Top Western Movies


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

81. Rio Grande

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Plot: Union officer Kirby Yorke takes on the Apaches, and attempts to mend his own broken family, at an outpost on the Rio Grande.

82. Hombre

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento
Plot: A white boy, raised by Apaches, goes out into the real world and finds a purpose in defending a stagecoach from an ambush by a gang of thugs.

83. Lightnin' Bill Carson

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sam Newfield
Actors: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Rex Lease, Harry Worth

84. The Comancheros

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Elam, Stuart Whitman
Plot: A Texas Ranger must join forces with a gambler he just arrested in order to infiltrated and bring down a deadly gang known as the Comancheros.

85. Nevada Smith

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Suzanne Pleshette, Martin Landau
Plot: Starting off as a naive half-white, half-Indian, a young man will evolve into a hardened killer on the trail of the men who murdered his parents.

86. Pursued

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Plot: An orphaned boy is raised by the Callum family after his own family is brutally murdered. Constantly facing the trauma from this past - he connects with some members of the family, while others shun him.

87. Way Out West

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James W. Horne
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn, James Finlayson
Plot: Two men are looking for a woman to hand her the deed to her dead father's goldmine. Another woman poses as her to get the deed, at which point hilarity ensues.

88. A Man Called Horse

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou

89. The War Wagon

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr.
Plot: Surviving being shot - and imprisoned - a man recently released hatches a plan to get back the gold that was stolen from him. He joins forces with the same man who shot him in order to take down "the War Wagon", a heavily-armored stage coach that houses the gold.

90. Forty Guns

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson

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