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Plot Summary:
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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The Virginian (2000)
Plot Summary:
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, intense, realistic
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Pioneer Woman (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homesteading family in the 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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My West (1998)
Plot Summary:
The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They are not happy with his return despite the old gunslinger's intention to retire. Things take a turn for the worse when another gunslinger arrives in town, trying to force a battle with the father.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, tense, serious, futuristic, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Six Gun (2008)
Plot Summary:
When three cowboys show up dead, Tommy, a hard-drinking, retired bounty hunter whose ranch is on the brink for foreclosure, must saddle up one more time to stop the bandit and collect a ransom. Prepare yourself to go back in time to the real old west, when he takes the law into his own hands and kills anyone in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, semi serious, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, independent film
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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
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Gun Fight (1961)
Plot Summary:
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Django Meets Sartana (1970)
Plot Summary:
The small desert town of Black City is held in a reign of terror by a nasty gang of criminals lead by the ruthless Bud Willer. Earnest, but inexperienced Sheriff Jack Ronson arrives in town to establish law and order. Mysterious bounty hunter Django helps Ronson out.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother (AnnaLynne McCord), Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)
Plot Summary:
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Hard Ground (2003)
Plot Summary:
Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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The Trail to Hope Rose (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make a living as a mine worker, closely watched by Marshal Luther Toll. The convict knows he is just one step away from going back to prison if he gets out of line - but when he stops a neighbor from severely beating his wife and teams up with an old rancher who stands alone against the mine owner's interests things get complicated for our hero.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, captivating, realistic, epic
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A Cold Day in Hell (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, independent film
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The Virginian (1962)
Plot Summary:
The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series. Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons—television's third longest running western. It follows Bonanza at fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at twenty seasons and 635 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Dead Are Countless (1969)
Plot Summary:
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Taggart (1964)
Plot Summary:
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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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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Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995)
Plot Summary:
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Black Fox (1995)
Plot Summary:
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Lone Rider (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosperous ranch now dangerously in debt to the town's ruthless leader, and Bobby's childhood friend, Stu Croker (Vincent Spano). Bobby will now face off against his former friend to take control from Stu.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic
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The Mountie (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man dead. As he sets up home, in town, he discovers endless amounts of illegal activity taking place behind closed doors. Once he uncovers the men behind the crimes he prepares to take them down one by one in the most vicious showdown this town has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Showdown (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Desolation Canyon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a bank robbery, the responsible gang stops by the home of one of their members and kidnaps his son. The sheriff enlists the aid of a retired gunfighter, who is the boy's grandfather. On the gang's trail, they find there are two bounty hunters also after the gang for crimes in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Righteous and the Wicked (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hobbs, a notorious wanted bandit, gets caught up in a violently competitive hunt for stolen cash when he finds out outlaws have robbed the local bank. While trying to get back what's his he must saddle up to stop these outlaws leaving whomever stands in his way dead!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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6 Guns (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her family is gunned down in cold blood, a young girl convinces a bounty hunter to train her as a gunfighter so she can seek vengeance with a six-shooter.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, rough, realistic
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Gunfight at La Mesa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge Carter. As the mystery unravels, Tate and Samuel enlist help from an unlikely source, the mob, in order to bring to justice the man ultimately responsible, the evil Harcourt Simms.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, scary
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Avenging Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
A preacher (Sorbo) becomes a bounty hunter after a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church is murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic
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Dead Man's Burden (2012)
Plot Summary:
A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, stylized, independent film