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Plot Summary:
A comedy western coming from Egypt. The title, "Viva Zalata", clearly reminds to "Viva Zapata!" (1952, directed by Elia Kazan). A bandit of Egyptian origins leads a gang of Mexican outlaws terrorizing a small city at the border between Mexico and the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Egypt
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, spaghetti western
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Zarf Tarek (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show (ANA WEL NOGOM W HAWAK). A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Nems Bond (2008)
Plot Summary:
A clumsy police officer who is a huge fan of the James Bond movies finds himself assigned to solve a murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Paths of War (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny
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The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny
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Female Artillery (1973)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: funny
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Take Care of Zuzu (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a college professor falls for one of his students, his fiancée decides to expose the student's shameful secret to all.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags:
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If You Want to Live... Shoot! (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young cowboy, Johnny, playing in a rigged poker game is forced to shoot one of the other players. The cowboy takes quick leave as he is accused of murder and a reward for his capture is posted. After being wounded, he finds refuge on a ranch and becomes involved with the family. While he is away, a gang of Mexicans kills the McGowan family except for Sally, who manages to escape and find Johnny who is now out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming (1971)
Plot Summary:
Steve McGowan has proposed to avenge the death of his father, murdered by one of the followers of Chief Miller. This engages the services of a famous gunslinger called Sabata and instructs him to kill Steve. The fate joins Steve and the Mexican bandit Leon Pompero, and together they decide to defeat the murderous gunman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Viva Maria! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Traveling players invent the strip tease while mixed up in a Central American revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, sexy, funny, political, sensual, romantic comedy, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Get Mean (1975)
Plot Summary:
The plot revolves around the return of a Spanish princess from America to her native country Spain. To help her she enlists the aid of a reluctant hero (Tony Anthony).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, action comedy
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Red Coat (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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He Who Shoots First (1966)
Plot Summary:
Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to settle with Clusker.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, perverse
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Sugar Colt (1966)
Plot Summary:
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)
Plot Summary:
The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Sabata the Killer (1970)
Plot Summary:
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Thompson 1880 (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ray, young and destitute, reaches Desert Spring, carrying a case on top of his mule. A gang headed by Brady uses apparently legal means to prevent anyone from trading and exploits all the town's possibilities for itself. The only one who dares to protest is Sheila, the daughter of a tradesman who has been ruined by Brady. She therefore welcomes Ray, hoping to make him an ally. But the young man doesn't even known how to handle a gun. However, when Brady's men beat him up and humiliate him, Ray decides to stay.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Plot Summary:
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, action adventure, parody, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, dark comedy, black comedy
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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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Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
Plot Summary:
A homage and parody of 1950s and 1960s Thai romantic melodramas and action films. Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family. The star-crossed lovers are torn apart for years, but their forbidden love survives. When tragedy strikes, Dum unleashes his rage and becomes the gun-slinging outlaw the "Black Tiger" who will stop at nothing to seek his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, funny, cult classic, offbeat, semi serious
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Bad Man's River (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (1975)
Plot Summary:
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Western, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, parody, funny, spoof, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Man of the East (1972)
Plot Summary:
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Lemonade Joe (1964)
Plot Summary:
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, fast paced, cult classic, twisted, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Boss Nigger (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spaghetti western, funny, independent film, exciting, parody, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Lucky Luke (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, captivating, light, entertaining, funny, exciting, not serious
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Run, Man, Run (1968)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, funny, epic, action adventure, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating