Movies by Lists - Best Westerns (105 [105]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 3 GodfathersThree outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization. | 1948 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Western | 7.1 (9.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| 3-10 to YumaBroke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him. | 1957 | Delmer Daves | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7.6 (19.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Alamo, TheIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas. | 1960 | John Wayne | Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western | 6.8 (15.5K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Angel and the BadmanQuirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in. | 1947 | James Edward Grant | Romance, Western | 6.9 (5.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| AppaloosaTwo friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow. | 2008 | Ed Harris | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western | 6.7 (60.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Bad CompanyA God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west | 1972 | Robert Benton (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.0 (4.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bad Day at Black RockA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. | 1955 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western | 7.7 (21.2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Ballad of Little Jo, TheAfter being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West. | 1993 | Maggie Greenwald | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| BarbarosaA young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law. | 1982 | Fred Schepisi (*) | Western | 6.4 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bend of the RiverWhen a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them. | 1952 | Anthony Mann (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance, Western | 7.3 (8.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Big Sky, TheThe success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet. | 1952 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.0 (4.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Big Trail, TheBreck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West. | 1930 | Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Adventure, Romance, Western | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Blood on the MoonUnemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton. | 1948 | Robert Wise (*) | Western | 6.9 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Brokeback MountainEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends. | 2005 | Ang Lee (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (344.5K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Broken ArrowTom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory. | 1950 | Delmer Daves | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.2 (8.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | 1969 | George Roy Hill (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western | 8.0 (211.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Cat BallouA young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father. | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | Comedy, Romance, Western | 6.8 (14.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Covered Wagon, TheTwo wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and indian attack. To complicate matters further, a | 1923 | James Cruze | Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.6 (617 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| CowboyAn idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected. | 1958 | Delmer Daves | Western | 6.7 (3.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Destry Rides AgainDeputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy. | 1939 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (11.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dodge CityA Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up. | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Western | 7.1 (5.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Don't Fence Me InWildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge. | 1945 | John English | Western | 6.7 (235 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Duel in the SunBeautiful, biracial, Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. | 1946 | King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.8 (8.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Far Country , TheA self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson. | 1954 | Anthony Mann (*) | Romance, Western | 7.2 (7.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Fistful of Dollars, AA wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. | 1964 | Sergio Leone (*) | Action, Drama, Western | 8.0 (210.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| For A Few Dollars MoreTwo bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down an escaped Mexican outlaw. | 1965 | Sergio Leone (*) | Western | 8.2 (248.2K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Fort ApacheAt Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe. | 1948 | John Ford (*) | Western | 7.5 (17.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Forty GunsShowdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory. | 1957 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.0 (5.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Four Faces WestIn New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral, in exchange for an IOU but the marshal and his posse chase after him. | 1948 | Alfred E. Green | Western | 7.1 (830 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Good The Bad and The Ugly, TheA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. | 1966 | Sergio Leone (*) | Adventure, Western | 8.8 (732.4K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (9.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Gunfight at the O.K. CorralLawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. | 1957 | John Sturges (*) | Biography, Drama, Western | 7.2 (15.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Gunfighter, TheNotorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. | 1950 | Henry King | Western | 7.7 (10.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Hang Em' HighWhen an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice. | 1968 | Ted Post | Drama, Western | 7.0 (38.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Hearts of the WestDuring the 1930s, Lewis Tate aspires to be the next great American Western writer. When he travels to California, he's recruited by Bert Kessler, a Hollywood unit manager, to star in a series of low-rent Westerns. | 1975 | Howard Zieff | Western, Comedy | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| High NoonA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.0 (102.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| HombreJohn Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws. | 1967 | Martin Ritt (*) | Western | 7.4 (12.3K votes) | 111 | 20220414 |
| HondoArmy dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector. | 1953 | John Farrow | Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.1 (10.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| How the West Was WonA family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads. | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Western | 7.1 (20.3K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| HudHonest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash. | 1963 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Western | 7.8 (21.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Jeremiah JohnsonA mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier. | 1972 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.6 (30.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Jesse JamesAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge. | 1939 | Henry King, Irving Cummings | Western | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Johnny GuitarAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob. | 1954 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Kentuckian, TheA Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant. | 1955 | Burt Lancaster | Drama, Western | 6.2 (2.8K votes) | 104 | 20220723 |
| Last of the Mohicans, TheThree trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War. | 1992 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.7 (163.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Little Big HornA small band of cavalry attempt to warn Custer of an impending massacre. Friction develops when commander of the patrol suspects his subordinate of having an affair with his wife. | 1951 | Charles Marquis Warren | Western | 6.6 (420 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
| Little Big ManJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer. | 1970 | Arthur Penn (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 7.6 (34.6K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Lone StarWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town. | 1996 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, Mystery, Western | 7.4 (29.3K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Lonely are the BraveA fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend. | 1962 | David Miller | Drama, Western | 7.6 (8.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Long Riders, TheThe origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge. | 1980 | Walter Hill | Biography, Crime, Western | 7.0 (11.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Seven, TheSeven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. | 1960 | John Sturges (*) | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.7 (92.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Major DundeeIn 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts. | 1965 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Adventure, War, Western | 6.7 (7.8K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Man from Laramie, TheNewcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals. | 1955 | Anthony Mann (*) | Western | 7.3 (10.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, TheA senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins. | 1962 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Western | 8.1 (73.9K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| McCabe & Mrs. MillerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. | 1971 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Western | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Missing, TheIn 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo. | 2003 | Ron Howard | Adventure, Thriller, Western | 6.5 (36.1K votes) | 137 | 20220723 |
| Monte WalshAn aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more--and that there will be no room for him, either. | 1970 | William A. Fraker | Western | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| My Darling ClementineAfter their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family. | 1946 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.8 (23.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Naked Spur, TheA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers. | 1953 | Anthony Mann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7.3 (11K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| No Country For Old MenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. | 2007 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (924.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| No Name on the BulletWhen hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge. | 1959 | Jack Arnold | Western | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in The WestA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. | 1968 | Sergio Leone (*) | Western | 8.5 (319.7K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| One-Eyed JacksAfter robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured, but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California. | 1961 | Marlon Brando | Drama, Western | 7.1 (11.2K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Open RangeA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman. | 2003 | Kevin Costner (*) | Action, Drama, Romance, Western | 7.4 (71.1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. | 1976 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Western | 7.8 (71.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheWhen a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Western | 8.0 (22.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Paint Your WagonTwo unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. | 1969 | Joshua Logan | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 6.6 (13.4K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Paleface, TheCalamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover. | 1948 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Family, Western | 6.8 (4.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Plainsman, TheWild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners. | 1936 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Western | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 113 | 20220414 |
| Professionals, TheAn arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit. | 1966 | Richard Brooks | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.3 (15.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| RamrodViolent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land. | 1947 | André De Toth | Action, Romance, Western | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Rancho NotoriousAfter the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer. | 1952 | Fritz Lang (*) | Western | 6.9 (4.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Red RiverDunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. | 1948 | Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Drama, Western | 7.8 (30.4K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Ride LonesomeA bounty hunter escorts a killer to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder. | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | Drama, Western | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Ride the High CountryAn ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Drama, Western | 7.5 (13K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Riders of the Purple SageJim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect ... | 1996 | Charles Haid | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.2 (835 votes) | 98 | 20220723 |
| Rio BravoA small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. | 1959 | Howard Hawks (*) | Western | 8.0 (60.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Rio GrandeA cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years. | 1950 | John Ford (*) | Romance, Western | 7.1 (15.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Run of the ArrowWhen the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army. | 1957 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Western | 6.7 (2.1K votes) | 86 | 20220723 |
| Santa Fe TrailIn 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume. | 1940 | Michael Curtiz (*) | War, Western | 6.3 (3.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Searchers, TheAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. | 1956 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (86.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Sergeant RutledgeRespected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer. | 1960 | John Ford (*) | Crime, Western | 7.4 (4.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Seven Men from NowA former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible. | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | Western | 7.4 (5.3K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| ShaneA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. | 1953 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (39.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| She Wore a Yellow RibbonCaptain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. | 1949 | John Ford (*) | Western | 7.3 (17.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Shootist, TheA dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. | 1976 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.6 (23.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| StagecoachA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (47.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Support Your Local SheriffIn the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead. | 1969 | Burt Kennedy | Comedy, Western | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tall In The SaddleRanch hand Rocklin arrives in town to start his new job but his employer has been murdered and the locals don't seem too friendly. | 1944 | Edwin L. Marin | Western | 7.0 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Tall T, TheAn independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws. | 1957 | Budd Boetticher | Western | 7.3 (5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Ten Wanted MenWhen his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory. | 1955 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Romance, Western | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| They Died With Their Boots OnA highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| To the Last ManA highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.2 (6.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| TombstoneA successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre | Action, Biography, Drama, History, Western | 7.8 (140.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Treasure of the Sierra Madre, TheTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. | 1948 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| TumbleweedsThe government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and claims. | 1925 | King Baggot, William S. Hart | Western | 6.5 (610 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Ulzana's RaidAfter fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down. | 1972 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Adventure, Western | 7.1 (5.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| UnforgivenRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." | 1992 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Western | 8.2 (398.7K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing American, TheHistory, as portrayed in this film, has been a succession of conquests of stronger races over weaker ones. As played out on the stage of Monument Valley, long ago, tribes of Indians defeated the ancient cliff dwellers; then came the | 1925 | George B. Seitz | Western | 6.9 (329 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Virginian, TheA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling. | 1929 | Victor Fleming (*) | Romance, Western | 6.9 (752 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Western UnionWhen Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. | 1941 | Fritz Lang (*) | History, Western | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Westerner, TheJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Western | 7.3 (5.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Wild Bunch, TheAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.9 (82.6K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Will PennyAging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son. | 1967 | Tom Gries | Romance, Western | 7.1 (4.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Winchester '73A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West. | 1950 | Anthony Mann (*) | Action, Drama, Western | 7.6 (19.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |