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Sergio Leone has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 5 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Fistful of Dollars.

Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Duck, You Sucker
1971 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%MGM+ · Included

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, John Steiner
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Dir. Damiano Damiani · With Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal