Unforgiven (1992)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Summary: A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Release Date: April 07, 1973

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Western

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Ernest Tidyman

, Dean Riesner

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Malpaso Company, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 15,700,000

International: $ 6,540

City Slickers (1991)

Summary: On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.

Release Date: June 07, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Western

Director: Ron Underwood

Writers: Lowell Ganz

, Babaloo Mandel

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Face Productions

Distributor: New Line Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Corporation of America, Columbia TriStar Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 124,033,791

International: $ 55,000,000

Stagecoach (1939)

Summary: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Release Date: March 03, 1939

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: John Ford

Writers: Ernest Haycox

, Dudley Nichols

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Variety Film Distributors, Masterpiece Productions, Time Life Films, Time-Life Video, RCA (II), Vestron Video, Criterion Pictures, Warner Home Video, UCLA Film and Television Archive

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 392,000

El Topo (1970)

Summary: A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

Release Date: April 15, 1971

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writer: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Producciones Panicas

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 80,302

International: $ 80,166

The Searchers (1956)

Summary: An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Release Date: May 26, 1956

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: John Ford

Writers: Frank S. Nugent

, Alan Le May

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: C.V. Whitney Pictures

Distributor: Warner Bros., RCA (II), Warner Home Video, Image Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,750,000

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Three Amigos! (1986)

Summary: Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.

Release Date: December 12, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Western

Director: John Landis

Writers: Steve Martin

, Lorne Michaels

, Randy Newman

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: L.A. Films, Home Box Office (HBO), Broadway Video

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, HBO Home Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 39,246,734

8 - ZR Critics

The Old Way (2023)

Summary: An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.

Release Date: January 13, 2023

Genres: Action, Drama, Western

Director: Brett Donowho

Writer: Carl W. Lucas

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Intercut Capital, Saturn Films, Tri-Fold Pictures, EchoWolf Productions, Capstone Studios

Distributor: Saban Films

Country: United States

Language: English

First Cow (2019)

Summary: A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.

Release Date: July 10, 2020

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Writers: Jonathan Raymond

, Kelly Reichardt

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: A24, IAC Films, Film Science

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 101,068

International: $ 1,285,541

True Grit (1969)

Summary: A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

Release Date: June 21, 1969

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Charles Portis

, Marguerite Roberts

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: G

Production: Wallis-Hazen, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 276,418

Shane (1953)

Summary: An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

Release Date: August 14, 1953

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: George Stevens

Writers: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

, Jack Sher

, Jack Schaefer

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,100,000

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Summary: Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Release Date: January 07, 1948

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, B. Traven

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, Magnetic Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, Turner Entertainment, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,014,000

Hell on Wheels (2011)

Summary: The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Release Date: November 06, 2011

Genres: Drama, Western

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Entertainment One, Nomadic Pictures, (gayton)²

Countries: Canada, United Kingdom

Language: English

The Proposition (2005)

Summary: A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.

Release Date: June 09, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime, Western

Director: John Hillcoat

Writer: Nick Cave

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: UK Film Council, Surefire Film Productions, Autonomous, Jackie O Productions, Pictures in Paradise, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Film Consortium, National Lottery through UK Film Council

Distributor: First Look International, First Look Television, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,903,434

International: $ 3,145,259

The Homesman (2014)

Summary: Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Release Date: May 18, 2014

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Tommy Lee Jones

Writers: Tommy Lee Jones

, Kieran Fitzgerald

, Wesley A. Oliver

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: EuropaCorp, Ithaca, The Javelina Film Company

Distributor: Roadside Attractions, Saban Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,429,989

International: $ 1,389,432

High Noon (1952)

Summary: A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon tr...

Release Date: July 30, 1952

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writers: Carl Foreman

, John W. Cunningham

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Stanley Kramer Productions

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Republic Pictures (II), Republic Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 730,000