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Western
thumb|The Kelly gang inspects a reward notice for their capture. thumb|Dan Kelly cutting telegraph wires thumb|The police descend on Glenrowan as Father Gibney protests the burning of the hotel. thumb|Actor portraying Ned Kelly in an authe…
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Western, Western film, drama film
While delivering supplies from Laramie to Coronado, a man named Will Lockhart comes across the burned remains of a cavalry team. Lockhart is on the hunt for whomever sold repeating rifles to the Apaches. They used the weapons in the cavalr…
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Horror, Western, horror film, vampire film
In an Old West town, young girls are dying of a mysterious wasting disease. Dr. John Carter and his daughter Dolores have been tending to patients for hours, but just lost another.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Western, Western film, action film, blaxploitation film
The opening scene includes Charley as a baby with his mother Theo in Africa. The two are forced into slavery. Twenty years later, Charley kills an abusive plantation owner and flees with his two friends, Joshua and Toby.
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Western, Western film
A former Confederate soldier, John Chandler has come to an Illinois town with his 10-year-old son David to see Dr. Enos Davis. The boy was struck mute after witnessing his mother burned to death when Union soldiers set fire to their homest…
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Western, Western film
The half-Apache Chato is racially abused in a bar by the sheriff. He shoots the sheriff dead in self-defense and rides out of town on his Paso Fino. Former Confederate Captain Quincey Whitmore dons his uniform and gathers a posse of former…
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Late Western, Western, Western film
The film opens with a wealthy woman named Catherine stumbling across the preparation for a train robbery. As the chaotic heist unfolds, two of the thieves, Dawes and Billy, abduct Catherine. The crew is led by Jay Grobart.
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Western, independent film
In Cuchillo, New Mexico, 1887, a group of five outlaws, led by Henry, are robbing the town bank, which culminates in a shoot-out with the residents of the town. A posse of bounty hunters, led by Josiah, is formed and are in hot pursuit, "o…
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Western
thumb|269x269px|Hatches Creek in 1937 or 1938 Based on a real story and set in 1932, the film centres on a mother longing for the return of her stolen children. It looks at the exploitation of Indigenous Australian child labour at the Hatc…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the early 22nd century, a bolt of nebular lightning destroys a space cruise liner. Three survivors—Nova, Reena, and Meagan—board an escape pod and land on the nearest habitable planet. They are quickly accosted by hostile natives and ta…
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Crime, Western film
In 1880, an unknown drifter and gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles (161 km) from Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to lyn…
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Adventure, Classical Western, Western film
At West Point Military Academy in 1854, Cadet Carl Rader (Van Heflin), an agent of John Brown, is dishonorably discharged for instigating a brawl among the cadets after distributing anti-slavery pamphlets which his classmates disapprove of…
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Western film, biographical film, bushranging film, drama film
The film opens with Ned's last few hours in black and white clips. During this we get our first taste of Mick Jagger as Ned. We then see Ned returning home while the first of the films many songs play.
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Western, Western film
In 1922, in an unnamed country south of Mexico torn by revolution, Emmet Keogh, an Irish patriot and political assassin, is coerced into transporting a truckload of Scotch whiskey for English gunrunner, Jennings. Along the way, he helps Am…
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Drama, Western film, crime film, drama film, historical film
In 1901, Segundo, a young Chilean tracker and mestizo, lieutenant Alexander MacLennan, a Scottish veteran and Bill, an American mercenary, embark on an expedition within the plains of Tierra del Fuego to delimit and reclaim the lands that …
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Crime, Western, Western film, trial film
In 1881, Sergeant Braxton Rutledge of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, one of four colored regiments in the U.S. Army, is on trial for rape and murder.
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Western, fantasy film
Dr. Lao rides a golden donkey (implied to be The Golden Ass of Apuleius) into the small town of Abalone, Arizona and visits Edward Cunningham's newspaper to place a large advertisement for his traveling circus, which will play for two nigh…
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Western, Western film
The film follows a Paiute man named Willie, who treks across the desert after the accidental death of Carlota's father. Blame is placed on the young couple and they are pursued by a group of indigenous people looking for justice. After som…
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Western, Western film
thumb|upright=1.1|Joan Collins and Gregory Peck in a film still Jim Douglass is a rancher pursuing four outlaws he is convinced murdered his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where these four men, Alfonso Parral, Bill Zacha…
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Classical Western, Western, Western film
In 1866, remorseful former border raider Glyn McLyntock is guiding a wagon train of settlers to Oregon. While he is checking the trail ahead, he rescues Emerson Cole from being lynched for stealing a horse. Laura Baile, one of the pioneers…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Pacer Burton is the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin…
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Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film
Wild Bill Hickok is haunted by his dreams of a giant white buffalo, so much that he travels the West to find the beast. Along the way, he meets the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who is also searching the plains for the giant white buffalo, w…
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Western, Western film, drama film
George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford), son of a notorious "fast gun", moves to the quiet town of Cross Creek with his wife, Dora (Jeanne Crain), both under assumed identities. Now known as George Temple, he runs a general store, portraying himself…
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Biographical picture, Western film, biographical film, war film
George Armstrong Custer (Flynn) arrives at West Point and is mistaken by his self-designed, outlandish uniform for a visiting dignitary. His academic career doesn't improve, and demerits for pranks and poor discipline accumulate. When the …
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