POR GÉNEROS: Los mejores spaghetti westerns de la historia
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- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA 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.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodLee Van CleefGian Maria VolontèTwo 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.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantKlaus KinskiFrank WolffA 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.
- DirectorEnzo BarboniStarsTerence HillBud SpencerYanti SomerBambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroJosé CanalejasJosé BódaloA coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsGian Maria VolontèTomas MilianWilliam BergerA history professor has a chance meeting with an infamous outlaw and eventually assumes leadership of his gang.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsLee Van CleefTomas MilianWalter BarnesAn 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.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTomas MilianFernando ReyA Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.
- DirectorEnzo BarboniStarsTerence HillBud SpencerSteffen ZachariasA lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
- DirectorTonino ValeriiStarsTerence HillHenry FondaJean MartinA 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.
- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRod SteigerJames CoburnRomolo ValliA low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.
- DirectorGiuseppe Maria ScoteseStarsEduardo FajardoGiorgio GrandCharo LópezA young idealist joins the Mexican Revolution. He has stolen some important military documents that he intends to deliver to Pancho Villa. The Federales will try to stop him with the help of a bandit named Juan Cisneros 'Malpelo".
- DirectorGiulio PetroniStarsLuke AskewLuigi PistilliMagda KonopkaHernandez, commander of the garrison in a small village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of robbing orphan Manuel of his inheritance. Luke, suffering from a traumatic past and now an alcoholic, is chosen by revolutionary Pancho to be the pawn of the conspirators.
- DirectorRobert HosseinStarsMichèle MercierRobert HosseinGuido LollobrigidaA melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsGiuliano GemmaFernando SanchoLorella De LucaA returning Union Officer discovers that his home has been overrun by Mexican bandits, and infiltrates the gang to restore order and determine if his wife has been faithful to him.
- DirectorMassimo DallamanoStarsEnrico Maria SalernoTerry JenkinsMaría MartínAfter his hands are mutilated by his former pupil during a train robbery, a performing sharpshooter trains a young man framed for the crime so that they can seek their revenge.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsGiuliano GemmaWilliam BergerMiguel BoséAfter the Civil War, Michael "California" Random, is released from prison and goes to Missouri with his partner William. He is killed by bandits. California decides to return the belongings to his family and help them against outlaws.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsAndrea GiordanaGilbert RolandHorst FrankBack from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton learns that his father was murdered by Santana the bandit and that his mother Gertrude married his uncle Claude but Johnny is determined to find out the truth.
- DirectorAntonio MollicaStarsGordon MitchellFemi BenussiAldo Berti
- DirectorGianfranco ParoliniStarsLee Van CleefWilliam BergerIgnazio SpallaA 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.
- DirectorGiulio PetroniStarsTomas MilianOrson WellesJohn SteinerA 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.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJoseph CottenNorma BengellJulián MateosA Southern Colonel, his three sons and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiStarsLeonard MannLuciana PaluzziPeter MartellMann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTony MusanteFranco GiacobiniA 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.
- DirectorGiulio PetroniStarsLee Van CleefJohn Phillip LawMario BregaA 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.
- DirectorTonino ValeriiStarsLee Van CleefGiuliano GemmaWalter RillaA 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.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFranco NeroWilliam BergerOlga KarlatosAn ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsGian Maria VolontèKlaus KinskiMartine BeswickA band of Mexican gunrunners employed by a revolutionary General accept an American mercenary into their gang, unaware of his true intentions.
- DirectorGiovanni GrimaldiStarsRobert WoodsElga AndersenFranco LantieriStarblack is a hero who dresses in black and his face is covered by a black scarf and he carries in his shirt a black star, which he always leaves at the scene of his enterprises, as a symbol of justice.
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsJohn RichardsonClaudio CamasoMartine BeswickA cynical seducer of women discovers he is actually a son of a wealthy Mexican landowner.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsTomas MilianDonald O'BrienLinda VerasA knife-wielding Mexican ne'er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million in revolutionary gold, and finds himself working and competing with various parties for it.
- DirectorEnzo BarboniStarsTerence HillGregory WalcottYanti SomerIn the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.
- DirectorDon TaylorItalo ZingarelliStarsBud SpencerPeter GravesJames DalyAt the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroStarsMaurice PoliJacques HerlinGabriella GiorgelliA teacher, a hero, an ex colonel and a beautiful woman hatch a plan to rob Fort Henderson. When they succeed their troubles just begins.
- DirectorGiuseppe ColizziStarsTerence HillBud SpencerEli WallachA recently-escaped bandit forms an unlikely alliance with two bounty hunters and an acrobat to get revenge against the people who framed him.
- DirectorNando CiceroStarsGeorge HiltonFrank WolffPamela TudorKitosch is charged with a crime he did not commit and joins up with Joshua Tracy, a vicious outlaw. When Tracy kidnaps and blackmails his former employer Kitosch redeems himself by saving them.
- DirectorGiuliano CarnimeoStarsGianni GarkoAntonio VilarDaniela GiordanoWhen a young woman inherits a goldmine from her murdered uncle, Sartana comes to her aid as various swindlers, including the local sheriff, try to claim it as their own.
- DirectorGiovanni FagoStarsGianni GarkoClaudio CamasoClaudie LangeSeeking to carry out his mother's final wish, a bounty hunter attempts to find his half-brother - a Confederate deserter-turned-crook - and turn him into the law.
- DirectorJosé Luis MerinoEugenio MartínStarsLang JeffriesFemi BenussiFernando SanchoA gang of desperadoes, on the run after a robbery, kills the brother of a rancher. The latter swears revenge. He hunts down the bandits and takes them out one by one.
- DirectorGianni PucciniStarsPeter Lee LawrenceCristina GalbóAndrés MejutoTwo family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsKlaus KinskiPeter CarstenMarcella MichelangeliA man takes his revenge on the family responsible for his wrongful sentence to ten years of hard labor.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGiuliano GemmaIda GalliPierre CressoyAfter the Civil War, ex-Confederate officer returns home where he gets embroiled in local feuds involving an unscrupulous strongman and his hired henchmen.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsMaurizio MerliJohn SteinerSonja JeannineA 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.
- DirectorLuigi VanziStarsTony AnthonyDaniele VargasEttore ManniA cynical gunfighter, aided by an elderly prophet, becomes involved in a feud with a bandit gang trying to obtain a stagecoach made of solid gold.
- DirectorGiorgio CapitaniStarsVan HeflinGilbert RolandKlaus KinskiFour men embark on a mission to unearth a fortune in gold from a mine.
- DirectorGiuliano CarnimeoStarsGianni GarkoNieves NavarroMassimo SeratoAfter breaking a gambler who has been framed for murder out of prison, Sartana helps him to trace the whereabouts of a cache of missing gold.
- DirectorGiuliano CarnimeoStarsGianni GarkoFrank WolffEttore ManniSartana is framed for a bank robbery, and must find the culprits to clear his name.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsGiuliano GemmaGeorge EastmanVittorio CongiaWhen, after serving a three-year sentence, Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is waiting for him. Not to hug him. Not to welcome him. Just to let him know, a bit bluntly for sure, that he does not want to hear from him again. His wish will not be granted as the the two sworn enemies constantly reconnect, rob a bank together and go through a million adventures while hating each other's guts...
- DirectorGiuliano CarnimeoStarsGianni GarkoPilar VelázquezCris HuertaGianni Garko returns as the Holy Ghost, a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder.
- DirectorVincenzo MusolinoStarsGeorge ArdissonDragomir Bojanic-GidraCristina IosaniWhile Cjamango is away from his ranch six bandits attack and kill all the members of his family. Disrupted by this tragedy he sets out to take his revenge. One by one he kills the bandits and learns along the way that a relative of his wife are involved in this crime.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsBud SpencerJoe BugnerPiero TrombettaTwo outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discovered gold under the village.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsLex BarkerPierre BriceAnthony SteelForester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsFranco NeroGeorge HiltonLinda SiniA prospector and his drunkard half-brother must fight a rancher and his sadistic son after they seize control of his farm.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsGiuliano GemmaFrancisco RabalGabriella GiorgelliAfter three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsGiuliano GemmaFernando SanchoLorella De LucaAn 'angel-faced' gunfighter is tasked with infiltrating a ranch overrun by Mexican bandits and saving their hostages, including the fiancée of the local sheriff.
- DirectorJoaquín Luis Romero MarchentStarsRobert HundarEmma CohenAlberto DalbésBandits attack a wagonload of convicts, and only a sergeant, his daughter, and seven sadistic prisoners survive. The sergeant must get his prisoners to their destination while a web of lies, greed, and betrayal unfolds.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsLou CastelMark DamonPier Paolo PasoliniA preacher's adopted son comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex-Confederate officer who, among other things, is stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.
- DirectorGianfranco BaldanelloMoez MajaliStarsRobert WoodsLucienne BridouRik BattagliaFollowing the robbery of a bank in the Wild West a gang gathers around Jack Murphy, their leader. Things go awry when Skinner, Reb, Mathias and the brothers, Bill and Gordon, realize Jack will divide the loot for his own good only. Furious with him, they decide to betray him and it is not long before they take action. They torture him and leave him for dead while his sister is raped and killed. But Jack survives and goes for revenge.
- DirectorJulio BuchsStarsPeter Lee LawrenceFausto TozziDyanik ZurakowskaBilly becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsPeter Lee LawrenceAgnès SpaakLucy ScaySuper cool Silver kills the seven members of a masked gang, one by one. Saloon girls and poker games enliven this action-packed movie which culminates in the unmasking of the evil gang's boss.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiStarsTerence HillHorst FrankGeorge EastmanA gunfighter forms a gang of "deceased" execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiStarsTony AnthonyRingo StarrLloyd BattistaAfter fifty mail-order brides are kidnapped by bandits, the blind gunfighter hired to escort them heads into Mexico in pursuit.
- DirectorGiancarlo SantiStarsLee Van CleefAlberto DenticeJess HahnA grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
- DirectorGiulio QuestiStarsTomas MilianMarilù ToloPiero LulliVarious factions, including a half-breed bandit, a gang of homosexual cowboys, and a priest, feud over stolen gold in a surreal town.
- DirectorGianfranco ParoliniStarsGianni GarkoWilliam BergerSydney ChaplinA cabal of dignitaries hire Mexican and American gangsters to steal their bank's shipment of gold as part of an insurance scam, but master gunfighter Sartana interferes with their plans.
- DirectorTonino ValeriiStarsGiuliano GemmaWarren VandersMaría CuadraIn Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.
- DirectorCamillo BazzoniStarsSteve ReevesWayde PrestonGuido LollobrigidaMike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.
- DirectorAlberto CardoneStarsAnthony SteffenGianni GarkoErika BlancTwelve years ago, Sartana framed his brother Johnny for murder and stole his girlfriend. Now the town's undisputed boss and doted over by his possessive mother, Sartana seems safe - until, his sentence served, Johnny rides back into town.
- DirectorLeopoldo SavonaStarsAnthony SteffenEduardo FajardoMary Paz PondalTravelling actor and gunman Joe Clifford inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle's murderer, controls it instead. Clifford sets about avenging his uncle, recovering the mine and freeing the town from Berg using both shooting and thespian skills
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFranco NeroJohn SaxonFloyd 'Red Crow' WestermanA young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
- DirectorFranco GiraldiStarsAlex CordArthur KennedyRobert RyanIn Tuscosa, New Mexico, the Governor offers amnesty papers to all outlaws but gunfighter Clay McCord's appearance triggers a violent confrontation between the local marshal, McCord, and other outlaws.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMark DamonJohn IrelandMónica RandallThe Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank.
- DirectorCesare CanevariStarsLou CastelCorrado PaniAntonio SalinesA gang of outlaws find themselves in conflict with a mysterious, boomerang-wielding drifter and a widower who arrive in the ghost town they have holed up in.
- DirectorEnzo PeriStarsThomas HunterJames ShigetaNadir MorettiA gunman teams up with his long-lost brothers--a French hypnotist and a Japanese kung-fu expert--to fight a villain who is obsessed with Roman emperor Julius Caesar, to the point of having built a palace, complete with slave girls, a huge sunken bath and his own "Praetorian Guard", and who is trying to cheat them out of a gold mine left to them by their father.
- DirectorMario LanfranchiStarsRobin ClarkeEnrico Maria SalernoRichard ConteFour men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.
- DirectorNick NostroStarsRichard HarrisonPamela TudorPaolo GozlinoBespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsTerence HillMiou-MiouRobert CharleboisThree rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsBurt ReynoldsAldo SambrellNicoletta MachiavelliA Native American warrior seeks revenge on the gang of sadistic scalphunters-turned-bank robbers who massacred his tribe.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrigitte BardotJeanne MoreauGeorge HamiltonSomewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she unintentionally invents the strip-tease and makes the circus famous. Then they accidentally meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the Church.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsFabio TestiLynne FrederickMichael J. PollardIn 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.
- DirectorLuigi VanziStarsTony AnthonyLloyd BattistaHitoshi ÔmaeAn American gunfighter is tasked with delivering a valuable scroll to a feudal lord in Japan, and becomes embroiled in a feud between the lord and his rival cousin over ownership of land owed to a young princess in their care.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTomas MilianSusan GeorgeTelly SavalasA determined sheriff pursues a robber and his girlfriend and lets nothing get in the way of catching them.
- DirectorRomolo GuerrieriStarsGianni GarkoLoredana NusciakClaudio CamasoHired to rescue a landowner's daughter from a bandit, a bounty hunter instead forms a partnership with the crook due to the higher pay, leading to a tragic double-cross.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGiuliano GemmaDan VadisJosé CalvoCaptured Confederate raider Gary Diamond agrees to work with the Yankees to prevent any further bloodshed by warning a Confederate regiment against attacking heavily defended Yankee Fort Yuma.
- DirectorEugenio MartínStarsRichard StapleyTomas MilianHalina ZalewskaAn escapee Mexican outlaw returns to his hometown, where he is sheltered from a tenacious bounty killer by the townspeople - who discover too late that he is a changed man.
- DirectorFranco GiraldiStarsJack BettsSoledad MirandaGiuliano RaffaelliTo avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Tom has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town.
- DirectorGiovanni FagoStarsTomas MilianUgo PagliaiEduardo FajardoEspidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As "Redeemer" Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel band. The discovery of oil twists everything.
- DirectorAlfonso BalcázarStarsJorge MartínMarianne KochGerhard RiedmannClint Harrison is a gunslinger that has been running from vengeful foes for years. He returns to the town he abandoned years earlier to find his family has moved away to get away from his bad reputation. In order to make amends he tracks his family down and ends up in the middle of a war between humble farmers and a rich rancher who wants to get his hands on their land even if it means killing.
- DirectorTanio BocciaStarsLarry WardMaría SilvaRodd DanaGood Samaritan drifter, Benny Hudson, and a stranded woman, Jenny, find themselves being tortured; when they accidentally walk into a gang's hideout in a ghost town.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsGiuliano GemmaSven ValsecchiEttore ManniA young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...
- DirectorGiuseppe ColizziStarsTerence HillFrank WolffBud SpencerAfter a train is robbed of its payroll, an insurance agent and a card-shark team-up to retrieve the loot from the bandits who guard it at a secret location near the Mexican border.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsGiuliano GemmaFernando SanchoCorinne MarchandAfter getting sprung from prison by a Mexican bandit, a bounty hunter is hired to protect a town by the father of a saloon girl killed by a member of the bandit's gang.
- DirectorGiorgio SteganiStarsLee Van CleefAntonio SabatoLionel StanderA trio of thieves plot to steal a town's silver shipment but a turn of events makes them the town's heroes.
- DirectorLuigi VanziStarsTony AnthonyJolanda ModioRaf BaldassarreA lone gunfighter attempts to make a deal with a Mexican bandit to split a shipment of stolen gold, resulting in a brutal game of double-cross between the two parties.
- DirectorSergio GarroneStarsAnthony SteffenPaolo GozlinoLuciano RossiA mysterious stranger appears to take terrifying revenge on former Confederate officers who during the Civil War betrayed and were responsible for the massacre of their unit.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJohnny HallydayGastone MoschinFrançoise FabianA chain mail-clad gunfighter contends with a sheriff, a banker, a bandit, businessmen and hippies while searching for the money allegedly stolen by his lynched brother.
- DirectorGiuliano CarnimeoStarsGeorge HiltonCharles SouthwoodErika BlancSartana contends with various parties - including a dapper rival gunfighter, an alluring saloon owner and a Mexican bandit - who are intent on acquiring a mining director's gold.
- DirectorRomolo GuerrieriStarsMark DamonLawrence DobkinRosalba NeriA conniving wife has her husband murdered, and also plans to kill his nephew, the only heir, with the assistance of her ex-lover. When she tries to double-cross the ex-lover, he and the heir team up and kill her bodyguards.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsFabio TestiGuido MannariRobert HundarCormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
- DirectorGiorgio SteganiStarsAnthony SteffenEduardo FajardoSilvia SolarA border-town became the subject of heated political turmoil between the US & Mexico when a Mexican bandit starts killing as many US soldiers as he can.