This list of spaghetti Westerns includes
Western films
The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that mbodythe spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the Frontier Thesis, new frontier." Generally set in the American frontier b ...
, primarily produced and directed by Italian production companies between 1913 and 1978. For a list of non-Italian produced European Westerns, see the
list of Euro-Western films.
In the 1960s, the
spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
genre grew in popularity. Films, particularly those of the influential
Dollars trilogy
The ''Dollars Trilogy'' (), also known as the ''Man with No Name Trilogy'' (), is an Italian film series consisting of three spaghetti western films directed by Sergio Leone. The films are titled '' A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), '' For a Few ...
, spawned numerous films of the same ilk and often with similar titles, particularly from the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s. By the end of the 1970s, spaghetti Westerns had lost their following among mainstream cinema audiences and the production had ground to a virtual halt.
List by release date
The Spanish comedy film ''
800 Balas'' or ''800 Bullets'' (2002
AD) follows performers at a Western themed tourist attraction in
Almería, Spain, where the majority of Spaghetti Westerns were filmed, including a former stuntman who had worked on Leone's films.
See also
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List of spaghetti Western filmmakers
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List of Euro-Western films
References
Further reading
*Frayling, Christopher. ''Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone''. London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1981.
*Hughes, Howard. ''Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns''. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
*Riling, Yngve P, ''The Spaghetti Western Bible. Limited Edition''. (Riling, 2011).
*Weisser, Thomas. ''Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, The Bad, and The Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992.
External links
"Spaghetti Western" Movies (by Release Date) a listing by the
Internet Movie Database
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The Spaghetti Western Database an online database of European Westerns powered by MediaWiki
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