Topic: Spaghetti Western

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966 · Movie · 161 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Eli Wallach · Aldo Giuffrè

Synopsis The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) follows three gunslingers in the American Civil War era, each with distinct motives, as they race to find a hidden fortune of Confederate gold. The stoic "Good" (Blondie), the ruthless "Bad" (Angel...

8.2

65K votes

8.2

65K votes

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · Movie · 165 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) is a sweeping epic set in the American Old West. The story revolves around a mysterious harmonica-playing stranger, a vengeful outlaw, a ruthless gunslinger, and a recently widowed woman. Their fates intertwine...

8.2

25K votes

8.2

25K votes

For a Few Dollars More

1965 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Gian Maria Volonté · Mara Krupp

Synopsis For a Few Dollars More (1965) follows two rival bounty hunters, the cunning Monco and the enigmatic Colonel Mortimer, as they track the notorious outlaw El Indio and his ruthless gang. Though initially at odds, the hunters form an uneasy...

8.0

35K votes

8.0

35K votes

Django Unchained

2012 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Jamie Foxx · Christoph Waltz · Leonardo DiCaprio · Kerry Washington

Synopsis With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. In the American South, two years before The Civil War begins, a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) is set...

7.9

113K votes

7.9

113K votes

A Fistful of Dollars

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Marianne Koch · Gian Maria Volonté · Wolfgang Lukschy

Synopsis A Fistful of Dollars (1964) follows a mysterious stranger who arrives in a dusty, lawless border town ruled by two rival gangs. Seeing an opportunity, he plays both sides against each other, manipulating their feud for his own gain. As...

7.6

28K votes

7.6

28K votes

Sad Hill Unearthed

2018 · Documentary · 83 min. · Spain

Direction Guillermo de Oliveira

Cast Eugenio Alabiso · David Alba Romero · Joseba del Valle · Ennio Morricone

Synopsis In 1966 the Spanish Army built a huge cemetery with over 5000 graves at Mirandilla Valley in Burgos for the final sequence in the film "The Good the Bad and the Ugly". After the shooting, the whole place was left...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

A Fistful of Dynamite

1971 · Movie · 156 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast James Coburn · Rod Steiger · Romolo Valli · Maria Monti

Synopsis An IRA explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they get drawn into the Mexican revolution.

6.8

4K votes

6.8

4K votes

The Taste of Violence

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Robert Hossein

Cast Robert Hossein · Giovanna Ralli · Mario Adorf · Hans H. Neubert

Synopsis During the civil war in some Latin-American country, in 1980, the president's daughter is captured by some revolutionaries...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

The Great Silence

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Klaus Kinski · Luigi Pistilli · Marisa Merlini

Synopsis Bounty killers led by Loco prey on outlaws hiding out in the snowbound Utah mountains. After Pauline's husband becomes Loco's latest victim, she hires a gunman for revenge; Silence, mute since his throat was cut as a child.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Death Rides a Horse

1967 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Giulio Petroni

Cast Lee Van Cleef · John Phillip Law · Mario Brega · Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis The gunmen who killed five defenseless people made one big mistake. They should have killed six! John Phillip Law lives for one purpose - to avenge the massacre of his family by the four bandits who occupy positions of authority...

6.7

748 votes

6.7

748 votes

The Big Gundown

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Sollima

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Tomas Milian · Fernando Sancho · Luisa Rivelli

Synopsis Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

That Dirty Black Bag (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Mauro Aragoni · Brian O'Malley

Cast Dominic Cooper · Douglas Booth · Travis Fimmel · Aidan Gillen

Synopsis 8 episodes. A raw, epic and romantic spaghetti western series about the dark side of the Far West.

6.6

235 votes

6.6

235 votes

Django

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Loredana Nusciak · José Bódalo · Ángel Álvarez

Synopsis Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

West and Soda

1965 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

Direction Bruno Bozzetto

Synopsis Both a satire of and a homage to that great film genre: the American Western. A sleepy desert town, the nasty local land-baron, the sweet young Clementine, and the lonesome cow-poke Johnny are the characters involved in the perennial struggle...

6.6

108 votes

6.6

108 votes

A Professional Gun

1968 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Jack Palance · Tony Musante · Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw...

6.5

695 votes

6.5

695 votes

Day of Anger

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Tonino Valerii

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Giuliano Gemma · Walter Rilla · Christa Linder

Synopsis First-class Italian frontier saga starring Lee Van Cleef as a master gunslinger who joins forces with an orphan to take over a small town. After teaching the youngster everything he knows, Van Cleef finds himself facing his student in a...

6.5

838 votes

6.5

838 votes

You Die... But I Live

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Massimo Dallamano

Cast Terry Jenkins · Enrico Maria Salerno · Cris Huerta · Marco Guglielmi

Synopsis Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train...

6.4

50 votes

6.4

50 votes

Companeros

1970 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Tomas Milian · Jack Palance · Fernando Rey

Synopsis Arms dealer Yodlaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by...

6.4

580 votes

6.4

580 votes

Face to Face

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Sollima

Cast Tomas Milian · Gian Maria Volonté · William Berger · Jolanda Modio

Synopsis History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.

6.4

477 votes

6.4

477 votes

Lemonade Joe

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Oldrich Lipský

Cast Karel Fiala · Milos Kopecký · Kveta Fialová · Olga Schoberová

Synopsis An outrageous parody of classic Hollywood westerns this musical comedy from Czech director Oldrich Lipsky draws on his previous work in animation to spoof and exaggerate the genre. Set in Stetson City the story opens with a brawl in the...

6.3

134 votes

6.3

134 votes