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Plot Summary:
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the southern cause, but after losing his family he became cold hearted and ruthless. His second in command is Eustis (Mulroney), whom Graff has trained on the strategies of leadership and combat command.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: brutal, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Frank & Jesse (1994)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Blind Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt the baby, Canaan passes through a border town where U.S. Cavalry officers assigned to deliver a shipment of silver are under attack from bandits. With some reluctance, Canaan steps in to help the soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, perverse, independent film, spaghetti western
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Gone with the West (1974)
Plot Summary:
Enlivened by the star turns from James Caan and Sammy Davis Jr., we follow the tale of a not-so-reputable hero. Jud McGraw and a less than innocent Native American maid, known as Little Moon. They have both come to the deserted town of Black Nullar to settle old scores. Out of the smoldering cinders of the town, love finds a way in this deligtful romantic western.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, spaghetti western, cult film
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Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
Plot Summary:
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort. Desperate to rebuild the life he once knew, Cable ultimately joins forces with Vern Kidston, his Union adversary to make a last stand for the one thing worth fighting for -- his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, wild
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Molly and Lawless John (1972)
Plot Summary:
Western - Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself. - Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulager.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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Bandolero! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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Purgatory (1999)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven...or screw up and go to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, offbeat, dark fantasy, spaghetti western, wild, cult film
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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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Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Plot Summary:
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
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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
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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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Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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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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American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James (2010)
Plot Summary:
After Jesse James is wounded by a bullet to the chest, Frank James splits the gang up and plans a rendezvous in four days time. With U.S.-Marshall Kane in hot pursuit, and betrayal within the outlaw band, the stage is set for a blazing and climactic shootout in the deserted town of 'Gila Wells'.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Santee (1973)
Plot Summary:
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, cult film
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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
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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 Desperate Trail (1994)
Plot Summary:
Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a few hours, all should reach their destinations. But the trail they travel takes an unexpected turn: Cooper and O'Rourke are soon off the stage and running for their lives. The law ends and the chase begins in a very alive tale of wanted-dead-or-alive fugitives (Linda Fiorentino and Craig Sheffer) pursued by a marshal (Sam Elliott) who's a law unto himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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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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Young Guns II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, period piece, anamorphic, cult classic, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Hour of the Gun (1967)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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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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Sabata (1969)
Plot Summary:
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, grindhouse, euro western, offbeat, serious, surprise ending
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Wild Bill (1995)
Plot Summary:
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, exciting, brutal, retro, cult classic, romantic, enigmatic
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The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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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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The Deadly Trackers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western
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Young Guns (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, harsh, serious, exciting, epic, hood, period piece, realistic, dark comedy
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Wyatt Earp's Revenge (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. Together with his friend Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman and Charlie Bassett he goes hunting for the perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, rough
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Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Plot Summary:
Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy. The film has lapsed into public domain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, realistic, exciting, tense, serious, grindhouse, euro western, epic, disturbing