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Plot Summary:
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, historical drama, independent film, realistic
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Badland (2019)
Plot Summary:
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, psychological, brutal, dark, suspenseful, spaghetti western
Similar in 83%
Deliverance Creek (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set at the end of the Civil War, widowed mother of 3 Belle Gatlin Barlowe faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt bank that runs their town pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be good or to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, dark, ambiguous ending, period drama
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Point of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama, realistic, independent film
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Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Plot Summary:
Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty--fit for either shooting to bits or hanging from a tree, whichever comes first. Precisely half of Ride in the Whirlwind's 82 minutes is devoted to tapping the matter-of-fact, absurdist horror of that situation. In the remaining half, the two surviving cowpokes (Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell) seek shelter at a farmhouse where they reluctantly threaten the farmer, accept breakfast from his wife, flirt with his daughter (Millie Perkins), play some checkers, and hope to remain undetected till nightfall.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, existential, cult classic, independent film, stylized
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Hannie Caulder (1971)
Plot Summary:
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, psychotronic, funny, perverse, cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Plot Summary:
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: retro, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, brutal, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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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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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Plot Summary:
Glenn Ford plays Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Wicked Spring (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, epic, emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, contemplative
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The Duel (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One-Eyed Horse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of Gatewood's brother under the watch of (then) Union Officer Curry has consumed Gatewood and fueled his desire for revenge. Free from jail, Gatewood discovers that Hadley and his world is changed, and that a "new order" of law and prosperity is now the battle cry of the people. His beautiful daughter, Helen has grown his business into a thriving concern and she makes her father promise that he'll forget his past vendetta. Curry has a successful business and willful daughter of his own, and his main concern is for her safety, once it becomes known that Gatewood still wants him dead. As Justin Gatewood methodically hatches his plan for Curry's utter destruction, the entire town is caught in the crossfire, but most tragically, so are the daughters of both.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, independent film
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South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
Plot Summary:
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900's. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. Christmas, journey through the desert to a small town that the ruthless Henry Clan has hit in order to save Casey's love, Adelyne.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, wild
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The Meanest Men in the West (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Brothers in Arms (2005)
Plot Summary:
Old West. New Soul. Big Payback.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, neo western
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Gang of Roses (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a 1/5 member of the Roses Gang. With the weight of grief on her heart, Rachel decides to shed her new found religious faith to bring vengeance upon her sister's killers. After placing Sally to rest, she goes in search of her former posse to assist her in the reckoning of the outlaws wrong doing.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, exciting, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful
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The Gundown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
Similar in 76%
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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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
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Dead Man's Burden (2012)
Plot Summary:
A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, stylized, independent film
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Jane Got a Gun (2015)
Plot Summary:
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, realistic, serious, captivating, period piece, teen, dark, independent film, anamorphic
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A Time for Killing (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, costume drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, crying
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Plot Summary:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.`.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, retro, spaghetti western, independent film, suspense, wild
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Joshua (1976)
Plot Summary:
A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Major Dundee (1965)
Plot Summary:
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sad, perverse, cult classic, rough, epic
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The Retrieval (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, road movie, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Unforgiven (1992)
Plot Summary:
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 430000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, harsh, rough, captivating, epic, spaghetti western
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The Homesman (2014)
Plot Summary:
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, bleak, realistic, depressing, harsh, emotional, suspense, serious, road movie
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Hostiles (2017)
Plot Summary:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, psychological, captivating, motivational, heartbreaking, serious, tear jerker, spaghetti western