American Western movies

List of the best American Western movies selected by visitors to our site: The Hateful Eight, Winchester '73, Django Unchained, 3:10 to Yuma, Last Train from Gun Hill, The Gunfighter, Two Mules for Sister Sara, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tombstone, The Big Country.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

    With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Dave Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, western
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:56

    Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, western, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:50

    In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:45

    Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:14

    Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies - a disgraced drunk and a cantankerous old cripple - must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, adventure, western
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:08

    An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, western
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:48

    A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA, Germany, Japan
    Duration02:01

    On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration02:18

    At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:17

    When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genredrama, western
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:58

    This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA

    A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.

    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA

    Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA

    The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA

    A woman and her group of selfless thieves rob a pharmacy and hit the road to distribute medication, but find themselves trapped in the fringe lands of a law-less psychedelic city.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genredrama, western, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, western, history
    CountryUSA

    Spanning the years 1865 to 1890, The American West, will show how -- in the aftermath of the Civil War -- the United States transforms into the “land of opportunity.” Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and law men. The 8-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. The series features exclusive interviews with notable names from classic Western films, including Robert Redford, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Harmon, Ed Harris and more.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:46

    The year is 1879. Gunfighters from the far reaches of the globe descend on Religion, AZ to compete in a legendary poker tournament. Drawn by the gold prize, the players come to realize that in this game, their very souls are at stake.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

    Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA

    The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn, a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sordid life his estranged daughter is forced to live. To save her, he must summon the inner demons he purged long ago, and finds that redemption is a hard road to travel.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, western, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Lawmen, drifters, and hired guns converge at a Northern California ranch believing its Chinese owners possess stolen gold. When two drifters hear rumors that a Chinese railroad worker has escaped with gold and now owns a remote ranch in the wilds of Northern California, the desperate men set a plan in motion to steal the gold for themselves. Saul, the youngest of the drifters, hopes to win the affections of Zhen and his beautiful wife, Kun Hua. Saul hires on as a farmhand, while his partner Bill lurks in the shadows and waits for the opportunity to strike. However, waves of worse men arrive seeking the stolen fortune, setting in motion a deadly multi-sided face-off of bluffs, gambles, and betrayals. Heathens & Thieves is a western crime drama set in an American era when the riches associated with the 1849 Gold Rush, the fallout of the Civil War, and the impact of Chinese immigration were fresh in people's minds.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, family, western, cartoon, detective
    CountryUSA

    When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Dan, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s discovered that the ghost is also the long lost relative of Shaggy Rogers!

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A young man seeking a father he has never met, through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve in the fictitious town of El Camino, NV.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, western, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    New Mexico Territory, 1880. Rio Cutler and his older sister Sara must abandon their home after an unfortunate event happens. In their desperate flee to Santa Fe, they cross paths with the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang, who are ruthlessly pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garret.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA

    Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.




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