10 Classic Western Films

The Coen brothers'latest film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is showing.It talks about the old west through six chapters. Each of chapters show a distinctly different type of Western which make person have a different sensibility about Western.

Now as a western film,The Ballad of Buster Scruggs might be the best set of stories Netflix has ever released. 

In fact,western film is the most unique genre of film in Hollywood movies.Today let's review top 10 classic western films.Like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo,The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West and so on.


Release Date
2007-09-07
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Tree Line Films, Lionsgate
  • Director : Nicholas Mastandrea, Maria Mantia, Mamie Mitchell
  • Stars : Russell Crowe , Christian Bale , Peter Fonda
  • 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.
Release Date
2010-12-22
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Skydance Productions
  • Director : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Betsy Magruder
  • Stars : Jeff Bridges , Hailee Steinfeld , Matt Damon
  • Die 14-jährige Mattie Ross ist fest entschlossen, den kaltblütigen Mord an ihrem Vater nicht ungesühnt zu lassen. Da die Behörden ihr nicht helfen, will sie den feigen Mörder Tom Chaney mit eigenen Mitteln seiner gerechten Strafe zuführen. Für 100 Dollar engagiert sie den trunksüchtigen und raubeinigen U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, der es mit dem Gesetz selbst alles andere als genau nimmt. Widerwillig lässt er sich von Mattie überreden, sie auf die Jagd nach Chaney mitzunehmen – quer durch die gesetzlosen Weiten der Prärie. Doch sie sind nicht allein, denn auch Texas Ranger LaBoeuf will den Flüchtigen stellen, um eine Kopfprämie zu kassieren, die auf Chaney wegen eines weiteren Mordes ausgesetzt ist. Unfreiwillig ziehen sie zu dritt weiter und schon bald kommt Mattie dem Mörder ihres Vaters gefährlich nah …
Release Date
1967-01-18
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : United Artists, Constantin Film
  • Director : Tilde Watson, María Antonia Puerta, Franco Giraldi
  • Stars : Clint Eastwood , Marianne Koch , Gian Maria Volonté
  • The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Release Date
1990-11-09
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Tig Productions, Majestic Films International
  • Director : Angela Robinson, Angela Robinson, Doug Metzger
  • Stars : Kevin Costner , Mary McDonnell , Graham Greene
  • Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Release Date
1992-08-07
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Clint Eastwood, Jeffrey Wetzel, Tom Rooker
  • Stars : Clint Eastwood , Gene Hackman , Morgan Freeman
  • 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.
Release Date
1962-04-13
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Paramount Pictures, John Ford Productions
  • Director : John Ford, Bud Brill, Wingate Smith
  • Stars : John Wayne , James Stewart , Vera Miles
  • Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Release Date
1969-07-04
  • Rate : 8.5
  • Production Companies : Paramount Pictures, Rafran Cinematografica
  • Director : Giancarlo Santi, Sergio Leone
  • Stars : Claudia Cardinale , Henry Fonda , Jason Robards
  • As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Release Date
1969-06-19
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
  • Director : Fred Gammon, Phil Rawlins, John "Bud" Cardos
  • Stars : William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Robert Ryan
  • An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Release Date
1959-03-18
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director : Paul Helmick, Howard Hawks
  • Stars : John Wayne , Dean Martin , Ricky Nelson
  • A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Release Date
1979-09-01