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- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The third and best-known film in Sergio Leone’s imperious “Dollars” trilogy, this superb spaghetti western is arguably the most famous on-screen depiction of the violent, opportunistic American West – despite being filmed in Spain and Italy rather than the States.
- Django (1966) It’s best-known now for lending its name to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, but Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western is iconic in its own right, spawning over 30 unofficial sequels.
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) One of John Ford’s many classic westerns, albeit with a far more claustrophobic feel than his sweeping outdoor epics, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance features an all-star cast led by James Stewart and John Wayne.
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (a solid fixture in our best western movies list, unsurprisingly), this is one of the earliest “revisionist” westerns: films that attempted to portray the Old West in a far more realistic, less clear-cut way than the more simplistic good guy/bad guy movies churned out in the past.
The movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their true greatness from a directing/writing standpoint. To me, accuracy when making a Top 10/Top 100 all time list is extremely important.
1 day ago · Welcome to Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 100 best-reviewed Western movies of all time, sorted by Adjusted Tomatometer with at least 20 reviews for each selection. Additionally, we picked only...
May 1, 2020 · In her first full-length feature, Anna Kerrigan’s Cowboys is a contemporary Western that follows a father and his transgender son who are on the run in rural western Montana. It’s a kidnapping situation first disguised as a bonding expedition.
- Andrew Stover
- Doc Holliday
- Sheriff Bullock
- The Man with No Name
- Django
- The Lady
- The Gunslinger
- Ethan Edwards
- Frank
- Hannie Caulder
- Woody
While the focus of the wildly popular Tombstone is certainly the Earp brothers and their participation in the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, it's Wyatt's closest friend that steals the spotlight in his silk paisley waistcoat, with his mother of pearl pistols and his rakish laissez-faire approach to frontier violence. He presents a specific s...
Luckily, the good people at HBO saw fit to bless Western fans with a Deadwood movie so that the quiet fury of Sheriff Bullock could rumble like a thunderstorm rolling across a prairie. As the sheriff-turned-carpenter-turned sheriff again, Bullock struggles to balance his yearning for a quiet life with his insatiable quest for justice in a boomtown ...
In Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, one of the most celebrated collections of Western movies ever made, the Man with No Name emerged as an almost mythical figure in Western cinema, a monosyllabic mercenary making his way on the frontier by taking the bloodiest jobs he could and using his wits to achieve the biggest payouts. Clint Eastwood made a nam...
From being a slave separated from his wife to becoming a formidable gunman striking fear in the hearts of slave owners all across the South, Django's trajectory as a tragic and heroic figure is both poignant and operatic. The scale of his quest is only rivaled by legends like Perseus and Odysseus, which gives his trials a mythological quality perfe...
Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead is full of swaggering cowboys looking to make a name for themselves, but one of them in particular fills out a duster and a gunbelt a little differently. Known simply as Ellen or "The Lady", she enters into a quick-draw competition in the hopes of getting close enough to kill the man who murdered her father. RELAT...
Westworld is a fascinating amalgamation of futurism, science fiction, horror, and Western nostalgia all focused on one man's desperate fight for survival in a theme park gone wild. Based on Michael Crichton's book of the same name (and the inspiration for both Jurassic Park and a later Westworld television series), the movie explores what happens w...
When his family gets attacked and his niece kidnapped, Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards mounts of a rescue mission to get her back. Filled with explosive gunfights, staggering scenery, and commanding performances, The Searchers is one of John Ford's Western masterpieces and a sterling example of the genre. The movie is propelled by John Wayne in one...
Few cinematic villains have had an introduction like Frank, the pale-eyed devil who emerges from the dust after blowing a boy's entire family away. Like Darth Vader striding through a smoke-filled corridor in Star Wars, he is the enigmatic Man in Black rising from the rubble of combat, callous to the chaos he has caused. RELATED: 10 Western Masterp...
In the movie that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Raquel Welch plays the title heroine Hannie Caulder who, after being raped and left for dead by her husband's murderers, seeks the help of a bounty hunter to teach her the skills necessary to get her revenge. Caulder isn't particularly gutsy to start, but her timid and awkward personality hi...
Over the last two decades, one cowboy in particular has stuck in the minds of adults and children alike: that lovable, flop-jointed cattle-rustler Woody. The hero of the endearing Toy Story franchise, Woody has been a part of the childhood of two generations at this point, proving that the pursuit of justice can go hand in hand with honoring friend...
Jun 30, 2024 · The history of movie Westerns more or less begins with the end of the Old West itself. We run down the 50 best examples of the genre.
Jan 1, 2023 · While the genre may not be what it was in the early 20th century, Westerns have continued to evolve to remain a notable category in the industry, as seen in the last decade with True Grit, Hell or...
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