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Plot Summary:
A young man stalks his mother's killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Son of a Gunfighter (1965):
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The Mustachioed Bandit Meets His End (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gunslinger Leonard (Doug Swim) wakes up surrounded by dead bodies and wounded survivors -- but thanks to a nasty bump on the head, he hasn't the foggiest notion how he -- or they -- ended up in such dire straits. As he searches for answers and medical attention, he encounters a slew of oddball locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, period piece
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Yankee (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominance ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, hood, erotic
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Rattler Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
Falsely convicted for robbing an army treasury Tony Garrett manages to escape and looks for the real culprits to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, noir
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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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More Dead Than Alive (1969)
Plot Summary:
When the multiple murderer Cain is released from prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down as a rancher and never touch a gun again. But his former life haunts him; not only that nobody wants to give him a job, some villains also want to pay him back. So he has to accept the offer of showman Ruffalo to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show. However after 18 years without practice even Ruffalo's young assistant Billy shoots better than Cain.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, spaghetti western, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Django Defies Sartana (1970)
Plot Summary:
Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 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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White Comanche (1968)
Plot Summary:
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, psychotronic
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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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Arizona Colt Returns (1970)
Plot Summary:
The rough and tough bounty hunter suddenly becomes the hunted when a $1,000 reward is put on his head for a stagecoach robbery he didn't commit in this action-packed sequel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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One Against One... No Mercy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bill learns that his father, during the American Civil War, was accused of theft and killed. Convinced of his innocence, Bill discovers the true robbers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Unholy Four (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, psychotronic
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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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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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The Wild Westerners (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Apache Fury (1964)
Plot Summary:
In an old fort dedicated to the service of change of chivalry, show up three hired murderers and warn Lohman, the manager, who is about to get a stagecoach traveling in the former judge who unjustly condemned to five years in prison , and of course the husband murderer now promised the judge, Ruth, indicating further that brings a suitcase with many dollars. However, Lohman rejects the suggestion of the bandits. But when the judge and his girlfriend, the fort was attacked by Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed by banditos. They survive, but during the course of the struggle, the cattle hands learn the truth and ensure that justice gets served.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film
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Django, a Bullet for You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and took refuge at the home of Jimmy and Mary, two brothers who live in a small farm. She cared for and healed him, explaining the concern he feels for his brother to the company he keeps. Sam discovers that Jimmy is one of the outlaws pursued and, despite their friendship, goes on his quest to catch a bandit.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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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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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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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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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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A Man Called Sledge (1970)
Plot Summary:
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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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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Gentleman Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Barquero (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film