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Best Western Movies of All Time

Every western film with 500 or more TMDB votes, ranked by user rating.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 124 titlesavg ★ 6.95 avg 120 min Western Drama Action Adventure

By decade:1950s 6 1960s 13 1970s 12 1980s 5 1990s 18 2000s 20 2010s 31 2020s 14

#1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) · ★ 8.5 · 9,942 votes · 2h 41m · western
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…
#2 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) · ★ 8.3 · 4,947 votes · 2h 46m · drama, western
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 li…
#3 Django Unchained (2012) · ★ 8.2 · 28,696 votes · 2h 45m · drama, western
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.…
#4 No Country for Old Men (2007) · ★ 8.0 · 13,842 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, western
Llewelyn 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 Bel…
#5 For a Few Dollars More (1965) · ★ 8.0 · 4,631 votes · 2h 12m · western
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.…
#6 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) · ★ 8.0 · 1,397 votes · 2h 6m · adventure, drama, western
Two 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 wa…
#7 El Infierno (2010) · ★ 8.0 · 819 votes · 2h 28m · action, comedy, drama
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.…
#8 Unforgiven (1992) · ★ 7.9 · 5,128 votes · 2h 10m · western
William 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 fin…
#9 Redeeming Love (2022) · ★ 7.9 · 777 votes · 2h 14m · romance, drama, western
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, ru…
#10 The Hateful Eight (2015) · ★ 7.8 · 15,647 votes · 3h 8m · drama, western, mystery
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.…
#11 A Fistful of Dollars (1964) · ★ 7.8 · 4,873 votes · 1h 39m · western
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 sol…
#12 Dances with Wolves (1990) · ★ 7.8 · 4,834 votes · 3h 1m · adventure, drama, western
Wounded 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, a…
#13 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) · ★ 7.8 · 1,341 votes · 2h 3m · western
Questions 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,…
#14 Rio Bravo (1959) · ★ 7.8 · 1,280 votes · 2h 21m · drama, western
A 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.…
#15 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 5,016 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, adventure, romance
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.…
#16 High Noon (1952) · ★ 7.7 · 1,639 votes · 1h 25m · thriller, drama, western
Will 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 ga…
#17 The Searchers (1956) · ★ 7.7 · 1,633 votes · 1h 59m · western
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.…
#18 Duck, You Sucker (1971) · ★ 7.7 · 1,224 votes · 2h 37m · western
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, fa…
#19 Tombstone (1993) · ★ 7.6 · 2,562 votes · 2h 10m · action, western
Legendary 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…
#20 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) · ★ 7.6 · 2,561 votes · 1h 51m · adventure, drama, western
As 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.…
#21 They Call Me Trinity (1970) · ★ 7.6 · 1,499 votes · 1h 55m · action, comedy, western
The 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. Tri…
#22 The Wild Bunch (1969) · ★ 7.6 · 1,385 votes · 2h 25m · western
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.…
#23 Stagecoach (1939) · ★ 7.6 · 1,279 votes · 1h 36m · adventure, drama, western
A 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.…
#24 Bacurau (2019) · ★ 7.6 · 1,172 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, western, mystery
Bacurau, 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…
#25 Giant (1956) · ★ 7.6 · 781 votes · 3h 21m · romance, drama, western
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is sh…
#26 The Revenant (2015) · ★ 7.5 · 19,749 votes · 2h 37m · adventure, drama, western
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.…
#27 The Magnificent Seven (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 2,062 votes · 2h 8m · action, adventure, western
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.…
#28 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) · ★ 7.5 · 1,351 votes · 2h 15m · western
After 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…
#29 My Darling Clementine (1946) · ★ 7.5 · 504 votes · 1h 37m · romance, drama, western
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culp…
#30 Wind River (2017) · ★ 7.4 · 5,851 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, western
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.…
#31 Legends of the Fall (1994) · ★ 7.4 · 2,960 votes · 2h 13m · action, adventure, romance
In 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 fami…
#32 Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) · ★ 7.4 · 1,035 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, western
The 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.…
#33 Little Big Man (1970) · ★ 7.4 · 745 votes · 2h 19m · comedy, adventure, drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.…
#34 El Dorado (1966) · ★ 7.4 · 610 votes · 2h 6m · drama, western
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival…
#35 True Grit (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 5,944 votes · 1h 50m · adventure, drama, western
Following 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…
#36 Hell or High Water (2016) · ★ 7.3 · 5,019 votes · 1h 42m · drama, western, crime
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.…
#37 Dead Man (1995) · ★ 7.3 · 1,799 votes · 2h 2m · fantasy, drama, western
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.…
#38 High Plains Drifter (1973) · ★ 7.3 · 1,392 votes · 1h 46m · drama, western, mystery
A 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 out…
#39 My Name Is Nobody (1973) · ★ 7.3 · 1,096 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, western
Jack 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…
#40 True Grit (1969) · ★ 7.3 · 890 votes · 2h 8m · drama, western
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because h…