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Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,226 films · Page 49.

Column South (1953)

Western, Western film

In 1861, prior to the American Civil War, a Union officer (Audie Murphy), tries to prove local Navajo Indians were innocent of killing a prospector. He has to fight the anti-Indian attitudes of his superior officer (Robert Sterling) and no…

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Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Western, Western film

Mexican bandit Jose Esqueda resents settlers in the Brownsville, Texas region, and conducts raids against them. He threatens to burn down their homes, and has burned down the ranch house King Cameron has just built for his wife Cordelia. R…

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The Mountie (2011)

Western, drama film

In 1894, Corporal Wade Grayling, an officer of the North-West Mounted Police arrives in a remote and lawless settlement in the Yukon territory where the Commonwealth wants to build a fort. Upon his arrival, Grayling finds a hanged man, a d…

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Day of the Badman (1958)

Western, Western film

Judge Jim Scott wants to sentence a killer to die, but the outlaw's family, including patriarch Charlie Hayes, resort to violence to save his life. Although sheriff Barney Wiley and most of the townsmen fear the Hayes family, Scott is dete…

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The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)

Western, Western film

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro. Though paid for his services, Bryan is tired of the squalid life h…

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The Shadow of Chikara (1977)

Adventure, Horror, Western, Western film, horror film

Confederate veterans of the last battle of the American Civil War team up with a geologist and set out to find a hidden treasure: diamonds hidden in a cave in an Arkansas mountain. However, the soldiers find they are being followed by a my…

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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)

Western film

It is California during the 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln Bartlett, better known as 'Linc', comes to San Francisco and meets the Chinese Kim Sung at a slave fair, who is forced to work as a prostitute. To protect her from that environment, Lin…

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Traded (2016)

Western, Western film, action film

The film opens with the narrator stating that women have little value in the West and many become prostitutes. Women are sold and traded like property in Kansas. In a western cabin 17 year daughter, Lily, asks Dad, Clay, if she can go to t…

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Smoky (1946)

Western film, drama film, family film

A cowboy riding alone in Utah witnesses a stampede of wild stallions, one of whom particularly catches his eye. He returns the horse to its rightful owner, Julie Richards, owner of the Rocking R Ranch, introducing himself as Clint Barkley …

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Gunfight in Abilene (1967)

Classical Western, Western film

During the Civil War, Cal Wayne accidentally kills a fellow Confederate soldier who was also a long-time friend. After the war, Wayne returns to his hometown of Abilene, Kansas where he discovers his sweetheart, Amy - who thought he was de…

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Blood on the Arrow (1964)

Western, Western film

A U.S. Cavalry patrol including prisoner Wade Cooper (Dale Robertson) is ambushed as they are crossing the territory of Arizona by the Coyotero, a savage Indian tribe of the Apache nation. All are killed except Cooper who is left for dead.

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Heaven Only Knows (1947)

Komödie, Western, Western film, fantasy film

Due to an error in Heaven, Adam "Duke" Byron, is born without a soul in 1858. The "Book of Destiny" shows that he was supposed to marry a minister's daughter in 1885 and set a fine moral example. Instead, he is a saloon keeper and gambling…

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Way of a Gaucho (1952)

Western, Western film, romance film

In 1875 Argentina, a young gaucho, Martin Penalosa, kills another man in a duel. His prison sentence is commuted to joining the army. He serves under the tough Major Salinas, but soon grows tired of military life and deserts.

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The Quiet Gun (1957)

Western, Western film

Doug Sadler (Lee Van Cleef), a cattle rustler comes to town. He's in a secret partnership with saloon owner John Reilly (Tom Brown). They plan to run the stolen cattle into Hell's Canyon, located on land belonging to Ralph Carpenter (Jim D…

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Red Garters (1954)

Musical, Western, musical film

A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue, where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall, a citizen who got shot. Jason objects to the str…

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Mad at the Moon (1992)

Western film, horror film, romance film

In 1892, Jenny Hill (Masterson), a young woman living on the frontier, is infatuated with Miller Brown, the local outlaw. However, her mother (Flanagan) strongly disapproves and marries her off to Miller's half-brother, James Miller, who i…

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The Moonlighter (1953)

Western, Western film

Wes Anderson (MacMurray) has been "moonlighting," rustling cattle at night under the moon. Awaiting trial in jail, a lynch mob led by rancher Alex Prince breaks in and accidentally hangs the wrong man due to a mixup from a cell change duri…

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Tennessee's Partner (1955)

Western, Western film

Tennessee is a gambler and partners with Duchesse Elizabeth Farnham. Tennessee has few friends and makes enemies by winning most of the time. One night Tennessee is ambushed by Clifford, who lost a lot of money to Tennessee.

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Brimstone (1949)

Western, Western film

Pop "Brimstone" Courteen (Walter Brennan) and his sons, Nick, Luke and Bud, run a ranch outside the town of Gunsight, and are none too happy about the recent arrival of homesteaders in the area. Determined to cut off the interlopers' suppl…

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The Durango Kid (1940)

Western film

Bill Lowry returns home to his family ranch, to find that ruthless businessman Mace Ballard is trying to force the townspeople into selling their land. Opposing Ballard is Lowry's father, who leaves for the marshal's office to press charge…

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Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)

Western, Western film

Troops are massacred at a Furnace Creek fort in 1880 after an army captain, Walsh, cites orders forcing him to abandon a wagon train. Apache Indians hid inside the wagons to gain access to the fort. General Blackwell is blamed for the inci…

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