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Best Western Movies of the 1960s

Western films released 1960–1969, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #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. 
   #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…

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   #3 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.…

4. 
   #4 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…

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   #5 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,…

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   #6 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.…

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   #7 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.…

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   #8 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.…

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   #9 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…

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    #10 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…

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    #11 Django (1966) · ★ 7.2 · 1,035 votes · 1h 32m · action, western

    A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.…

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    #12 How the West Was Won (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 514 votes · 2h 44m · action, western, war

    The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.…

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    #13 Hang 'em High (1968) · ★ 6.9 · 888 votes · 1h 55m · drama, western

    Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Befor…

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