Film Famosi

A game of boules turn into a Western-style show-down for a pair of sharpshooting skinhead women

Two explorers follow the trail of an escaped convict who had supposedly found a fortune in gold in a cave in the mountains.

An expedition to Canada's arctic wilderness documents the daily life of Eskimo people.

An old cowboy is walking across the prairies. It seems that he has experienced everything. However, he will have to face his opponents a few more times - maybe it will be for real, or maybe it will take place in his mind.

It is a fictional film directed by the amateur director in Super 8 Dr. Jorge N. Mario in 1971. It is a western that takes place in a hypothetical region of Mexico, and narrates the adventures of a man seeking revenge.

“Burlesqueing western conventions, this film has silent movie titles and music and a posse of shetland ponies. A gumnut satire of Westerns with a fine eye for the absurd.” (The Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film)

Pilot for proposed Ned Kelly film. An avant-garde re-creation of the murder of the three police officers at Stringybark Creek.

Johnny Nogar plays the lead in this Native American themed historical fantasy.

Slaughter’s cattle are rustled, and when the sheriff is powerless to do anything about it, Slaughter is elected sheriff himself. With a band of skilled deputies, he brings law and order to Tombstone, and eventually settles his feud with the cattle rustler.

"Saturday Night Square Dance" was released in 1949 as a Soundie. Featured here are Jim Boyd and His Men of the West. Jim Boyd was the brother of Bill Boyd, well known for western swing music, and this film combines some western swing music with calls. The footage shows some fine examples, like the styling sometimes called the Abilene Lift.

A cowboy meets the girl of his dream and his luck turns around.

The first, and apparently only, surviving film produced by the Colorado Motion Picture Company, Pirates of the Plains is a quite well-made story about two brothers, one a champion rodeo rider, the other a horse thief.

Alone in the grasslands of 19th century Saskatchewan, a devout Christian family man's stout faith is rewarded by a God who may not be what they seem.

After a harsh winter, the inhabitants of a small Valencian village prepare to celebrate a wedding. An unfortunate accident pits the men and women against each other. The cunning Mayor decides to use this to his own advantage.