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Plot Summary:
A crew of land locked pirates, led by the aptly named Peg, go in search of burried treasure hidden by the treacherous Mudhook and his twin brother. They meet up with good natured landowner, Don Aragon, who goes along for the ride with his sister and a young boy, Jamie. Along the way, Peg and Jamie form a father son relationship that is put to the test due to Peg's naturally dishonest ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti 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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The Ruthless Four (1968)
Plot Summary:
This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gold from a remote Southwestern mine without falling prey to each other's bullets.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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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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National Theatre Live: Treasure Island (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's a theatre adaptation of well known story of Jim Hawkins and his adventures in search of treasure of Treasure Island.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Blood at Sundown (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 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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Django Meets Sartana (1970)
Plot Summary:
The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to rescue his father, who has been kidnapped, and find the lost treasure. But the fearful and dangerous Black Brotherhood lies in wait.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Seventh Coin (1993)
Plot Summary:
An independent film starring Peter O'Toole and directed by Dror Soref. In modern-day Jerusalem, an Arab boy and a beautiful American tourist are accidentally entrusted with a priceless coin from the age of King Herod. Soon the two are falling in love and running for their lives from Emil Saber, a man obsessed with possessing the fabled coin at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Cold River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
Plot Summary:
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious
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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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Little Savages (2016)
Plot Summary:
Visiting the charming lake town of Culver, a boy genius and his sister race against bullies to find a treasure hidden by an eccentric philanthropist.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Spear of Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a museum professor disappears, his colleagues must solve riddles and avoid traps to find the mythical Spear of Destiny and rescue the professor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing
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TimeCrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove (2020)
Plot Summary:
While searching for lost treasure, time traveling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes: a group of kids with the latest in techy gadgetry.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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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
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The Deadly Companions (1961)
Plot Summary:
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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How the West Was Won (1962)
Plot Summary:
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, intense, serious, realistic, breathtaking, retro, offbeat, anthology, aesthetic
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The Way West (1967)
Plot Summary:
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, retro, epic, road movie, wild
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, cult classic, surprise ending, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, exciting, light
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Plot Summary:
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 797000
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, exciting, breathtaking, tense, visual, realistic, stylized, scenic, cult classic