One of the most popular and widely imitated Spaghetti Westerns to follow in the wake of Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Corbucci’s Django is still one of the genre’s best, a spare, hard-bitten, mean-spirited shot of pure adrenaline that counts Quentin Tarantino as one of its superfans (his slavery epic Django Unchained is a spiritual successor). A mysterious man named Django (Franco Nero) arrives in a Mexican border town dragging a small coffin behind him. When he attempts to save a woman who is being attacked by a group of bandits, he finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Mexican gangsters and racist Yankee thugs, with the innocent townspeople and a fortune in Mexican gold stuck somewhere in between. Django proved so popular in Europe that over 30 sequels and follow-ups were produced. The finale, a graveyard shootout that has Django fanning his gun with pieces of meat showing through his bloody palms, is unthinkably brutal and nearly pornographic in its violence. Franco Nero, who became a star after this leading role, is an uncanny double for Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name, whose steely baby-blue eyes pierce deep into your soul.