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Plot Summary:
Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife killed by bandits, Murieta takes out his vengeance by forming a gang of outlaws who rob the countryside. Murieta is eventually cornered by the marshal, who persuades him to end his crusade. But when Murieta is later wounded and convalescent, his gang operates a reign of terror without his knowledge, leading to his death at the marshal's hands in a final battle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Biography, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch, a weigh station for stage coaches. While waiting for the gold to arrive they encounter a stranger, John Webb, who wants half the gold in exchange for guiding them safely to Mexico. Reluctantly, Dan agrees and they set across the brutal desert for a race to the border with the Rangers hot on their tail. Is John who he says he is? Is he really after the gold or does he have an ulterior motive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, wild
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Death Does Not Count the Dollars (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth (1972)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter named Arizona helps a group of beleaguered farmers in their fight against a large landowner named Austin Styles and his gang of outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 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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Gunfight at High Noon (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three unequal brothers seek revenge for the murder of their father. Each of them goes a different way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, crying
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Hour of Death (1964)
Plot Summary:
When Bob Carey is released from prison after a long sentence for murder, begins the search for Mary, his former girlfriend. But soon he finds out that during his absence, she has married Clifford, a wealthy landowner. The happiness of that marriage is only apparent, Mary, in fact, is seriously ill, suffering from a brain tumor whose pains she attributes to an imaginary pregnancy. It becomes necessary to bring to the city of Laredo for an operation, so Clifford sells all his possessions and begins the long journey towards hope. Soon others will join the expedition: a former army scout named Rogers, a nice Chinese cook, Lin-Chu, and a mestizo that responds to the name of "Bets".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Bandidos (1967)
Plot Summary:
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 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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Ringo: The Lone Rider (1968)
Plot Summary:
A town is being terrorized by a gang of marauders led by Bill Anderson, a clever bandit boss. The town's leadership is deciding to do something against the problem, but it does not believe bringing in the military will be a solution. It is agreed upon that they will request help from the well-known Pinkerton agency. At the same time, Ringo, a gunslinger, is chasing after the bandits. He suspects a deeper-sitting conspiracy than random bandit assaults. He joins forces with the newly arrived under cover Pinkerton agent, to uncover a plot between a local businessman, the Mexican revolution and bandit's heist loot of gold. But the bandits have long planned to move on. Disguised as Mormons, they are moving west to start a new life of farming during the day and robbing stage coaches at night. Ringo and the agent track them down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 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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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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Days of Violence (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 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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Awkward Hands (1970)
Plot Summary:
Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Jonathan of the Bears (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, independent film
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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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I Want Him Dead (1968)
Plot Summary:
Clayton's sister is raped and murdered. Time for lethal revenge!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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Black Jack (1968)
Plot Summary:
Black Jack Murphy (Robert Woods) is the brains in an outfit of outlaws who rob the bank at Tusca City. All goes to plan with the heist but once the loot is safely obtained Jack's men lose no time in trying to double cross him. Wily Jack manages to outfox them at first and gets away with the cash but they soon catch up with him again and not only make off with the money but leave him crippled and carrying multiple causes for wanting revenge. This need for amends possesses Jack with an all consuming passion and he sets out to get even with each of his unfaithful former compadres but has his particular sights set on Indian Joe (Mimmo Palmara) and Sanchez (Rik Battaglia) who abused and killed his beloved sister. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
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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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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Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner (George Hilton) travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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No Room to Die (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. Hi's gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Specialists (1969)
Plot Summary:
Bret Dixon (Johnny Hallyday) returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, offbeat, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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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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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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Find a Place to Die (1968)
Plot Summary:
An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Face to Face (1967)
Plot Summary:
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, cult classic, historical drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, allegory