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Plot Summary:
Shane is an American Western television series aired in 1966 and based on the 1949 book of the same name by Jack Schaefer. The series was created by Herschel Daugherty and Gary Nelson, and starred David Carradine as the title character. The series, which aired on ABC, was filmed as a continuing story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Jessi's Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, spaghetti western, wild, cult film
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Goodnight for Justice: The Measure of a Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of John Goodnight continues.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lancer (1968)
Plot Summary:
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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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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Surrounded (2023)
Plot Summary:
After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to free him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Frontier Circus (1961)
Plot Summary:
Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Goodnight for Justice (2011)
Plot Summary:
How long can you wait for justice? After being appointed Circuit Judge, John Goodnight (Perry) travels the territory dispensing justice. After returning to a town that brings back memories of his parents murders, he sees someone who looks familiar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic
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Ride (2023)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of the Murrays as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
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Guns of Paradise (1988)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Children of the Dust (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the Oklahoma Territory of the late 1880s, Gypsy Smith (Poitier) is a gunslinger of African American and Cherokee descent. Smith helps African American homesteaders to settle the territory under the specter of Jim Crow. Meanwhile, a young Native American raised by Whites (Wirth) must choose between the woman that he loves (Going) or his Cheyenne heritage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags:
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Hondo (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series was produced by Batjac Productions, Inc., Fenady Associates, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Branded (1965)
Plot Summary:
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Whispering Smith (1961)
Plot Summary:
Whispering Smith is an American Western series that aired on NBC. Based on a 1948 movie, the series stars Audie Murphy as Tom "Whispering" Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado. Filming of the series began in 1959, but the program did not air until May 8, 1961, because of unexpected production problems. Whispering Smith combines elements of CBS's Have Gun – Will Travel starring Richard Boone, NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson, the syndicated Shotgun Slade with Scott Brady, and ABC's The Man From Blackhawk, a Stirling Silliphant production starring Robert Rockwell. While the setting of the series is unique, it is otherwise a standard detective program.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Desperados (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the closing days of the Civil War, fanatical Parson Josiah Galt and his three sons, Adam, Jacob, and David, are leaders of a gang of southern marauders. Josiah, driven by his lust for revenge for the death of his Indian wife, attacks the Kansas town of St. Thomas. David, recalling his dead mother's prophecy of doom upon the family and repulsed by the carnage caused by his father and brothers, breaks with the gang after his brother Adam tries to rape one of the town's young girls. David is captured by his own men and brought before his father, who accuses him of treason and sentences him to be executed. David escapes, joins his wife, Laura, and together they flee to Texas, where they live for 6 years under an assumed name. After the war, Parson Galt and his sons continue to loot and pillage, and they eventually reach the Texas town where David, Laura, and their young son, Pauly, live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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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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Winchester 73 (1967)
Plot Summary:
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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The Outsider (2019)
Plot Summary:
A railroad worker unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of a group of corrupt lawmen in the Old West. When tragedy forces him to seek justice, he soon sets out on a bloody quest for revenge to wipe out his ruthless enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The High Chaparral (1967)
Plot Summary:
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, saga
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Cimarron Strip (1967)
Plot Summary:
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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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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Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994)
Plot Summary:
Set in the small western town of Curtis Wells, Lonesome Dove: The Series follows first the romance and later the marriage of Newt Call and Hannah Peale, and the obsession that Clay Mosby, who owns most of the town, has with young Hannah, who looks remarkably like his late wife, Mary. In addition to the talented regular Canadian cast of Scott Bairstow, Christianne Hirt, and Eric McCormack, the show also featured the recurring players of Dennis Weaver as legend Buffalo Bill Cody, Diahann Carroll as innkeeper and widow Ida Grayson, Paul Johansson as newspaperman and family member Austin Peale, and Paul Le Mat as Hannah's father and the editor of the local paper.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: costume drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Gunslingers (2014)
Plot Summary:
American Heroes Channel's new series Gunslingers reveals the infamous tales of survival and courage from the Wild West. Exposing little-known facts about America’s first villains and heroes, the six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. Juxtaposed with vivid reenactments, expert commentary is layered throughout each episode to ensure the authenticity and historical accuracy of each story. Contributors include: David Milch, the creator of Deadwood; Bob Boze Bell, the executive editor of True West Magazine; and actor Kurt Russell (Tombstone).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, rough
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The Big Valley (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, historical drama, serious, realistic, suspense
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Dead Man's Walk (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dead man's Walk is the beginning of the Lonesome Dove Saga. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are just starting out in the Texas Rangers and have no idea of what they are doing for Call it's Duty above all else. For Gus it's the thrill of adventure. Both men don't know just how much danger and death await for them on their first patrol. Jonny Lee Miller and David Arquitte do a fine job as Gus and Call. Miller in particular carries the movie on his shoulders his portrayal of Call is very good. the rest of the cast is outstanding Keith Carradine deserves special mention for his role as Bigfoot Wallace he adds to the movie greatly. A outstanding movie which adds and enhances the Lonesome Dove saga This is a fantastic beginning to an legendary tale of heroes and incredible story telling.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, sincere, rough, touching, epic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Kung Fu (1972)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: fast paced, exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, vintage, telenovela
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The Outcasts (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: hood
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Cat Ballou (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious, captivating, humorous, witty, parody, spoof
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Retribution Road (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bank robbery gone wrong leads to a horrific crime and the capture of the most relentless outlaw in Texas...the infamous Johnny Rios. Incarcerated, Rios ups the ante with a daring ultimatum that gives the sleepy town of Wardlaw a rude awakening as their courageous Sheriff prepares for the shoot-out of a lifetime - one that could either put this town on the map or annihilate it all together. The laws they live by are the laws they’ll die by on RETRIBUTION ROAD.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Yellowstone (2018)
Plot Summary:
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 199000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scenic, sad, tense, suspense, neo western, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, bleak, captivating