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Plot Summary:
Set during the Mexican Revolution, a man known only as "The Dutchman" has a plan, and brings in four of his old acquaintences, including an old army buddy and a silent Japanese swordsman, to help him out by promising a $1000 reward if it succeeds. The plan turns out to be a fool's mission: rob a train carrying $500,000 in gold that's guarded by dozens of heavily armed soldiers and passes through a steady stream of military checkpoints. Naturally, his friends agree to go along with the scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting
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More Wild Wild West (1980)
Plot Summary:
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, psychotronic
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Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sartana and Trinity set out on a grudging relationship hell bent for gold and comic brawls. - East West DVD sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
Plot Summary:
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Boot Hill (1969)
Plot Summary:
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, action comedy, euro western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Buckaroo avenges the death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Shanghai Joe (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, cult film
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Beyond the Law (1968)
Plot Summary:
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, dark comedy, cult film
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Ninja Destroyer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A lucrative emerald mine and the various protagonists who are struggling to wrest control of it for their own profitable ends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Return of Shanghai Joe (1975)
Plot Summary:
Return of Shanghai Joe.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Monaco, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Indio 2 - The Revolt (1991)
Plot Summary:
A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the company of its Indian problem. Sgt. Irons, a former Marine NCO, helps to unite the jungle tribes and leads them in their fight to protect their homes and their families.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
Plot Summary:
So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, tense, touching, cult classic, stylized, fast
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A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die (1967)
Plot Summary:
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult film
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Professionals for a Massacre (1967)
Plot Summary:
Major Lloyd, having stolen the cargo of gold needed to purchase weapons, is heading towards the Mexican border. Three soldiers condemned to death are promised freedom if they recover the precious load. The intervention of a criminal Mexican band and the accompanying officer complicates the situation. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, dark comedy, cult film
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Wanted Johnny Texas (1967)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Texas is recruited by the U.S. Army to find a safe passage for a wagon train and impatient settlers to the West. Johnny figures his best bet is to pay off the local band of desperadoes helmed by a psychotic outlaw. When that doesn't work, Colonel Stewart orders Johnny to attack a fortress and detonate a secret stash of dynamite. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Savage Guns (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sam is wounded by the Mash Flanigan gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flanigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to the obligatory showdown. One of the clever scenes is when gunfighters Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell interview for jobs and are introduced with their acting names Mitchell, Tate and Martell.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
Plot Summary:
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy, Mexico, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971)
Plot Summary:
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
Plot Summary:
In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) liberate Mexican political prisoners, train them as fighters and assist them in a desperate attack on a Mexican fortress in an attempt to free a revolutionary leader.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Professionals (1966)
Plot Summary:
The Professionals is a 1966 American Western film directed by Richard Brooks. A kidnap-rescue adventure set in about 1917, it features a small group of experts heading into Mexico to free the Mexican-born wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred bandits. The film is based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: retro, epic, spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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Red Sun (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his fellows.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, euro western, wild, cult film
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Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Plot Summary:
Any Gun Can Play (Italian: Vado... l'ammazzo e torno) is a 1967 spaghetti western starring Gilbert Roland, Edd Byrnes and George Hilton. The film is directed by Enzo G. Castellari and features a score by Francesco De Masi and Alessandro Alessandroni. It follows a familiar pattern of protagonists searching for gold, double-crossing one another and a high body count. The three main characters continually change allegiances and get the upper hand only to be thwarted by fellow outlaws, mysterious insurance investigators and each other. In the opening scene one of the three outlaws is dressed very similar to Clint Eastwood's character in the "Dollars" trilogy, one is dressed as Lee Van Cleef's characters in those and other westerns, and one as Franco Nero's character Django.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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The Bounty Hunters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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A Bullet for the General (1967)
Plot Summary:
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, epic, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Hills Run Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, period piece, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999)
Plot Summary:
The sixth film in the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Hellbenders (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Civil War has ended, but not for Jonas, a ruthless Confederate officer who wants to continue the fight by reorganizing Confederate troops in the Southwest with the support of a large sum of stolen money. He devises an elaborate ruse to allow his small party to travel with minimal scrutiny through hostile territory, for the money is hidden in a coffin said to contain the body of his dead son. Jonas' other sons travel with him along with a hired "widow", as they proceed to what they hope to be a new start to the War between the States. However, while en route, they face severe, ongoing strife among themselves and successive threats from Union soldiers, a posse of cowboys, and an Indian war party.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Condor (1970)
Plot Summary:
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 228000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense
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Django (1966)
Plot Summary:
Django is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role. The film earned a reputation as being one of the most violent films ever made up to that point and was subsequently refused a certificate in Britain until 1993, when it was eventually issued an 18 certificate. Subsequent to this the film was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2004. Although the name is referenced in over thirty "sequels" from the time of the film's release until the mid 1980s in an effort to capitalize on the success of the original, none of these films were official, featuring neither Corbucci nor Nero. Nero did reprise his role as Django in 1987's Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno (Django Strikes Again), in the only official sequel to be written by Corbucci.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized, euro western, gothic, epic, controversial, action thriller