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Plot Summary:
Bandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Robert Gunnar is the bandit with a heart of gold, who is after Price's cache of gold, but falls in love with Diana Ivarson, who has hair of gold (bleach).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Plot Summary:
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast
Similar in 81%
Fort Utah (1967)
Plot Summary:
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, costume drama
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Kill Slade (1989)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter is hired to abduct a reporter who has uncovered a U.N. conspiracy plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, beard, and mustache and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Saving Private Perez (2011)
Plot Summary:
La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando es enviado a la misión más peligrosa y noble de toda su vida, una misión ordenada por la única autoridad que todavía respeta, su madre, Doña Elvira. Julián debe viajar hasta el otro extremo del mundo, a un lugar llamado Irak, a traer de vuelta vivo, a su hermano menor el soldado de infantería Juan Pérez. Con la promesa hecha, Julián Pérez regresa a su natal Sinaloa donde reclutará a un comando de elite, destinado a cumplir una misión suicida: viajar a Irak y salvar al soldado Pérez.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, slapstick, suspense, saga, spaghetti western, hispanic
Similar in 81%
Gun Fight (1961)
Plot Summary:
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Daughter of the Sun God (1962)
Plot Summary:
This adventure chronicles the exploits of an author/explorer on a trip to Peru to hunt for the missing uncle of his pretty young companion. Her archaeologist uncle disappeared while searching for a lost Incan city that he found upon an ancient map. Together the writer and the girl launch an expedition to search for this legendary city. They are guided by another Yankee archaeologist. It is he who swiped the map from the woman's uncle. With their help, he hopes to find the city so he and his gang of thieves can loot it. Along the way they encounter many dangers including, snakes, crocodiles, jaguars, and quicksand. The writer and the niece get their first and warn the Incas living their. The Indians neatly dispatch the evil archaeologist and his band.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious
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The Virginian (2014)
Plot Summary:
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
In Gold We Trust (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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White Fang to the Rescue (1975)
Plot Summary:
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious, spaghetti western
Similar in 77%
The Bravos (1972)
Plot Summary:
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 79%
God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)
Plot Summary:
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
Plot Summary:
After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, semi serious
Similar in 77%
The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
Amongst Vultures (1964)
Plot Summary:
Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders from town to town doing the "Lone Ranger" bit. The hellcat of the title is Elke Sommer, a tempestuous frontierswoman who reluctantly accepts Granger's help in attaining safe passage through the Rocky Mountains ("played" in this film by the Alps).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
The Cry of the Black Wolves (1972)
Plot Summary:
Halfwit Indian Akaena promises a fictitious treasure to anyone who takes her down south where the sun always shines. Trapper Bill Robinson, an honest fur trader in Alaska, refuses to sell his dog sled to dishonest miner Mike Williams, who steals it at gunpoint. While Akaena proves unable to keep her promise, Mike is shot before he can kill her. His corps is found on Bill's sled, making him the suspect as conniving outlaw gangs arrive in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spoof, parody
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Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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King of Africa (1968)
Plot Summary:
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Treasure Guards (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to legend, was given to King Solomon by God himself. But this mighty treasure is also being sought by, amongst others, Victoria’s estranged father, renowned archaeologist Teddy Carter, who’s soon hot on its trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating
Similar in 86%
Gold (2013)
Plot Summary:
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, flamboyant businessman Wilhelm Laser, they are hoping to find their fortune in the recently discovered goldfields of Dawson, but they have no idea of the stresses and dangers which lie ahead on their 2,500 kilometre journey. Before long uncertainty, cold weather and exhaustion begin to take their toll and conflicts escalate. The journey leads these men and women deeper and deeper into a menacing wilderness. (Berlinale.de).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
Similar in 81%
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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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987)
Plot Summary:
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12 years ago -- Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Winterhawk (1975)
Plot Summary:
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, grindhouse
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The Naked Prey (1965)
Plot Summary:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, retro, fast paced, independent film, realistic, psychotronic