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Plot Summary:
Adapted from prolific western novelist Dusty Richard’s “Mustanger and the Lady,” 'Painted Woman' is the story of Julie Richards Julie is a woman of her time, passed from hand to hand in a web of abuse and prostitution, landing her at the feet of Kyle Allison. Allison, a wealthy powerbroker of the old west town of Goldfield, took young Julie into his home and made her his trophy. This life came with the gift of being taken care of and the cost of more abuse. As Julie’s time with Allison is coming to a dangerous close, Julie is given two chances of escape, with two very different men… The story of PAINTED WOMAN is two distinct chapters in Julie's life, with each chapter mirroring the other. Chapter one follows Julie meeting Frank. It is told mostly at night in the town of Goldfield. Chapter two follows the Mustanger. It takes place in the wilderness and is told mostly during the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, period drama
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Tyger Tyger (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her group of selfless thieves rob a pharmacy and hit the road to distribute medication, but find themselves trapped in the fringe lands of a law-less psychedelic city.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychedelic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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They Die by Dawn (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, spaghetti western
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Lovers Vanished (2010)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict and a woman, who both contracted HIV from the same man, fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dam (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man called Roman is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station. These files keep records about a high school massacre committed by a student a year ago. Due to bureaucratic reasons, Roman has to stay in the village for a few days. By accident he meets a young girl called Laura, who has survived the massacre. By becoming more acquainted to Laura, Roman also becomes more interested in the tragic event. Later on he realizes that Laura is hiding a secret. She has been more involved in the incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dalton Gang (2020)
Plot Summary:
When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, stylized
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Blue (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a mexican gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990)
Plot Summary:
In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, period piece, independent film, serious, realistic
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Veiled Truth (2006)
Plot Summary:
A woman's past comes back to haunt her when the pimp she helped put behind bars is released and after revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
Plot Summary:
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, light, sexy, brutal, unusual plot structure, bloody
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Any Bullet Will Do (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taking place during 1876 in Montana, a ruthless headhunter tracks his own Brother through Big Sky country with the help of a young fur trapper.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Apache Junction (2021)
Plot Summary:
Apache Junction is an outpost of lawlessness, a haven for thieves and cold-blooded killers. After big-city reporter Annabelle Angel arrives to write an article on the town, she becomes a target when notorious gunslinger Jericho Ford comes to her aid. Now Annabelle must entrust her future to a man with a deadly past, as Jericho heads toward a tense showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Warrant (2020)
Plot Summary:
After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, brutal, captivating, dark, suspenseful
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Potter's Ground (2021)
Plot Summary:
A former Confederate marauder tries to make a clean start on a Texas dirt farm with his wife and young daughter. He quickly learns that sometimes the past just won't stay buried.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Outsider (2019)
Plot Summary:
A railroad worker unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of a group of corrupt lawmen in the Old West. When tragedy forces him to seek justice, he soon sets out on a bloody quest for revenge to wipe out his ruthless enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hannah's Law (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Cold Day in Hell (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, independent film
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Four Rode Out (1969)
Plot Summary:
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama, spaghetti western, wild
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Gabriel's Inferno: Part Three (2020)
Plot Summary:
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Gabriel's Inferno: Part II (2020)
Plot Summary:
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante specialist to remember her and wants nothing more to do with him. Can Gabriel win back her heart before she finds love in another's arms?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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More than Blue (2018)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man sets up his best friend, whom he has loved since high school, so that she will not be lonely after he passes away.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Fox (1995)
Plot Summary:
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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The Last Son (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gabriel's Rapture: Part Two (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the fifth installment of the Gabriel's Inferno series, Gabriel and Julia’s happiness is threatened by a conspiring student and academic politics. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante's fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Desolation Canyon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a bank robbery, the responsible gang stops by the home of one of their members and kidnaps his son. The sheriff enlists the aid of a retired gunfighter, who is the boy's grandfather. On the gang's trail, they find there are two bounty hunters also after the gang for crimes in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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6 Guns (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her family is gunned down in cold blood, a young girl convinces a bounty hunter to train her as a gunfighter so she can seek vengeance with a six-shooter.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, rough, realistic
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El Dorado (1966)
Plot Summary:
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, entertaining
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Sexy Assassins (2012)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous hit woman pulls the trigger on passion when she falls for her handsome target. Can they put their mutual attraction aside long enough to find who put the hit out on him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing