Top Western Movies


The Top Western Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Western List". Lists are calculated daily.

51. Hud

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde
Plot: A selfish, amoral young rancher clashes with his stern father, young admiring nephew, and hard-bitten housekeeper.

52. The Far Country

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan
Plot: The gold rush means big plans for Jeff Webster who sees a fortune in the beef business. He starts a cattle drive, come hell or high water - where he finds himself up against a crooked lawman before finding himself in the gold business himself.

53. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel
Plot: Lawman Pat Garrett pursues his friend, Billy the Kid, whose life has diverged from the former's after years of camaraderie.

54. Union Pacific

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Brian Donlevy, Anthony Quinn, Joel McCrea
Plot: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

55. Destry Rides Again

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger
Plot: A crooked cattle boss partners with a likewise crooked mayor to take down the town sheriff and put a stranglehold on the locals. Appointing the town drunk as the new sheriff, they don't realize he has a connection to legendary lawman Tom Destry - and he invites Tom Destry, Jr. to town to clean up the mess.

56. The Proposition

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hillcoat
Actors: Guy Pearce, Noah Taylor, Ray Winstone, Richard Wilson
Plot: Taking place in the old west of Australia, a man's brother has 9 days to kill another man or his brother will be killed.

57. El Dorado

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Asner
Plot: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

58. Companeros ( Vamos a matar, compañeros )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Actors: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey
Plot: An arms dealer plans to make a big score - but the money he needs is locked in a safe with only Professor Xantos - currently a prisoner - knowing the combination. He agrees to help the professor escape but one of her former partner's has his own plans to get his hands on the money.

59. Friendly Persuasion

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Robert Middleton
Plot: In 1862 a Quaker family must reconcile their religion's opposition to violence and war with the advance of the Civil War that will force them to act.

60. Dead Man

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, John Hurt
Plot: A timid murdering accountant is on the run into the west when he teams up with a man named Nobody to help him along his way.

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