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Komödie, Western, comedy film
Partners Quincy Drew, a white man and Jason O'Rourke, a Black man (who was born free and is well-educated), travel from town to town in Missouri and Kansas during the late slavery era. They had first met when Quincy had sold Jason a horse …
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fail…
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Western
Classical Western, Western film
Frank Harris is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business and has also fallen in love with Maria, the daughter of hotel guest and Mexican cattle baron Señor Vidal. When Vidal finds out about the relation…
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Classical Western, Western, Western film
Jim Killian arrives at the town of Vinegaroon, which is divided between cattlemen and sheepherders, and purchases a vacant barn. Cattle rancher Asa Beck, his son Coke, and his cowhands constantly harass the sheepherders, sometimes with let…
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comedy film
Jesse paraglides into a town on the American frontier run by a saloon owner named Seaweedhead Greaser, a tyrant who collects the town's taxes while keeping his mother and favorite mariachi band in cages, and suffers from chronic constipati…
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adventure film, swashbuckler film
On the eve of his return to Spain from Alta California, Diego de la Vega meets his old friend Miguel de la Serna, who is about to take up the governorship of Nueva Aragón. His uncle Don Fernando has died of “malaria” in a malaria-free regi…
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Western, Western film
Set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory shortly after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Buck leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. In order to ensure safe pas…
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Classical Western, Drama, Historie, biographical film
With the end of the American Civil War, military industrialists are left with an oversupply of weapons. Some of the more unscrupulous ones view the Indians as possible new customers. Wild Bill Hickok has just been discharged from the Union…
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Western, Western film
Following the American Civil War, the two James brothers, along with the Younger brothers - Cole Younger and Bob Younger, Bob Ford and Charles Ford, Clell Miller, and Arch Clements, begin to feel oppressed by the Chicago railroad investors…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, buddy film, heist film
In Wyoming, wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins forces with sharpshooter Harry Longabaugh (who renames himself the Sundance Kid) and they carry out a series of robberies. However, Butch is stalked by a member of his former gang, O.C. Hanks,…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
Jack and Arabella Flagg are orphaned in Boston in 1849. Seeking adventure in the California gold rush, Jack stows away aboard a ship bound for San Francisco, with the family butler Eric Griffin inadvertently along for the voyage. Griffin i…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the Old West, the five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp calls for them in his horse-drawn …
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Drama, Melodrama, drama film, melodrama, romance film, silent film
Anna is a poor country girl who is tricked by handsome man-about-town Lennox into a fake wedding. When she becomes pregnant, he reveals the truth of their relationship and leaves her. She has the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own in a b…
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Adventure, Historie, Western film
In London in 1763, Abigail "Abby" Hale is tried for the death of a Royal Navy officer which occurred when she tried to save her sick brother from the press gang. The judge condemns her to be hanged, then offers her the "king's mercy": tran…
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Western, Western film
Bounty hunter Morgan "Morg" Hickman arrives in a small town with the body of an outlaw, seeking the bounty. While the general townsfolk openly abhor Morg, young sheriff Ben Owens, while angry with Morg for not bringing the wanted man in al…
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Western, Western film
After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, the widowed dance-hall hostess Kit Tilden is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg, the ex-Union army sergeant who acci…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, drama film
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an American fur trapper, is on his way to sell the hides he has amassed over the winter. He encounters a group of Kiowa Indians led by Two Crows (Armando Silvestre), who take his furs. In exchange, they give a di…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Sometime in the 1890s, Johnny and girlfriend Frankie are performers on a Mississippi River riverboat, which also has a casino. Johnny is a compulsive gambler who is down on his luck and in debt. Johnny and his friend Cully, a musician and …
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Western, Western film
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and, chased by soldiers, choose to cross the salt flats of Death Valley. After an arduous journey, collapsing from heat and dehydration, the outlaws come upon a ghost…
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Western, Western film
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In May 2021, the Moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse human population to lunar settlements like Moon City, Farside 5, and others. Two denizens of this rough-and-tumble lunar society are …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
A man has parked his car and is looking into the Grand Canyon with binoculars when someone releases the car's parking brake and pushes the vehicle toward him. He is able to leap out of the way at the last moment, and in a fierce struggle k…
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Western, Western film
Set in the late 19th century Sierra Nevada, Isaac LeMay (Worthington), has been cursed by a terrible prophecy and in order to prevent his murder from the hands of his children, he hunts down his offspring, including cold-blooded murderer a…
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