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Plot Summary:
Johnny Texas is recruited by the U.S. Army to find a safe passage for a wagon train and impatient settlers to the West. Johnny figures his best bet is to pay off the local band of desperadoes helmed by a psychotic outlaw. When that doesn't work, Colonel Stewart orders Johnny to attack a fortress and detonate a secret stash of dynamite. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
Plot Summary:
In a small western town our hero Durango (Tab Hunter) delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 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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Grand Canyon Massacre (1964)
Plot Summary:
(1965) James Mitchum George Ardisson, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Jill Powers, Eduardo Ciannelli. After a search for his father's killers, Mitchum returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute. Good western with a helluva cast. Great to see Ciannelli in one of his last films. Color, scope, 35mm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
Plot Summary:
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Great Treasure Hunt (1972)
Plot Summary:
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind man wants to get his mitts on the crooks' gold. He can't do it alone, so he hires the quartet of soldiers-of-fortune to help him. There's bloodshed in abundance in pursuit of that goal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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All Hell Broke Loose (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving his county in the Civil War as a skilled sharpshooter, Will Drayton moved West in search of employment using his shooting skills. He ends up with the wrong type of people as a deadly assassin.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed by banditos. They survive, but during the course of the struggle, the cattle hands learn the truth and ensure that justice gets served.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film
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Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die (1971)
Plot Summary:
Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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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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And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)
Plot Summary:
After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Blood at Sundown (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Son of Zorro (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Spaghetti western styled adventure of Zorro.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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God Is My Colt .45 (1972)
Plot Summary:
God Is My Colt .45.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Plot Summary:
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Reverend's Colt (1970)
Plot Summary:
Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him for the robbery. The sheriff saves him from lynching by putting him in jail. Then he asks the priest to find the gang and the booty; thus Miller becomes the Reverend Colt. His exceptional skill means that he can shoot hats off people's heads and their pistols from their pockets, but he never kills.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Two Violent Men (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two violent men bent on revenge in the old west.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1967)
Plot Summary:
Buckaroo avenges the death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Long Days of Hate (1968)
Plot Summary:
An undercover government agent sets out for revenge upon those responsible for the murder of his parents and the assault of his sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult film
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Pray to God and Dig Your Grave (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings. Instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners, but his relationship to his old friend Cipriano, who had turned in the meantime to a simple bandit, destroys his plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Three Bullets for Ringo (1966)
Plot Summary:
Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay of a crooked Mayor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die (1967)
Plot Summary:
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, cult film
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Professionals for a Massacre (1967)
Plot Summary:
Major Lloyd, having stolen the cargo of gold needed to purchase weapons, is heading towards the Mexican border. Three soldiers condemned to death are promised freedom if they recover the precious load. The intervention of a criminal Mexican band and the accompanying officer complicates the situation. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending, dark comedy, cult film
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Wanted (1967)
Plot Summary:
Giuliano Gemma, elected sheriff by his small town, is unjustly accused of murder and forced to flee. The man behind the false charge is a lurid figure who leads a band of cattle rustlers. Our hero tries to prove his innocence by getting rid of his enemies one by one. -From http://www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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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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Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sando Kid is a medic on the battlefields of the civil war and a pacifist. One day he witnesses Yankee captain Grayton ruthlessly killing wounded and unarmed soldiers. He manages to survive thanks to the help of a friend and learns how to use a gun. From now on, he will sign up to the rangers and hunt down bandits. He soon crosses paths with Grayton again, who now has become a ruthless business man, trying to rob farmers of their land. Together with his henchmen, Grayton might be more than Sando Kid can handle, if it wasn't for Dollar, a black-clad bounty hunter who likes to wear a chain of teeth around his neck, and really likes the Kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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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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Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964)
Plot Summary:
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic
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The Hills Run Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, period piece, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending