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A film drama following the themes and settings of the American ‘Western’, but cheaply produced by European companies on locations in Spain and Italy. The first of this genre was A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Per un pugno di dollari), a German–Spanish–Italian co-production directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, both of whom repeated their success during the following 10 years.

Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most of them were produced by Italian studios. The term was originally used disparagingly, but by the 1980s many of these films came to be held in high regard, particularly because it was hard to ignore the influence they had in redefining the entire idea of a western up to that point.

The best-known and perhaps archetypal spaghetti Westerns were the so-called Man With No Name trilogy (or Dollars Trilogy) directed by Sergio Leone, starring the American TV actor Clint Eastwood and with musical scores composed by Ennio Morricone (all of whom are now synonymous with the genre): A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Spaghetti westerns are known as "macaroni westerns" in Japan.

Other "Food Westerns"

The name led to various other non-US westerns being associated with food and drink.

Sometimes the names chorizo/paella Western are used for similar films financed by Spanish capital, although Leone's earlier films were actually shot in Almeria. Robert Rodriguez's Westerns have been called "Burrito Westerns." The German Westerns of the 1960s, which were successful in Europe before the Italian Westerns, were made after novels by Karl May and mostly filmed in former Yugoslavia. German Westerns are often called "Kraut Western". John Woo's Western movies were described by Roger Ebert as Dim Sum Western. (Time magazine dubbed the animated TV series Samurai Jack, which combined elements of — among others — anime and the Sergio Leone films, a "sashimi Western.")

An entire sub-genre of westerns produced by the Indian film industry, and especially Bollywood based in Mumbai, is whimsically named "curry Western".

List of Spaghetti Westerns

Spaghetti Westerns include:

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Django (1966) The Big Gundown (1967) Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967) A Bullet for the General (1967) Ace High (1968) The Mercenary (1968) Run, Man, Run! (1968) Death Rides a Horse (1968) The Great Silence (1968) The Five Man Army (1969) Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) The Price of Power (1969) The Sabata Trilogy (1969) Companeros (1970) El Topo (1970) A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker) (1971) Savage Guns (1971) They Call Me Trinity (1971) Storm Rider (1972) Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1972) My Name Is Nobody (1974) Four of the Apocalypse (1975) Keoma (1976) China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) 800 balas (2002) is set among former actors and stuntmen in Almería.