Canyon Passage
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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1958★ 6.6
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Barbarosa
1982★ 5.9
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
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1957★ 6.3
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Flaming Star
1960★ 6.5
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Monte Walsh
1970★ 6.3
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
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2020★ 7.1
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1961★ 6.7
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The Last Wagon
1956★ 6.6
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
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1952★ 7.0
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1980★ 6.3
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
The Last Hunt
1956★ 6.9
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
Forty Guns
1957★ 6.6
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972★ 6.5
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
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2025★ 7.3
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1968★ 6.3
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1956★ 6.2
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The Big Sky
1952★ 6.5
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1969★ 6.2
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1949★ 5.9
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