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Action, Western, drama film
Ten years after the Civil War, the governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to recommission a company of Texas Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. In a border town, Lincoln Rogers Dunnison arrives by carriage to meet his…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, epic film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Cimarron (1931)|left The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 prompts thousands to travel to the Oklahoma Territory to grab free government land; Yancey Cravat and his young bride, Sabra, cross the border from Kansas to join the t…
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Western film
Part I - The Vision Captain Woodrow F. Call, having just buried his friend Augustus McCrae near Lonesome Dove in Texas, plans to return to his ranch, signposted as "Hat Creek Cattle Company", in Montana. Call sends word to Newt Dobbs that …
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
During Prohibition, a drifter calling himself John Smith drives into the desolate border town of Jericho, Texas. He stops to let a Mexican woman named Felina cross the street, causing several Irish mobsters to surround and vandalize his ca…
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Western, Western film, drama film
"Johnny Guitar" Logan arrives in a remote Arizona cattle town and heads to a saloon to see its owner, Vienna, a strong-willed woman and his former lover. Shortly after his arrival, the town locals, who Vienna has a tense relationship with …
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Komödie, Western, Western film
In Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the late 19th century, aging one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn is stripped of his badge by Judge Parker due to his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms. When a shipment of highly explosive nitroglyce…
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Action, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, adventure film, thriller film
In 1870, Link Stuart and Gauche are leaders of a gang of bandits who decide to rob $400,000 from a train. There, a Japanese ambassador is on his way to Washington, carrying a ceremonial tachi sword meant as a gift for the president. Gauche…
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Drama, Western, Western film
Tom Logan is a rustler experiencing hard times. His gang and he are particularly upset by the hanging of a friend of theirs by David Braxton, a land baron, who takes the law into his own hands. They decide to seek vengeance against Braxton…
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Western, Western film, action film
thumb|alt=Black and white promotional image of Tommy Rettig and Robert Mitchum in the 1954 film River of No Return|left|Robert Mitchum with Tommy Rettig in a scene from the film Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focus…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, biographical film, comedy film
Outlaw Roy Bean rides into the West Texas border town of Vinegaroon by himself. The customers in the saloon beat him, rob him, toss a noose around him, and let his horse drag him off, though he manages to survive. A young woman from a loca…
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Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, horror western, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, vampire film
After escaping from prison, bank robber Luther Heggs (Duane Whitaker) is the subject of a manhunt led by Texas Ranger Otis Lawson. Luther contacts his reformed former accomplice Buck Bowers (Robert Patrick) and tells him to get their old g…
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Action, Classical Western, Western film
In Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. "Doc" Holliday. Seeing him in a bar, Holliday's girl, Kate Fisher, returns to Holliday's room, where the two argue while …
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Romantic Drama, Western, Western film, war film
thumb|left|upright=1.1|John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara In the summer of 1879, Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier in command of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry Regiment to defend settlers against attacks by marauding Apaches.…
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Drama, Western, Western film, war film
thumb|left|Joanne Dru as Olivia and John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles In August 1876, aging veteran Captain Nathan Brittles enjoys his quiet routines and pending retirement from the 2nd U.S. Cavalry after 40 years of military service. …
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Western, Western film
In the town of Sinola in New Mexico in the early 1900s, Joe Kidd, a disaffected former bounty hunter, is in jail for hunting on Indian land and disturbing the peace. Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama has organized a peasant revolt a…
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Action, Drama, Western, Western film, action film, drama film
Jane and her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond live in an isolated house with their five-year-old daughter Katie. One day, Ham returns home with several serious bullet wounds. As Jane is tending to his injuries, Ham tells her that the Bishop Boys…
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Biographical picture, Cannibal-Movie, Horror, Komödie, Musical, Western, biographical film, comedy horror, musical film
The film begins with a reenactment of the gruesome act of cannibalism described by the prosecuting attorney during Alferd Packer's 1883 trial. During this sensationalized account, a haggard Packer repeatedly insists that was not how it hap…
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Classical Western, Western film
The four adult sons of Katie Elder – John, who is a famous professional gunman; Tom, a professional gambler; Bud, the youngest brother, in his first year at mining college; and Matt, an unsuccessful hardware dealer – reunite in their homet…
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Family Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, drama film
A flashback shows a young boy, recently dead, and his distraught mother. John Henry Clayton returns home to his father, Reverend Samuel Clayton, who informs him his mother died some years ago. John Henry was unaware, as he had been driftin…
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Drama, War Film, war film
In 1914, 18-year-old Paul Bäumer enlists in the German army with five school friends (Behm, Kropp, Muller, Kemmerich and Leer), after being indoctrinated by Kantorek, their teacher, as to the superiority of German culture. After surviving …
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The Old West town of Calendar in the Colorado Territory springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father, bumbling farmer Olly, becomes the first mayor, but s…
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Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — middle brother, Forrest, eldest brother, Howard, and youngest brother, Jack — are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as …
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Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, drama film
Following the Second Schleswig War of 1864, Danish war veterans Jon and his brother Peter emigrate to the United States from Denmark and settle somewhere between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Seven years later, in 1871, Jo…
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Western
Three brothers from Tennessee, the sons of Welsh immigrants, named Tell Sackett, Orrin Sackett, and Tyrel Sackett, respectively, are brought together by the tragic events that occur at Orrin's wedding. Tell (Sam Elliott) is a mountain man …
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