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Action, Fantasy, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, horror film
Confederate soldier Jonah Hex refuses an order from his commanding officer Quentin Turnbull to burn down a hospital and is forced to kill Turnbull's son Jeb, his best friend, who had drawn a pistol on Hex. A vengeful Turnbull later tracks …
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, War Film, Western, Western film, comedy film, war film
Just after the American Civil War, a former Union soldier named Hogan rides up on a naked woman about to be raped by bandits. He kills the bandits, and the woman dons a habit, revealing herself as a nun. Sister Sara begs his continuing pro…
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Action, action comedy film, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film
After leading an operation gone terribly wrong, former LAPD narcotics detective Ray Owens moves to the small town of Sommerton Junction, Arizona, where he settles down as sheriff of Sommerton County. Commanding his small force of deputies …
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Adventure, Western, Western film
Matthew Quigley is an American cowboy with a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Seeing a newspaper advertisement that asks for a man with his special talent, he answers using just four w…
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1882, the town of Appaloosa, New Mexico, is terrorized by rancher and Englishman Randall Bragg, who kills the town's marshal and his deputies when they attempt to arrest two of Bragg's men for murdering a Chicago businessman and raping …
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Drama, Romance Film, Western, romance film
Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) has just moved out to the West with her husband Aaron Claridge (Oliver Macready), who dies in a riding accident shortly after. Expecting her late husband's baby, Marty has nowhere to go and needs a place to…
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Action Comedy, Komödie, Martial-Arts, Western, Western film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, martial arts film
In 1881, Chon Wang – a homophone for John Wayne – is a Chinese Imperial Guard in the Forbidden City. After Princess Pei-Pei, aided by her foreign tutor, runs away to the United States, the Emperor of China sends three of his guards and the…
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Drama, Western, Western film
In 1880 Sonora, Mexico, a bandit named Rio, his mentor Dad Longworth, their partner Doc rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold. Mexican rurales catch them celebrating in a cantina and kill Doc. Dad and Rio escape, but Dad leaves Rio to be ta…
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LGBTQ-related film, Late Western, Satire, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, flashback film, historical film, revisionist Western, war film
The film is framed with narration by 121-year-old Jack Crabb, who is telling his life story to a historian. In 1859, ten-year-old Jack and his sister Caroline survive the massacre of their parents by the Pawnee, and are rescued by Shadow, …
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, Western, Western film, musical film, romantic comedy
When a wagon crashes into a ravine, prospector Ben Rumson finds two adult occupants, brothers, one of whom is dead and the other of whom has a broken arm and leg. During the dead man's burial, gold dust is discovered at the grave site. Ben…
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Drama, Western, revisionist Western
Widely known Old West Sheriff-turned-gunfighter John Bernard "J. B." Books arrives in Carson City, Nevada, on January 22, 1901. Books visits Dr.
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Drama, Western, drama film
Hud is the ambitious, self-centered son of deeply principled Texas rancher Homer Bannon. Lonnie, teenaged orphan son of Hud's elder brother Norman, looks up to both men, but is most impressed by Hud. Both young men are attracted to the Ban…
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Classical Western, Western film, action film, drama film
In 1851, Thomas Dunson and long-time friend Nadine Groot leave St. Louis as part of a wagon train bound for the California Trail led by a pre-Civil War Colonel, their wagon master. After South Fork, north of Texas, Dunson departs south to …
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Action, Drama, Western film, drama film
Men from a western U.S. town herd wild mustangs into a remote pen to be illegally slaughtered as dog food. The county's corrupt political boss Stuart Posner tells his son Bernard to shoot the first mustang, but he refuses.
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Drama, Western, Western film, action film, thriller film
Jay Cavendish, a young Scotsman, travels to the American West to search for his love, Rose Ross. He encounters a group of men chasing a Native American. An Irish bounty hunter, Silas Selleck, arrives and shoots the leader dead.
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Thriller, Western, Western film
The murderous outlaw Cut-Throat Bill rides into town on the same morning Lula and Jack Parker's father dies of smallpox, leaving the siblings orphaned. Their grandfather, Caleb, entrusts Jack with his new will - deeding all of Caleb's land…
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Musical, Romance Film, Western, musical film
Good-natured cowboy Curly McLain admires the beautiful morning while riding his horse to the farm of Laurey Williams, his secret love, and her aunt, Aunt Eller. At the farm he invites Laurey to a box social being held that night to raise m…
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Action, Classical Western, War Film, Western film, action film, buddy film
In 1950, attorney Charles Phalen heads to the White Sands and is contacted by elderly "Brushy Bill" Roberts, who seeks a pardon he was promised 70 years earlier by the governor of the New Mexico Territory. Dismissing Bill's claim that he i…
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Action, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film
In 1887, Lord Nelson Rathbone leads a band of Boxers into the Forbidden City, stealing the Imperial Seal of China and mortally wounds its Keeper. Before dying, the Keeper gives his daughter Chon Lin a puzzle box for her brother, Chon Wang.…
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Mysterie, Romance Film, Western film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Two off-duty sergeants discover a human skeleton on an old U.S. Army rifle shooting range along with a Masonic ring, a Rio County sheriff's badge, and, later, an expended .45 pistol bullet. Sam Deeds, sheriff of Rio County, Frontera, Texas…
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Crime, Mysterie, Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, mystery film
Set in the late 1970s or possibly 1980, Leo Fast Elk, a tribal council member of a Native American reservation in South Dakota, is murdered. FBI Agent Ray Levoi is assigned on the case for his mixed Sioux heritage, which might assist in th…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
In 1902, a mysterious gambler named John McCabe arrives in the unincorporated boomtown of Presbyterian Church, Washington, named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused chapel. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position…
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Classical Western, Western film, drama film
In 1882 (a year after the actual gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881), Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, and James Earp are driving cattle to California when they encounter Old Man Clanton and his sons. Clanton offers to buy their herd, b…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
In 1909, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Pat Garrett is riding with men working for the Santa Fe Ring, when he is ambushed and coldly killed by his associates, including one John W. Poe. In 1881 in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, William H.
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