Top Western Movies


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

111. The Big Sky

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Hank Worden
Plot: Jim Deakins - frontiersman and Indian trader - is on a journey up the Missouri River with a group of men, looking to trade with the friendly Blackfoot tribe for a large amount of furs. Yet the trip takes them through hostile territory and the men have underestimated the challenges. As the group is slowly taken out - soon only Deakins and a handful of men are there to finish the journey.

112. The Harder They Fall

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeymes Samuel
Actors: Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo
Plot: A prison break leads to freedom for notorious outlaw Rufus Buck as he is reunited with his dangerous crew. On the other side, Nat Love, who has reason for revenge against the outlaw, assembles his own crew to take on these deadly adversaries.

113. The Westerner

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker, Lilian Bond
Plot: The wily Cole Harden bonds with Judge Roy Bean over a popular actress... and temporarily avoids a hanging. In the meantime, Harden finds himself embroiled in a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders

114. Appaloosa

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ed Harris
Actors: Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons, Timothy V. Murphy, Boyd Kestner, Viggo Mortensen, James Gammon
Plot: Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa to deal with Randall Bragg, a rancher with money and power who has run of the town. Things are complicated by the arrival of Allison French, a refined widow who threatens to divide the two men.

115. Garden of Evil

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Rita Moreno, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell

116. Ride Lonesome

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Budd Boetticher
Actors: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best, Lee Van Cleef, James Coburn

117. The Great K & A Train Robbery

Year of Release: 1926
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Plot: In order to bring down a gang of train robbers, a man poses undercover as a highwayman and brings the men down from the inside, along with the help of a hobo.

118. Vera Cruz

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Denise Darcel

119. Warlock

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, DeForest Kelley

120. Last of the Dogmen

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tab Murphy
Actors: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis, Andrew Miller, Gregory Scott Cummins

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