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Best Western Movies of the 1990s
#1 Unforgiven (1992) · ★ 7.9 · 5,128 votes · 2h 10m · westernWilliam 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…
#2 Dances with Wolves (1990) · ★ 7.8 · 4,834 votes · 3h 1m · adventure, drama, westernWounded 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…
#3 Tombstone (1993) · ★ 7.6 · 2,562 votes · 2h 10m · action, westernLegendary 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…
#4 Legends of the Fall (1994) · ★ 7.4 · 2,960 votes · 2h 13m · action, adventure, romanceIn 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…
#5 Dead Man (1995) · ★ 7.3 · 1,799 votes · 2h 2m · fantasy, drama, westernOn the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.…
#6 Of Mice and Men (1992) · ★ 7.2 · 733 votes · 1h 51m · drama, westernTwo drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.…
#7 Maverick (1994) · ★ 6.9 · 1,850 votes · 2h 7m · action, comedy, adventureBret 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 joi…
#8 Far and Away (1992) · ★ 6.8 · 1,354 votes · 2h 20m · adventure, romance, dramaA 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…
#9 Wyatt Earp (1994) · ★ 6.8 · 975 votes · 3h 11m · action, adventure, dramaFrom Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp w…
#10 Ravenous (1999) · ★ 6.8 · 730 votes · 1h 41m · comedy, adventure, dramaAfter arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed…
#11 El Mariachi (1993) · ★ 6.7 · 1,341 votes · 1h 21m · action, thriller, westernEl Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in…
#12 The Quick and the Dead (1995) · ★ 6.6 · 2,052 votes · 1h 47m · action, thriller, romanceA mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.…
#13 City Slickers (1991) · ★ 6.5 · 914 votes · 1h 54m · comedy, westernThree New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.…
#14 Young Guns II (1990) · ★ 6.5 · 618 votes · 1h 44m · adventure, westernThree of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to…
#15 Last Man Standing (1996) · ★ 6.4 · 1,041 votes · 1h 41m · action, drama, westernJohn Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering hi…
#16 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) · ★ 6.3 · 816 votes · 1h 15m · comedy, adventure, animationSome time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in t…
#17 The Scarlet Letter (1995) · ★ 6.1 · 538 votes · 2h 15m · romance, drama, westernSet in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the nam…
#18 Wild Wild West (1999) · ★ 5.3 · 3,705 votes · 1h 46m · action, comedy, adventureLegless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and mast…