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Justice Drama, Late Western, Western film
In the Old West, outside LaHood, California, in Carbon Canyon, mining baron Coy LaHood is waging a war of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families — including Hull Barret, who is courting Sarah Wheeler. Sarah's teena…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Girls with Guns, Western film, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, girls with guns, horror film, horror western, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
A cloned Alice wakes up in a mansion, wanders through its halls, and is forced to escape several security traps. However, she is eventually killed by a bounding mine hidden on the floor. Her body is dumped into a pit filled with dozens of …
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
In 1854, Mary Bee Cuddy, a 31-year-old unmarried teacher from New York, came to the Great Plains for more opportunities. In the small farming community of Loup in the Nebraska Territory she owns sizable property and is financially secure. …
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Adventure, Romantic Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
The Rivers (1839) left|thumb|300px|The settlers' raft is caught in rapids. Zebulon Prescott and his family set out west for the frontier on the Erie Canal. They are pulled through the first section on a barge and then build rafts to contin…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, drama film
In Lake Luzerne, New York, teenagers Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one winter's morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Both horses fall, dr…
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Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
left|200px|thumb|Shane (Alan Ladd) and Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur) Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889. A drifter, he is hired as…
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Cannibal-Movie, Western film, Zombiefilm, body horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, independent film, political film, rape and revenge film, revisionist Western, suspense film, thriller film
The Carter family is traveling on vacation towing a trailer en route to Los Angeles. Parents Bob and Ethel are driving, accompanied by their children Bobby, Brenda, eldest daughter Lynne, Lynne's husband Doug, Lynne and Doug's baby daughte…
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Thriller, Western
In 1849, a recently freed slave believes her mysterious Caucasian daughter is possessed due to everything she touches dies. A widowed physician believes otherwise that the girl carries a sickness. The mother then convinces a group to set o…
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Komödie, Romantic Drama, Western, drama film, romance film
In Reno, Nevada, 30-year-old Roslyn Tabor seeks a six-week residency divorce from her inattentive husband, Raymond. Afterward, her landlady, Isabelle, takes her to Harrah's cocktail lounge, where they meet an aging cowboy, Gaylord Langland…
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Drama, Romance Film, Western, Western film, drama film, flashback film, revisionist Western
Near the turn of the 20th century, U.S. Senator Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed Western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. When asked by the local newspaper reporter …
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Adventure, Drama, Western, children's film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In the late 1860s, Jim Coates leaves his family—wife Katie, teenage son Travis and small son Arliss—to sell cattle in Kansas. While Jim is away, Travis sets off to work in the cornfield, where he encounters a Black Mouth Cur he names "Old …
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Action, Western film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, independent film, mystery film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
In Mexico, Machete Cortez, a Mexican Federal and his younger partner are on a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl. During the operation, his partner is killed, the kidnapped girl stabs him in the leg before she is killed, and Machete is bet…
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Classical Western, Romance Film, Western film, buddy film, romance film
Joe Burdette, the spoiled younger brother of wealthy land baron Nathan Burdette, taunts town drunk Dude by tossing money into a spittoon. The sheriff, John T. Chance, stops Dude from reaching into the spittoon, prompting Dude to lash out a…
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Western film
During the Apache Wars of the late 19th Century, former soldier Merrick Beckford is tasked by the US Army to deliver a shipment of essential medical supplies to San Carlos, Arizona through hostile Apache territory. Beckford accepts the job…
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Late Western, Romance Film, Western film, drama film
In Montana in 1882, "Boss" Spearman is an open range cattleman, who with hired hands Charley Waite, Mose, and Button, is driving a herd cross-country. Charley is a former Union soldier who served in a "special squad" during the Civil War a…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the American Old West, card sharp and con artist Bret Maverick is en route to a major five-card draw poker tournament held aboard the paddle steamer Lauren Belle, intending to determine how skilled a poker player he really is. Short $3,…
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Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, drama film, thriller film
In late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones arrives at the house of his daughter Magdalena "Maggie" Gilkeson, hoping to reconcile with her after abandoning her and her mother decades before. She is unable to forgive him, feeling he cause…
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Komödie, Western, action film, comedy film
In the Old West, Tommy, known as "White Knife" by the Indigenous American tribe who raised him after his mother was murdered, is to marry a member of the tribe named Smoking Fox, as arranged by his adoptive father Chief Screaming Eagle. Fo…
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Western, Western film, action film, drama film
In June 1880, stage driver Buck prepares a stagecoach to run from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among the passengers are Dallas, a prostitute driven out of town by the "Law and Order League"; the alcoholic doctor Josi…
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Action, Horror, Obsession, Western film, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, horror western, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, space Western film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In the year 2176, Mars has been 84% terraformed, giving the planet an Earth-like atmosphere. Martian society has become matriarchal, centering on the city of Chryse, with smaller outposts connected by an expansive network of trains. In the…
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Classical Western, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Treasure Hunting, Western film, contemporary Western film, drama film, treasure hunt film
In 1925, in the Mexican town of Tampico, labor contractor Pat McCormick recruits Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two broke American drifters, as roughnecks to help construct oil derricks for $8 per day (). When the project is completed and t…
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Drama, drama film
thumb|left|The Welsh mining village of How Green Was My Valley The Morgans are a mining family in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. Huw, the youngest son of Gwilym Morgan, walks home with his father to meet his mother,…
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Parodie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers, including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and gay bookseller Julian Rogers, decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west, so they hire a grizzled alcoholic wago…
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Action, Late Western, Western film, heist film, vigilante film
In 1913 South Texas, Pike Bishop is the leader of a gang of aging outlaws – most of them disguised as a U.S. Cavalry troop – who hope to retire after a final robbery of silver from a railroad payroll office. But corrupt railroad agent Pat …
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