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Best Western Movies of the 2010s

Western films released 2010–2019, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 31 titlesavg ★ 6.77 avg 122 min Western Drama Action Thriller

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#1 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.…
#2 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.…
#3 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.…
#4 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…
#5 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.…
#6 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.…
#7 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…
#8 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.…
#9 The Rider (2018) · ★ 7.3 · 577 votes · 1h 43m · drama, western
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an at…
#10 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) · ★ 7.1 · 4,597 votes · 2h 12m · comedy, drama, western
Vignettes 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…
#11 Lawless (2012) · ★ 7.1 · 3,434 votes · 1h 55m · drama, western, crime
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the…
#12 Brimstone (2016) · ★ 7.1 · 1,314 votes · 2h 28m · thriller, drama, horror
In 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.…
#13 Hostiles (2017) · ★ 7.0 · 2,595 votes · 2h 14m · adventure, drama, western
A 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…
#14 The Dressmaker (2015) · ★ 7.0 · 1,793 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, drama, western
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall i…
#15 The Nightingale (2018) · ★ 7.0 · 700 votes · 2h 16m · thriller, drama, western
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against h…
#16 Rango (2011) · ★ 6.9 · 7,335 votes · 1h 47m · comedy, adventure, animation
When 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.…
#17 Bone Tomahawk (2015) · ★ 6.9 · 2,643 votes · 2h 13m · drama, horror, western
During 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 attack…
#18 The Sisters Brothers (2018) · ★ 6.8 · 2,159 votes · 2h 1m · comedy, drama, western
Oregon, 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 notorio…
#19 Slow West (2015) · ★ 6.7 · 1,084 votes · 1h 24m · action, adventure, thriller
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.…
#20 The Warrior's Way (2010) · ★ 6.6 · 693 votes · 1h 40m · action, fantasy, adventure
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.…
#21 The Magnificent Seven (2016) · ★ 6.5 · 6,530 votes · 2h 12m · action, adventure, western
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate re…
#22 The Salvation (2014) · ★ 6.5 · 1,001 votes · 1h 32m · drama, western
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forc…
#23 The Homesman (2014) · ★ 6.5 · 908 votes · 2h 2m · drama, western
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Tr…
#24 The Lone Ranger (2013) · ★ 6.1 · 6,291 votes · 2h 29m · action, adventure, western
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American…
#25 A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) · ★ 6.1 · 4,518 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, western
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arr…
#26 In a Valley of Violence (2016) · ★ 6.1 · 653 votes · 1h 44m · action, drama, western
The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul…
#27 Jane Got a Gun (2015) · ★ 5.8 · 900 votes · 1h 38m · action, drama, western
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend…
#28 3 from Hell (2019) · ★ 5.8 · 557 votes · 1h 55m · action, thriller, horror
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Ot…
#29 Cowboys & Aliens (2011) · ★ 5.7 · 5,624 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, science-fiction
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fi…
#30 The Ridiculous 6 (2015) · ★ 5.2 · 1,579 votes · 1h 59m · action, comedy, adventure
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.…
#31 Jonah Hex (2010) · ★ 5.0 · 1,589 votes · 1h 21m · action, fantasy, thriller
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah no…

Questions

What is the best western movie of the 2010s?

Django Unchained (2012) tops the decade with 8.2/10 on TMDB, ahead of El Infierno (2010).