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Plot Summary:
A homage and parody of 1950s and 1960s Thai romantic melodramas and action films. Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family. The star-crossed lovers are torn apart for years, but their forbidden love survives. When tragedy strikes, Dum unleashes his rage and becomes the gun-slinging outlaw the "Black Tiger" who will stop at nothing to seek his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, funny, cult classic, offbeat, semi serious
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Raging Phoenix (2009)
Plot Summary:
A violent gang is abducting and killing women around Thailand. Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, have joined together to break the gang of kidnappers. In a botched kidnap attempt, Deu is saved by Sanim's crew. After learning their unique martial arts style, Deu helps lure the gang into an epic battle to save the women across Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, disturbing, realistic, fast
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Sugar Colt (1966)
Plot Summary:
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Cain's Way (1970)
Plot Summary:
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, black comedy
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Citizen Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, loosing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesnt mean you have to stop driving motorcycle taxi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, art film, offbeat, weird
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My Girl (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sad, romantic comedy
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Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
Plot Summary:
While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlehan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliche ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, semi serious, spaghetti western, campy
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Bangkok Dangerous (2000)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about a deaf-mute hitman and his partner. Trouble begins when he starts a relationship with a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexy
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Bronco Billy (1980)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, funny, spaghetti western, neo western, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light
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When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, entertaining, satirical, absurd, light, humorous, melancholic, cult classic, feel good
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Shanghai Express (1986)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, fast, spaghetti western, spoof, slapstick comedy
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Straight to Hell (1987)
Plot Summary:
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, spoof, neo western, campy
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Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant. Within six hours after leaving his jail cell, he evens the score with Hayes by holding up the Bank of Texas for $20,000 in gold. Hayes, in his fury, gets himself out of retirement to take up the chase once more.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Bad Man's River (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, retro, action adventure, exciting, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Ace High (1968)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Train Robbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, surprise ending, wild
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, exciting, tense, sincere, touching, cult classic, action adventure
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
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Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, offbeat, atmospheric, serious, realistic, surprise ending, buddy comedy, dark comedy, tense, light
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Ong Bak 2 (2008)
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Moments from death a young man is rescued by a renowned warrior. Realizing unsurpassed physical potential in the young boy he trains him into the most dangerous man alive. As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the vicious slave traders who enslaved him as a youth and the treacherous warlord who killed his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
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Plot tags: stylized, serious, harsh, epic, cult classic, action thriller, exciting, sentimental, sincere, rough
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
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Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, atmospheric
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Style (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, fast
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Flames of the Sun (1975)
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A Police Officer, whose family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai & Veeru, to bring Gabbar Singh to jail alive, but will they succeed in their mission and get their reward? Come and watch the action-packed super-hit Sholay to find out!!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Thriller, Western
Country: India
Duration: 204 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, epic, freeze frame, suspenseful, entertaining, semi serious, touching, romantic, retro
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Shaadiram Gharjode (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) is once humiliated by Hoshiyar Chand (Kader Khan) when Shaadiram goes to inform him about a family wanting to marry their son to Hoshiyar's daughter. Hoshiyar Chand insults them as he wants both his daughters to marry into the richest family. Gharjode decides to teach Hoshiyar Chand a lesson: He meets a coolie called Raju (Govinda) and they go to Hoshiyar Chand's village pretending to be a rich family. Hoshiyar is impressed and he wants his daughter Malti (Karisma Kapoor) to marry Raju. This leads to humorous situations in the climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, light, humorous, exciting, funny, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, realistic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: stylized, bloody, entertaining, captivating, epic, humorous, disturbing, spectacular, spaghetti western, philosophical
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Plot Summary:
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: stylized, harsh, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic
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Open Range (2003)
Plot Summary:
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
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