Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
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Western, Western film, black comedy film
In the American West in 1851, gunfighters Eli and Charlie Sisters are hired by the wealthy "Commodore" to kill a man named Hermann Warm. John Morris, a private detective, has been hired by the Commodore to track Warm down, and hand him ove…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Western, Western film, comedy film, musical film
thumb|left|Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) at the Deadwood saloon Dakota Territory, the 1870s. Tough-talking, hard-riding, straight-shooting Calamity Jane (Doris Day) has a crush on Second Lieutenant Gilmartin …
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Drama, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Western
In the near future, the people of Bacurau, an impoverished, rural settlement in the fictional municipality of Serra Verde, in western Pernambuco, gather for the funeral of Carmelita, an elderly woman seen as the matriarch of the community.…
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Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their br…
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Western film, contemporary Western film, drama film, survival film
A cattle wrangler, True Brandywine, emerges from beneath snow in a desolate meadow. He calls unsuccessfully for his missing horse, Dude, and becomes aware his boot has become dislodged, dangerously exposing his foot to snow. In flashback, …
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Thriller, Western film, action film, drama film, heist film, political film, thriller film
A young woman, Xochitl, cuts the tires of an SUV and leaves a bright yellow one-page manifesto on the window. In Long Beach, California, Xochitl and her friend Theo witness the devastating effects of climate change. Xochitl's mother dies d…
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Action, Adventure, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Farm world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador, ruler of the Malmori Empire. Sador's body parts are deteriorating and he lives only by stealing organs from others. Sador demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he …
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Adventure, Romance Film, Western, Western film, action film, treasure hunt film
An old legend tells of a fortune in gold hidden in the "Cañon del Oro" ("Canyon of Gold"), later called the "Lost Adams", guarded by Apache spirits. A man named Adams is said to have found it when he was young, only to have the Apaches cap…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
In 1874, Will Andrews, the naive and idealistic son of a pastor, has dropped out of Harvard and travelled to Butcher's Crossing, a tiny frontier town in Kansas built on the buffalo hide trade. Sold on the romanticism of going on a buffalo …
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, action film, biographical film, drama film
Young Rio Cutler kills his alcoholic and abusive father one night in an unsuccessful attempt to save his mother from being beaten to death. Grant Cutler, Rio's uncle, hears the gunshot and enters the house. Furious over his brother's murde…
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Western, Western film
In 1909, near the Mexico-United States border, Martha McCandles runs a massive ranch with the help of her sons Jeff, Michael, and James. The Fain Gang (The Fain Brothers, the Devries Brothers, John Goodfellow, Kid Duffy, Breed O'Brien, Pop…
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Action, Adventure, Historie, action film, adventure film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
In the Roman Empire of the 5th century, Ambrosinus, a Druid and member of a secret brotherhood protecting the sword of Julius Caesar, becomes tutor to the young newly crowned Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus. As Emperor, Romulus and his …
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his youn…
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Drama, Western film, crime film, thriller film
Ollie Hale is on probation after being caught illegally crossing the border between North Dakota and Canada. She is determined to reinvent her life and with eight days left on probation she has applied to find work in Spokane. Numerous opp…
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Drama, Historie, historical film
The plot, which is based on events covered by several chapters of Brown's book, other sources, and on real events, revolves around four main characters: Charles Eastman né Ohiyesa, a young, mixed-race Sioux doctor educated at Dartmouth and…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, romance film
In the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1864, during the Civil War, family patriarch Charlie Anderson and his six sons Jacob, John, James, Nathan, Henry, and Boy (who is 16) run the family farm, while his daughter Jennie and daughter-in-law Ann…
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Classical Western, Drama, Western film, drama film, romance film
The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben as head of the family. Ben and his mother, Mattilda, are very protective of Rachel, who was adopte…
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Classical Western, Western film, war film
A stagecoach races across the Southwestern desert, carrying widower Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday and his daughter, Philadelphia, to his new posting at Fort Apache, an isolated U.S. cavalry post on the Arizona frontier. Thursday is impa…
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Historie, Western, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film
In 1853, soldier-of-fortune William Walker flees Mexico, after a failed attempt to incite an armed insurrection. He is placed on trial by US official for breaking the Neutrality Act, but wins an acquittal after giving a rousing speech to t…
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Action, Drama, Western, Western film
thumb|left|David Canary as Lamar Dean in Hombre A rider approaches an Apache-raised white man, John Russell, with a request from his boss to come into town. When John arrives, Mendez (a stagecoach driver) informs him that his adoptive fath…
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Westerns on television, drama television series, historical television series
The miniseries recounts the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys (as well as the allies to both families), starting during the Civil War in 1863 and extending into the early years of The Reconstruction.
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Action, Drama, Western, Western film
Homesteader Angie Lowe and her six-year-old son Johnny are doing chores when soldier Hondo Lane arrives with his dog, carrying his saddle bags and rifle. He was riding dispatch for the U.S. Army Cavalry, had an encounter with Native Americ…
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Romance Film, Western, Western film, drama film
Pearl Chavez is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez kills her mother, having caught her with a lover. Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousi…
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Adventure, Australian Western, Drama, Western film, adventure film
When Jim Craig and his father Henry are discussing their finances, a herd of wild horses called the Brumby mob passes by, and Henry wants to shoot the black stallion leader, but Jim convinces his father to capture and sell them. Jim and He…
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