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Best Western Movies

Frontier stories, gunfights, and codes of honor.


These western films are ranked by IMDb score — the ones that audiences worldwide have voted, re-watched, and argued over the most. Refine by year or cross-reference with another genre. The list begins with the best.
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  1. 01.
    Django Unchained

    Django Unchained

    2012·Dir. Quentin Tarantino·165 min·8.5

    With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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  2. 02.
    No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    2007·Dir. Joel Coen·122 min·8.2

    Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

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  3. 03.
    Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

    1992·Dir. Clint Eastwood·130 min·8.2

    William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

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  4. 04.
    Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves

    1990·Dir. Kevin Costner·181 min·8.0

    Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

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  5. 05.
    The Revenant

    The Revenant

    2015·Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu·157 min·8.0

    In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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  6. 06.
    The Hateful Eight

    The Hateful Eight

    2015·Dir. Quentin Tarantino·188 min·7.8

    Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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  7. 07.
    Tombstone

    Tombstone

    1993·Dir. George P. Cosmatos·130 min·7.8

    Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

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  8. 08.
    The Outlaw Josey Wales

    The Outlaw Josey Wales

    1976·Dir. Clint Eastwood·135 min·7.8

    After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

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  9. 09.
    El Infierno

    El Infierno

    2010·Dir. Luis Estrada·148 min·7.7

    After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

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  10. 10.
    Blazing Saddles

    Blazing Saddles

    1974·Dir. Mel Brooks·93 min·7.7

    A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

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    Jeremiah Johnson

    Jeremiah Johnson

    1972·Dir. Sydney Pollack·108 min·7.6

    A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

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  12. 12.
    True Grit

    True Grit

    2010·Dir. Joel Coen·110 min·7.6

    Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

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  13. 13.
    Hell or High Water

    Hell or High Water

    2016·Dir. David Mackenzie·102 min·7.6

    A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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