Top 100 Western Movies List

#100 Western Movie

Goin' South (1978) PG

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. Julia Tate needs a man to help her work her mine and marries him. The sheriff makes it very clear to Moon what the consequences of his leaving Julia will be.

Director:

Jack Nicholson

Writers:

John Herman Shaner, Al Ramrus

Stars:

Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd

#99 Western Movie

The Shooting (1966) G

A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme.

Director:

Monte Hellman

Writers:

Carole Eastman

Stars:

Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Will Hutchins

#98 Western Movie

Dead Man (1995) R

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Writers:

Jim Jarmusch

Stars:

Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover

#97 Western Movie

Slow West (2015) R

A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide.

Director:

John Maclean

Writers:

John Maclean

Stars:

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn

#96 Western Movie

Hondo (1953) PG

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

Director:

John Farrow

Writers:

James Edward Grant, Louis L'Amour

Stars:

John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond

#95 Western Movie

Ride with the Devil (1999) R

Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Jack Bull's dad is killed by Union soldiers, so the young men join the Bushwhackers. Daniel Holt, beholden to the man who bought his freedom. They skirmish then spend long hours hiding. Sue Lee, a young widow, brings them food. She and Jack Bull become lovers, Jake escorts her south to a safe farm.

Director:

Ang Lee

Writers:

Daniel Woodrell, James Schamus

Stars:

Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel Kilcher

#94 Western Movie

The Comancheros (1961)

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Director:

Michael Curtiz, John Wayne

Writers:

James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker

Stars:

John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin

#93 Western Movie

The Missouri Breaks (1976) PG

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Director:

Arthur Penn

Writers:

Thomas McGuane

Stars:

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid

#92 Western Movie

Appaloosa (2008) R

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Director:

Ed Harris

Writers:

Robert Knott, Ed Harris

Stars:

Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger

#91 Western Movie

Junior Bonner (1972) PG

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

Director:

Sam Peckinpah

Writers:

Jeb Rosebrook

Stars:

Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino

#90 Western Movie

The Great Train Robbery (1979) PG

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

Director:

Michael Crichton

Writers:

Michael Crichton

Stars:

Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down

#89 Western Movie

American Outlaws (2001) PG-13

When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta, they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West.

Director:

Les Mayfield

Writers:

Roderick Taylor

Stars:

Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter

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#88 Western Movie

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) G

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Director:

Burt Kennedy

Writers:

James Edward Grant

Stars:

James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam

#87 Western Movie

Bend of the River (1952)

When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

Director:

Anthony Mann

Writers:

Borden Chase, William Gulick

Stars:

James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy

#86 Western Movie

3 Godfathers (1948)

When 3 outlaws on the run find a dying woman and her newborn baby in the desert they vow to save the child.

Director:

John Ford

Writers:

Laurence Stallings, Frank S. Nugent

Stars:

John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.

#85 Western Movie

Chisum (1970) G

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Director:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Writers:

Andrew J. Fenady

Stars:

John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George

#84 Western Movie

Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) G

In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.

Director:

Burt Kennedy

Writers:

William Bowers

Stars:

James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan

#83 Western Movie

A Man Called Horse (1970) R

In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by American Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.

Director:

Elliot Silverstein

Writers:

Jack DeWitt, Dorothy M. Johnson

Stars:

Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon

#82 Western Movie

Bad Company (1972)

A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in Jefferson City where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.

Director:

Robert Benton

Writers:

David Newman, Robert Benton

Stars:

Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis

#81 Western Movie

Rooster Cogburn (1975) PG

Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down the killers of her father.

Director:

Stuart Millar

Writers:

Charles Portis, Martha Hyer

Stars:

John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe

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