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Joshilaay
1989 · Drama
Young Guns
1988 · Action
Ghost Town
1988 · Horror
Zalzala
1988 · Western
Sunset
1988 · Thriller
The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound
1988 · Comedy
The Tracker
1988 · Action
Stranger on My Land
1988 · Drama
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988 · Western
Walker
1987 · Drama
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987 · Western
White Apache
1987 · Western
Straight to Hell
1987 · Action
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
1987 · Romance
Desperado
1987 · Western
Extreme Prejudice
1987 · Action
Timestalkers
1987 · Western
The Quick and the Dead
1987 · Drama
The Gunfighters
1987 · Western
Three Amigos!
1986 · Comedy
Red Headed Stranger
1986 · Western
The Aurora Encounter
1986 · Western
Kung Fu: The Movie
1986 · Western
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985 · Western
Silverado
1985 · Action
Pale Rider
1985 · Western
Rustlers’ Rhapsody
1985 · Western
Lone Wolf McQuade
1983 · Action
Sacred Ground
1983 · Drama
The Man from Snowy River
1982 · Adventure
We of the Never Never
1982 · Drama
The Shadow Riders
1982 · Western
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982 · Western
Barbarosa
1982 · Western
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 · Adventure
Zorro: The Gay Blade
1981 · Action
Outland
1981 · Action
Death Hunt
1981 · Action
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
1981 · Crime
Windwalker
1980 · Western
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