Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Hell on Wheels (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Anson Mount, Common , Colm Meaney…
- The building of the transcontinental railroad serves as the backdrop for this ambitious western that centres on the efforts of a Confederate soldier…
- Rango (2011)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin…
- Johnny Depp slithers his way through this lively and often brilliant animated western, voicing a lizard who winds up as the sheriff of a lawless…
- Jonah Hex (2010)
- Dir. Jimmy Hayward
Feat. Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox…
- Josh Brolin revives DC Comics' anti–hero gunslinger in this acidic western, centred on the titular character's rage–fueled quest to…
- Let the Bullets Fly (2010)
- Dir. Wen Jiang
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Wen Jiang…
- Cocksure 'noodle' western – best described as a Chinese variation on Kurosawa's YOJIMBO – pits a notorious bandit against the mob boss of…
- Meek's Cutoff (2010)
- Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton…
- Another small scale triumph from dir. Kelly Reichardt, here miniaturizing the experience of early American settlers making the treacherous journey…
- Sweetgrass (2010)
- Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
- An unsentimental elegy to the American West, this follows the last modern–day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's…
- True Grit (2010)
- Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin…
- This lively, immaculately shot remake of John Wayne’s classic 1969 western sees the Coen Brothers reinterpret Charles Portis’s novel, about a…
- Warrior's Way, The (2010)
- Dir. Sngmoo Lee
Feat. Jang Dong-Gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush…
- A ninja assassin (Jang Dong–Gun) on the run from his former clan is forced to hide in the American Badlands after refusing a mission to kill a…
- Donner Party, The (2009)
- Dir. T. J. Martin
Feat. Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Mark Boone Jr.…
- Survival western taking a few liberties with the true story of the Donner Party, who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains while attempting…
- Last Rites of Ransom Pride, The (2009)
- Dir. Tiller Russell
Feat. Lizzy Caplan, Scott Speedman, Cote de Pablo…
- Pulpy, stylized western with Caplan carrying the body of her dead lover home across treacherous lands in order to give him a proper burial.