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Plot Summary:
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, realistic
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Bonanza: The Return (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Confederate (2019)
Plot Summary:
A look at a group of Union and Confederate cavalry from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Frontier Uprising (1961)
Plot Summary:
Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 87%
The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, beard, and mustache and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Desperados (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the closing days of the Civil War, fanatical Parson Josiah Galt and his three sons, Adam, Jacob, and David, are leaders of a gang of southern marauders. Josiah, driven by his lust for revenge for the death of his Indian wife, attacks the Kansas town of St. Thomas. David, recalling his dead mother's prophecy of doom upon the family and repulsed by the carnage caused by his father and brothers, breaks with the gang after his brother Adam tries to rape one of the town's young girls. David is captured by his own men and brought before his father, who accuses him of treason and sentences him to be executed. David escapes, joins his wife, Laura, and together they flee to Texas, where they live for 6 years under an assumed name. After the war, Parson Galt and his sons continue to loot and pillage, and they eventually reach the Texas town where David, Laura, and their young son, Pauly, live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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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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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother (AnnaLynne McCord), Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Virginian (2014)
Plot Summary:
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Deliverance Creek (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set at the end of the Civil War, widowed mother of 3 Belle Gatlin Barlowe faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt bank that runs their town pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be good or to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, dark, ambiguous ending, period drama
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Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)
Plot Summary:
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Bravos (1972)
Plot Summary:
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Trail to Hope Rose (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make a living as a mine worker, closely watched by Marshal Luther Toll. The convict knows he is just one step away from going back to prison if he gets out of line - but when he stops a neighbor from severely beating his wife and teams up with an old rancher who stands alone against the mine owner's interests things get complicated for our hero.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, captivating, realistic, epic
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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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The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
Plot Summary:
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, spaghetti western
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Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, 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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The Raiders (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Wicked Spring (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, epic, emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, contemplative
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The Colt (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, exciting
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One-Eyed Horse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of Gatewood's brother under the watch of (then) Union Officer Curry has consumed Gatewood and fueled his desire for revenge. Free from jail, Gatewood discovers that Hadley and his world is changed, and that a "new order" of law and prosperity is now the battle cry of the people. His beautiful daughter, Helen has grown his business into a thriving concern and she makes her father promise that he'll forget his past vendetta. Curry has a successful business and willful daughter of his own, and his main concern is for her safety, once it becomes known that Gatewood still wants him dead. As Justin Gatewood methodically hatches his plan for Curry's utter destruction, the entire town is caught in the crossfire, but most tragically, so are the daughters of both.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Shenandoah (1965)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, sincere, rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, technicolor, tense
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Lone Rider (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosperous ranch now dangerously in debt to the town's ruthless leader, and Bobby's childhood friend, Stu Croker (Vincent Spano). Bobby will now face off against his former friend to take control from Stu.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic
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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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Gunfight at La Mesa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge Carter. As the mystery unravels, Tate and Samuel enlist help from an unlikely source, the mob, in order to bring to justice the man ultimately responsible, the evil Harcourt Simms.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, scary
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead Man's Burden (2012)
Plot Summary:
A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, stylized, independent film
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful