Top 10 Best Western Movies
12/06/2012
Cowboys, stage coaches, gunfighters, saloons...it's hard to imagine anything more American than the trappings of Westerns, yet many of the most memorable movies of the genre — most famously Italian director Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns" — were actually shot in Europe with mostly European casts and crews. Whatever the origin of the movie or the nationality of the director behind the camera, a good Western is one that transports us back to a wild, dangerous time, to a place where the people are nearly as harsh as the landscape and there were still amazing discoveries to be made by those with an adventurous spirit. Help us choose those movies that deserve to be called Westerns, those with true grit.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) -
Unforgiven (1992) -
The Searchers (1956) -
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) -
True Grit (2010) -
Tombstone (1993) -
Pale Rider (1985) -
The Wild Bunch (1969) -
High Noon (1952) -
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) - Honorable Mention
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3:10 to Yuma (2007) -
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) -
For a Few Dollars More (1965) -
The Magnificent Seven (1960) -
Dances With Wolves (1990) -
Django Unchained (2012) -
Shane (1953) -
True Grit (1969) -
Rio Bravo (1959) -
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) -
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) -
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) -
High Plains Drifter (1973) -
Red River (1948) -
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) -
Stagecoach (1939) -
Blazing Saddles (1974) -
Young Guns (1988) -
Silverado (1985) -
Cowboys and Aliens (2011) -
Giant (1956) -
Legends of the Fall (1994) -
Brokeback Mountain (2005) -
Hondo (1953)John Wayne -
The Ox Bow Incident (1943) -
Major Dundee (1965) -
Appaloosa (2008) -
Jonah Hex (2010) -
The Long Riders (1980) -
Serenity (2005) -
The Professionals (1966) -
Hombre (1967) -
The Great Silence (1968)Silence, a mute gunfighter with a grudge against bounty hunters, assisting a group of outlawed Mormons and a woman trying to avenge her husband (one of the outlaws). They are set against a group of ruthless bounty hunters, led by Loco -
The Big Country (1958) -
Open Range (2003) -
Young Guns II (1990) -
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) -
Navajo Joe (1966) -
Far and Away (1992)Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893. -
Winchester '73 (1950)
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