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Plot Summary:
In the days of the "Wild West", a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Desperado (1987)
Plot Summary:
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Macho Callahan (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, freeze frame
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Law of the Lawless (1964)
Plot Summary:
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town our hero Durango (Tab Hunter) delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Gunfighters (1987)
Plot Summary:
In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tv series pilot
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Hell to Pay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds-one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women-in a small mining town torn apart by civil war. When they fall for the same woman, the brothers become divided; and one man is left to face a band of ruthless killers on his own. A tribute to the great American Western, Hell to Pay is a gritty and mesmerizing tale of love, honor, duty, treachery and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: hood
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Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
Plot Summary:
A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)
Plot Summary:
After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Six Black Horses (1962)
Plot Summary:
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Plot Summary:
Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, wild
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Rio Diablo (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to meet. Travis Tritt, in an impressive acting debut, stars as Benjamin Tabor, a man out for blood after a gang of murderous bank robbers flee with his beautiful young bride. Together, Tabor and Leach take to the Trail with guns blazing in search of the same outlaws. And they're not going to stop until they find them - dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tragic ending
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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High Noon (2000)
Plot Summary:
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life. Just as they are about to leave, word comes that a vicious killer Kane had sent to prison years earlier, is coming to town on the noon train seeking vengeance. Kane attempts to rally the town to fight the gunman, but not even his former deputy Harvey (Diamond) is willing to help. Harvey's cowardice infuriates his girlfriend, Helen (Alonso), whose romantic past with both Kane and with the arriving gunman convinces her to pack up and leave town. As the dreaded noon hour approaches, Kane realizes he must stand alone against the coming storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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Gunpoint (1966)
Plot Summary:
A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Return of Josey Wales (1980)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it-he lives. In this Western drama, some friends of gunfighter Josey Wales (Michael Parks, who also directed) are killed South of the border, so he heads to Mexico to confront a crooked local chief of police and get a good buddy out of jail. After Josey arrives, he manages to free an Apache woman and two inmates, as well as his friend Ten Spot. But soon the going gets rougher for everyone concerned. This sequel to Clint Eastwood's classic The Outlaw Josey Wales is a rendering of good guys versus bad, with an emphasis on gunfights.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
Plot Summary:
Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical marshal who abuses his power.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Plot Summary:
Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their end of the deal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Hickok (2017)
Plot Summary:
Legendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer then horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort, his mother barely notices. Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'little Mary' to the old cook, whose words cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, witnessing unpunished crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, cult film
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Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, tragic ending
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Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad speculator Payton McCay to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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The Long Ride Home (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious
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Billy the Kid (1989)
Plot Summary:
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game with which he was shortly murdered there after but not before getting through the troubles that come with the Elders name.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense, romantic, road movie, clever
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Conagher (1991)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Plot Summary:
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, realistic, cult classic, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Joe Kidd (1972)
Plot Summary:
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, light, enigmatic, bleak, breathtaking
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Pale Rider (1985)
Plot Summary:
A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and possible otherworldly origins who teams up with the miners to defeat the land owner and the corrupt sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, suspense, tense, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, retro, epic, gothic horror, powerful