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Plot Summary:
The Scavengers Were Rotten to the Core - Thoroughly Disgusting, And Had a Serious Freudian Problem... You'll Probably Love Them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Western, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Man and Boy (1971)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Macho Callahan (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, freeze frame
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High (1968)
Plot Summary:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film
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Hot Spur (1968)
Plot Summary:
A deranged stablehand kidnaps the wife of a ranch owner to avenge the rape of his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood and Honor (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min
Plot tags:
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Jessi's Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, wild, cult film
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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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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This Savage Land (1969)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harrassed by Confederate marauders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Satan Was A Lady (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, sexy, captivating, suspense
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Toys Are Not for Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around--by becoming a hooker! Playing "daddy's little girl" with dirty old men, she finds true happiness until a friend arranges a special "date" between Jamie and her whore-hungry dad that, to put it mildly, does not go well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, psychosexual thriller, psycho sexual, independent film
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Mudhoney (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she is married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, surreal, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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The Student Nurses (1970)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
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Louisiana (1984)
Plot Summary:
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: France, Italy, Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags:
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The Red Badge of Courage (1974)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Love Camp 7 (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, controversial, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, psychotronic, banned, cult film
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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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
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Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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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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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 Colt (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, exciting
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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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Shenandoah (1965)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, sincere, rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, technicolor, tense
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Rio Lobo (1970)
Plot Summary:
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: harsh, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, surprise ending
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Soldier Blue (1970)
Plot Summary:
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, bleak, controversial, touching, brutal, spaghetti western, grindhouse, historical drama
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The Keeping Room (2014)
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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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
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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