List of Western movies

A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood spaghetti western)
A Fistful of Dynamite (James Coburn/Rod Steiger spaghetti western)
All the Pretty Horses, Matt Damon
Annie Get Your Gun
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Bad Girls, Madeline Stowe
The Big Country
Blazing Saddles, The best-known western parody
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, two outlaws on the run)
The Crossfire Trail, Tom Selleck
Dances With Wolves (1990)
The Desperate Trail, Sam Elliott
Destry Rides Again, (1939 pacifist sheriff)
Django, (1966, spaghetti western)
Dodge City (city cleaned up by new sheriff)
El Dorado
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone's story of bounty hunters; sequel to A Fistful of Dollars spaghetti western)
Fort Apache
The Gunfighter
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, in Italian) (1966, Sergio Leone's take on the Old West and the American Civil War; another spaghetti western; second sequel to A Fistful of Dollars
The Great Silence
The Great Train Robbery (1903, not only the first Western ever made, but the first American film that told a sustained story)
Hang 'em high starring Clint Eastwood
Heaven's Gate
High Noon (1952, Gary Cooper, a small town under siege)
High Plains Drifter (1973) Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis
Hud (1963, steamy love between a drifter and a married woman)
The Jack Bull, John Cusack
Jeremiah Johnson, Robert Redford
Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman
The Magnificent Seven (1960, a small town under siege, based on the Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin)
Maverick, Mel Gibson, James Garner, Jodie Foster, James Coburn
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Missing, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett
Monte Walsh, Tom Selleck
My Darling Clementine (1946, the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
My Name is Nobody (spaghetti western)
My Name is Trinity (a drifter and his brother, posing as a sheriff, defending a town against a rapacious cattle baron; spaghetti western)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone's tale of Western revenge; spaghetti western)
Open Range (a "modern" epic Western starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening in a distinctly feminist role.)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, Henry Fonda in a tale of Frontier justice)
The Quick and the Dead, Sam Elliott
The Quick and the Dead, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman
Quigley Down Under, Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman; set in Australia
Red River (1948, John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in a saga of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas)
Ride the High Country
Rio Bravo (1959, John Wayne as a small town's sheriff asking a motley posse to help him keep order in his town; Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson have starring roles)
Rio Lobo
Rooster Cogburn
Ruggles of Red Gap (an English valet takes on the West)
The Sacketts, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott
The Searchers (1956, John Wayne searches for his niece, who was kidnapped by Indians)
Shane
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Silverado, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum, John Cleese, Linda Hunt
Soldier Blue (1970, fictionalized account of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre)
Something Big (1971, comedy about Dean Martin as an aging bandit out to do "something big" before going back East to get married)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford's classic about a motley group of travelers thrown together on a stagecoach attacked by Indians)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Support Your Local Sheriff
3:10 To Yuma
Tombstone, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott
Trinity is Still My Name (two brothers swear to their father that they will become outlaws; spaghetti western)
True Grit (1969, John Wayne)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning movie about Wild West revenge)
Way Out West (Laurel and Hardy comedy)
Westworld (1973, science fiction-western blend starring Yul Brynner as a robot gunfighter)
Wild Wild West, science fiction-western starring Will Smith
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah and the violent West at its end in the early 20th century)
Wyatt Earp, Kevin Costner
Young Guns Emilio Estavez, Keifer Sutherland
Young Guns II Emilio Estavez, Keifer Sutherland, Christian Slater

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