Top 25 Best Spaghetti Westerns
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1. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,172 | Gross: $5.32M
2. The Great Silence (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Western
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Vonetta McGee
Votes: 18,105 | Gross: $0.05M
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 811,489 | Gross: $6.10M
4. Keoma (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama, Western
A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, William Berger, Olga Karlatos, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 6,193
5. The Mercenary (1968)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Western
A greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Franco Giacobini, Eduardo Fajardo
Votes: 6,155 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Blindman (1971)
R | 105 min | Western
After fifty mail-order brides are kidnapped by bandits, the blind gunfighter hired to escort them heads into Mexico in pursuit.
Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Tony Anthony, Ringo Starr, Lloyd Battista, Magda Konopka
Votes: 1,338
7. A Bullet for the General (1967)
M | 115 min | Action, Western
A band of Mexican gunrunners employed by a revolutionary General accept an American mercenary into their gang, unaware of his true intentions.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Lou Castel
Votes: 5,080
8. Day of Anger (1967)
M | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla, Christa Linder
Votes: 5,563
9. Django (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Drama, Western
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Franco Nero, José Canalejas, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak
Votes: 31,012 | Gross: $0.03M
10. Death Rides a Horse (1967)
R | 114 min | Drama, Western
A young gunfighter forms a tenuous alliance with an aging ex-outlaw to track down and eliminate the bandits who killed his family, till the surprising end.
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli
Votes: 9,334
11. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
R | 132 min | Drama, Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp
Votes: 274,768 | Gross: $15.00M
12. Navajo Joe (1966)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Western
A Native American warrior seeks revenge on the gang of sadistic scalphunters-turned-bank robbers who massacred his tribe.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Fernando Rey
Votes: 4,553
13. The Big Gundown (1967)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Western
An unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, Nieves Navarro
Votes: 7,090
14. Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
PG | 138 min | Drama, War, Western
A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti
Votes: 37,513 | Gross: $0.70M
15. A Man Called Blade (1977)
Not Rated | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A bounty hunter is hired by a mining town's crippled mayor to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped by the mayor's corrupt right-hand-man and his outlaw gang.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Maurizio Merli, John Steiner, Sonja Jeannine, Donald O'Brien
Votes: 1,981
16. My Name Is Nobody (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 29,577 | Gross: $0.39M
17. Massacre Time (1966)
M | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A prospector and his drunkard half-brother must fight a rancher and his sadistic son after they seize control of his farm.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Nero, George Hilton, Linda Sini, Giuseppe Addobbati
Votes: 2,347
18. Sabata (1969)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti
Votes: 5,649 | Gross: $0.23M
19. The Four of the Apocalypse... (1975)
Unrated | 87 min | Fantasy, Western
In 1873, four petty criminals - three men and a pregnant woman - wander through the trackless terrain of Utah, where they are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Fabio Testi, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird
Votes: 2,948
20. Tepepa (1969)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Mexican revolutionary contends with a tenacious police chief, a corrupt President he helped put in power, and an English doctor who wants him dead for personal reasons.
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Orson Welles, John Steiner, José Torres
Votes: 1,273
21. Father Jack-Leg (1972)
PG | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Western
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Jack Palance, Giancarlo Prete, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Votes: 184
22. The Ruthless Four (1968)
M/PG | 96 min | Western
Four men embark on a mission to unearth a fortune in gold from a mine.
Director: Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Van Heflin, Gilbert Roland, Klaus Kinski, George Hilton
Votes: 827
23. They Call Me Trinity (1970)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Western
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie
Votes: 25,022
24. Halleluja for Django (1967)
107 min | Drama, Western
After robbing $500,000 from a local bank, the Jarret gang, hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: George Hilton, Jack Betts, Walter Barnes, Sarah Ross
Votes: 207
25. They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
Not Rated | 88 min | Western, Comedy
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a ... See full summary »
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Gianni Garko, William Berger, Christopher Chittell, John Fordyce
Votes: 497
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