Movies like Pancho Villa

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Pancho Villa (1972)
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Pancho Villa (1972)
Original name: El desafĂ­o de Pancho Villa
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, traveler, adventurer, arms deal, mexican history, heroes, train, military, betrayal, friends, revolution, rivalry, rebelliousness, lone wolves, collision, political unrest, campaign, against the odds, folk hero, state affairs, old west, prostitute, army, hitman ...
Time: year 1972, 1910s, year 1916
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora

Most similar movies to Pancho Villa

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, spaghetti western, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about cowboy, heroes, rivalry, shootout, winchester rifle, revolver and repeating rifle mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Pancho Villa: Duck, You Sucker (1971), Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971), Bad Man's River (1971), A Town Called Hell (1971), Return of the Seven (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 157 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national ...
Style: atmospheric, spaghetti western, intense, epic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, friendship, rape, cowboy, culture clash, redemption, chase, rebellion, cynicism, haunted by the past, two man army, motorcycle ...
Time: 1910s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: mexico, ireland, northern ireland, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, hanging, heroes, political unrest, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, rebellion, state affairs, revolution, war violence ...
Time: year 1971
Place: yuma arizona, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bad Man's River (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wild west, cowboy, old west, cowboys and outlaws, pistol, river battle, mexican revolution, rebellion, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, gang ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Town Called Hell (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, hanging, cowboy, occult, 666, bandit, nudity, violent content, old west, small town, corrupt officer, confined ...
Time: year 1971, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Return of the Seven (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, wild west, cowboy, vengeance, kidnapping, gunfight, desert, hanging, horse riding, freedom, revolution, struggle ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century, 1800s
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Scalphunters (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to ...
Style: cult classic, retro, funny, slapstick comedy, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native american, slavery, cowboy, native, satire, wild west, chase, heroes, interracial relations, partner, anti hero, tough heroes ...
Time: 60s
Place: australia, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Bounty Hunters (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find ...
Style: spaghetti western, spectacular, euro western, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, mexican revolution, bounty hunter, heroes, soldier, blood, fight, small village, revolutionary, western hero, violence, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, 70s, 1860s
Place: latin america, austria, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Train Robbers (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot: cowboy, gang, widow, wild west, obsessive quest, rivalry, treasure hunt, cons and scams, dishonesty, escapades, shootout, robbery ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1870s
Place: mexico, latin america, tucson arizona, texas, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, drifter, bar fight, on the run, social relations, heroes, criminal heroes, chases and races, bounty hunter, unlikely partners, rivalry, partner ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Mercenary (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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 off ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, funny, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, mercenary, medieval, villain, woman with a gun, native american, circus, combat, exploitation, wild west, mexican history ...
Time: 1910s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.2
 31K
Django (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Django is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role. The film earned a reputation as being one of the most violent films ever made up to that point and was subsequently refused a ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, cult classic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, cowboy, shootout, wild west, civil war, vengeance, badass, lone wolves, brutality, violence, gunfight, desert ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: mexican revolution, soldier, cowboy, train robbery, battles, cannon, border, rebel army, u.s. mexico border, suicide mission, mexican border, warlord ...
Time: 1910s
Place: usa, texas, latin america, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 11K
Red Sun (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his ...
Style: spaghetti western, epic, independent film, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: katana, train robbery, cowboy, samurai, native american, wild west, heist, samurai sword, martial arts, female nudity, train, desert ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1870s
Place: arizona, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, cowboy, revolution, wild west, hanging, mexican revolution, combat, native american, revenge, army, dictator, battles ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century, 1890s
Place: latin america, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Hills Run Red (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty ...
Style: spaghetti western, period piece, euro western, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, monster, vengeance, crime gone awry, hidden identity, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, danger, rivalry, american civil war, hitman ...
Time: year 1966
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 5K
Companeros (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Arms dealer Yolaf 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 reluctant guerilla ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, action adventure, epic, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, female nudity, shootout, marriage, coin, hawk, buddy, pacifist, epic battle, civil war, combat ...
Time: year 1970, 19th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place: mexico, texas, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Devil's Backbone (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, serious
Plot: native american attack, apache, cowboy, man on a mission, soldier, apache indian, apache tribe, escapades, society, heroes, military, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1971
Place: europe, italy, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Yuma (1971)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, cowboy, marshal, bar fight, righting the wronged, tough heroes, good versus evil, dishonesty, lone wolves, gang, heroes, tough law enforcer ...
Place: arizona, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Proud and Damned (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA, Colombia, Philippines, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful ...
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, combat, swing, confederate soldier, mercenary, violent content, betrayal, love affair, tough heroes, righting the wronged, battles ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 6K
Sabata (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, gunfight, anti hero, wild west, old west, gambling, heist, rivalry, bank robbery, cash, shootout, gunfighter ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Bullet for the General (1967)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, euro western, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, wild west, medieval, civil war, myth, reform, spy, protest, exploitation, underground, man on a mission ...
Time: year 1967, 1910s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his ...
Style: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, pardon, wild west, native american, van, shootout, town, jail, machine gun, jail cell, blood, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: tucson arizona, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, wild west, cowboy, small town, violence, greed, gang war, vengeance, tough heroes, brutality, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona, new mexico, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
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Boot Hill (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Style: spaghetti western, funny, cult classic, euro western, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, circus, native american, old west, heroes, small town, traveling circus, friends, social relations, buddies, vengeance, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Return of Sabata (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, small town, heroes, gunfight, old west, rivalry, dishonesty, wild west, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, outlaw gang, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1860s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Return of the Outlaws (2009)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Miraculously escaping a painful demise in the gallows, a notorious outlaw cons a crooked judge, an attractive saloon girl, and an old partner into carrying out the heist of a lifetime. As the plan gets underway, a small town sheriff makes it his ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot: rivalry, heist, cons and scams, injustice, vigilantism, small town, sheriff, femme fatale, murder, old west, cowboy, hanging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 55K
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during ...
Style: epic, cult classic, historical drama, retro, anamorphic ...
Plot: gunfight, cowboy, wyatt earp, gunslinger, wild west, modern west, modern western, western hero, outlaw gang, u.s. marshal, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1870s, 1860s ...
Place: arizona, wyoming, alaska, texas, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Gone with the West (1974)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Enlivened by the star turns from James Caan and Sammy Davis Jr., we follow the tale of a not-so-reputable hero. Jud McGraw and a less than innocent Native American maid, known as Little Moon. They have both come to the deserted town of Black Nullar ...
Style: humorous, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, partner, tough heroes, frame up, false accusation, unlikely partners, dishonesty, fugitives, life is a bitch, rivalry, chases and races, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 11K
Chisum (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Style: harsh, rough, serious, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: old west, bounty hunter, cattle, betrayal, justice, gunfight, aging, shootout, cons and scams, corrupt law enforcer, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: new mexico, yuma arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Undefeated (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, native american, friendship, mexican revolution, cowboy, military, medieval, wild west, desert, gunfight, revolution ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century, 1860s
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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