Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Western: 145 Films to Buy & Rent
- Long Riders, The (1980)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine…
- Sombre treatment of the perennial Jesse James/Cole/Younger–gang saga, starring real–life brothers Carradine, Keach and Quaid, does…
- Tom Horn (1980)
- Dir. William Wiard
Feat. Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth…
- Flawed but beautifully lensed tale based on a real–life Wyoming bounty hunter, who outlived the wild years of the 19th century and was…
- Comes A Horseman (1978)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Jane Fonda, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth…
- An unusual attempt to transfer the grand mythos of the Western to a latterday setting, with Fonda playing a ranch boss, who mixes it up with a cousin…
- Goin' South (1978)
- Dir. Jack Nicholson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd…
- The ‘Western’ done as farce, with troublesome outlaw Jack Nicholson rescued from the gallows by Mary Steenbergen, in a marriage of…
- Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Maurizio Merli, John Steiner
- One of the last belated gasps of the 'spaghetti western' genre, with the handsome Merli playing a bounty hunter whose special talent is with the…
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster…
- Off–key satire on 'official' American history, with Paul Newman as the charismatic fraud Bill Hickock, whose Wild West Show toured America in…
- Missouri Breaks, The (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson
- Startling 70s Western, pairs regulator Marlon Brando and horse rustler Jack Nicholson for a brutal, yet often comic game of…
- Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
- Clint Eastwood mixes action, high drama, humour and landscape to create one of his most satisfying tales of the Wild West. His peaceful farmer turns…
- Return of a Man Called Horse, The (1976)
- Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis
- Renowned sequel to the notorious Western, with English aristocrat Harris returning to Dakota and the Yellow Hand Sioux tribe he was inducted into.…
- Shootist, The (1976)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. John Wayne, Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall
- Celebrated finale to John Wayne's career playing an aging gunfighter seeking obscurity but assailed by cancer and various 'young guns', out to prove…