Django - Watch Order: Essential Films

1966 - 20125 Films9h 24m3.9 Average

This curated selection extracts the core Django experience with its many facets, showcasing the diversity and evolution of the character across different interpretations. It includes the genre-defining original, popular alternate takes, and the modern homage that reintroduced Django to contemporary audiences.

These five films represent the essential range of what the Django brand offers: the iconic original, surreal cult filmmaking, supernatural western horror, star-powered reinterpretation, and modern cinematic homage.

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Django

19661h 33m4.2
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez, Eduardo Fajardo

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.

ActionWestern
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Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!

19671h 57m3.2
Director: Giulio Questi
Cast: Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada, Francisco Sanz

A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

WesternActionHorror
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Django the Bastard

19691h 39m3
Director: Sergio Garrone
Cast: Anthony Steffen, Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corrà, Jean Louis

A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.

WesternHorror
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Viva! Django

19711h 30m4.1
Director: Edoardo Mulargia
Cast: Anthony Steffen, Stelio Candelli, Glauco Onorato, Donato Castellaneta, Esmeralda Barros

Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.

ActionWestern
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Django Unchained

20122h 45m5
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

DramaWestern