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1Movie8.5WesternWhile 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.
2Movie8.3DramaWesternAs 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.
3Movie8.2DramaWesternWith the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Django Unchained
2012 · 28K votes
4Movie8.0WesternTwo bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
5Movie8.0CrimeThrillerLlewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
No Country for Old Men
2007 · 13K votes
6Movie8.0AdventureDramaTwo jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · 1.4K votes
7Movie7.9WesternWilliam Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Unforgiven
1992 · 5.1K votes
8Movie7.8AdventureDramaWounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Dances with Wolves
1990 · 4.8K votes
9Movie7.8WesternQuestions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · 1.3K votes
10Movie7.8WesternThe 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.
11Movie7.8WesternDramaA 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.
Rio Bravo
1959 · 1.3K votes
12Movie7.8DramaMysteryBounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
The Hateful Eight
2015 · 15K votes
13Movie7.7AnimationAdventureA captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 · 5K votes
14Movie7.7WesternAs a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
The Searchers
1956 · 1.6K votes
15Movie7.7WesternAt 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.
16Movie7.7WesternWill Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
High Noon
1952 · 1.6K votes
17Movie7.6MysteryWesternBacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Bacurau
2019 · 1.2K votes
18Movie7.6WesternCrimeAs the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · 2.5K votes
19Movie7.6WesternA 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.
Stagecoach
1939 · 1.3K votes
20Movie7.6WesternAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The Wild Bunch
1969 · 1.4K votes
21Movie7.6WesternActionLegendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Tombstone
1993 · 2.5K votes
22Movie7.6ActionComedyThe simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
23Movie7.5WesternDramaIn the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
The Revenant
2015 · 19K votes
24Movie7.5WesternActionAn oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · 2.1K votes
25Movie7.5WesternAfter avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · 1.3K votes
26Movie7.4ComedyWesternThe two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.
27Movie7.4DramaWesternIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
Legends of the Fall
1994 · 2.9K votes
28Movie7.3WesternDramaA gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
High Plains Drifter
1973 · 1.4K votes
29Movie7.3DramaFantasyOn the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Dead Man
1995 · 1.8K votes
30Movie7.3WesternCrimeA divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Hell or High Water
2016 · 5K votes
31Movie7.3DramaAdventureFollowing the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
True Grit
2010 · 5.9K votes
32Movie7.3ComedyWesternJack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
33Movie7.2WesternComedyCrafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
Blazing Saddles
1974 · 2.2K votes
34Movie7.2WesternIn Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
3:10 to Yuma
2007 · 4.2K votes
35Movie7.2WesternA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Open Range
2003 · 1.3K votes
36Movie7.2ActionWesternA coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
Django
1966 · 1K votes
37Movie7.2WesternDramaA mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Pale Rider
1985 · 1.2K votes
38Movie7.1ThrillerWesternIn the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
Brimstone
2016 · 1.3K votes
39Movie7.1WesternComedyVignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · 4.6K votes
40Movie7.1CrimeDramaIn 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
Lawless
2012 · 3.4K votes
41Movie7.1DramaWesternOutlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · 2.9K votes
42Movie7.0DramaWesternA legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Hostiles
2017 · 2.6K votes
43Movie6.9AnimationComedyWhen Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Rango
2011 · 7.3K votes
44Movie6.9WesternAdventureSet in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
Hidalgo
2004 · 1.4K votes
45Movie6.9DramaWesternA Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
News of the World
2020 · 2K votes
46Movie6.9ActionAdventureBret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Maverick
1994 · 1.8K votes
47Movie6.9DramaHorrorDuring a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Bone Tomahawk
2015 · 2.6K votes
48Movie6.8WesternDramaOregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
The Sisters Brothers
2018 · 2.1K votes
49Movie6.8AdventureScience FictionDelos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Westworld
1973 · 1.5K votes
50Movie6.8AdventureDramaA young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.
Far and Away
1992 · 1.3K votes