Movies Westerns about hired killers

List of the best Western films about hired killers, selected by visitors to our site: The Hateful Eight, Hombre, No Name on the Bullet, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Day of the Outlaw, 3:10 to Yuma, The Gunfighter, Django Unchained, High Plains Drifter, Two Mules for Sister Sara.

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: 7.4
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: 7.2
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: 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: 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: 7.6
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: 7.7
Genrewestern
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

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

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: 7.5
    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
    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: 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: 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: 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: 7.6
    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: 7.3
    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: 7.5
    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: 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: 7.7
    Genreaction, adventure, western
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:08

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

    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
    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: 7.6
    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: 7.7
    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: 7.9
    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: 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: 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: 7.2

    A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, western, history
    CountrySweden
    Duration03:24

    A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryItaly, Spain, West Germany
    Duration02:10

    Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly, Spain

    Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly

    Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, western
    CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
    Duration01:52

    An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his fellows.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration01:45

    A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, western, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:05

    The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
    CountryRussia, Soviet Union

    Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

    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: 4.5
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:56

    Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, western
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:47

    A bounty hunter named Atticus Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

      Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, western
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:41

      Catlow is a 1971 western based on a story by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a outlaw determined to pull off a gold robbery and co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.




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