Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley…
- The English language debut of idiosyncratic Japanese director Sion Sono (LOVE EXPOSURE), featuring another maniacal performance from Nicolas…
- High Ground (2020)
- Dir. Stephen Johnson
Feat. Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Simon Baker, Callan Mulvey…
- Set against the stunning landscapes of 1930s Arnhem Land, this confronting Ozzie Western (also affectionately known as "Meat Pie" Westerns)…
- Let Him Go (2020)
- Dir. Thomas Bezucha
Feat. Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Lesley Manville…
- Gripping neo–western thriller following a retired sheriff and his wife from rural Montana, who are grieving over the death of their son when…
- Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker…
- Made a remarkable 15 years after the cancellation of the HBO TV show of the same name, this swansong of writer David Milch revisits the South Dakota…
- First Cow (2019)
- Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones…
- A western set in the Pacific Northwest from acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt (MEEK'S CUTOFF), patiently depicting the hardscrabble way of life of…
- Nightingale, The (2019)
- Dir. Jennifer Kent
Feat. Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin
- Brazen Australian survival drama from the director of THE BABADOOK, set in 1825 in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), where a deeply traumatised Irish…
- Sisters Brothers, The (2018)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal…
- John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play a couple of fraternal assassins who hunt down a gold prospector in 1850s Oregon in this richly satisfying and…
- Wind, The (2018)
- Dir. Emma Tammi
Feat. Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles…
- Atmospheric arthouse horror–western in which a tough, resourceful frontierswoman senses a sinister presence at her isolated homestead, with her…
- Yellowstone (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly…
- Picturesque TV western co–created by Taylor Sheridan (HELL OR HIGH WATER) set in Montana, where a family of ranch owners are defending their…
- Ballad of Lefty Brown, The (2017)
- Dir. Jared Moshe
Feat. Bill Pullman, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel…
- Bill Pullman is the cowboy Lefty Brown in this entertaining modern western, tracking outlaws across the Montana plains in attempt to avenge the…
- Hostiles (2017)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi…
- Slow–burning western set in 1892, when a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous…
- Son, The (TV Series) (2017)
- Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Henry Garrett, Zahn McClarnon…
- Past and present and interweaved in this multi–generational saga of the bloody price of power that follows the rise of one ambitious family…
- Sweet Country (2017)
- Dir. Warwick Thornton
Feat. Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown…
- A sparse and beautifully shot film from the director of SAMSON AND DELILAH, telling a profound morality tale of almost biblical proportions, and…
- Wind River (2017)
- Dir. Taylor Sheridan
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham…
- A rookie FBI agent and a local wildlife tracker team up to investigate the death of a young Native American woman on a snowy Indian reservation in…
- Duel, The (2016)
- Dir. Kieran Darcy-Smith
Feat. Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Emory Cohen…
- Engagingly odd western with Hemsworth investigating a series of unexplained deaths in a town in thrall to Harrelson's preacher.
- In a Valley of Violence (2016)
- Dir. Ti West
Feat. Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga…
- Horror auteur Ti West lends his slow–burn, off–beat sensibility to the Western genre that may not be to conventional taste. Ethan Hawke…
- Jane Got a Gun (2016)
- Dir. Gavin O'Connor
Feat. Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor…
- Natalie Portman stars in this solid western forced to turn to her ex–lover for help to save her husband from a gang out to kill him.
- Magnificent Seven, The (2016)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke…
- Denzel Washington headlines this solid remake of the classic western charged with defending a small town from a corrupt industrialist.
- Wynonna Earp (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Melanie Scrofano, Shamier Anderson, Tim Rozon…
- Canadian supernatural Western series based on the IDW Comic, that follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures…
- Bone Tomahawk (2015)
- Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins…
- Blood–soaked western with Kurt Russell and his posse setting out to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
- Hateful Eight, The (2015)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh…
- An extremely bloody western from Tarantino that features a typically stellar cast as a group of miscreants and misanthropes holed up in a cabin in a…
- Neon Bull (Boi neon) (2015)
- Dir. Gabriel Mascaro
Feat. Vinícius de Oliveira, Juliano Cazarré
- Transgressive and beguiling drama set in the Brazilian world of the vaquejada, a traditional style of rodeo, as seen through the eyes of a gender…
- Slow West (2015)
- Dir. John Maclean
Feat. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn…
- New Zealand – specifically Twizel – stands in for Colorado in this tense Western that follows a young Scot, whose travels across America…
- A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
- Dir. Seth MacFarlane
Feat. Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried…
- Seth MacFarlane directs and stars in this rambunctious western spoof about a cowardly farmer who falls for the wife of a notorious gun–slinger.
- Far from Men (2014)
- Dir. David Oelhoffen
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb
- Viggo Mortensen stars in this existential western adapted from an Albert Camus' short story. Set in Algeria in the fifties, Mortensen is charged with…
- Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014)
- Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Feat. Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
- A languid and luscious Iranian immigrant take on the vampire myth set in the ghost–town of Bad City (filmed in California), where the remaining…
- Homesman, The (2014)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
Feat. Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer…
- Tommy Lee Jones helms this pleasurably off–beat western in which three women living on the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer…
- Keeping Room, The (2014)
- Dir. Daniel Barber
Feat. Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington…
- Taut western set during the civil war with three women defending their home from two rogue soldiers fleeing the approaching Union army.
- Klondike (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Simon Cellan Jones
Feat. Richard Madden, Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas…
- The Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is richly evoked in this frontier western, which is largely faithful to the history, conditions, and…
- Salvation, The (2014)
- Dir. Kristian Levring
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan…
- High on action, low on dialogue, this enjoyable Danish western follows the story of a peaceful American settler who kills his family's murderer and…
- Hatfields & McCoys (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
- Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Tom Berenger…
- Epic western mini–series recreates the legendary family feud between two Confederate soldiers returning to their land in the aftermath of the…
- Lone Ranger, The (2013)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner…
- Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer bring TV western heroes Tonto and the Lone Ranger to the big screen in this splashy, rumble–and–rumble…
- Mystery Road (2013)
- Dir. Ivan Sen
Feat. Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten…
- In this sparse and evocative Outback murder mystery, a detective returns to his fractured hometown to investigate the death of a young girl.
- Outlaw Michael Howe, The (2013)
- Dir. Brendan Cowell
Feat. Damon Herriman, Mirrah Foulkes, Matt Day
- Actor Brendan Cowell fashions a vivid western out of Australia's brutal convict legacy with this recreation of the events that led to the penal…
- Sweet Vengeance (2013)
- Dir. Logan Miller, Noah Miller
Feat. Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs…
- January Jones plays the loving wife of a Mexican farmer who takes things into her own hands when the town's hostile and racist community make their…
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio…
- A cracking blaxploitation western from Quentin Tarantino, about a liberated slave who, with the help of a German bounty hunter, sets out to rescue…
- Good for Nothing (2012)
- Dir. Mike Wallis
Feat. Cohen Holloway, Inge Rademeyer, Jon Pheloung…
- A convincingly mounted 'Pavlova Western' homegrown in New Zealand but set in the traditional American west, about a nameless outlaw's misguided…
- Longmire (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips
- A widowed sheriff returning to his jurisdiction within Wyoming's big sky country looks to crack down on crime in this involving period TV series,…
- Blackthorn (2011)
- Dir. Mateo Gil
Feat. Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea…
- Rugged western with Sam Shepard as a decidedly grizzled Butch Cassidy living out his days in Bolivia and venturing out for one more adventure.…
- Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
- Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde…
- Jon Favreau (IRON MAN) directs this high concept alien invasion western, about a ragtag posse of cowboys who must stand up to an extraterrestrial…
- 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.
- Appaloosa (2008)
- Dir. Ed Harris
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renee Zellweger…
- Enjoyable "old–school" Western directed by Ed Harris, who also stars as an incorrigible marshal who is hired along with deputy Viggo Mortensen…
- Australia (2008)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham…
- Aussie golden boy Baz Luhrmann's larger–than–life epic sees an English aristocrat and cattle driver attempt to save an inherited outback…
- Burrowers, The (2008)
- Dir. J.T. Petty
Feat. Clancy Brown, David Busse, Jocelin Donahue
- Horror–western that plays like TREMORS with cowboys, focused on a group of pioneers who set out to recover some missing settlers only to find…
- Comanche Moon (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Feat. Adam Beach, Linda Cardellini, Rachel Griffiths…
- Clunky prequel to the Lonesome Dove franchise, with Steve Zahn and Karl Urban filling the younger shoes of Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones…
- Good, the Bad, the Weird, The (2008)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung
- The high–end stylist behind Korean box office hits A BITTERSWEET LIFE and A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, dir. Kim Ji–woon flavours this eastern…
- 3:10 To Yuma (2007)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster…
- Rugged and authentic remake of the '57 western, about a desperate, cash–strapped rancher escorting a notorious outlaw to Yuma via locomotive…
- Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)
- Dir. Andrew Dominik
Feat. Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell…
- A haunting, psychoanalytical western, revisionist in its interpretation of the relationship between outlaw Jesse James, and his eventual killer,…
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
- Dir. Yves Simoneau
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin…
- Distinguished HBO western based on the 1970 book of the same name by Dee Brown.
A historical drama set in the 1860's and 1870's, the plot…
- Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ando Masanobu, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi…
- Mashing spaghetti western and samurai farce, Takashi Miike spins an east–meets–west tale of two rival clans attempting to bolster their…
- Bandidas (2006)
- Dir. Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg
Feat. Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn…
- A spicy and saddled western vehicle for bosom buddies Hayek and Cruz, with the spunky duo turning to bank robbery in an effort to combat a marauding…
- Broken Trail (TV Mini-series) (2006)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi…
- High calibrE made–for–TV western about an aging cowboy and his nephew who rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader while…
- Deadwood - Season 3 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker…
- Further tales from the troubled Arizona town of Deadwood. Season Three: 12 episodes across four discs.
Disc 1: Tell Your God to Ready for Blood, I…
- Seraphim Falls (2006)
- Dir. David Von Ancken
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston
- More old–fashioned than revisionist, this muscular revenge western trails a savage army colonel (Neeson) as he hunts down a union officer…
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams…
- A 'cause celebre' of recent cinema, this epic romantic drama is set around the terse and smouldering long–term love affair between two cowboys…
- Deadwood - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker…
- Further tales from the troubled Arizona town of Deadwood. Season Two: 12 episodes across four discs.
Disc 1: A Lie Agreed Upon – Part 1, A…
- Into the West (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Feat. Matthew Modine, Graham (Actor) Greene, Beau Bridges…
- The tale of the settlement of the American West between 1820 and 1890 is laid out in sprawling confusing detail in this epic mini–series told…
- Proposition, The (2005)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston…
- Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
- Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam…
- Stunning tale of redemption straddles the Texas–Mexico borderline, beginning with the offhand killing of a Mexican ranch–hand (Cedillo)…
- Alamo, The (2004)
- Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric…
- Big–budget recasting of the fabled 'Battle of the Alamo' in 1836 between Texan (US) and Mexican forces, which marked a turning point in…
- Deadwood - Season 1 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker…
- An acclaimed new revision of the Western genre, recounting the complex and troubling establishment of the Arizona town of Deadwood in the 1880s,…
- Home on the Range (2004)
- Dir. John Sanford, Will Finn
- A Disney Western–spoof, in which a herd of cows aim to track down a wily cattle rustler and forestall the closure of their 'Patch of Heaven'…
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Wah Yuen
- Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow trumps all previous efforts (and that's saying something) with this dynamic, bust–a–gut funny…
- Missing, The (2003)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood…
- A brooding historical thriller set in 19th–century New Mexico in which Blanchett reunites with her estranged father (Jones) to search for her…
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek…
- The final 'installment' in dir. Rodriguez' violent Mexican trilogy (see EL MARIACHI and DESPERADO), with Banderas again the loner in a dusty town,…
- Open Range (2003)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening…
- Costner stars and takes the reins of this latterday Western about a group of itinerant cattle grazers fending off the thuggish tactics of a brutal…
- Shanghai Knights (2003)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Owen Wilson, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen
- The successful teaming of Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson returns in a hyperreal 19th century world of Victorian threads, kung fu moves and offbeat, if…
- 800 Balas (800 Bullets) (2002)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carmen Maura, Sancho Gracia
- Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST) brings his wild energy to this story of a stuntman in Almeria whose career is floundering in…
- Dust (2002)
- Dir. Milcho Manchevski
Feat. Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham
- The dir. of BEFORE THE RAIN executes this ‘Balkan western’ with violent, overblown panache despite some miscasting and a dusted–off…
- All the Pretty Horses (2000)
- Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Henry Thomas…
- Serious–minded adaptation of Cormac McCarthey’s neo–western novel, the epic journey of 1950s cowboy Matt Damon across the Texan border…
- Claim, The (2000)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley…
- On the mountainous frontier of the 1860s California goldrush, dir. Winterbottom (JUDE, WONDERLAND) reimagines Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of…
- Jericho (2000)
- Dir. Merlin Miller
Feat. Mark Valley, R. Lee Ermey
- Low–budget western mystery in which a man with severe memory loss goes to work on a cattle ranch where he begins to recall his surreptitious…
- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu
- Jackie Chan pilots for this lightweight, crowd–pleasing throwback to the Wild West that adds his brand of naïve Eastern exotism to the ol'…
- Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
- Ride with the Devil (1999)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Tobey Maguire, John Caviezel, Skeet Ulrich…
- One of the best recent attempts at an American Civil War drama, demonstrating the South's point of view with sympathy and only a few wrong moves.…
- Wild Wild West (1999)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh…
- The star and director of MEN IN BLACK and recoupled for this Sci–fi–Western–spoof, first aired as a popular,…
- Hi-Lo Country, The (1998)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette
- Long left out to pasture, the male–bonding cowboy genre is saddled–up and mounted by dir. Stephen Frears (THE GRIFTERS), who honours the…
- Magnificent Seven, The (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Dale Midkiff…
- Detailed spin–off series from the 1960 movie THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, continuing with the premise of seven cowboys each with a unique set of…
- Newton Boys, The (1998)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich…
- Former indie–darling, Richard Linklater (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED), chronicles the 1920s bankrobbing true exploits of the four brothers,…
- Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jet Li
- Jet Li reprises his signature role in the popular saga, this time reinvented as a Kung Fu Western – the perfect setting for…
- True Women (1997)
- Dir. Karen Arthur
Feat. Dana Delaney, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie…
- A female–driven historical saga spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through to the American Civil War. A Hallmark production based…
- Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
- TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
- Cannibal! The Musical (Alfred Packer: The Musical) (1996)
- Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool
- This fiendishly inventive 'student' film from SOUTH PARK creator Trey Parker is one of those no–budget labour of loves like say, BAD TASTE,…
- Last Man Standing (1996)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, Christopher Walken…
- Gunslinger Bruce Willis dishes up violent justice for two factions of bootleggers in an actioner that ropes in western, mob movie, film noir and even…
- Lone Star (1996)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Matthew McConaughey…
- John Sayles' searching character study set in a dusty New Mexican town crosses multiple characters and time frames across three ethnic cultures.…
- Buffalo Girls (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Rod Hardy
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith
- Miniseries based on the best–selling novel by Larry McMurtry (LONESOME DOVE), which brings to life the Wild West escapades of Calamity Jane and…
- Dead Man (1995)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Lance Henriksen
- A unique meditation on the mystique of the Wild West, branded with the distinctive marks of dir. Jarmusch's dilatory tempo and playful eccentricity.…
- Desperado (1995)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi…
- Rodriguez' big–budget blow up of his cult hit EL MARIACHI, with Latino golden–boy Antonio Banderas as the vengeance–bent…
- Peace Hotel (1995)
- Dir. Wai Ka-Fai
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat stars in his last Hong Kong opus before taking the Hollywood leap. A 1920s Chinatown Western, he runs the 'Peace Hotel', a refuge…
- Quick and the Dead, The (1995)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe…
- A showdown at a gunfighting competition that plays like a cross between a 'Milky Bar' ad and a WWF pro–wrestling rumble. Director Raimi (EVIL…
- Wild Bill (1995)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt…
- Evocatively intercuts the remorseful twilight of gunfighter Wild Bill Hicock's life, with a series of tangy, sepia–toned flashbacks.
- Bad Girls (1994)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson…
- Saddle up with four popular Hollywood femmes for this enjoyably silly Western – easier on the eye than most.
- Geronimo (1994)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Wes Studi, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman…
- Intelligent, if unremarkable, big–budget Western that chronicles the U.S. Army's attempt to bring down the great Apache warrior,…
- Last Outlaw, The (1994)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine…
- Kiwi director's bloody Western with Rourke as a psychopathic confederate hunting down the remnants of his white trash gang.
- Maverick (1994)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner
- The popular TV Western is refried with Mel Gibson as the carefree card–shark, Jodie Foster his not–too–bright love interest and…
- Oblivion (1994)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, Isaac Hayes…
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- Wyatt Earp (1994)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
- Lovingly crafted rendition of an oft–told legend is the first major flop in the careers of Costner and the director. Not a bad film, but the…
- Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The (TV Series) (1993-1994)
- Dir. Bryan Spicer
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson
- Wacky TV western following a Harvard–educated lawyer–turned–bounty hunter who goes after an outlaw using a range of curiously…
- Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Suzy Amis
- Suzy Amis is terrific as a cowgirl who masquerades as a man in order to realise her fiercely independent dreams. A refreshing revision of the Wild…
- Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Feat. Jane Seymour, Chad Allen
- Appealing western series starring Jane Seymour as the wilful Dr. Quinn starting up a practice in the wilds of redneck Colorado while dealing with the…
- Posse (1993)
- Dir. Mario Van Peebles
Feat. Mario Van Peebles
- Actor/director Van Peebles infuses the Western with flamboyant, MTV–style visuals. He leads a gang of charismatic young black guns seeking to…
- Silent Tongue (1993)
- Dir. Sam Shepard
Feat. Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix
- A personal project for playwright/actor/director Shepard, this ghost story chiefly indicts the mistreatment of the native Indian. Haunting film…
- Tombstone (1993)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer
- Not–so–young guns Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Earp and Holliday don't quite make it past being big boys in dress–up. There's…
- El Mariachi (1992)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez
- A cause celebre of low–budget film–making, this $7000 Tex–Mex wonder about a guitar–player mistaken for a gangster contains…
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman…
- Clint Eastwood delivers the film of his acting and directing career with a smoulderingly dark rendering of a smart script about an aging gunfighter…
- City Slickers (1991)
- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Billy Crystal
- Crystal and two thirtysomething buddies flee the urban rat–race to rekindle their lost youth – on a cattle drive in the Wild West. Fun,…
- Back to the Future 3 (1990)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen…
- Fun conclusion to the trilogy sends Marty McFly back to the wild west to resolve the havoc he created in part 2.
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner
- Kevin Costner's finest few hours. He plays an estranged cavalry officer who befriends and learns the survivalist culture of the native Sioux. Winner…
- Quigley Down Under (1990)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman
- Sharpshooter Tom Selleck goes on the run in the Australian outback after being hired by a treacherous cattle baron and discovering his new job is to…
- Young Guns 2 (1990)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland…
- The long–neglected Western finds popularity with a new generation with an all–star youthful cast.
- Civil War, The (The American Civil War) (1989)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- An extraordinary documentary series on the American Civil War, widely recognised as one of the greatest ever made.
Using archival photographs,…
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- Old Gringo (1989)
- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits
- Western following an American school teacher (Jane Fonda) who is captured by soldiers of Pancho Villa's army while working in Mexico in 1913, and…
- Young Guns (1988)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland…
- The long–neglected Western finds popularity with a new generation with an all–star youthful cast.
- Steel Dawn (1987)
- Dir. Lance Hool
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe…
- Cheesy post–apocalyptic western with Mr. Patrick Swayze as Nomad the Warrior – a man wandering the desert with a large sword seeking to…
- Straight to Hell (1987)
- Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Joe Strummer, Sy Richardson, Dennis Hopper…
- Spaghetti western parody, featuring the Pogues, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello and other rock star types.
- Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, The (1986)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson…
- Likeable version of the last years, not days, of the legendary Frank and Jesse James played by 'outlaw' country music stars Johnny Cash and Kris…
- Three Amigos (1986)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
- Cheesy comedy with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase lured to Mexico as gunslingers.
- Pale Rider (1985)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Clint Eastwood mounts his heroic saddle to help protect gold miners bullied by a ruthless tycoon. Clint would have to wait seven years before he…
- Robbery Under Arms (1985)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Sam Neill
- Rollicking outback western with our Sam Neill as a charismatic bushranger at the head of a wild colonial gang in search of love, loot and adventure.…
- Silverado (1985)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette…
- An excellent modern Western with an all–star cast including Kevins' Costner and Kline. It's a non–stop, spirited concoction of action and…
- Comic Strip Presents: Bad News Tour (1983) / A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques (1984)
- Dir. Sandy Johnson, Adrian Edmondson
Feat. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Dawn French…
- Excellent 'Comic Strip' double bill that teams up Adrian Edmonson's classic headbanger's satire with the cult repertory's memorable…
- Comic Strip Presents: Fistful of Travellers Cheques, A / Gino (1984)
- Dir. Bob Spiers
Feat. Rik Mayall, Pete Richardson, Keith Allen…
- Winning 'Spaghetti Western' spoof has straw–chewing posers Rik Mayall and Peter Richardson check into the Hotel Bastardos, where they meet…
- Calamity Jane (1983)
- Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Jane Alexander, David Hemmings, Talia Balsam…
- Gutsy western adventure centred on the west's ultimate tomboy 'Calamity Jane,' (realistically portrayed by Jane Alexander) renowned for her ability…
- Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
- Dir. Steve Carver
Feat. Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera…
- Man–of–few–words Norris plays a Texas Ranger who brandishes his martial arts trained fists as well as the requisite firepower in…
- Utu (1983)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott…
- After the great success of GOODBYE PORK PIE, dir. Geoff Murphy and his team get their fingernails dirty with this indigenous 'Western' that addresses…
- Utu - Redux (1983-2013)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Wi Kuki Kaa…
- With lavish technical enhancement and narrative streamlining, this 'Redux' version of the 1983 epic restores its rightful place in the canon of great…
- Wild Horses (1983)
- Dir. Derek Morton
Feat. Keith Aberdein, John Bach, Bruno Lawrence…
- A Kiwi western set in Tongariro National Park, and based around real events and people associated with the wild equine inhabitants of the Central…
- Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
- Dir. Robert M. Young
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill
- A young Mexican who kills a sherriff in self defence is manhunted by Texas Rangers as rumours of his notoriety become increasingly inflated.…
- Barbarosa (1982)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Willie Nelson, Gary Busey
- A dignified, under–rated Western from Australian director Fred Schepisi that pairs Gary Busey with Willie Nelson in a tale of a young cowboy…
- Gambler, The (1980)
- Dir. Dick Lowry
Feat. Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Christine Belford…
- Amiable western with a gambler saddling up after receiving a letter from his son requesting his help. Kenny Rogers knows when to fold 'em and hold…
- Heaven's Gate (1980)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt…
- One of Hollywood's biggest financial disasters contributed to the demise of United Artists studios. Despite its flaws, this full–length version…
- 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…
- Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey…
- Surprisingly enjoyable prequel to BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID has the roguish duo pursued across various New Mexico landscapes. Utterly…
- Cactus Jack (1979)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kirk Douglas
- A fledgling Arnie and Kirk Douglas square–up in this comic take on the Old West.
- Electric Horseman, The (1979)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine…
- Curious romantic western with Redford as a former rodeo star who turns his back on his lucrative gig advertising cereal, and heads off to the desert…
- Frisco Kid, The (1979)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder
- Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder cross joke–strewn terrain in this comedy Western.
- Centennial (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Feat. Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Robert Conrad
- Western mini–series spanning the 200 year history of the town of Centennial, Colarado.
Well–researched in its depiction of the…
- 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…
- White Buffalo, The (1977)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson…
- Rugged and hokey psycho–adventurism in which Charles Bronson channels Captain Ahab in his quest to hunt down a mythical albino buffalo.
- 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…
- Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, The (1976)
- Dir. Melvin Frank
Feat. Goldie Hawn, George Segal, Conrad Janis…
- Sassy spoof of the old west sees a scheming saloon singer and a suave card shark fall in love through a series of misadventures.
- Missouri Breaks, The (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton…
- 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…
- Bite the Bullet (1975)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Gene Hackman, James Coburn
- Gene Hackman and James Coburn are adversaries who contest a gruelling 700–mile horse race.
- Breakheart Pass (1975)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna…
- Charles Bronson plays a prisoner being transported on a train with a small U.S. army unit and medical supplies through the Rocky mountains. The…
- Master Gunfighter, The (1975)
- Dir. Frank Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Barbara Carrera
- From the creator/actor of BILLY JACK this samurai western
follows a peace–loving master swordsman and gunfighter, who's…
- Posse (1975)
- Dir. Kirk Douglas
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins…
- Kirk Douglas acts and directs in this revisionist western about a US Marshal with political ambitions who leads a uniformed posse to hunt down a…
- Rooster Cogburn (1975)
- Dir. Stuart Millar
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn
- John Wayne saddles up for another round of boozing and revenging in this follow–up to TRUE GRIT. Reigning in the one–eyed Marshall this…
- Take a Hard Ride (1975)
- Dir. Anthony M. Dawson
Feat. Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson…
- Fun western cheapie with Jim Brown heading to Sonora to deliver a payroll....Lee Van Cleef has other ideas.
- A Knife for the Ladies (1974)
- Dir. Larry G. Spangler
Feat. Jack Elam, Jeff Cooper
- Brutal Western murder mystery taking inspiration from slasher films of the 1970's, in which a sheriff and a detective track down a vicious killer who…
- Billy Two Hats (1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gregory Peck, Desi Jr. Arnaz, Jack Warden…
- Minor western with two bandits on the run from a racist sheriff after a botched bank robbery results in a death. Artful take on the genre is mostly…
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
- Classic Mel Brooks spoof–Western that almost killed the genre off!
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Warren Oates, Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young…
- One of the director's best, a modern–day western set in Mexico, with wash–out gringo Warren Oates questing for the bounty–prize…
- Gun and the Pulpit, The (1974)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston…
- A television pilot for an unproduced series starring former evangelist and cult figure Marjoe Gortner as a gunslinger on the lam who impersonates a…
- Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) (1974-1982)
- Feat. Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert
- Gently focused account of a settler family building their 'little house' on the plains of Minnesota in the 1870s. While not exactly gritty, this is…
- Spikes Gang, The (1974)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith…
- Downbeat western with Lee Marvin as a wounded outlaw who finds shelter with two young runaways. Regaling them his colorful stories of life on the…
- Chino (1973)
- Dir. John Sturges, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi…
- Downbeat western casts a melancholic eye on the plight of a half Indian horse breeder and his struggles in face of racist townsfolk.
Almost a…
- High Plains Drifter (1973)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom
- A spooked town enlist Clint Eastwood's mystical bounty–hunter. A self–conscious hybrid of many sources, Clint brings the drama an…
- My Name Is Nobody (1973)
- Dir. Tonino Valerii
Feat. Henry Fonda, Terence Hill
- Leone–influenced western has Henry Fonda as a faded outlaw pestered by adoring fan Terence Hill to learn some new tricks from the old dog.
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
- Restored version fully realises the director's vision of events surrounding Sherriff Garrett's pursuit of the legendary outlaw. A strange brew of…
- Train Robbers, The (1973)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor
- Light, traditional–style John Wayne Western following a gun hand who is hired by a widow to find the gold that was stolen by her late husband…
- Westworld (1973)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
- A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die! (Una Ragione per vivere e una per morire) (1972)
- Dir. Tonino Valerii
Feat. James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer…
- Uneven spaghetti western set during the American Civil War concerns a private battle between a DIRY DOZEN style group and brutal Confederate…
- Bad Company (1972)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, John Savage
- A crafted, deliberately unromantic western which follows a young Jeff Bridges’ flight to escape from army recruiters into an 1863 West…
- Buck and the Preacher (1972)
- Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Cameron Mitchell…
- An intriguing 'black' Western set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, with a group of freed slaves setting out across the dangerous…
- Chato's Land (1972)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore…
- DEATH WISH in the desert with Bronson picking off rednecks in revenge for his wife's rape and murder. Michael Winner brings his customary…
- Cowboys, The (1972)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. John Wayne, Bruce Dern
- John Wayne loses his cattle ranchers to the gold–rush, so is forced to recruit 11 children, much to the delight of cowboy nasty, Bruce Dern.…
- Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972)
- Dir. Dick Richards
Feat. Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew…
- Intriguing revisionist western with a young farm boy who always wanted to be a cowhand talking a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
- Evil Roy Slade (1972)
- Dir. Jerry Paris
Feat. John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Henry Gibson…
- Wacky western spoof made its way onto screens after originally flopping as TV pilot. John Astin (ADDAM'S FAMILY) plays the titular villain on…
- Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Robert Duvall, Cliff Robertson
- Hard–edged Western tells the story of the fading Jesse James gang and their most daring and ill–fated bank raid.
Duvall and Robertson…
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Will Geer
- A counter–culture sensibility pervades this rugged wilderness western, about a mountain man whose distaste for civilization sees him go off the…
- Joe Kidd (1972)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon…
- An amoral Clint Eastwood gets involved in a range fued between land baron Robert Duvall and Mexican settlers. Despite a screenplay by Elmore Leonard,…
- Junior Bonner (1972)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino…
- Rodeo–rider Steve McQueen is on the end of a losing streak when he revisits his hometown, and a last chance at a new life. Filled with amiable…
- Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner…
- Huston's surreal Western stars Paul Newman as Roy Bean, the eccentric hanging 'judge' of American folklore.
- Man of the East (1972)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Harry Jr. Carey
- Harebrained western has Terence Hill as a poetry–loving city slicker who in order to inherit his fathers ranch must become a…
- Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
- Dir. E.B. Clucher
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill
- Equally funny sequel to spaghetti–Western THEY CALL ME TRINITY, starring duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
- Ulzana's Raid (1972)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison
- Burt Lancaster saddles up to hunt a band of Apache Indians who have escaped their impoverished reservation and have gone on the warpath.
One of…
- A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
- Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…
- Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Pete Duel, Ben Murphy
- Two notorious outlaws receive amnesty on the condition they lay low for a year in this rumble–tumble western clearly inspired by the rogue…
- Bad Man's River (1971)
- Dir. Eugenio Martin
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida
- Jokey spaghetti–west has an outlaw outsmarted by a gang of Mexican Banditos and a conniving widow.
- Bearcats! (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole
- Endearing "late Western" TV series set in 1914 in which Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole star as a pair of charismatic troubleshooters for hire who gad…
- Doc (1971)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin
- Underrated retelling of events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral with stronger emphasis on character than gunplay.
This striking…
- El Topo (1971)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The first official midnight movie – Jodorowsky's legendary vision is a bonafide 'head' picture (confusing yet stimulating), committing enough…
- Gunfight, A (1971)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander…
- An inventive late western in the Sergio Leone tradition, concerning rival gunfighters Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his debut) charging admission…
- Hannie Caulder (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Christopher Lee…
- Raquel Welch dons poncho and six–shooters in this violent quasi–spoof Western, playing the victim of a gang rape who, with the help of a…
- Hired Hand, The (1971)
- Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…
- An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…
- Hunting Party, The (1971)
- Dir. Don Medford
Feat. Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman
- WILD BUNCH–wannabe with Gene Hackman hunting ruffian Oliver Reed and kidnapped wife Candice Bergan to the ends of the earth. A ridiculously…
- Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Garrone
Feat. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Krista Nell
- Brutal spaghetti western with a ruthless cowboy teaming up with an old prospector to take down an unscrupulous banker and his network of killers.
- Lucky Luke (1971)
- Hardcase western animation, from the creator of ASTERIX, centred on Lucky Luke the cowboy and his penchant for upholding law over the land.…
- Man in the Wilderness, The (w/ The Deadly Trackers) (1971)
- Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Richard Harris, John Huston, Percy Herbert…
- Double Bill Western starring Richard Harris.
THE MAN IN THE WILDERNESS is based on the same source material that inspired the Oscar–winning…
- McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
- Repentant gunfighter Warren Beatty stakes out a claim for respectability by developing a two–bit mining camp into a town (chiefly by…
- Red Sun (1971)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune…
- Exotic western with samurai elements that boasts an international cast. The plot involves a munhunt to retrieve a ceremonial Japanese sword from a…
- Return Of Sabata (1971)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Pedro Sanchez, Reiner Schone
- Van Cleef takes the reins back from Brynner in the third and final outing for the ace gunslinger. This time out Sabata is a stunt rider with a…
- Skin Game (1971)
- Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. James Garner, Louis Jr. Gossett, Susan Clark…
- Beguiling comedy about a pair of con–artists who pose as master and slave to deceive unsuspecting rednecks in the post–civil war era.
- Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette
- James Garner again plays a con–man, this time mistaken for a notorious gunfighter. Good natured, entertaining satire.
- They Call Me Trinity (1971)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
- The film that triggered the careers of B–movie icons Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is an engaging spaghetti–western spoof. Something of a…
- Valdez Is Coming (1971)
- Dir. Edwin Sherin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera…
- An underrated late Western, with Lancaster playing a down–heels Mexican sherriff who takes a dangerous stand on principle against a powerful…
- Wild Rovers (1971)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden…
- Saddle–sore cowpunchers William Holden and Ryan O'Neal safeguard their retirement by bank robbery, then head for the Mexican border.…
- A Man Called Horse (1970)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Richard Harris, Dame Judith Anderson
- Notorious yet serious–minded late western is set around the capture by Sioux of an English nobleman and his subsequent initiation into the…
- Adios, Sabata (1970)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Yul Brynner, Pedro Sanchez, Dean Reed
- Yul Brynner takes over the role of the ex–confederate master blaster, but the song remains essentially the same as Sabata aids Mexican…
- Ballad of Cable Hogue, The (1970)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Stella Stevens
- A lyrical Western in which Jason Robards plays an endearing, lone gold propector who develops an oasis in a remote part of the old west. His…
- Barquero (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker…
- Taut and bloody morality play set by a river's edge with Van Cleef as an ornery barge owner holding out against a band of mercenaries desperate to…
- Beguiled, The (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
- Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier taken refuge at a Confederate girl's school, where his presense stirs up a hornet's nest. The closest…
- Chisum (1970)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George…
- A western starring John Wayne, very loosely based around events from the Lincoln County War in 1878, when a conflict arose over the control of goods…
- Lawman (1970)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…
- Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
- Little Big Man (1970)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam…
- Life–story of 121–yr old 'white' Indian Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) at first lightly sketches his progress from Cheyenne brave to…
- Man Called Sledge, A (1970)
- Dir. Vic Morrow
Feat. James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Laura Antonelli…
- Spaghetti western with James Garner slumming it in the role of a grimy villain who connives his way into a prison intending to steal a large shipment…
- McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970)
- Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine…
- A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
- Monte Walsh (1970)
- Dir. William A. Fraker
Feat. Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
- Beautifully contemplative western set during the final days of the Wild West, following an aged cowboy and his friend who spend their days picking up…
- Rio Lobo (1970)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Jack Elam, Victor French…
- The third and final Western collaboration between John Wayne, dir. Hawks and screenwriter Leigh Brackett (after RIO BRAVO and EL DORADO), this…
- Soldier Blue (1970)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen
- Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…
- There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda
- Prison inmate Kirk Douglas matches wits with warden Henry Fonda in an attempt to escape. Curious mix of black comedy and melodrama.
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine
- Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
- 100 Rifles (1969)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
- Explosive action–western cliche of the late–70's featuring Burt Reynolds, unfortunately cast as a half–Indian bank–robber,…
- Boot Hill (1969)
- Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Woody Strode…
- Typically raucous Hill and Spencer westerner with the un–dynamic duo doing battle with a tyrannical mayor.
- Bullet for Sandoval (Vengeance is Mine) (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, George Hilton
- Reasonable foray into the Spaghetti Western genre for splatter king Fulci and as always with Fulci narrative is secondary to violent…
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Paul Newman, Robert Redford
- This light and tasty yarn enjoyed huge popularity, partly due to the abounding charisma of Paul Newman and Robert Redford who together have lots of…
- Charro (1969)
- Dir. Charles M. Warren
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French
- An Elvis curiosity which (mis)casts him in a dramatic Western. An unintentional hoot.
- Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor…
- The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
- Mackenna's Gold (1969)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif
- Sprawling Western adaptation of the best–selling Will Henry novel about an Arizona Marshal travelling to an unknown canyon of gold who gets…
- Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell…
- Low–budget science fiction foray from Hammer Films, billed as the first moon "western" and released very soon after the first moon landing in…
- Over the Hill Gang, The (1969)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Pat O'Brien…
- Laidback reunion for various horse–opera stars of old cleaning up a lawless town in the old west. Telemovie doesn't quite have a script worthy…
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg…
- Entertaining musical epic based on the popular Lerner–Loewe play. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood play gold prospectors who share a wife they…
- Sabata (1969)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez
- Berzerk spaghetti western with Van Cleef as the titular master gunfighter hunting robbers for rewards. Memorable is an understatement for this…
- Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Joan Hackett
- The definitive Western spoof stars James Garner as a reluctant sheriff ordained to restore law and order to a village struck by goldrush fever.
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
- Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake…
- This Western comeback from blacklisted director Polonsky (FORCE OF EVIL) focuses (rather ironically) on the manhunt of Robert Blake, who here plays…
- True Grit (1969)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate…
- John Wayne subtly sends–up his hardcase persona, playing an over–the–hill marshall who drags himself out of semi–retirement…
- Undefeated, The (1969)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Lee Meriwether
- Amiable post–Civil War Western starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson as ex–Union and ex–Confederate Colonels who lead two disparate…
- Wild Bunch, The (1969)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan…
- Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising Western bloodbath with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine leading the famous band of unruly marauders. Astonishing in…
- Young Billy Young (1969)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jnr…
- Serviceable western has Mitchum hunting for the man who killed his son. Pic drifts along a little too amiably at times though the name cast to their…
- Ace High (I quattro dell'Ave Maria) (1968)
- Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi
Feat. Eli Wallach, Terence Hill, Brock Peters…
- Spaghetti western starring Eli Wallach as a bandit seeking revenge on those who framed him, teaming up with two bounty hunters and an acrobat in the…
- Bandolero! (1968)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch…
- Number three in James Stewart's Western repertoire centred on two brawling brothers who must find a way to work together to avoid the death sentence…
- Death Rides A Horse (Da uomo a uomo) (1968)
- Dir. Giulio Petroni
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega…
- 'Spaghetti Western' about the years–in–the–waiting revenge mission of an orphan to hunt his parent's bandit murderers. Although…
- Five Card Stud (1968)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
- Western set in small–town Colorado where players from an ill–fated game of poker start to go missing, and murder is suspected. From the…
- Great Silence, The (1968)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Wolff
- A 'pure' spaghetti western in the Italian language, with Trintignant playing a mute desperado being pursued by bounty–hunter Kinski through a…
- Hang 'em High (1968)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens
- A stateside attempt at a spaghetti Western. Clint Eastwood avenges a gang of vigilantes who wrongfully tried to hang him for murder.
- Journey to Shiloh (1968)
- Dir. William Hale
Feat. James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Harrison Ford…
- Diverting counterculture western with seven fresh–faced young men embarking on a cross–country journey to join the confederate army.…
- Kill Them All And Come Back Alone (1968)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti…
- Spaghetti western set during the American Civil War, with a confederate going after a cache of gold owned by the Union Army. He is aided by a group…
- Long Ride From Hell, A (Vivo per la tua Morte) (1968)
- Dir. Camillo Bazzoni
Feat. Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston
- An overlooked, tough–minded Spaghetti Western featuring the legendary Steve "Hercules" Reeves in his final screen performance, this tells the…
- More Dead than Alive (1968)
- Dir. Robert Sparr
Feat. Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis…
- Western about a reformed killer who struggles with life on the outside.
After trying to settle down as a rancher but failing to win people's…
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards Jr.…
- A 13–minute credit sequence opens this riveting frontier saga, arguably the finest film of the genre. Charles Bronson steps in to Clint…
- Scalphunters, The (1968)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Ossie Davis…
- A 'mountain' Western, with fur trapper Lancaster and ex–slave Davis teaming up to recapture a cargo of stolen pelts. The script aims at various…
- Shalako (1968)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd…
- Silver screen vamp Brigitte Bardot teams up with Sean Connery in this "damsel in distress" western, where a hunting party who've wandered onto the…
- This Man Can't Die (1968)
- Dir. Gianfranco Baldanello
Feat. Guy Madison, Lucienne Bridou, Rik Battaglia
- Mean and gritty spaghetti western following a government agent hot on the trial of the rich boss who murdered his family.
- Villa Rides (1968)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Lom…
- Violent western set during the Mexican revolution, with Robert Mitchum playing a corrupt Texas gunrunner and pilot who joins Pancho Villa (Yul…
- Will Penny (1968)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence…
- An impressive, unromanticised view of an aging cowpuncher – played by Charlton Heston in possibly his finest dramatic performance – as he…
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (Se sei vivo spara) (1967)
- Dir. Giulio Questi
Feat. Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock
- A rather entrancing surrealistic version of the 'spaghetti western' involving a robbery gone wrong and an avenger from beyond the grave... but also…
- Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1967)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
- The third, the funniest and most violent of Clint's association with director Leone. Set during the Civil War, three low–lifes search for a…
- High Chaparral, The (TV Series) (1967)
- Feat. Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Linda Cristal…
- Conceived amidst the popularity of BONANZA, this classic TV western sought to replicate its success. The series centres on the ranch life of an…
- Hour of the Gun (1967)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. James Garner, Jason Robards Jr., Robert Ryan…
- Slowburning, melancholic revenge flick follows on from the events of Gunfight at the O.K Corral, with Garner as Wyatt Earp wrecking vengeance on the…
- Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Dean Martin, Slim Pickens, Jean Simmons…
- Dean Martin terrorizes a town and its helpless folk in this coarse, outdated western. Rough indeed.
- Stranger on the Run (1967)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks…
- Henry Fonda is once again THE WRONG MAN in this tasty Don Siegel western. Fonda plays an embittered ex–con who falls foul of a ruthless…
- War Wagon, The (1967)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel…
- A light–hearted western with John Wayne playing a rancher who returns to his home town after being wrongfully imprisoned, to take revenge on…
- A Bullet For the General (Quien Sabe?) (1966)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick
- Spaghetti western set during the Mexican revolution where a gringo assassin infiltrates a gang of bandits in order to find and kill a rebel general.…
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark
- Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
- Appaloosa, The (Southwest to Senora) (1966)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon…
- Minor, though well–crafted and photographed Western set around Brando's attempts to recover his prized horse from a Mexican bandit (Saxon).
- Django (1966)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Franco Nero, Jose Bodalo, Loredana Nusciak…
- Stylish, ice–cold 'Spaghetti Western' tells the story of Django, a gunslinger who drags a mysterious coffin through the bandit–populated…
- Django Shoots First (1966)
- Dir. Alberto De Martino
Feat. Glenn Saxson, Ida Galli, Nando Gazzolo…
- Spaghetti western riffing liberally on Sergio Leone stereotypes, and carrying the distinction of being the first DJANGO knock–off. A man sets…
- El Dorado (1966)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Edward Asner, James Caan…
- A poignant portrait of cowboys past their prime has boozy sherriff Robert Mitchum and aging gunman John Wayne team up to rid their town of cattle…
- Few Dollars for Django (1966)
- Dir. Leon Klimovsky
Feat. Antonio De Teffe, Gloria Osuna, Frank Wolff
- Imitation spaghetti–Western, several times removed from the Sergei Leone/Clint Eastwood model, let alone Franco Nero's original 'Django'.…
- Hills Run Red, The (Un fiume di dollari ) (1966)
- Dir. Carlo Lizzani
Feat. Dan Duryea, Henry Silva, Thomas Hunter
- Violent spaghetti western doesn't spare the sauce as two confederate soldiers flee the civil war with some ill–gotten loot. Duryea appears to…
- Hombre (1966)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone…
- Paul Newman portrays the sombre hombre, a white man brought up by the Apache, who helps the red–neck passengers of an ambushed stagecoach.…
- Navajo Joe (1966)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Fernando Rey
- Bloodthirsty Navajo Joe goes looking for revenge after his family is killed by nefarious outlaws.
Pre–fame Burt teams up with pre–Django…
- Nevada Smith (1966)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith…
- McQueen plays an orphaned half–breed in the West, who quests relentlessly for his parents' killers.
Beautifully made in some stunning…
- Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
- Rage (1966)
- Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
- Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
- Texas Across The River (1966)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth…
- Gag–heavy Western spoof sees Joey Bishop get painted up 'native' and Dean Martin and Alain Delon facing off for the love of Rosemary Forsyth's…
- Cat Ballou (1965)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin
- Amusing spoof of the genre with Jane Fonda as a school–teacher who becomes an outlaw after her father's untimely death. Lee Marvin won an Oscar…
- Duel at Diablo (1965)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, James Garner
- Violent, off–beat Cowboys–and–Indians conflict successfully revives the formula. With Sidney Poitier, and James Garner in a sober…
- For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
- An improvement on the original film with Eastwood encoring to the strains of that unmistakable Morricone score.
- Glory Guys, The (1965)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Andrew Duggan
- A bigoted Civil War general and his subservient cavalry set about to obliterate the Native Indian populous in this atypical western, from the pen of…
- Hallelujah Trail, The (1965)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence…
- Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
- Outlaws Is Coming, The (1965)
- Dir. Norman Maurer
Feat. Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe De Rita
- In their last comic feature, the Three Stooges don cowboy hats for a slapstick romp in the Wild West.
- Ride In the Whirlwind (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell
- A low–budget western shot back–to–back with THE SHOOTING and although the lesser of the two, has a few gritty moments. The VHS tape…
- Shenandoah (1965)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. James Stewart, Doug McClure
- Moving melodrama in which James Stewart heads a Virginian family deeply affected by the American Civil War. Co–stars Doug 'The 'Virginian'…
- Shooting, The (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Millie Perkins
- Avant–garde cowboy tale co–written by and featuring a typically crazed performance from Jack Nicholson, plus a memorable and unexpected…
- Sons of Katie Elder, The (1965)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer…
- Big screen return for John Wayne after his cancer scare that tells the tale of the four unruly sons of frontier woman Katie Elder who set out to…
- Viva Maria! (1965)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
- Louis Malle harnesses the assets of Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, here playing two circus performing ‘Marias’ with a penchant for viva la…
- Wild Wild West (TV Series) (1965)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Robert Conrad, Ross Martin
- Two detectives in the turn–of–the–century Wild West fight weird adversaries with the then latest technology and a sense of humour.
- Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
- Dir. Bill Ward
Feat. Marty Robbins, Robert Barron, Nestor Paiva
- Minor western with singer Marty Robbins acquitting himself well as a prairie Robin Hood thieving from stage coaches in order to give to the poor.…
- Black God White Devil (1964)
- Dir. Glauber Rocha
Feat. Maurício do Valle, Geraldo Del Rey, Othon Bastos
- A landmark of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, fusing discordant sound and imagery with the embittered folktale of a…
- Dollars Trilogy, The (A Fistful of Dollars; For Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1964-1966)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Box–set containing all three of Clint Eastwood's iconic 'spaghetti westerns'.
A.K.A "The Man With No Name Trilogy"
- Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte
- Perhaps the most famous of the spaghetti Westerns, with Clint Eastwood influencing a generation of tough guy anti–heroes with his formidable,…
- Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter…
- Set in New Mexico in the wake of the Civil War, a small bigoted town is beset by racist prejudices despite being outwardly pro–Union. Yul…
- 4 For Texas (Four for Texas) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress…
- Frivolous comedy–western in which "Rat Pack–ers" Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play friendly rivals who each make a bid for a waterfront…
- Hud (1963)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas…
- Handsome idler Paul Newman sows the seeds of trouble in this excellent modern–day Texas western, with his piercing eyes and calculated slouch…
- McLintock! (1963)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo…
- TAMING OF THE SHREW goes West in this rambunctious battle of wits between cattle rancher (Wayne) and his firebrand wife (O’Hara), in search of a…
- Geronimo (1962)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Chuck Connors, Adam West
- Despite the ridiculous casting of blue–eyed Connors as the legendary renegade Apache, this is a half decent B movie, loosely following the…
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…
- The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
- Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…
- Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles…
- A dream cast and director deliver the classic that one would expect. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne compete for Vera Miles but unite against Lee Marvin…
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
- Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
- Comancheros, The (1961)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin…
- John Wayne stars (and served as an uncredited director when Michael Curtiz fell ill) in this Western set in Texas in 1843. A Texas ranger arrests a…
- Deadly Companions, The (1961)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Steve Cochran
- Sam Peckinpah's debut film is a typically unorthodox western, that while uneven reveals the quirky characters and emotive nostalgia of his later…
- Last Sunset, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone…
- Melodramatic Western set against the backdrop of the Texas/Mexico border stars Kirk Douglas as a fugitive hounded by Rock Hudson's sheriff, only to…
- Misfits, The (1961)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe
- Stark melodrama was to be the curtain call for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. They are two of a group of cheerless souls roping wild mustangs…
- One Eyed Jacks (1961)
- Dir. Marlon Brando
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado…
- Marlon Brando is an outlaw battling a sheriff in this psychological Western played out against a brooding landscape. Bursts of violence punctuate the…
- Second Time Around, The (1961)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith…
- Debbie Reynolds stars as a feisty widow who becomes sheriff of a wild Arizona town, where a gambler and a rancher vie for her affections.
- Singer Not the Song, The (1961)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…
- Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
- Two Rode Together (1961)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
- Overlooked Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark starrer with the master of the genre at the helm.
- Alamo, The (1960)
- Dir. John Wayne
Feat. John Wayne
- Duke's sprawling historical epic centres around a small fort where Texas fought for its independence. Slow pace builds to an exciting climax.
- Bonanza (TV Series) (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Allen, Arthur Lubin
Feat. Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts…
- Iconic, larger–than–life western TV show set near Virginia City, Nevada, in which Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his sons help protect…
- Comanche Station (1960)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins…
- Last of the Boetticher/Scott westerns with Randolph Scott again essaying the taciturn hero brilliantly. Here he's attempting to resuce saving a…
- Flaming Star (1960)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del Rio
- Elvis Presley plays a half Native American rancher whose neighbourhood starts getting raided by people from the same tribe he is descended from, in…
- Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally…
- Another "mistaken identity" western for Murphy. This time he's an honest horse–trader wanted for a murder he didn't commit pursued across Texas…
- Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn
- Dysfunctional stagecoach high jinx with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren fleeing with a theatre company into the American's heartland. While lush as a…
- Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson…
- Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson head other famous faces–to–be in this popular remake of Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
- One Foot in Hell (1960)
- Dir. James B. Clark
Feat. Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy…
- Alan Ladd's final western –scripted by Aaron Spelling – has him cast as a psychotic killer exacting revenge on a small town by assuming…
- Sundowners, The (1960)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov…
- Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr play a devoted couple in 1920s Australia who come to a crossroads over their gypsy lifestyle. Affectionate saga about…
- Unforgiven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster
- Audrey Hepburn plays an adopted ranchers daughter who becomes the focus of a racist furore when her Indian roots are discovered.
- Day of the Outlaw (1959)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise…
- Bleak snowbound western has a gang of outlaws terrorizing the inhabitants of a small farming town.
Shot in stark black and white this is a…
- Gunfight at Dodge City, The (1959)
- Dir. Joseph M. Newman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire…
- Lean and mean western with Joel McCrea as a reluctant sheriff struggling to restore order to town besieged with corruption and violence.
- Horse Soldiers, The (1959)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
- Set around a Yankee incursion into Rebel territory during the American Civil War, this rates about average against Dir. Ford's other action films. …
- Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones…
- Underrated American Western telling the tale of a U.S. Marshal seeking revenge in the town of 'Gun Hill' after the racially charged rape and murder…
- No Name on the Bullet (1959)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans…
- Considered Audie Murphy's strongest Western, he plays a gun–for–hire who rides into a town where the leading citizens are justifiably…
- Rawhide (TV Series) (1959- 1966)
- Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Clint Eastwood steals the show as Rowdy Yates in this 60's cattle–driving TV show.
- Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, James Best, Lee Van Cleef…
- Randolph Scott stars as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting a killer back to the gallows, all the while using him as bait to lure his murderous…
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson…
- John Wayne plays a sheriff who has captured a high profile bandit. With the state Marshall many days away and a gang of thugs planning a raid from…
- Warlock (1959)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn…
- A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
- Big Country, The (1958)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston
- A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
- Bravados, The (1958)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Lee Van Cleef…
- Peck sets out on the grim task of annihilating the rapists and killers of his wife in this taut, if occasionally obvious Western. As Peck works his…
- Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley…
- Randolph Scott plays a loner who finds himself caught up in a violent feud in this taut Budd Boetticher western.
- Law and Jake Wade, The (1958)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens…
- Western from director John Sturges (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) about a reformed town marshal whose old criminal partner starts stalking him while he's on…
- Left Handed Gun, The (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Paul Newman
- Influential version of the Billy the Kid story, with Paul Newman portraying the Kid in an ambiguous light, unstable and homosexually repressed. Has…
- Man of the West (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…
- Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
- Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…
- Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
- Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…
- Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
- Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Henry Hull…
- In this goofy western, Jayne Mansfield plays a buxom saloon proprietor who lassos a clueless Englishman when he becomes the sheriff of the titular…
- Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot
- Eccentric western with Sterling Hayden as a Swedish whaler –armed with harpoon – seeking to exact revenge on the greedy oil baron who…
- Wanted Dead or Alive (TV Series) (1958)
- Feat. Steve McQueen
- Riding on the back of success in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Steve McQueen lends his star charisma to this TV western series as bounty hunter Josh…
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin
- Outlaw Glenn Ford is escorted via train to his trial in Yuma by rookie bounty–man Van Heflin. A suspenseful yarn made of Elmore Leonard's novel.
- Decision at Sundown (1957)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele…
- Another fruitful Boetticher/Scott collaboration is the grimmest of the lot with Scott on the trail of the man who drove his wife to suicide.
- Forty Guns (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger…
- A surreal, somewhat lurid Western set in Tombstone, Arizona pits voluptuous land–baroness Stanwyck against the new, world–weary marshall…
- Gun for a Coward (1957)
- Dir. Abner Biberman
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule…
- Character driven western with the tragic Jeffrey Hunter as a peaceful cowboy whose non–violent manner saddles him with a reputation for…
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
- The legendary Doc Holliday–Wyatt Earp clash with the Clayton gang with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the leading spurs. A textbook Western.
- Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) (1957)
- Feat. Richard Boone, Hal Needham
- Popular classic Western series about the adventures of professional gunfighter Paladin and his manservant Hey Boy.
- Man in the Shadow, The (1957)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Ben Alexander
- Socially–conscious Western thriller starring Orson Welles as a property kingpin who provides most of the town a thriving economy. But when his…
- Night Passage (1957)
- Dir. James Neilson
Feat. James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea…
- A 'railroad western' with good guy Stewart defending the tracks against a gang of desperados led by Duryea. Tough cast give some distinction to a…
- Robbery Under Arms (1957)
- Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith…
- Seminal Aussie western with Peter Finch as charismatic outlaw Captain Starlight leading two brothers astray after they join his roving band of…
- Run of the Arrow (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Rod Steiger, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson…
- Technicolour western set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, with Confederate veteran Rod Steiger going rogue and joining the Sioux, but…
- Tall T, The (1957)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan
- The formidable Budd Boetticher–Randolph Scott alliance delivered this lean, mean stagecoach thriller – probably the finest of the duo’s…
- Tin Star, The (1957)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer…
- Anthony Perkins stars in one of his earliest roles playing a young sheriff eager to prove himself in a small town, who accepts help and advice from a…
- True Story of Jesse James, The (1957)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange…
- Remake of the 1939 film Jesse James, but hardly a true story, as it is only loosely based on the notorious outlaw's life and his relationship to…
- Wagon Train (TV Series) (1957-1965)
- Feat. Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton…
- Classic adventures of a wagon train and its varied passengers as they journey from Missouri to California in the aftermath of the Civil War. Wagons,…
- Backlash (1956)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell…
- Richard Widmark and Donna Reed play the tough–talkin', rootin–tootin leads in this gritty horse opera, as they both seek vengeance for…
- Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956)
- Dir. Russell Rouse
Feat. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain…
- Modest–scale Western with Ford playing a reformed gunfighter who is not allowed to leave his past behind.
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins…
- Gary Cooper headlines this sentimental yet atmospheric and beautifuly crafted drama about a Quaker family in southern Indiana whose pacifist beliefs…
- Gunslinger (1956)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes
- In this cut–price Roger Corman western, town ain’t big enough for a touch–as–nails lady marshall, and her nemesis, a spiteful…
- Jubal (1956)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
- Vivid Western melodrama from visually gifted director Delmer Daves (3:10 TO YUMA), telling a Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal between two…
- King and Four Queens, The (1956)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes…
- Wily comedy–western with con man Gable ingratiating himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to…
- Last Wagon, The (1956)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner…
- Racially charged western with a vengeful Widmark and a wagon full of bigots under siege from Indians.
- Lone Ranger, The (1956)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger…
- Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…
- Mohawk (1956)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Scott Brady, Rita Gam
- White men playing Indians is typical of this hokey affair, which is about as ethnically sensitive as Adolf Hitler. In retrospect, though, it's a…
- Pardners (1956)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Agnes Moorehead
- Comic–partners Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis saddle–up for a jaunt in the Old West.
- Searchers, The (1956)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles…
- A grand example of what made this such a popular genre. A disturbed John Wayne treks the untamed wilderness in a five–year odyssey to kill the…
- Seven Men From Now (1956)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin…
- Revered, obscure Western from iconoclast Budd Boetticher: Randolph Scott plays a lone rider charged with bringing seven ruthless bank robbers to…
- Star in the Dust (1956)
- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. John Agar, Richard Boone, Mamie Van Doren…
- Psychological western with Agar as a sheriff caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree the impending execution of a gunman.
- Walk the Proud Land (1956)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Charles Drake
- Considered one of Audie Murphy's best Westerns, based on the true story of an Indian agent who is sent to try a new approach to peace with the…
- Gunsmoke (TV Series) (1955)
- Feat. James Arness
- James Arness plays Marshal Matt Dillon protecting Dodge City from roaming gunslingers in this seminal TV show – the Grandaddy of TV…
- Indian Fighter, The (1955)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau…
- Douglas plays a grizzled scout who must negotiate his way through hostile Indian territory on behalf of a wagon–train. Falling in love with a…
- Kentuckian, The (1955)
- Dir. Burt Lancaster
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn…
- Western directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt.
Beautifully shot in Kentucky and…
- Man from Laramie, The (1955)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp…
- An angst–ridden James Stewart seeks retribution on arms dealers whose illegal trade resulted in the ambushing of his brother's cavalry patrol.…
- Man with the Gun (1955)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe…
- Brawny western with Mitchum typically taciturn as a mercenary hired by frightened citizens to vanquish a pack of murderous gunfighters.
- Man Without A Star (1955)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
- Character–driven Western sees Kirk Douglas plays a laconic gunslinger with a dark–side, who drifts from scrape to scrape while working…
- Tall Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan…
- Effortlessly enjoyable western with Gable as a Confederate who signs up for a grand cattle drive from Texas to Montana, Jane Russell and Robert Ryan…
- Violent Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson…
- Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson transform a standard conflict of the land into a notable diversion.
- White Feather (1955)
- Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund…
- Superior liberal western, scripted by Delmer Dawes, concerns the surrender of the last Cheyenne warriors to the U.S. government.
Though Wagner…
- Apache (1954)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire…
- Although now dated in it's treatment of the subject – like casting the blue–eyed Lancaster as an Apache Indian – at the time this…
- Broken Lance (1954)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters…
- King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…
- Davy Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier (1954)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, William Bakewell…
- TV version of the quintessential American story, which created such a phenomenal interest when screened that it was released in a movie version. Fess…
- Drum Beat (1954)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan…
- Fine western with Indian fighter Ladd sent by President Grant to negotiate a treaty with the Medoc Tribe. Charles Bronson's first major role.
- Far Country, The (1954)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Walter Brennan
- The Yukon Ranges provide the unforgiving backdrop to this prototypical Anthony Mann western, in which James Stewart must battle the elements and…
- Garden of Evil (1954)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward…
- A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches. In Cinemascope.
- Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Russell Johnson…
- Classic B–movie western following a railroad surveyor who forms an unlikely alliance with a notorious gunslinger to avenge the death of his…
- River of No Return (1954)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum
- A Western adventure set aboard a river raft in which the frayed temperaments of Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum endure the perils of raging water…
- Track of the Cat (1954)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter…
- Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther.
Certainly something of a…
- Vera Cruz (1954)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster
- Humour and suspense reflect the uneasy alliance of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster who collaborate to depose a corrupt Emperor in 1860s Mexico.
- Calamity Jane (1953)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Howard Keel
- Big, rousing musical western, featuring Doris Day as the tomboy heroine, who falls for easygoing Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel).
- Gun Fury (1953)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey…
- Attractively shot revenge western shot on location in Arizona, with Rock Hudson going after the ruthless gang that stole his fiancé and left him for…
- Hondo (1953)
- Dir. John Farrow
Feat. John Wayne, Geraldine Page
- A Louis L'Amour story gives John Wayne a chance to swagger his stuff as a wily half–Apache cavalry scout who finds and assists Geraldine Page,…
- Johnny Guitar (1953)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden…
- Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
- Lawless Breed, The (1953)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle…
- Western based on the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson), a former gunfighter who creates a manuscript detailing his life and adventures,…
- Man from the Alamo, The (1953)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills…
- Glenn Ford stars in a sprawling but nuanced Western from the legendary Budd Boetticher that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon…
- Naked Spur, The (1953)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan…
- Cited as one of the Great Westerns; a tough, hard little film about self–styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, who stirs tension…
- Redhead From Wyoming, The (1953)
- Dir. Lee Sholem
Feat. Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol
- Breakout Western for Maureen O’Hara – usually second fiddle to John Wayne – here as the plucky proprietress of saloon who’s equally adept on…
- Seminole (1953)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn…
- Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
- Shane (1953)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
- Former gunfighter Alan Ladd comes to the defence of homesteaders menaced by Jack Palance (satanically clad all in black). Classic Western is splendid…
- Bend of the River (1952)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson…
- A gritty and compelling showdown on the Oregon Trail between settler James Stewart and double–crosser Arthur Kennedy. Beautiful Rocky Mountain…
- Cimarron Kid, The (1952)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler
- Budd Boetticher directs Audie Murphy as a cowboy who is unjustly accused of robbing a train but then re–joins his old gang and becomes a…
- Hangman's Knot (1952)
- Dir. Roy Huggins
Feat. Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jr. Jarman…
- Handsome technicolour western with Randolph Scott leading a band of Confederate soldiers who are unaware that the war is over, and attack a wagon of…
- High Noon (1952)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell…
- Retiring marshal Gary Cooper faces a crisis of conscience when he learns an old adversary wants revenge. A classic that derives its impact through…
- Horizons West (1952)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson
- Western with shades of film noir and gangster pic, set in post–civil war Texas, where two confederate soldier brothers return to their family…
- Lusty Men, The (1952)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy
- A nicely close–to–the–ground take on the life of the rodeo rider – and one of Wim Wenders' favourite films – this…
- Rancho Notorious (1952)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
- Lively and interesting Western about a vengeful gunman who search brings him to the ranch of sultry saloon mistress Marlene Dietrich.
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
- Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
- Rawhide (1951)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Dean Jagger…
- Tense western with a stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler finding themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on…
- Roy Rogers Show, The (TV Series) (1951-1957)
- Feat. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
- Much–loved early TV classic with 'King of the Cowboys' Roy Rogers hanging out on the Double R Ranch with Trigger ('The Smartest Horse in the…
- Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
- The much–filmed story of Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, is the subject of this Irving Berlin musical, with Betty Hutton…
- Bitter Springs (1950)
- Dir. Ralph Smart
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder
- Racially dubious Australian bush western about a 20th century settler (Chips Rafferty) trying to make a living off land shared by an Aboriginal tribe.
- Broken Arrow (1950)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
- This influenced a trend in offering a more sympathetic view of Indian culture. James Stewart is amiable as always as an army scout who arbitrates…
- Cisco Kid, The (TV Series) (1950-1956)
- Feat. Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo
- A generous selection of episodes from the 1950s TV Western serial, in which the semi–masked 'Cisco Kid' (Renaldo) redistributes justice and…
- Comanche Territory (1950)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer…
- Solid enough B Western with Carey as Jim Bowie sent by the government to negotiate a treaty with an Indian tribe. Double–crossing ensues, but…
- Furies, The (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey
- Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…
- Gunfighter, The (1950)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell…
- Right up there with the best cowboy flicks is this bleak yet brilliant tale of a retiring gunfighter (Gregory Peck) who is challenged by a young punk…
- Rio Grande (1950)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson
- Concluding instalment of John Ford's cavalry trilogy has John Wayne in more trouble with Indians on the Mexican border. Even minor Ford stands tall.
- Wagon Master, The (1950)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Ben Johnson
- Pioneering saga starring Ben Johnson. A personal favourite of its director.
- Winchester '73 (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Shelley Winters
- Lean, mean, and superbly photographed, this helped repopularise the Western in the '50s. Stewart wins a rare 'perfect' rifle, which is subsequently…
- Man from Colorado, The (1949)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew
- Gritty technicolor psycho–drama set during the American Civil War starring Glenn Ford as a Union officer who becomes addicted to killing.
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar…
- Cavalry officer John Wayne is about to retire on the eve of impending war with Indians. Followed by RIO GRANDE.
- Streets of Laredo (1949)
- Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman…
- Middling western with Holden as an outlaw who separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit…
- Fort Apache (1948)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple
- The first film of Ford's cavalry trilogy tells of a maverick martinet (Henry Fonda) at odds with his peers and the Injuns. Followed by SHE WORE A…
- Paleface, The (1948)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong…
- One of Bob Hope's most popular comedies is a western spoof in which he stars as a hapless dentist who through a series of misfortunes winds up…
- Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. William Holden, Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum
- Western 'rom–com' with husband William Holden and 'stranger' Robert Mitchum competing for the affections of Loretta Young ('Rachel') towards…
- Red River (1948)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
- Another contender for the best of the west. John Wayne is in prime mode as a tyrannical rancher whose adopted son is determined to prove his…
- Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers) (1948)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne
- Sentimental, exquisitely–shot Western parable of the Three Wise Men with John Wayne leading the outlaws who adopt a newborn baby.
- Whispering Smith (1948)
- Dir. Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
Feat. Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall…
- Swish, action–packed western features Alan Ladd chasing train robbers and sentimental skirt. Good stuff.
- Yellow Sky (1948)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark…
- Tough–minded western shot largely in Death Valley has Anne Baxter coming across a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in a neighboring…
- Angel and the Badman (1947)
- Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. John Wayne, Gail Russell
- Classic model Western with big John Wayne as a gunfighter tamed by the love of a good woman.
- Last of the Redmen (1947)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea
- Economy–sized take on the Last Of The Mohicans story.
- Pursued (1947)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Dame Judith Anderson…
- This moody western is one of the best Mitchum performances, in a film famous for it's unusual (at the time) use of Freudian psychology. A nightmarish…
- Canyon Passage (1946)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward…
- Jacques Tourneur's grand western is a sub–plot heavy ode to community. Dana Andrews is a fledgling businessman whose friendship with…
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten…
- Brothers Gregory Peck and James Cotton feud over the family ranch and legacy. Lauded by the likes of Martin Scorsese for its visual splendour, this…
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan
- Masterful retelling of the O.K. Corrall incident by John Ford, is also a note–perfect rendition of many classical Western themes. Henry Fonda…
- Virginian, The (1946)
- Feat. Joel McCrea, Sonny Tufts, Brian Donlevy
- Fourth time out of the stable adaptation of Owen Wister's influential novel.
Local ranch hand (McCrea) risks losing his best friend and the woman…
- Yearling, The (1946)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
- Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…
- San Antonio (1945)
- Dir. David Butler, Robert Florey
Feat. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall…
- In the middle of a range war a tough dance hall girl falls for a chivalrous cowboy trying to bring law and order to San Antonio.
- Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
- Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
- Can't Help Singing (1944)
- Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff
- Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
- Tall in the Saddle (1944)
- Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
- An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…
- Outlaw, The (1943)
- Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell…
- Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
- Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
- Spoilers, The (1942)
- Dir. Ray Enright
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
- A gold–rush Western set in Alaska in which gold–miner John Wayne tussles it out with corrupt commissioner Randolph Scott over his claims…
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
- Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland lead a great cast for the life and times of General Custer. Part romantic comedy, part tragedy, done in grandest…
- Western Union (1941)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger…
- Outlaw Vance Shaw tries to escape his dark past by protecting the good citizens building telegraph poles in the Great Plains from bandits, only to…
- When the Daltons Rode (1941)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy…
- Stirring western centred around a lawyer forced to choose between loyalty to his friends or the word of law when the infamous Dalton Gang are framed…
- Arizona (1940)
- Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
- Epic frontier Western set in Tuscon, Arizona in early 1860's, where an independent, tough–as–nails pioneer woman aspires to be a cattle…
- My Little Chickadee (1940)
- Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. Mae West, W.C. Fields
- Mae West and W.C. Fields profitably co–exist in this formula story of marital shenanigans in the Wild West, garlanded with lunatic gags, dirty…
- North West Mounted Police (1940)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Lon Jr. Chaney…
- Technicolour western set in 1885, with Gary Cooper playing a Texas Ranger who travels to Canada to arrest a fugitive who is inciting rebellion…
- Return of Frank James (1940)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
- Worthy sequel to JESSE JAMES with Henry Fonda reprising his role of Frank, now out to avenge the death of his brother.
- Santa Fe Trail, The (1940)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland…
- Set in the leadup to the American Civil War, this professionally executed Western has future Confederate general Jeb Stuart (Flynn) lead the charge…
- Westerner, The (1940)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
- Gary Cooper stars in accomplished Texan yarn concerning land disputes. Most impressive, though, is Walter Brennan in an Oscar–winning…
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Una Merkel
- James Stewart is once again a mild–mannered law–man while Marlene Dietrich makes her most sensational Hollywood turn as exotic saloon…
- Dodge City (1939)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
- Lusty western with Errol Flynn cutting the mustard as a cowboy hero. Olivia De Havilland is his gracious co–star once again.
- Jesse James (1939)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
- Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda play the legendary James brothers in this somewhat romanticised version of their fable. Sequel: THE RETURN OF FRANK…
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine
- As the first fully realised Western, this blazed the trail for all subsequent efforts, as well as carrying John Wayne to stardom. Panoramic…
- Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
- Dir. Sam Newfield
Feat. Billy Curtis
- The infamous Western oddity featuring an entire cast of midgets.
- Way Out West (1937)
- Dir. James W Horne
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- One of Laurel and Hardy's best features, spreading their brand of chaos into the Old West.
- Plainsman, The (1936)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
- A brash, implausible Western from grand master DeMille: Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur run amok in a spectacle that wildly bastardizes the Old West and…
- Texas Rangers, The (1936)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker…
- High–end, intricately plotted Western from King Vidor about three outlaws in a scheme to pose as Texas Rangers and gain the advantage in…
- Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
- This pioneering colour film is an engaging old–fashioned Western tale of loyalty, family and romance set against an age–old feud between…
- Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…
- Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…
- Miracle Rider, The (1935)
- Dir. B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer
Feat. Tom Mix, Joan Gale, Charles Middleton
- Fifteen–part serial Western stars former silent star Tom Mix in a highly energetic role as a Texas Ranger who must protect a group of native…
- Phantom Empire, The (1935)
- Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
- Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
- Cimarron (1931)
- Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
- Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…
- Range Feud, The (1931)
- Dir. D.Ross Lederman
Feat. John Wayne, Buck Jones
- A better than B–Western with a young, gangly John Wayne as a ten–galloned Romeo framed for murder while entangled in a feud with his…
- Big Trail, The (1930)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel…
- The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.
- Iron Horse, The (1924)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy
- An early silent western presenting an idealised portrayal of the development of the first American transcontinental railroad. Its romantic,…
- American Civil War
- Robert Powell summarises the four year history of America's most costly conflict.