for flirting with Don Jaime's frivolous wife. Full of hatred towards Don Jaime, Kitosh leaves the ranch and begins life as an outlaw joining up with renowned bandit Tracy the Black. Tension sets in between the two men because Kitosh kills only when he has to, whereas Tracy kills just for the fun of it, deriving a sadistic pleasure from other people's suffering. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sartana Kills Them All (1970)
Plot Summary:
A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and killing anyone who tries to foil their plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Death Sentence (1968)
Plot Summary:
Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic
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He Who Shoots First (1966)
Plot Summary:
Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to settle with Clusker.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, perverse
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Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
As a favour for the late Jeremy Scott, who had saved his life while in prison, Roy Koster comes to Silvertown, where he clears the name of the wrongly accused man.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Death Is Sweet From The Soldier Of God (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man, after being accused of a robbery and escaping from jail with a bandit leader, seeks revenge for his brother and his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sugar Colt (1966)
Plot Summary:
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Sabata the Killer (1970)
Plot Summary:
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Dallas (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Unholy Four (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, psychotronic
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No Graves on Boot Hill (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three men, Jerry (Hill), Reno (Wood) and Paco (White), meet in the same prison and in their cell they find a Mexican boy condemned to death for murder. One night the three convicts are mysteriously released by a priest and the father of the Mexican boy who promises them a reward of $30,000 if they can find the real murderer within ten days. Certain that the Mexican boy is not guilty, Reno and the others organize a plan which leads to the unmasking of the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
Plot Summary:
Johnny fights the banker Burton, who tries to acquire with the help of the strange bandit Martinez, in an unlawful way, all the gold mines in the nearer environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968)
Plot Summary:
While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge (helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits). Along the way he learns that it was the father of his fiancée that had armed the bandits to avenge himself of some outrage he had suffered in the past from Cjamango's family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django Does Not Forgive (1966)
Plot Summary:
A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian government.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Django Kills Softly (1967)
Plot Summary:
Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who'd been trying to buy safe passage for his cargo from a Mexican bandit named El Santo. Django finds that Sanders has been killed and that his rival, a man named Thompson, is now trying to deal with El Santo. Django, after a brief involvement with a beautiful young widow named Linda -- who has information on a lost gold mine -- becomes entangled in this situation by agreeing to escort a shipment through El Santo's territory.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Vengeance (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Dead Men Don't Count (1968)
Plot Summary:
Damon and Steffen are paired up bounty hunters falsely accused of murder in a lawless town ruled by racketeering lawmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Deep West (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Yankee gunman, Hallelujah, is hired by Mexican Juarista, General Ramirez to confiscate a case of jewels to fund the revolution. For this, Hallelujah will receive a percentage. But other parties are interested in the case and when they turn out to be fakes, it all deteriorates into a cat and mouse style game with Hallelujah, gunrunners, the French, and a Russian outlaw(!) all searching for the real jewels. - SWDB.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Halleluja for Django (1967)
Plot Summary:
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Stagecoach of the Condemned (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Corazzari and his gang are in jail awaiting trial. They hire Fernando Sancho's gang to kill the only witness who then take all the passengers of a stagecoach hostage, in Richard Harrison's inn, because they are unsure which of them is actually the witness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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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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Wanted (1967)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma, elected sheriff by his small town, is unjustly accused of murder and forced to flee. The man behind the false charge is a lurid figure who leads a band of cattle rustlers. Our hero tries to prove his innocence by getting rid of his enemies one by one. -From http://www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Ugly Ones (1966)
Plot Summary:
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, 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