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Plot Summary:
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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White Comanche (1968)
Plot Summary:
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967)
Plot Summary:
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Chuka: The Gunfighter (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, spaghetti western
Similar in 82%
He Rides Tall (1964)
Plot Summary:
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, tension, suspense
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Gunfight in Abilene (1967)
Plot Summary:
Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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The Plainsman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
Plot Summary:
A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western
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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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Rio Diablo (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. If you're an outlaw with a price on your head, Leach is the last man you'll want to meet. Travis Tritt, in an impressive acting debut, stars as Benjamin Tabor, a man out for blood after a gang of murderous bank robbers flee with his beautiful young bride. Together, Tabor and Leach take to the Trail with guns blazing in search of the same outlaws. And they're not going to stop until they find them - dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tragic ending
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Showdown (1963)
Plot Summary:
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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Johnny Reno (1966)
Plot Summary:
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: retro, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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Blood River (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn't understand though why Culler is helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond the Law (1968)
Plot Summary:
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, dark comedy, cult film
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The Bounty Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Apache Uprising (1965)
Plot Summary:
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunpoint (1966)
Plot Summary:
A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Young Guns of Texas (1962)
Plot Summary:
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood on the Arrow (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Rare Breed (1966)
Plot Summary:
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama, cult film
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Plot Summary:
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, neo western, cult film
Similar in 89%
The Quick Gun (1964)
Plot Summary:
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Savage Guns (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sam is wounded by the Mash Flanigan gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flanigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to the obligatory showdown. One of the clever scenes is when gunfighters Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell interview for jobs and are introduced with their acting names Mitchell, Tate and Martell.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Charro! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jess Wade is innocently accused of having stolen a cannon from the Mexican revolutionary forces. He tries to find the real culprits, a gang of criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, wild, cult film
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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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Lone Justice 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
After a six-year absence, Ned Blessing (Brad Johnson) returns to his hometown with his sidekick, Crecencio (Luis Avalos). There he finds a lawless hell-hole governed only by six-shooters and fists. No one in town is willing to stand up to the Borgers, a despicable clan that rules the town with brutality and bullets. Into this charged atmosphere ride Ned and Crecencio to take on the Borgers with only the help of a mysterious Indian (Wes Studi) and the town coward (Tom Scott).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad speculator Payton McCay to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Monte Walsh (1970)
Plot Summary:
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, freeze frame
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Yuma (1971)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, double entendre