Grey Owl (1999)
Biography | Drama | Western
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper turned conservationist who claimed to be a Native American.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Nathaniel Arcand, David Fox, Stephanie Cole, Renée Asherson, Graham Greene
Director: Richard Attenborough
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Drama | Romance | Western
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?
Starring: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Heather Graham, Rene Auberjonois
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Cowboy Up / Ring of Fire (2001)
Drama | Romance | Western
Two brothers, One is a bull rider, the other a rodeo bullfighter/stock contractor, clash over the love of barrel racer Celia Jones, while each comes into their own in their respective field in the rodeo world.
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Marcus Thomas, Daryl Hannah, Melinda Dillon, Molly Ringwald
Director: Xavier Koller
Goin' South (1978)
Comedy | Western
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits 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. The two begin to try to form a relationship based on necessity in which they have nothing in common.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Bradford
Director: Jack Nicholson
Alias Jesse James (1959)
Comedy | Western
Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he sends Milford after him with money to buy back the policy. After a masked Jesse robs Milford of the money, Milford's boss heads out with more money. Jesse learns about it and plans to rob him, have Milford dressed as him get killed in the robbery, and then collect the $100,000.
Starring: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott, Jim Davis, Will Wright, Mary Young
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Open Range (2003)
Action | Romance | Western
Boss Spearman, Charley Waite, Mose Harrison and Button freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West, sharing a friendship forged by a steadfast code of honor and living a life unencumbered by civilization. When their wayward herd forces them near the small town of Harmonville, the cowboys encounter a corrupt sheriff and kingpin rancher who govern the territory through fear, tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards an inevitable showdown, as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing. Amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm spirited Sue Barlow, a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna
Director: Kevin Costner
Bronco Billy (1980)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Western
Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show. But the business isn't doing too well: for the past six months he hasn't paid his employees. At a gas station he picks up Antoinette, a stuck-up blonde from a rich family, who was left behind without a penny by her husband on their wedding night. Billy likes her looks and hires her as his assistant. She seems to bring them bad luck and the business gets even worse. In these hard times she loses her reluctance and starts to like her new way of life… and Bronco Billy.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Sam Bottoms
Director: Clint Eastwood
Slow West (2015)
Action | Thriller | Western
A 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Caren Pistorius, Ben Mendelsohn, Jeffrey Thomas, Hayden Frost
Director: John Maclean
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Nevada Smith (1966)
Western
Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated by their hostility toward the mixed nature of the marriage, since the wife is a Native American. Swearing revenge, the young cowhand enlists the help of itinerant gunsmith Jonas Cord, who teaches him how to shoot while counseling against revenge. Nonetheless, Sand doggedly scours one town after the other.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone
Director: Henry Hathaway
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Western
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin
Director: Clint Eastwood
American Outlaws / Jesse James (2001)
Action | Western
When a corrupt baron forces homesteaders off their land to build a rail line, Jesse James and Cole Younger take the law into their own hands and embark on a spree of bank robberies and vandalism aimed at paralyzing the railroad. But they'll have to elude the pursuit of legendary detective Allan Pinkerton, who's been hired by the railroad to bring the boys to justice.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ali Larter, Scott Caan, Gabriel Macht, Kathy Bates, Gregory Smith
Director: Les Mayfield
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Action | Adventure | Western
A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen
Director: Richard Brooks
Bandidas (2006)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Western
Determined to avenge the deaths of their fathers, Sara Sandoval and María Alvarez vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber baron Tyler Jackson. So, with help from a retired bank robber and a jittery criminologist, these two beauties become unlikely outlaws, blazing a trail of larceny and laughter across Mexico.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Denis Arndt, Sam Shepard
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Big Muddy (2014)
Crime | Drama | Western
An outlaw tale played out as a modern day murder ballad, Big Muddy follows grifter Martha Barlow who must come to terms with her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime. On the run to survive, she must dodge her sociopathic revenge-seeking former flame, and attempt to reconcile with her son s dangerous and long forgotten father in order to protect her estranged family.
Starring: Nadia Litz, Justin Kelly, David La Haye, Stephen McHattie, James Le Gros, Rossif Sutherland
Director: Jefferson Moneo
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The Salvation (2014)
Drama | Western
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Douglas Henshall
Director: Kristian Levring
The Timber (2015)
Adventure | Drama | Western
In the wild west, two brothers embark on a journey to collect a bounty in a desperate attempt to save their home: but what they find along the way is more than they bargained for.
Starring: James Ransone, Josh Peck
Director: Anthony O'Brien
Old Yeller (1957)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Western
Set amidst the landscape of 1860s Texas – a young boy named Travis (Tommy Kirk) wants nothing to do with the lop-eared stray. But Old Yeller quickly proves himself a loyal friend, protecting the family farm and saving Travis' life.
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Jeff York, Chuck Connors, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
Director: Robert Stevenson
September Dawn (2007)
Drama | History | Western
Based on the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre – the brutal murder of 120 men, women and children on September 11, 1857, as their wagon train passed through Utah on its way to California.
Starring: Jon Voight, Terence Stamp, Dean Cain, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Jon Gries
Director: Christopher Cain
Red River (1948)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Western
Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey
Narrator: Walter Brennan
Director: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
The Retrieval / September Morning (2013)
Drama | History | Western
On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
Starring: Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr., Christine Horn
Director: Chris Eska
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