• A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood spaghetti western)
• All the Pretty Horses, Matt Damon
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Bad Girls, Madeline Stowe
• Blazing Saddles, The most popular parody of westerns in film history
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, two outlaws on the run)
• The Crossfire Trail, Tom Selleck
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• The Desperate Trail , Sam Elliott
• Destry Rides Again, (1939 pacifist sheriff)
• Django, (1966, spaghetti western)
• Dodge City (city cleaned up by new sheriff)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone's story of bounty hunters; spaghetti western)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, in Italian) (1966, Sergio Leone's take on the Old West and the American Civil War; another spaghetti western; considered by many the best Western ever made.)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903, not only the first Western ever made, but the first American film that told a sustained story)
• Hang 'em high starring Clint Eastwood
• Heaven's Gate
• Hidalgo, Viggo Mortensen
• High Noon (1952, Gary Cooper, a small town under siege)
• High Plains Drifter (1973) Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis
• Hud (1963, steamy love between a drifter and a married woman)
• The Jack Bull , John Cusack
• Jeremiah Johnson, Robert Redford
• Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman
• The Magnificent Seven (1960, a small town under siege, based on a film by Akira Kurosawa)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin)
• Maverick, Mel Gibson, James Garner, Jodie Foster, James Coburn
• The Missing, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett
• Monte Walsh , Tom Selleck
• My Darling Clementine (1946, the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)
• My Name is Trinity (a drifter and his brother, posing as a sheriff, defending a town against a rapacious cattle baron; spaghetti western)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone's tale of Western revenge; spaghetti western
• Open Range (a "modern" epic Western starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening in a distinctly feminist role.)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, Henry Fonda in a tale of Frontier justice)
• The Quick and the Dead, Sam Elliott
• The Quick and the Dead, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman
• Red River (1948, John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in a saga of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas)
• Rio Bravo (1959, John Wayne as a small town's sheriff asking a motley posse to help him keep order in his town; Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson have starring roles)
• Rooster Cogburn
• Ruggles of Red Gap (an English valet takes on the West)
• The Sacketts , Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott
• The Searchers (1956, John Wayne searches for his niece, who was stolen by Indians)
• Silverado , Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum, John Cleese, Linda Hunt
• Soldier Blue (1970, fictionalized account of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre)
• Something Big (1971, comedy about Dean Martin as an aging bandit out to do "something big" before going back East to get married)
• Stagecoach (1939, John Ford's classic about a motley group of travelers thrown together on a stagecoach attacked by Indians)
• Tombstone, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott
• Trinity is Still My Name (two brothers swear to their father that they will become outlaws; spaghetti western)
• True Grit (1969, John Wayne)
• Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood's Academy Award winning movie about Wild West revenge)
• Westworld (1973, science fiction-western blend starring Yul Brynner as a robot gunfighter)
• Wild Wild West, science fiction-western starring Will Smith
• The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah and the violent West at its end in the early 20th century)
• Wyatt Earp , Kevin Costner

See also

• Western movie
• Notable figures in Westerns