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  • The Power of the Dog
    Australia - 2021
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    Montana, 1925. Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until ...
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    United States - 1969
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    Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the smart, savvy leader of The Hole in the Wall Gang, and his sidekick, the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), ranks among the best shooters ...
  • Unforgiven
    United States - 1992
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    Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. ...
  • The Wild Bunch
    United States - 1969
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    A band of brutal outlaws led by the bitter Pike Bishop (William Holden) is decimated when a railroad company ambush led by Pike's old pal Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) ...
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
    Italy - 1968
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    Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the ...
  • Johnny Guitar
    United States - 1954
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    Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a ...
  • The Searchers
    United States - 1956
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    Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward ...
  • Django Unchained
    United States - 2012
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    With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. In the American South, two years before ...
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Italy - 1966
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    First we are introduced to the Ugly, Tuco (Eli Wallach), who leaps through a window after killing the men who were out to get him. Then there is the Bad, Angel Eyes (Lee ...
  • The Magnificent Seven
    United States - 1960
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    John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes ...
  • The Far Country
    United States - 1954
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    One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his ...
  • The Big Country
    United States - 1958
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    In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of the ...
  • Stagecoach
    United States - 1939
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    A stagecoach is set to leave Tonto, New Mexico, for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with a ...
  • True Grit
    United States - 2010
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    Aging marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) is hired by young girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) to find her father's killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). A ranger from ...
  • Shane
    United States - 1953
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    George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at ...
  • 3:10 to Yuma
    United States - 2007
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    In Arizona in the late 1800's, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War ...
  • Rio Bravo
    United States - 1959
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    John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him ...
  • High Noon
    United States - 1952
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    A killer that Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) put away has been let out of the prison and now he and his gang of bad guys are coming to the town of Hadleyville to exact ...
  • Dances with Wolves
    United States - 1990
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    Lt. John Dunbar (Costner) is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but ...
  • Red River
    United States - 1948
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    Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the ...
  • The Professionals
    United States - 1966
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    Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who ...
  • They Died with their Boots On
    United States - 1941
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    The film follows the life of George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from attending West Point, wooing of Elizabeth Bacon (Olivia de Havilland), the American Civil War, and ...
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    United States - 1962
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    Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and ...
  • El Dorado
    United States - 1966
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    Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would mean having to fight an old sheriff friend. Some months later he finds out the lawman is on the ...
  • The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
    United States - 2007
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    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford delves into the private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and ...
  • Wyatt Earp
    United States - 1994
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    Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner) doesn't get to go to war with his brothers, but when by decision of his father Nicholas (Gene Hackman) the rest of his family relocates to ...
  • The Proposition
    Australia - 2005
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    Late-19th century Australia, and Cpt. Stanley (Winstone) has captured the younger two siblings of the notorious Burns brothers. With them in custody he offers middle ...
  • Bend of the River
    United States - 1952
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    Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a ...
  • Tombstone
    United States - 1993
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    The life and times of the famous cowboy outlaw turned town-taming marshall, Wyatt Earp. Story focuses on the build up to the gunfight at the OK Corral, located at the ...
  • Westward the Women
    United States - 1951
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    By 1851, Roy E. Whitman has established a growing ranching community in his California valley. The one thing missing is women for the men to marry, which would enable ...
  • Vera Cruz
    United States - 1954
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    During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
  • Escape From Fort Bravo
    United States - 1953
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    A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business, capable of capturing every escaped convict under his supervision. ...
  • Silverado
    United States - 1985
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    Four cowboys join forces in the Old West to combat injustice in "Silverado", director Lawrence Kasdan's loving ode to the Western. Emmett, a quiet loner, saves Paden from ...
  • Alvarez Kelly
    United States - 1966
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    Suave Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly has little interest in the Civil War except to make some money. But after a long drive to deliver cattle to the Unionists he finds ...
  • Pale Rider
    United States - 1985
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    A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists ...
  • Rango
    United States - 2011
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    Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. Voices from Johnny ...
  • Blackthorn
    Spain - 2011
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    Legend has it notorious American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in Bolivia in 1908. In Blackthorn, Cassidy survived, and is quietly living out his ...
  • Slow West
    United Kingdom - 2015
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    'Slow West' follows a 17-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
  • The Salvation
    Denmark - 2014
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    In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray ...
  • Dead Man
    United States - 1995
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    Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch reaches a new plateau in his career with this poetic anti-Western. DEAD MAN follows William Blake (no, not the famous poet), an ...
  • Open Range
    United States - 2003
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    A group of free grazers, four men trying to escape their past, are driving cattle and living off the land on the open range -- a place where nature makes the only laws. ...
  • Rio Lobo
    United States - 1970
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    After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
  • Hang 'Em High
    United States - 1968
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    A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his ...
  • Destry Rides Again
    United States - 1939
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    Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the ...
  • Day of the Outlaw
    United States - 1959
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    Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is ...
  • Fort Apache
    United States - 1948
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    In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache ...
  • Warlock
    United States - 1959
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    Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like frontier marshal, Fonda agrees to protect the small ...
  • Ride Lonesome
    United States - 1959
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    A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he ...
  • The Gunfighter
    United States - 1950
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    Aging gunslinger, Jimmy Ringo, rides into a strange town where he's immediately recognized. As kids gather at the saloon windows to glimpse the killer and townsfolk ...
  • Winchester '73
    United States - 1950
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    In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to ...
  • Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
    United States - 1973
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    1909. Bushwhackers from the politically corrupt Santa Fe Ring gun down New Mexico rancher Pat Garrett (James Coburn) on his own land. 1881. Pat is a friend to and former ...
  • For a Few Dollars More
    Italy - 1965
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    The film establishes episodes for each of the main characters. There is Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), an aging bounty killer, and the Man With No Name (Clint ...
  • The Hateful Eight
    United States - 2015
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    In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth ...
  • The Shooting
    United States - 1966
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    Probably the first Western which really deserves to be called existential. Ex-bounty hunter Gashade and his young sidekick Coley are persuaded by an unknown woman to lead ...
  • Ride in the Whirlwind
    United States - 1966
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    Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
  • Dodge City
    United States - 1939
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    A Texas cattle agent (Errol Flynn) witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
  • The Man from Laramie
    United States - 1955
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    Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, ...
  • How the West Was Won
    United States - 1962
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    The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by ...
  • Django
    Italy - 1966
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    Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was ...
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    United States - 1949
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    Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
  • My Darling Clementine
    United States - 1946
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    Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don ...
  • A Fistful of Dollars
    Italy - 1964
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    A cigarillo smoking stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel, a town in which rival factions are battling for control: there are those ...
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
    United States - 1943
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    In Nevada in 1885, two worn out cowboys, Gil (Henry Fonda) and Art (Harry Morgan), ride into Darby’s Saloon and Hotel looking for a drink. Shortly after their arrival, ...
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    United States - 1971
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    Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a ...
  • The Shootist
    United States - 1976
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    The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his ...
  • Garden of Evil
    United States - 1954
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    A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.
  • Ride the High Country
    United States - 1962
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    Aging lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) takes a job transporting gold from the Sierra Nevada mining town of Coarsegold, and hires old pal Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) not ...
  • Duel in the Sun
    United States - 1946
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    Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds ...
  • Seven Men from Now
    United States - 1956
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    A former sheriff, haunted by the loss of his wife in a Wells Fargo robbery, hunts for the seven men responsible for her death. Along the way, he assists a couple ...
  • The Tall Men
    United States - 1955
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    Ben Allison and his brother Clint journey to Montana in search of gold. They come upon wealthy businessman Nathan Stark who talks them into becoming partners with him on ...
  • Pursued
    United States - 1947
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    Set in New Mexico around the turn of the century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb (Mitchum) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was a young ...
  • Man of the West
    United States - 1958
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    On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Unforgiven
  • The Wild Bunch
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Johnny Guitar
  • The Searchers
  • Django Unchained
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • The Far Country
  • The Big Country
  • Stagecoach
  • True Grit
  • Shane
  • 3:10 to Yuma
  • Rio Bravo
  • High Noon
  • Dances with Wolves
  • Red River
  • The Professionals
  • They Died with their Boots On
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • El Dorado
  • The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
  • Wyatt Earp
  • The Proposition
  • Bend of the River
  • Tombstone
  • Westward the Women
  • Vera Cruz
  • Escape From Fort Bravo
  • Silverado
  • Alvarez Kelly
  • Pale Rider
  • Rango
  • Blackthorn
  • Slow West
  • The Salvation
  • Dead Man
  • Open Range
  • Rio Lobo
  • Hang 'Em High
  • Destry Rides Again
  • Day of the Outlaw
  • Fort Apache
  • Warlock
  • Ride Lonesome
  • The Gunfighter
  • Winchester '73
  • Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
  • For a Few Dollars More
  • The Hateful Eight
  • The Shooting
  • Ride in the Whirlwind
  • Dodge City
  • The Man from Laramie
  • How the West Was Won
  • Django
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
  • My Darling Clementine
  • A Fistful of Dollars
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • The Shootist
  • Garden of Evil
  • Ride the High Country
  • Duel in the Sun
  • Seven Men from Now
  • The Tall Men
  • Pursued
  • Man of the West
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