The most classic is Sergio Leone’s “The Last Day” trilogy. There are not many other famous “spaghetti westerns”. Here are the ten recommended ones I found online:

The following are ten Italian Western films that we can see on the disc market. At the same time, they can also represent the highest achievements of Italian Western films. The banner figure Sergio Leone has 5 here. works. Unlike Leone, the other five directors almost exclusively used Italian actors and Italian production crews, many of whom did not even speak English at all.

1. Texas Ranger (TEXAS, ADIOS) 1966

Bert, the sheriff of a Texas town, and his brother Jim went to Mexico to capture the murderer of his father, Cisco. After finding the murderer, they unexpectedly learned that he was his brother's biological father. The Revolutionary Army has also repeatedly begged Bert to join. How will he choose? This film is most similar to early American westerns. Director Beidi makes the protagonist's journey full of hardships. Facing the cruel dictator, the righteous Bert reluctantly helps the revolutionary army again and again. There are a lot of exciting double duel scenes in the film. Franco Nero, who plays Burt, became a star of Italian western films from this film on.

2. A BULLTE FOR THE GENERAL (1967)

A mysterious American (played by Claude Kinski) participated in the Mexican bandit revolutionary Chuan State-led teams. They looted guns and ammunition and prepared to sell them to the revolutionary army. Sichuan Province regards the mysterious guest as a confidant, and the ultimate goal of the mysterious guest is just to send the general back to the west to obtain the government bounty. In this story directed by Domini, the friendship established during the journey is quite fragile. Due to his bandit nature and the shame after being teased, Chuanzhou killed his confidant, the mysterious American. Even after he became rich, he still remained Go back to his lair and be his bandit. The American has a clear motive - gold coins, so he is always in a hurry to get on the road, while Sichuan just wants to enjoy the current life, and it doesn't matter whether he is on the road or not. In the soundtrack, Morricone was lazy and continued to use the guitar part he had played in "The Bad, the Bad and the Bad" a year ago, without developing the motive into a full string string.

3. COMPANEROS 1970

The gentle but sinister Swedish arms dealer Peterson met the down-and-out Spanish immigrants and bandit revolutionary soldiers while making money from the Mexican revolution. Bosco. By mistake, the two had to go to the US-Mexico border to rescue a professor who could open a safe. The story of adventure and friendship began. Very traditional, this film directed by Kubuqi uses cross-narrative to show the encounter of the two protagonists. They face the three camps of revolutionary gangsters, government troops and student armed forces. The two guys have a western relationship with the female revolutionary student one after another. Rare love. Compared with "Bullets for the General", the relationship between the protagonists of this film is simple and there is no deception. This makes the narrative more exciting and the gun battles more exciting.

4. FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE 1975

The gambler Starby was imprisoned as soon as he arrived in a small town in the western United States, but he and three other inmates (one was pregnant) (a prostitute, a drunkard, a black man) luckily escaped the massacre that wiped out the entire town. The four of them went on the road to continue pursuing their dreams, and met the sadistic Chuck in the desert. The remaining Starbey and the prostitute fell in love in the predicament. This is one of the most distinctive western films, with a very depressing atmosphere and a small number of killing scenes that are extremely real and cruel. Director Fauci added a strong personal style, making the overall rhythm significantly slower. However, I think this kind of personal style infiltration is a failure, because the genre and stereotype of Western movies are too strong to accommodate the slight intervention of other genres. The latter part of the film is like a family literary drama, which makes me feel that it is a failure. This feeling of before and after is unbalanced and very unsmooth, and the ending of this awkward shootout is not satisfying enough.

5. KEROMA 1976

The killer Keoma returned to the town where he lived in his childhood and found that the town had been occupied by a group of bandits, and his three brothers also Fish townsfolk. In order to save the town, especially a pregnant woman who was suspected of being infected with smallpox, he launched a desperate struggle with the bandits. But how to resolve the conflicts between brothers and father and son? In the late 1970s, spaghetti westerns began to decline. Director Castella also gave up on traditional journey stories and male friendship relationships, and experimentally put some flashbacks and real-life environments in the same shot, trying to create a kind of physical reality. The sentiment of remembrance of right and wrong. Chioma, played by Franco Nile, has a grimace on his face, and his movements are clumsy and only brute strength remains. But what is his motive for seeking revenge against his brother? It doesn't seem to be visible at all in the film.

6. A Fistful of Dollars 1964

Leone's first western film, played by Eastwood who became famous for this film As soon as the escort came to a Mexican town, there were two big smugglers in the town, one sold private weapons and the other sold private liquor. The two gangs had been fighting for a long time, and the townspeople were at odds with each other. Out of justice, he used tricks to bring about a conflict between the two factions and wiped out all the evil forces in the town.

Although this film depicts Mexico, it does not use the Mexican Revolution as the historical background. The logic of the story is obviously more rigorous than other directors' works. Eastwood's cold humor appears from time to time. The cowboy intervenes in the battle between the hostile parties, and exchanges are made. In the hostage scene, his role is very much like that of the American world police. Of course, this is called "helping others."

Leone met his high school classmate when he was choosing a composer. Unexpectedly, the guy was Morricone, who was already well-known at the time. It should be because of the Bond films. In that era, everything produced by United Artists always started with silhouettes. These silhouettes, accompanied by a comfortable whistle, announced the beginning of the legendary collaboration between Leone and Morricone.

7. For a few dollars more 1965

“A person is worth nothing when he is alive, but he is worth a hundred times as much when he is dead, so it appeared. "A killer pursuing a bounty" - opening subtitles

Eastwood is still a lone gunman who wants to capture Indio in exchange for the bounty. Unexpectedly, another powerful gunman Mortimer is killed halfway and is also interested in taking the money. Money, the two fought openly and secretly but neither could succeed, so they had to cooperate to deal with the target, and also led to a revenge story through the musical watch. This film made Cliff, who was down and out at the time, rise again. At that time, prices in the United States were really low, and the bounty was only 1,000-10,000. We don't want to report Ma Jiajue to 250,000 now.

8. The Good, the Ugly, the Bad (The Good, the Ugly, the Bad) 1966

Eastwood, Cliff and Wallack are the movie The good, the bad and the ugly. During the chaotic Civil War, the three men planned to seize a batch of Confederate wealth, but each of them only knew the details of part of the location. They had to join forces to obtain the wealth, so the three took advantage of each other until the final shocking battle. An unforgettable duel. As the final chapter of the Daredevil trilogy, the number of protagonists has naturally increased to three. Eastwood and Cliff's partnership in the previous film has turned into a full-blown adversarial relationship, relentlessly sarcastic and attacking. The scenes of several robbery scenes are very funny, which makes people forget the true cruelty of the West.

The five-minute duel in the circular square at the end, accompanied by Morricone’s famous score, will go down in history forever. After watching that scene, I can really imagine how much Leone put into this scene. That part of The Trio is so majestic. Many people believe that the first time they heard this music was at the beginning of "S&M", a collaboration between Metallica and Michael Kamen. This music was later used by China Central Television in the national football advertisement for the 2002 World Cup.

9. Once Upon a Time in the West 1968

A gunman who never leaves his mouth comes to a small town and is involved in a A widow started a land grab battle with a railroad tycoon and began his quest for revenge. As the opening chapter of the Once Upon a Time trilogy, this film has been hailed as "the best Western in history" by later generations. This is indeed indisputable. The revenge story about Henry Fonda's identity revealed eventually unfolds into a magnificent history of Western construction. .

This is also a work about sound and details. It uses ambient sound to build momentum at the beginning and displays the details to the extreme until the train arrives at the station to break the oppressive tranquility. The scene where the woman goes to town is very similar to the later "Once Upon a Time in America". The soothing music guides her memory of this place, but the camera only stays in reality. The scene management is smooth, and transition tools such as telescopes (in Days of Our Lives in America, the beautiful use of telephone ringtones and holes in the wall to achieve transitions and even time and space changes) are used skillfully. The three opening stories and the characters finally meet after the women arrive at the tavern, and Henry Fonda's harmonica plays Morricone's majestic score. The many flashbacks in the story are fully explained before the final duel.

10. Once Upon a Time... the Revolution 1971

Sean, an Irish bomb expert and bomb expert, came to Mexico to carry out the revolution. He coaxed and tricked the bandit's patriarch Juan into calling him, and during the robbery, Juan inexplicably became a hero leading the revolution. The film opens with Chairman Mao's famous saying "Revolution is not a dinner party...", which very humorously shows the revolution in Sean's eyes, but Juan himself is willing to be used by the intellectual class. Anyway, he is keen on destruction. The cruel battle scenes are always accompanied by Morricone's relaxing music, and there is a male voice singing "sean, sean" in the vocal part. At night, the ruling class shot the revolutionaries, and there were bursts of mist in the solemn air. The light swept across the dying revolutionaries at a constant speed, highlighting the calm desolation. This atmosphere was later used in its entirety in "Once Upon a Time in America."