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Plot Summary:
The Pinkerton detective agency uncovers a plot to assassinate President James Garfield in 1881 Texas. The film, a "political" Spaghetti, is a very overt mirroring of the JFK Assassination in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
Plot Summary:
After three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former Sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. He was framed by three men and wrongly convicted of the murder of his father. Now he looks for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma stars as a cool, cocky mercenary enlisted by a sheriff to infiltrate a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ennio Morricone provided the score to this early spaghetti western hit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, epic, euro western, mind twisting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, mind bending
Similar in 83%
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, spectacular, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
California (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
Similar in 78%
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
Similar in 78%
For a Few Extra Dollars (1966)
Plot Summary:
Near the end of the Civil War, imprisoned Confederate raider Giuliano Gemma is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos. Soon Gemma slips his treacherous escort and attempts to complete the mission himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, perverse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Find a Place to Die (1968)
Plot Summary:
An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Wind's Fierce (1970)
Plot Summary:
This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his community. Written by Ørnås.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
Similar in 81%
10,000 Dollars for a Massacre (1967)
Plot Summary:
Django is hunting the bandit Manuel, because there's a price on his head. But when he meets Manuel, he joins his gang instead for a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, cynical, stylized
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Fifteen Scaffolds for the Killer (1967)
Plot Summary:
Unjustly accused of the murder of three women, the members of two rival gangs are joined to survive to the hunting that the whole town is making. Running away, they reach an abandoned fort in which the attempt to fend off attacks from the group that pursues them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, tension, suspense
Similar in 75%
Dynamite Jim (1966)
Plot Summary:
Set during the American Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sando Kid is a medic on the battlefields of the civil war and a pacifist. One day he witnesses Yankee captain Grayton ruthlessly killing wounded and unarmed soldiers. He manages to survive thanks to the help of a friend and learns how to use a gun. From now on, he will sign up to the rangers and hunt down bandits. He soon crosses paths with Grayton again, who now has become a ruthless business man, trying to rob farmers of their land. Together with his henchmen, Grayton might be more than Sando Kid can handle, if it wasn't for Dollar, a black-clad bounty hunter who likes to wear a chain of teeth around his neck, and really likes the Kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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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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Day After Tomorrow (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Christmas Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph "Joe" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak (Alejandra Rojo) dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father (Jack Taylor) will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He will become a troubled teenager, and will end up learning how to shoot. Joe will also reject his father's pacific attitude.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game with which he was shortly murdered there after but not before getting through the troubles that come with the Elders name.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense, romantic, road movie, clever
Similar in 82%
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Big Gundown (1967)
Plot Summary:
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, grindhouse, cult classic, action adventure, historical drama, rough, serious, realistic
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The Grand Duel (1972)
Plot Summary:
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Monaco
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Gunfight at Red Sands (1963)
Plot Summary:
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Red Fighter (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, realistic, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, exciting, serious, grindhouse, euro western
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The Return of Sabata (1971)
Plot Summary:
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, euro western, cult classic, offbeat
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Keoma (1976)
Plot Summary:
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, grindhouse, perverse, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Massacre Time (1966)
Plot Summary:
In 1866 New Mexico, Tom Corbett is a prospector who is called back to his hometown in Laramie Town, Texas at the bequest of a old family friend. Tom arrives in the town to see it under the control of a ruthless and greedy gangster named Jason Scott, who's psychotic and murder-crazed son, Junior Scott, runs it with fear with a posse of thugs who kill anyone who protests their business tactics. Tom finds his brother Jeff, a drunkard looked after by their family maid Mercedes. Tom then tries to persuade Jeff to help him take down the sadistic Scotts so the town can rest easy in peace and harmony again.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 82%
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, stylized, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, serious, visual, tense, witty
Similar in 77%
Day of Anger (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lee Van Cleef stars as Talby, a sadistic gunfighter who rides into town and takes on a young outcast as his apprentice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, art house, action adventure, historical drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 83%
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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Texas, Adios (1966)
Plot Summary:
The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt's younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his "son". Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, grindhouse
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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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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