Spaghetti Western Film Recommendations not by Sergio Leone

[Jekyll]

Huge fan of Sergio Leone's work and the genre has always fascinated me. What are some recommended films that are not by Sergio Leone?

I've browsed various lists but would like to hear from some of you.

[Mister Mets]

This one tops a lot of the lists, so it's kind of obvious, but the Grand Silence is really good.

An odd thing about Spaghetti westerns is that the lists are dominated by Sergios. Obviously, there's Leone with his five films. But then there's Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Solima.

On one top twenty, the three Sergios have 12 1/2 films (Leone co-directed one, which I didn't know about.)

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/in...l_Top_20_Films

[Grunty]

Obviously not everything was gold or even silver like Leones'. But there are plenty that can still be enjoyed despite lack of polish (or even because of it).

I would suggest starting with the three most famous multi-movie examples of the genre (as far as i'm aware):

The Sabata Trilogy (Sabata, Adios Sabata, Return of Sabata) staring Lee Van Cleef in the first and third movie and Yul Brynner in the second.
The Django movies staring Franco Nero (Django, Django Strikes again).
The Satarna movies staring Gianni Garko in the lead role (except in the third movie).

All three also open up the way to the infamous derivatives of the genre, which were unrelated movies given their names for international releases to confuse the audience into watching them expecting sequels or higher quality products. Several of them are still enjoyable spagetti western in their own rights.

One such movie was "Django, Prepare a Coffin" which stars Terrence Hill in the lead role, who was a rather prominent figure in the mid to late era of Spagetti Western including staring in Leone's own homage to the genre "My Name is Nobody" and "A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe"

A notable Terrence Hill spagetti western is "God Forgives... I Don't" which would start his long movie partnership with Bud Spencer (also a notable actor of the genre) which had a sequel in "Aces High" also staring Eli Wallach.

They would also star in the very successfull, albeit much more light hearted Trinity movies "They Call me Trinity" and "Trinity Is Still My Name", which neverless had all the classic elements of the genre.

Spencer himself also stared in a movie named "A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die", staring James Coburn and Terry Savalas.

[Kirby101]

"My Name is Nobody", Terrence Hill and Henry Fonda.

Also "Kill Me Quick Ringo, Said The Gringo", starring Rick Dalton

[ChrisIII]

Death Rides A Horse/Man To Man featuring John Phillip Law and Lee Van Cleef.

[JBatmanFan05]

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/in...l_Top_20_Films

This list is definitely the best on the net. Can't go wrong with these.

Django
Death Rides A Horse
The Great Silence
The Big Gundown (I prefer the italian version cut, which has no English dubbing)
Companeros
Face to Face
Day of Anger
A Bullet for the General


The Price of Power (1969) is an interesting good one the list leaves off that I recommend, but they do review it on the site:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/in...f_Power_Review

[Gaius]

The Great Silence.

[Jekyll]

Great recommendations! Since October I’ve viewed:

Death Rides A Horse- 5/5 highly entertaining and great story.
Day of Anger - 5/5
The Big Gundown- 4/5 a bit cheesy in some places but overall really enjoyed.
Texas , Adios with Franco Nero- 4/5 cheesy but Nero was fantastic wish I could have found a non dubbed version.
Django……still thinking on this one. Lots of action and good visuals, the song was pretty bad and it just kind of ends? 3/5
The Great Silence- 1/5 While I loved the snow, it was very long and very depressing. I mean I get what he was going for in this but it wasn’t for me.

Going to check out Sabata next.

[Jekyll]

Just finished, God Forgives I don’t. 6/5
This has been the best film outside of the Leone films that I’ve watched.

[JBatmanFan05]

I figure Corbucci is the second best director in genre, after Leone. Corbucci just directed so many greats of the genre and his films had such memorable musical scores. And I like my westerns, and spaghetti westerns, to be darker (with less comedy). Would be tough for me to rank Corbucci's best (Great Silence might the best, but I'm really not certain, be tough, require rewatching).