Pluto

Winner of 2 Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner.

Django Unchained

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) - and his wife, Elena (Zeta-Jones) - to take action.

The Legend of Zorro

Robert Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked “businessmen.”

El Dorado

This fifth and final collaboration between John Wayne and director Howard Hawks is an action-filled Western set after the Civil War, in which a group of men seek out Union traitors responsible for a string of train robbers.

Rio Lobo

True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valor, set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare.

True Grit (2010)

An aging Texas cattleman who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson and wound his son.

Big Jake

The four rowdy sons of Katie Elder return home for her funeral and to avenge her death.

The Sons of Katie Elder

John Wayne plays Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider who becomes the protector of Angie Lowe as well as a father figure to her boy, Johnny. Angie, determinedly awaiting the return of her husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger.

Hondo

Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jessica Chastain star in this adaptation of 'The Wettest County in the World.' A bootlegging gang make a run for the American Dream during Prohibition.

Lawless

Clint Eastwood stars in this brazen tale about a rampaging band of vigilantes who make two mistakes: they hang the wrong man and they don't finish the job. Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Bruce Dern & Dennis Hopper co-star in this action-packed western.

Hang 'Em High

After the Civil War, Texas is at the mercy of murderous bandits. A group of unlikely heroes emerges to battle these renegade outlaws. Out-manned, they summon the courage to protect the innocent and put the wrong things right in their beloved homeland.

Texas Rangers

After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.

Five Card Stud

Tommy Lee Jones stars in “the best western since UNFORGIVEN” (BBC). A low-life drifter helps a headstrong woman (Hilary Swank) cross the frontier after she rescues him from hanging.

The Homesman

John Wayne, Constance Towers and William Holden star in this 1863, fact-based story about a Union mission to destroy a railroad junction deep within Confederate territory.

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs.

American Outlaws

The epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

Once Upon a Time in the West

John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Walter Brennan give stellar performances in Howard Hawks' epic masterpiece as a self-made cattle baron (Wayne) and his adopted son (Clift) risk everything to drive their herd across the treacherous Chisholm Trail.

Red River (1948)

A small-town marshal, tormented by the puzzling conditions that surround him, is forced to confront his demons at an unexpected and untraditional 'family reunion'.

South of Heaven, West of Hell

Lt. Col. Yorke leads his cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. Yorke’s toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial.

Rio Grande

When a power-crazed despot schemes to buy California from Mexico, it takes two Zorros--the legendary Don Diego de la Vega and his chosen successor Alejandro Murrieta, a dashing bandit-turned-hero-- to defeat the tyrant's unscrupulous plans.

The Mask of Zorro

A confident oil baron and a determined cowboy are rivals for Oklahoma land and oil rights, and for the love of a pretty schoolteacher. The cowboy acts on behalf of the Indians, on whose land the oil is discovered.

War Of The Wildcats

An ex-outlaw (Richard Widmark) divides and challenges a quick-draw lawman (Henry Fonda) and his sidekick (Anthony Quinn).

Warlock

Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and bad man: Liberty Valance.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

A fast-shooting gunman and an insurance agent track down the murdering robbers of a train hijacking and the stolen money.

Top Western Movies

All Top Western Movies, listed alphabetically