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1. True Grit (2010)
directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
featuring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's ... More
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2. Big Jake (1971)
directed by George Sherman
featuring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum
When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver ... More
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3. Comanche Moon (2008)
directed by Simon Wincer
featuring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Elizabeth Banks
This epic western starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, and Rachel Griffiths was adapted from Larry McMurtry's sprawling novel of the ... More
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4. The Sacketts (1979)
directed by Robert J. Totten
The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers and The Sacketts. In this ... More
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5. Open Range (2003)
directed by Kevin Costner
featuring Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter
Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and ... More
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6. Rio Lobo (1970)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum
John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate ... More
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7. Westward the Women (1951)
directed by William Wellman
featuring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Henry Nakamura, Julie Bishop
Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and handed the reigns instead ... More
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8. The Train Robbers (1973)
directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George
The action never stops in this western, which has a surprise ending. Ann-Margret stars as Mrs. Lowe, a widow who wishes to recover some gold stolen ... More
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9. Stagecoach (1939)
directed by John Ford
featuring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine
Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director John Ford combined action, ... More
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10. Seven Men from Now (1956)
directed by Budd Boetticher
featuring Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch
Ben Stride (Randolph Scott, in a role originally slated for John Wayne) trudges stoically through the West, hunting down the seven men responsible ... More
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11. The Quick and the Dead (1987)
directed by Robert Day
featuring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison, Matt Clark
Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this made-for-HBO western stars Sam Elliott, an enigmatic gunslinger who comes to the aid of a family traveling ... More
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12. The Shadow Riders (1982)
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis
In this made-for-TV movie, two brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War return home at the end of the war to discover that their ... More
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13. The Rare Breed (1966)
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, Jack Elam
Andrew V. McLaglen directs the Western drama The Rare Breed, based on the real-life introduction of English Hereford cattle to the American West in ... More
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14. The Lone Ranger (1956)
directed by Stuart Heisler
featuring Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger, Bonita Granville, Perry Lopez
The Lone Ranger was the first of two Technicolor theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name. Clayton Moore and Jay ... More
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15. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
directed by Yves Simoneau
Author Larry McMurtry revisits Gus and Woodrow, the aging lawmen from his bestselling Western novel Lonesome Dove, in their early days as young men ... More
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16. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland
Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most ... More
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17. Appaloosa (2008)
directed by Ed Harris
featuring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen
Upon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish ... More
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18. My Darling Clementine (1946)
directed by John Ford
featuring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Walter Brennan, Cathy Downs, Ward Bond
One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt Earp legend, but it is ... More
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19. The Three Godfathers (1948)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh
John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men (1919) with his mentor Harry ... More
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20. Streets of Laredo (1995)
directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring James Garner, Alexis Cruz, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek
This miniseries follows the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and both are based on the characters created by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry ... More
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21. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a simplistic retelling of the ... More
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22. Pale Rider (1985)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart
A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this Western, which was strongly influenced by the George ... More
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23. Rage at Dawn (1955)
directed by Tim Whelan, Sr.
featuring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, Edgar Buchanan
Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns. Based on the exploits of ... More
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24. The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
directed by Lesley Selander
featuring Douglas Kennedy, Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Charles Watts, Noreen Nash, Lisa Montell
This second theatrical-feature spin-off of TV's Lone Ranger series stars, as ever, Clayton Moore as the Masked Rider of the Plains and Jay ... More
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25. The Wonderful Country (1959)
directed by Robert Parrish
featuring Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Oakie
Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the realistic adventures of ... More
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