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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,226 films · Page 17.
Adventure, Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
Texas cowboy, Lincoln Costain (James Garner), gets "shanghaied" in San Francisco, then jumps ship and washes ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, right into the arms of widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and her son (Eric Shea) who ar…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In 1870, Zack Thomas, Joe Jarrett, and an outlaw band headed by Matson try to claim a shipment of $100,000 from a stagecoach accident. Later, in Galveston, Thomas and Jarrett become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino. Each has a n…
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Classical Western, Western film
In southern Arizona Territory, hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim MacKay, from an ambush. Jim asks Chris to help him defend the Mexican border town of Magdalena from De Toro and his bandit…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Jess Wade, a former member of a gang of outlaws led by Vince Hackett, is led to believe that an old flame, Tracy Winters, wants to meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Jess sees Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, summoning Vince an…
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Late Western, Western film, action film
Ben Stride walks into a desert cave encampment during a nighttime rainstorm. He encounters two men taking shelter next to a fire and asks to join them. Stride says he is from the town of Silver Springs.
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Social Drama, Western, action film, drama film
A man carrying a gun enters a frontier church in Garlow, a town on the California Trail, and a shot rings out. In the past, the man, Patrick Tate, attends a service at the church during which the preacher claims that some in the congregati…
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Classical Western, Western film
The Clegg gang stages a brazen hold-up of a store, which turns murderous before they can escape. Already wanted, the motley band is led by patriarch Shiloh, who bullies his four feral adult sons and nephew. Travis Blue and Sandy Owens are …
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Western, Western film, action film
In 1851, the working men of Whitman's Valley, California are discontented, as there are no women. Roy Whitman, their employer, tries to prevent his men from leaving by traveling to Chicago to recruit women willing to embark on the arduous …
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film
In 1759, Langdon Towne, son of a ropemaker and ship rigger, returns to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after his expulsion from Harvard University. Although disappointed, his family greets him with love, as does Elizabeth Browne. Elizabeth's fa…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Western, Western film, comedy film
Dance-hall girl Rosie Velez, lost in the desert, is helped to safety by gunman Abel Wood. In the town of Chili Verde, at the saloon of Marguerita Ventura, word of a treasure in gold brings Abel into conflict with outlaw Hard Case Williams …
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Western, Western film
Bounty hunter Ben Brigade catches up with Billy John, who is wanted for murder. While being captured, Billy tells his gang to escape and tell Billy's brother Frank what has happened. When Ben and Billy arrive at a swing station, they are g…
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Classical Western, Drama, Komödie, Western film, drama film
In 1882, the town of Vinegaroon, Texas, is run by Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself "the only law west of the Pecos." Conducting trials from his saloon, Bean makes a corrupt living meting out his own eccentric form of justice. Those who an…
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Western, Western film
John Parrish, a former Union Army cavalry officer, has been living out west to facilitate his recovery from an old war wound on his lung. Known for foolishly not carrying a gun and avoiding trouble, now that he has a clean bill of health, …
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Crime, Western, Western film
In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold and is murdered. Sheriff Jim Ambrose (Gabriel Byrne) assumes that the killer is a newcomer, a former slave who calls himself Cicero (Isaiah Mustafa), because "he's the o…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Spaghetti Western, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, martial arts film, samurai cinema, thriller film
In the aftermath of a major global conflict, which caused untold amounts of death and destruction, guns have been outlawed. However, even in spite of there not being firearms anymore, people still continue to fight and kill one another, ex…
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Western, Western film
The film opens in the desert on the remains of a man who had been roasted to death by Apaches. Frontier scout Jess Remsberg is disgusted by the scene but is quickly distracted by a woman riding an exhausted horse. Two Apaches chase after t…
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Western, Western film, film noir
Cowboy drifter Jim Garry is summoned by his friend, smooth-talking Tate Riling. Garry rides into an Indian reservation and finds himself in the middle of a conflict between a cattle owner and some homesteaders. He meets cattle owner John L…
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Adventure, Psychodrama, Western, Western film, action film, treasure hunt film
U.S. Marshal Mike Donovan (Vincent Cassel) (referred to as Broken Nose by the aboriginal tribe; unlike the comic his nickname is not Blueberry) has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the white settlers and…
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Western, Western film
While J. D. Cahill, a widower and U.S.
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
Sam Kelly is a middle-aged Aboriginal Australian stockman and station hand in the outback of Central Australia some time after the end of the First World War. His employer, Fred Smith, a kind preacher and grazier, agrees to lend Sam, his w…
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Spaghetti Western
In Daugherty, Texas, a group of thieves disguised as Army soldiers steal a safe with $100,000 of the Army's money in it by having a pair of acrobats vault up to the second floor entrance. They haul the vault away in a wagon. During the rob…
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drama film
After lots of planning and dreaming, young couple Willie LaHaye (Logan Bartholomew) and Missie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell) have headed West on the Wagon Trail, leaving behind the hometown of Missie's parents. Missie is caught between the excite…
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Adventure, Western, Western film
In April 1862, Cpl. William Pittenger and several other soldiers, including William Campbell, are posted outside Nashville under orders from General Mitchell. James J.
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Drama, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, drama film, prison film
In 1883, Paris Pitman Jr. and his crew enter the home of wealthy rancher Mr. Lomax, and rob him of $500,000 Lomax keeps in a safe disguised as a table.
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