Westerns movies

Long Shadows (2025)

Western film, thriller film

Fools' Parade (1971)

Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy drama, drama film

In 1935, the one-eyed murderer, Mattie Appleyard, who refers to his obviously unmatched glass eye with the persona, "Tighe", bank robber Lee Cottrill, and a young convict named Johnny Jesus are released on the same day from the West Virgin…

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Lightning Jack (1994)

Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film

Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American west, lives with his horse, Mate. After the rest of his gang is killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, Jack survives only to read of the events in the newspaper that he was not…

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Man of the West (1958)

Action, Romance Film, Western, Western film

Link Jones rides into Crosscut, Texas to have a bite to eat, then catch a train to Fort Worth, where he intends to use the savings of his community of Good Hope to hire a schoolteacher. On the train platform Sam Beasley speaks briefly with…

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Junior Bonner (1972)

Drama, Western, Western film, drama film

Junior "JR" Bonner is a rodeo cowboy who is slightly past his prime, although he will not admit it. Junior is first seen taping up his injuries after an unsuccessful ride on an ornery bull named Sunshine. He returns home to Prescott for th…

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Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, Western film

In late 19th century Mexico, Federales capture Quintero (Fernando Rey), a revolutionary who attempts to rally those opposing the dictatorship of President Díaz. Before going to prison, Quintero gives his lieutenant, Maximiliano O'Leary (Re…

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Ulzana's Raid (1972)

Western, Western film, war film

1885, Arizona. Following mistreatment by Indian agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small Chiricahua war party. When news reaches Fort Lowell, the commanding officer sends riders out to alert t…

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Bite the Bullet (1975)

Action, Adventure, Western, Western film

Based on actual events of the early twentieth century, the story concerns a grueling cross-country horse race in 1906, with a winner-take-all prize of $2,000 ($ today), and the way it affects the lives of its various participants. The fift…

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Distant Drums (1951)

Western, Western film, war film

thumb|right|Mari Aldon and Richard Webb at the Castillo de San Marcos for the film's premiere. During the Second Seminole War in 1840, American general Zachary Taylor sends naval lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island h…

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Outlaw Posse (2024)

Western film

Valdez Is Coming (1971)

Western, Western film

Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent African-American man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accuse…

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The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Drama, Western, drama film

A family of moonshiners living in the Ozarks have a reckoning regarding their family curse. Twenty-five years before, a young mother dies in childbirth, having been apparently abandoned by the baby's father. The surviving baby, "Young Matt…

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)

Satire, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film

The story begins in 1885 with the arrival of an important new guest star in Buffalo Bill Cody's grand illusion, Chief Sitting Bull of Little Big Horn fame. Much to Cody's annoyance, Sitting Bull proves not to be a murdering savage but a ge…

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Broken Lance (1954)

Western, Western film, drama film

Matthew Devereaux is a ranch owner who has built an enormous ranch and mining empire. He raised his sons to carry on his fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he has never s…

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BloodRayne II - Deliverance (2007)

Vampirfilm, Western, action film, horror film, vampire film

Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.Destructoi…

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O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Christmas film, Drama, Western film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film

Prologue A prologue presented by narrator John Steinbeck introduces biographic background on O. Henry and mentions several of his other stories not included, notably the story of reformed safecracker Jimmy Valentine in A Retrieved Reformat…

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Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

Western, Western film

A gang of outlaws led by Blind Dick (Harry Dean Stanton) stop a stagecoach, kill the guard and rob the occupants. Another trio of cowboys, Vern (Cameron Mitchell), Wes (Jack Nicholson) and Otis (Tom Filer), unknowingly come upon the gang's…

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The Tall T (1957)

Thriller, Western, Western film

Passing a stagecoach way station on his journey into town, Pat Brennan agrees to return with some store-bought candy for the friendly station manager's young son. At a ranch where he once worked, Brennan tries to buy a bull, but is talked …

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Firecreek (1968)

Western, Western film

After years of backing away from criminals and gunfights, one resident of the small western town of Firecreek decides to fight back. Part-time sheriff Johnny Cobb decides to avenge the death of a young man against gunmen led by Bob Larkin.…

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The Hi-Lo Country (1999)

Late Western, drama film

Pete Calder sets out one morning, reflecting on his intention to kill someone. As he drives, he thinks back on what led him to this point. When he was young growing up in the Hi-Lo, New Mexico, Pete met and befriended Big Boy Matson, a cow…

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The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film

In 1867, John O'Hanlan (Stewart) and his dear friend and partner of 10 years, Harley Sullivan (Fonda), are aging cowboys working on open cattle ranges in Texas. John receives a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, stating his rece…

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Surrounded (2023)

Drama, Western, Western film, drama film

Five years after the Civil War, freedwoman and former Buffalo Soldier Moses "Mo" Washington travels west to lay claim to a gold mine disguised as a man after her stagecoach is ambushed by a group of murderous thieves. Mo is forced to hold …

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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)

Adventure, Western, drama film

During the French and Indian War, Alice and Cora, the two daughters of Colonel Munro, set out from Albany to join their father at his wilderness fort. They are escorted by Major Duncan Heyward, who has loved Alice for a long time, and the …

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Posse (1993)

Western, action film, drama film

In 1898, convicted prisoner Buffalo Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment, led by Jesse Lee (Mario Van Peebles), are conscripted to fight in the Spanish–American War in Cuba. As the segregated African-American unit is barely …

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