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Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
Best tv shows and movies like Pyramid of the Sun God (1965):
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Stranger in Sacramento (1965)
Plot Summary:
Cowboy Mike Jordan kills two men in self defense and on returning to his herd finds his father and brother killed. He goes to the local sheriff to clear matters up but must settle accounts on his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 89%
Manoa, the Golden City (1999)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Return of Halleluja (1972)
Plot Summary:
Ramirez, the general of the Mexican revolution against Maximilian who has been appointed king of Mexico, organizes his forces to attack the king's General, Miranda. Ramirez realizes that the Aztec Indians would be allies of great value, so he offers to return to them an idol statue that has been stolen from them. Only Alleluja is capable of retrieving the idol from the thieves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 84%
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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Legacy of the Incas (1965)
Plot Summary:
In Peru, the land of the Incas, the Indian pin their hopes on Jaucarapora. They want to him as their king who could drive back the white conquistador. A stranger appears in Lima who risks his life to rescue the president from a charging wildcat. This Jaguar is accused of the two Incas' murder. The president gives him four weeks to prove his innocence. No matter where the Jaguar goes, the craftily circulated news that he is wanted killer is always there ahead of him. Graciela, his dead brother's daughter, sets out alone to forewarn him. The Jaguar finds out that Gambusino has killed his brother and Jinaucarapora's father. Jaucarapora meets Graciela and saves her life. They fall in love each other. Gambusino tries to kill the Jaguar but perishes himself. Graciela persuades Jaucarapora that an uprising against the incomparably stronger whites will ruin his people for good. He rejects the sacred crown. The last Inca suffers death at the hands of his own mentor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Spain, Monaco, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Cry of the Wolf (1975)
Plot Summary:
During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yukon wilderness and human greed to help save a frontier town.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Red Coat (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 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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Old Shatterhand (1964)
Plot Summary:
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, 70mm film
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Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
Plot Summary:
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966)
Plot Summary:
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Winnetou and Old Firehand (1966)
Plot Summary:
Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Winnetou (1963)
Plot Summary:
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, cult film
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Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965)
Plot Summary:
Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, independent film
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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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Challenge to White Fang (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, perverse, 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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The Valley of Death (1968)
Plot Summary:
Mabel Kingsley arrives at a western town to clear her missing father of the charge that he stole a shipment of government gold. A frontiersman known as "Shatterhand" agrees to guide her in a search for the gold and for major Kingsley. They are joined by an army lieutenant, an amateur botanist, and an Apache chief named Winnetou. Despite troubles caused by pursuing bandits and by Winnetou's enemy, a Sioux chief, Mabel's party eventually reaches the "Valley of Death" which holds the answers to the mystery of the missing gold.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Buck and the Magic Bracelet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Children's adventure about a teenager and his dog.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, euro western
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Old Surehand (1965)
Plot Summary:
Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Oil Prince (1965)
Plot Summary:
'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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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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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, cult film
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The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962)
Plot Summary:
Colonel Brinkley is a criminal who has been with the map of where the treasure is the Silver Lake. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand come again towards goodness, but along the way will encounter enemy tribes they will face.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic
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Amongst Vultures (1964)
Plot Summary:
Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders from town to town doing the "Lone Ranger" bit. The hellcat of the title is Elke Sommer, a tempestuous frontierswoman who reluctantly accepts Granger's help in attaining safe passage through the Rocky Mountains ("played" in this film by the Alps).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Run, Man, Run (1968)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny, epic, action adventure, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating