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Films with the genre "Western", sorted by revenue
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¡Three Amigos! (1986)
, 1h38Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about television
Actors Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Joe Mantegna, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman
In 1916, the notorious bandit El Guapo (Alfonso Arau) and his gang of thugs are collecting protection money from the small Mexican village of Santo Poco. Carmen (Patrice Martinez), daughter of the village leader, searches for someone who can come to the rescue of her townspeople. While visiting a small village church, she watches a silent film featuring "The Three Amigos" and, believing them to be real heroes, sends a telegram to Hollywood asking them to come and stop El Guapo. However, the telegraph operator edits her message since she has very little money to pay for it.
, 2h41Directed by Sergio Leone
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Adventure, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Political films, Buddy films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Millie Bobby Brown, Mario Brega, Gaten Matarazzo
In a desolate Western ghost town during the American Civil War, Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez ("The Ugly") narrowly escapes three bounty hunters, killing two and wounding a third, Elam.
The Missing (2003)
, 2h17Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Eckhart, Jenna Boyd, Val Kilmer
In late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie Gilkeson. She is unable to forgive him for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death. This situation changes when Pesh-Chidin and a dozen of his followers (who have left the reservation) pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into slavery in Mexico. Among those captured is Maggie's eldest daughter, Lilly. Maggie's rancher boyfriend Brake Baldwin was among the settlers killed.
True Grit (1969)
, 2h8Directed by Henry Hathaway, Marguerite Roberts, Hal B. Wallis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey, Jeremy Slate
Frank Ross (John Pickard) is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross' daughter, Mattie (Kim Darby), hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn (John Wayne) to bring Chaney in. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has "true grit". She gives him a down payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Hell or High Water (2016)
Directed by David Mackenzie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey, Kevin Rankin
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother plan a bank robbery to save their family's West Texas farm from foreclosure, while two Texas Rangers are set to catch both brothers.
Hell or High Water (2016)
, 1h42Directed by David Mackenzie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey
Après la mort de leur mère, Toby et Tanner Howard doivent éviter la saisie de leur propriété familiale. Ils décident alors de commettre une série de braquages, visant uniquement les agences d’une même banque : celle qu'ils doivent rembourser.
Hostiles (2017)
, 2h14Directed by Scott Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons
En 1892, le capitaine Joseph J. Blocker, légende de l'armée américaine, est chargé d'une mission qu'il accepte à contrecœur. Avec ses hommes, il doit escorter Yellow Hawk, un chef de guerre cheyenne mourant, ainsi que sa famille, pour retourner sur leurs terres tribales. Durant le voyage entre le Nouveau-Mexique et le Montana, les militaires et les Cheyennes vont devoir faire preuve de solidarité et d'entraide pour survivre aux dangers qu'ils vont croiser.
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
, 1h40Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan, Slim Pickens
Set during the California Gold Rush, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) arrives to town and finds himself duped into taking care of a trio of orphans with the town's sheriff, barber, Justice of the Peace, and judge Homer McCoy (Harry Morgan) telling him that he is legally obligated unless he can have someone else take custody of the children. By chance, the Bradley children end up finding gold with everyone in the town attempting to adopt the children from Donovan. Fearing they would not have the children's intentions in heart, he arranged a marriage with the stagecoach driver Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark) so they can keep custody of the Bradley children. However, things become complicated when their legal guardian returns. At the same time, a pair of bumbling holdup men named Amos Tucker (Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts) attempt to steal the Bradleys' gold before their former boss Frank Stillwell (Slim Pickens) kidnap the children while stealing the gold. But it ends with the gold nugget blown to bits, Stillwell arrested, and Donovan and Dusty keeping the Bradley children as they use the reward money for Stillwell's arrest to buy a farm and on their way a reformed Amos and Theodore catches up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands.
The Born Losers (1967)
, 1h53Directed by Tom Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette, Road movies
Actors Jeremy Slate, Tom Laughlin, Jack Starrett, Jane Russell, Stuart Lancaster, Robert Tessier
Billy Jack is introduced as an enigmatic, half-Indian Vietnam War veteran who shuns society, taking refuge in the peaceful solitude of the California Central Coast mountains. His troubles begin when he descends from this unspoiled setting and drives into a small beach town named Big Rock (Morro Bay). A minor traffic accident in which a motorist hits a motorcyclist results in a savage beating by members of the Born Losers Motorcycle Club. The horrified bystanders (including Laughlin's wife, Delores Taylor, and their two children in cameo roles) are too afraid to help or be involved in any way. Billy Jack jumps into the fray and rescues the man by himself. At this point the police arrive and arrest Billy for using a rifle to stop the fight. (The irony here is that, unknown to Billy, the motorist is the one who starts the fight by inexplicably insulting one of the bikers.
Giant (1956)
, 3h21Directed by Fred Guiol, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Nick Adams, Mercedes McCambridge
The movie follows a Texas family over a quarter century from the 1920s until after World War II. Themes of discrimination along race, class and gender lines, as well as the role they played in the social evolution of post-war Texas, are prominent.
Silverado (1985)
, 2h29Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Actors Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy
Emmett (Scott Glenn) is ambushed by three men while he sleeps in a deserted shack. In a brief gunfight, he kills all of the assailants. As he sets out for the town of Silverado, Emmett finds a man, Paden (Kevin Kline), lying in the desert, having been robbed and left to die.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
, 2h15Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon, Bill McKinney, John Russell
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawker militants. The Union murderers were from Senator James H. Lane's Kansas Brigade, which included Captain Terrill.
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
, 2h46Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Baxter
When a wagon crashes into a ravine, prospector Ben Rumson finds two adult male occupants, brothers, one of whom is dead and the other of whom has a broken arm and leg. As the first man is about to be buried, gold dust is discovered at the grave site. Ben stakes a claim on the land and adopts the surviving brother as his "Pardner" while he recuperates.
Little Big Man (1970)
, 2h19Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Cal Bellini
In the present day, 121-year-old Jack Crabb, residing in a hospice, recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have had been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Beguiled (2017)
, 1h31Directed by Sofia Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Western
Actors Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice
En Virginie en 1864, alors que la guerre de Sécession fait rage, le pensionnat pour jeunes filles tenu par Martha Farnsworth demeure totalement en dehors des conflits. Mais un jour, le pensionnat recueille un soldat, gravement blessé.