- 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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