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Plot Summary:
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Best tv shows and movies like The Man Who Came Back (2008):
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The Dead Sleep Easy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican wrestler entangled with the mob seeks revenge after a group of Mexican migrants are massacred in a human smuggling ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Cole Justice (1989)
Plot Summary:
A school teacher seeks revenge after one of his students is killed by a drug overdose.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, neo western, cult film
Similar in 84%
Cain's Way (1970)
Plot Summary:
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, black comedy
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Instant Justice (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him. Alone in the Madrid's streets, Scott will search for the killers, will try to reveal the reason of the murder of his dear sister, and for revenge for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Gibraltar
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Merchant of Death (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jim Rendall is 6 when his family gets killed. 25 years later he finds out why.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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War Party (1988)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Conflict of Interest (1993)
Plot Summary:
Gideon rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of desirable women, everyone except the corpses he leaves behind and the cops who clean up after him. But now there's a new cop on Gideon's back, Mickey Fl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Army (1996)
Plot Summary:
Arjun and Geeta are a young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. They get married, and soon are proud parents. Arjun gets in the bad books of a notorious gangster named Nagraj, and is brutally killed. When Geeta finds out she decides to avenge Arjun's death. When Nagraj finds out that Geeta is out for vengeance, he scoffs at her, refusing to believe that a lone defenseless widow can do him any harm. But Nagraj is in for a surprise when he comes face to face with Geeta and a group of young men who are dedicated to bring him down - even if they die trying.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Gatling Gun (1971)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Brotherhood of Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local population to register to vote so they can take back power and achieve justice. When hundreds show up to register, the Klan responds with violence. Eventually, though, the Black community has little choice other than fight back and the film ends with a small war between these combat vets and the Klan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The McMasters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' ex-master Burl Ives magnanimously gives the former slave a plot of land, but only Native-American David Carradine and his tribesmen are willing to work for a black man. The "invasion" of Indians serves to stir up the racial divisiveness even farther, thanks to local rabble-rouser Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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A Gunfighter's Pledge (2008)
Plot Summary:
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Austin's mission to locate his family's murderer comes to an end. The pursuit was long and difficult. Upon discovering the killer a gunfight ensues, unfortunately in the crossfire an innocent bystander is shot and injured. Once again the murderer made a quick getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Hooded Angels (2002)
Plot Summary:
A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, surreal, exciting, realistic, independent film
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Minnesota Clay (1964)
Plot Summary:
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Shooter (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story is of a small town in the early west and of a 'shooter' of reputation that drifts into it and stands up to the controlling family that runs it. But far from a John Wayne, this hero is caught and brutally beaten and left to die, only to be saved by a prostitute that has also suffered under the hand of this group of desperados. The only one possible to stand up to the shooter is another solitary man who joins with the notorious family although he is deputized as the town's sherif.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, humorous, bloody, suspense
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The Hunting Party (1971)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: brutal, grindhouse, sexual, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, independent film
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Vigilante (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Doing Hard Time (2004)
Plot Summary:
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, crime drama
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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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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 Jack Bull (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, rough, serious, bleak
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Big Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date with destiny in a boom town gone bust called Big Kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, erotic, action adventure, spaghetti western
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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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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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Return of the Outlaws (2009)
Plot Summary:
Miraculously escaping a painful demise in the gallows, a notorious outlaw cons a crooked judge, an attractive saloon girl, and an old partner into carrying out the heist of a lifetime. As the plan gets underway, a small town sheriff makes it his personal mission to capture the outlaw and ensure that justice is served.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, 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
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Avenging Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
A preacher (Sorbo) becomes a bounty hunter after a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church is murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic
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Ghost Rock (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1882, John Slaughter and his sidekick Savannah Starr return to a town where an almost forgotten massacre took place 20 years ago. They are determined to find the man responsible.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, suspense, realistic