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Plot Summary:
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: dark, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, spaghetti western
Best tv shows and movies like The Shadow of Chikara (1977):
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The Dark Power (1985)
Plot Summary:
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, wild
Similar in 81%
The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, beard, and mustache and steals Union gold to bring back to the South, aided by a guitar that doubles as a gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Sergeants 3 (1962)
Plot Summary:
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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Pharaoh's Army (1995)
Plot Summary:
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, realistic
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Yellow Rock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. The leader, Max Dietrich, hires Mountain Man, Tom Hanner, to guide them into the Black Paw Tribe territory for the search.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, colorful, independent film
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The Hanged Man (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner (George Hilton) travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Afghan Knights (2007)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the fact that he left a man behind in Afghanistan, a soldier (Bacic) pulls together a special task force to save his comrade.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
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Grey Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, wild
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Voodoo Cowboys (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of hoodoo slingers battle zombies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, semi serious, scary, exciting, independent film, spaghetti western, grindhouse
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Finger on the Trigger (1965)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a ragtag group of just-discharged Union soldiers clashes with a band of renegade Confederates over a golden treasure hidden in a deserted town in the Oklahoma Territory. Soon these rivals must make common cause in the face of an Indian attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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A Man Called Sledge (1970)
Plot Summary:
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Left for Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in Mexico, Left For Dead is a bloody and sick dream ... A spaghetti western in terror. A desperate criminal will be caught in the ghost town of Amnesty alongside a vengeful demon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Western
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, rough, serious, wild
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The Bravos (1972)
Plot Summary:
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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And God Said to Cain (1970)
Plot Summary:
An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jail, promising to seek revenge on the guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gothic
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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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The Dead and the Damned (2011)
Plot Summary:
A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, exciting, wild
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Ghost Town (1988)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, rough, cult horror, independent film, neo western, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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The Raiders (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Gallowwalkers (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, wild
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The Mummy Resurrected (2014)
Plot Summary:
A team of archaeologists discover an ancient mummy, unleashing a deadly curse from its eternal tomb.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Eyes of Fire (1983)
Plot Summary:
A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, slasher, anthology, indie film, independent film, tense, bleak, serious, emotional, suspenseful
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Plot Summary:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Raiders of the Damned (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Day The World Ended, They Thought The Fight Was Over. They Were Wrong.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, scary, serious, independent film
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The Burrowers (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, serious, lovecraft, suspense, dark, slasher, splatter
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Dead Birds (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of Confederate soldiers who hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, creepy, frightening, mind twisting, slasher, mind bending
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful