Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore frontier stories and the traditions of the western genre.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,226 films.
Sci-Fi, space Western
Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin, known as Mando, and his foundling Grogu work for the New Republic to hunt down neo-imperialist warlords of the former Galactic Empire. After a successful mission, Mando is tasked by New Republic comman…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime, Dark Comedy, Late Western, Thriller, Western film, action film, adventure film, contemporary Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh is arrested in Texas. He escapes by strangling the sheriff's deputy to death and steals a car by killing the driver with a captive bolt pistol. Later, he spares the life of a gas station owner for correctly ca…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, Western film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, independent film, period drama film, revisionist Western, thriller film
In 1898, Daniel Plainview finds silver while prospecting in New Mexico but breaks his leg. Dragging himself from the pit, he takes a sample to an assay office and receives a silver and gold claim. In 1902, he discovers oil in California.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Dark Comedy, Western, Western film, black comedy film, comedy film, contemporary Western film, crime film, drama film, horror film, satirical film, thriller film
In late May 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ted Garcia, mayor of the small town of Eddington, New Mexico, implements a lockdown and mask mandate based on the governor's orders. Conservative Sevilla County Sheriff Joe Cross publ…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, science fiction film, space opera
thumb|From left to right: Luke, Leia, and Han in a still from Star Wars In a period of galactic civil war, Rebel Alliance spies have stolen blueprints to the Death Star, a colossal space station built by the Galactic Empire that is capable…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Thriller, Western film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
During the winter on the Wind River Indian Reservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Cory Lambert discovers the frozen body of 18-year-old Natalie Hanson of the Northern Arapaho tribe. FBI special agent Jane Banner arrives to inves…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Italo-Western, Western film, action film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, revisionist Western
In 1858 Texas, several male African American slaves are being "driven" by the Speck Brothers, Ace and Dicky. Among the shackled slaves is Django, sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda. The Speck Brothers are stopped by Dr.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, Western, drama film, romance film
In Wyoming in 1963, cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer on grazing pastures on Brokeback Mountain. When they meet in camp for supper and breakfast, the two men graduall…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Adventure, Thriller, Western film, biographical film, drama film, survival film, thriller film
Fur trapper Hugh Glass watches as American soldiers burn down a Native American village on the Great Plains. Years later, in 1823, during the Arikara War, Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's trappers through the territory of the present-da…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Classical Western, Dark Comedy, Italo-Western, War Film
In the American Southwest during the Civil War, a mercenary known as "Angel Eyes" interrogates a former Confederate soldier to learn the alias of a man who stole a stash of Confederate gold. The soldier, Stevens, reveals the man's alias, B…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Western, Western film, biographical film, drama film
In 1879, members of a red sash-wearing outlaw gang called the Cowboys, led by "Curly Bill" Brocius, ride into a Mexican town and interrupt a local police officer's wedding. They massacre the assembled policemen in retribution for killing t…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Western, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, revisionist Western, suspense film, thriller film
In the 1870s, bounty hunter and Union Army veteran cavalryman Major Marquis Warren heads to Red Rock, Wyoming Territory, with three bounty corpses. His horse gives out and, faced with a blizzard, Warren hitches a ride on a stagecoach drive…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Western, Western film, anthology film, black comedy film, drama film
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy clad in white, arrives at an isolated cantina full of outlaws. He exchanges insults with another patron before shooting everyone as they reach for their guns. Buster …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Gangster Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Splatter Film, Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, monster film, splatter film, thriller film, vampire film
At a Texas roadside liquor store, fugitive bank robber Seth Gecko and his deranged brother Richie kill the clerk and a Texas Ranger and destroy the building. Richie nurses a gunshot to his hand as they drive down the highway to a motel and…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Family Saga, Melodrama, Western film, drama film, romance film, war film
Sick of betrayals the US government perpetrated on Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the Army, moving to a remote part of Montana. Along with One Stab, he builds a ranch and raises his family. Accompanying them are hired hand…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Biographical picture, Komödie, Western, Western film, biographical film, buddy film, comedy drama
thumb|Original release trailer of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) In 1898 Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-sho…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Film Noir, Justice Drama, Late Western, Psychodrama, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1880, in the fictional town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy named Quick Mike slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald's face with a knife over an insult, permanently disfiguring her. As punishment, Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett orders Mi…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, contemporary Western film, crime film, drama film, heist film, police procedural film
In West Texas, brothers Toby and Tanner Howard rob two branches of the Texas Midlands Bank. Though the robberies are well-planned, Tanner's wild nature leads him to take unnecessary risks, frustrating Toby. Their mother has died after a lo…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film
In 1878, 14-year-old Mattie Ross travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, after her father is murdered by hired hand Tom Chaney. Sent to collect her father's body, she learns that Chaney has likely fled with "Lucky" Ned Pepper and his gang into In…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Splatter Film, Western, Western film, horror film
In the 1890s, brigands Purvis and Buddy encounter a Native American burial site. They are ambushed, and Buddy is killed while Purvis escapes. Purvis reaches a nearby town, Bright Hope, and buries his loot.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
On the planet Corellia, orphans Han and Qi'ra escape a local gang. They bribe an Imperial officer with stolen coaxium, a starship fuel, for passage on a transport, but Qi'ra is captured before she can board. Han vows to return for her and …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Classical Western, Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western, Western film, action film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, melodrama
A train arrives at the Old West town of Flagstone where a man with a harmonica (later dubbed "Harmonica") kills three men attempting to ambush him. Although Harmonica was expecting an outlaw named Frank, he concludes the men belonged to th…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Destiny, Melodrama, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film, war film, white savior film
In 1863, 1st Lieutenant John J. Dunbar, serving with the Union army, is wounded in a stalemated battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution