Major Dundee (1965)
Adventure | War | Western
An obsessive Union officer leads a squad of Rebel prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals into Mexico to hunt down a band of murdering Apaches.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Billy the Kid (2013)
Action | Western
All hell breaks loose when a lone bounty hunter kills a member of an outlaw gang. As the gang seeks bloody revenge they kill, soon to be legendary, Billy the Kid's mother, leaving him to team up with the mysterious bounty hunter to enact vengeance on the outlaws. Soon he'll find his and the bounty hunter's lives are fatefully entwined in this shoot 'em up tale of gun smoke and justice in the old west.
Starring: Christopher Bowman, Cody McCarver, Jerry Chesser, Billy Joe Royal
Director: Christopher Forbes
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
Adventure | Western
A cashbox containing $200,000, that was stolen and hidden in an unmarked grave, is the focus of three men: two criminals and a stranger.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Rada Rassimov, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli
Director: Sergio Leone
For a Few Dollars More / Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Western
Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer, is determined to bring Indio in first…dead or alive! Failing to capture their prey – or eliminate each otheróthe two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death at the hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski
Director: Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars / Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
Western
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw," the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs…and sets in motion a plan to destroy both jobs…and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joseph Egger
Director: Sergio Leone
Love Me Tender (1956)
Western
Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while his brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army. When his brother Vance comes back from the war, he finds that his old girlfriend Cathy has married Clint. The family has to struggle to reach stability with this issue. Vance is involved in a train robbery, while a Confederate soldier, of Federal Government money. There is a conflict of interest, when Vance tries to return the money, against the wishes of some of his fellow Confederates.
Starring: Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Debra Paget, William Campbell, Neville Brand, Mildred Dunnock
Director: Robert D. Webb
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Drama | Thriller | Western
After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel
Director: Delmer Daves
McLintock! (1963)
Comedy | Romance | Western
A cattle baron fights to tame the West and his estranged wife.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills, Jack Kruschen, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
The Long Ride Home (2003)
Western
A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
Starring: Randy Travis, Eric Roberts, Ernest Borgnine, Vaughn Taylor, Paul Tinder
Director: Robert Marcarelli
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3 Godfathers (1948)
Drama | Western
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
Starring: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell
Director: John Ford
Straight to Hell Returns (2010)
Western
Plot: the story of Straight to Hell Returns revolves around a group of hapless bank robbers (Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude) who bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town. They quickly discover that the town is not deserted which doesn't stop a whole long of feasting, singing and overall decadence…followed by a slew of inevitable deaths.
Starring: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Courtney Love
Director: Alex Cox
Trash and Progress (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Western
A rookie journalist has returned to the abandoned frontier of Earth with the dream of writing a career-making story about the descendants of those who were left behind. There she finds a decaying society ruled through fear by a mysterious, ageless despot.
Starring: Maryssa Wanlass, Remi Barron, James Camblin, Lindsay Cookson, Jesse Filipko, Conor Hamill, Daniel Korth
Director: Abraham Dieckman
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The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Drama | Western
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd
Director: Arthur Penn
The Legend of Zorro / The Mask of Zorro 2 (2005)
Action | Adventure | Western
After fighting to help California become the 31st state of the Union, Zorro must live up to the promise he made his wife Elena – to give up his secret identity and live a normal life as Alejandro de la Vega. When he hesitates, it threatens to tear them apart. Now, the same forces that conspired to keep California from becoming part of the United States are plotting to unleash a threat that has been 500 years in the making, a threat that could change the course of history forever. And only Zorro can stop it.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Adrian Alonso
Director: Martin Campbell
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Western
It has been 20 years since Don Diego de la Vega successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Imprisoned for two decades, he now must find a successor to stop Don Rafael Montero–the powerful, former Spanish governor of Alta California who cost de la Vega his freedom, his wife, Esperanza, and his daughter, Elena–who is making plans to purchase California from Mexico's president, General Santa Anna. Alejandro Murieta, a bandit with a troubled past, is transformed by Don Diego into a new Zorro who he hopes will help him foil Montero's schemes once and for all. Tracing the heroic story of these highly-charged relationships, the tale follows the new Zorro as he assumes de la Vega's mantle and enters into a romantic relationship with a woman close to his predecessor's heart…
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher, Tony Amendola
Director: Martin Campbell
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Biography | Western
William Bonney – Billy the Kid – gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him – Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble – into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Starring: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best, Colin Keith-Johnston
Director: Arthur Penn
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Western
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Drama | History | Western
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers…
Starring: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney Grant
Director: Walter Hill
Preparati la bara! / Django, Prepare a Coffin(1968)
Action | Western
A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Starring: Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, José Torres, Pinuccio Ardia
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Dead Man's Burden (2012)
Drama | Western
A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
Starring: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Richard Riehle
Director: Jared Moshe
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