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Plot Summary:
A western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Quaker-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, spiritual, contemplative, crying
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September Dawn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, controversial, sad
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Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
Plot Summary:
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, light, sexy, brutal, unusual plot structure, bloody
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Shadowheart (2009)
Plot Summary:
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, stylized, epic, realistic, gloomy
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The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sincere, rough, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Blood Red (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, spaghetti western
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Gunfighter's Moon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Henrickson plays Frank Morgan, a notorious and feared gunfighter that has lived his life on the run. His face and eyes reveal a man that has been very much hardened by that life. We quickly learn, however, that there is still passion inside. Upon receiving a telegram from Linda, an old lover (played by Kay Lenz), requesting his presence, he abandons his woman, mounts his horse and rides to Linda without giving it a second thought. Upon arrival, he learns that Linda is now happily married to the owner of the local general store. The only vestige of her past that remains is a daughter, who Frank is surprised to learn is his. Written by Dave Gan.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Angel and the Badman (2009)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tense, psychological, touching, realistic, intercultural, inter cultural
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Hidden Places (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, crying
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Will Penny (1967)
Plot Summary:
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, wild
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Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect wants Jane to marry their leader, Deacon Tull, so they can gain ownership of her land. When he steps in to help, Lassister slowly begins to believe that a member of this sect is the man he is looking for.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Guns of Diablo (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bronson and Russell are up against some bad guys who run the town to which the pair have gone for supplies. Bronson runs into an old girl friend, Oliver, who is now married to his enemy Merlin. Bronson had long ago broken Merlin's arm, and now the man wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Basil (1998)
Plot Summary:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, light, sincere, period piece, gothic, crying, independent film, period drama
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Ride with the Devil (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: bloody, realistic, epic, erotic, sexy, gothic, sex comedy, indie film, atmospheric, touching
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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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Monte Walsh (2003)
Plot Summary:
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, period piece, sentimental, gloomy, surprise ending, wild
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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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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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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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The Claim (2000)
Plot Summary:
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, intense, serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, epic, contemplative, gloomy, erotic
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Dust (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, captivating, spaghetti western, neo western, crying, wild
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, rough, serious, black comedy, realistic
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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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The Appaloosa (1966)
Plot Summary:
Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit. The Appaloosa (also known as Southwest to Sonora) is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, shot in Mexico. The 2008 Appaloosa film (starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen) is not related nor a remake of this film, although it has almost the same title.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense, mind blowing, tension, suspense, wild
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. They must regain their land, led by Horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, light, inspirational, sexy, enigmatic
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy, visually stunning, scenic, talky, historical drama, inspirational
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All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lured south of the border by the romance of cowboy life and the promise of a fresh start, Cole and his pal embark on an adventure that will test their resilience, define their maturity, and change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, anamorphic, romantic, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Appaloosa (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, atmospheric, rough, realistic, epic, period piece, anamorphic
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Open Range (2003)
Plot Summary:
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, captivating, contemplative, period piece, funny, sexy, epic
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True Grit (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 353000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scenic, visually appealing, serious, captivating, dark