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Plot Summary:
Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, black and white
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Flying Fools (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two guys from Häme find out that they actually are from Karjala. At the same time Flybug bites one of the guys. That means he must learn to fly or he gonna die. Reborn Karjala-boys goes at the airport and fun begins. Soon they become acquainted with a robot that runs with booze, two scoundrels and beautiful Miss Universum.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
Plot Summary:
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, spoof, parody
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Montana Trap (1976)
Plot Summary:
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western, spoof, parody
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Numbskull Emptybrook Loses His Memory (1982)
Plot Summary:
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Pohjan tähteet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Plot Summary:
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972)
Plot Summary:
This Italian western comedy has no shooting deaths, but a lot of fistfights. Provvidenza is a bounty hunter. He makes his living solely by catching his dim but powerful friend, the Hurricane Kid (Gregg Palmer) and turning him in for the reward money. A fully armed horseless carriage is one of the inventive elements of this film. One of the film's sillier highlights is an amazingly loud and long belch by the Kid. -From http://www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962)
Plot Summary:
An old geezer recalls some of the antics of the men and women of his western town, more wild and woolly than Tombstone or Dodge City. In this town no one is a good shot, the women are hungry for new meat, and practical jokers abound. A stranger strolls into town, proving resistant to the mayhem, and after donning some cowboy duds begins cleaning up that town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: funny, sex comedy, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre, parody, scatology
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A Bullet for a Stranger (1971)
Plot Summary:
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sam Whiskey (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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El Diablo (1990)
Plot Summary:
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger (Joe Pantoliano) and a no-nonsense cowboy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo (Robert Beltran).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, buddy comedy, wild
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Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sartana and Trinity set out on a grudging relationship hell bent for gold and comic brawls. - East West DVD sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, parody, tension, light, romantic
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Waterhole #3 (1967)
Plot Summary:
James Coburn is a con man and grifter who comes across a map that leads to a fortune in stolen US Army gold. Carroll O'Connor is the crooked sheriff who stays on Coburn's tail.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired", and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, campy
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It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
Plot Summary:
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
Plot Summary:
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives he find's his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to out-smart and defeat Lundy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Carry on Cowboy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a "sanitary engineer" (plumber) by the name of Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal! Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids - revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Plot Summary:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, spoof, retro, action adventure, exciting, feel good, realistic, not serious
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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
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Buddy Goes West (1981)
Plot Summary:
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, funny, euro western, rough, spoof
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Boot Hill (1969)
Plot Summary:
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, action comedy, euro western, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Plot Summary:
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, buddy comedy, spoof, funny, grindhouse, parody, humorous, slapstick, epic, fast paced
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Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A couple of two-bit thieving brothers try and keep a promise to their dying father: stick together and become successful outlaws. Bambino reluctantly agrees to show younger Trinity the ropes, but their gentle demeanors tend to diminish their haul by repeatedly helping the selfsame family they initially held up. Fun ensues in town and at the local Spanish mission where they are taken for federal agents, mistakenly so identified by Trinity's young love interest, daughter of the aforementioned family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, epic, grindhouse, euro western, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Ace High (1968)
Plot Summary:
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Mercenary (1968)
Plot Summary:
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny, epic, grindhouse, action adventure, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
Plot Summary:
A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, detective
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Catlow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Catlow is a 1971 western based on a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a outlaw determined to pull off a gold robbery and co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, exciting, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Plot Summary:
A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, cult classic, funny, hilarious, slapstick, light, talky, exciting
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, satirical, entertaining, spoof, hilarious, slapstick