Almost Heroes (1998)

Cat Ballou (1965)

Summary: A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.

Release Date: June 24, 1965

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Western

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writers: Walter Newman

, Frank Pierson

, Roy Chanslor

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Harold Hecht Corporation

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel, Richard Hebel Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,666,667

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

Summary: A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Release Date: September 15, 2007

Genres: Action, Western

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Takashi Miike

, Masa Nakamura

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: A-Team, Dentsu, Geneon Entertainment, Sedic International, Shogakukan, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sukiyaki Western Django Film Partners, TV Asahi, Toei Company, Tokyu Recreation

Distributor: MVD Visual

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 3,800,000

Domestic: $ 50,659

International: $ 2,674,599

Heaven's Gate (1980)

Summary: During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Michael Cimino

Writer: Michael Cimino

Runtime: 3 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Partisan Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 44,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,484,331

International: $ 192

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Summary: Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.

Release Date: December 25, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Director: Billy Bob Thornton

Writers: Cormac McCarthy

, Ted Tally

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Miramax

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 57,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,540,353

International: $ 2,593,142

Urban Cowboy (1980)

Summary: Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Release Date: June 06, 1980

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Director: James Bridges

Writers: Aaron Latham

, James Bridges

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans Company

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, YouTube Movies

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 46,918,287

The Cowboys (1972)

Summary: Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of cattle rustlers is trailing them.

Release Date: January 13, 1972

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Mark Rydell

Writers: William Dale Jennings

, Irving Ravetch

, Harriet Frank Jr.

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Sanford Productions (III)

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Ride the High Country (1962)

Summary: An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

Release Date: May 09, 1962

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: N.B. Stone Jr.

, Sam Peckinpah

, William Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 813,000

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)

Summary: The trials and adventures of a female doctor in a small Wild West town.

Release Date: January 01, 1993

Genres: Drama, Family, Western

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: 7+

Production: CBS, Sullivan Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Big Jake (1971)

Summary: In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.

Release Date: May 26, 1971

Genre: Western

Directors: George Sherman

, John Wayne

Writers: Harry Julian Fink

, Rita M. Fink

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Batjac Productions, Cinema Center Films, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Key Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, Digital Video Management, Fox Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,800,000

Hombre (1967)

Summary: John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Release Date: March 21, 1967

Genre: Western

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Irving Ravetch

, Harriet Frank Jr.

, Elmore Leonard

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Hombre Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,860,000

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

Summary: Marshal Rooster Cogburn unwillingly teams up with Eula Goodnight to track down her father's murderers.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Stuart Millar

Writers: Charles Portis

, Martha Hyer

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Hal Wallis Productions, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA Home Video, MCA Videocassette, Image Entertainment, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,022,000

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Summary: Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

Release Date: December 23, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Western

Director: George Marshall

Writers: Felix Jackson

, Gertrude Purcell

, Henry Myers

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Realart Pictures, MCA Home Video, CST Entertainment Imaging, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 345,000

Renegade (2004)

Summary: In 1870, after a brutal run-in with an outlaw in a brothel, Mike Blueberry becomes marshal in Arizona where he keeps the peace between whites and Apaches, but an influx of gold-hunters threatens to lead to violence.

Release Date: February 11, 2004

Genres: Adventure, Western

Director: Jan Kounen

Writers: Matthieu Le Naour

, Alexandre Coquelle

, Gérard Brach

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: A.J.O.Z. Films, La Petite Reine, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), TF1 Films Production, 120 Films, Crystalcreek Ltd., Ultra Films, TPS Star

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 36,100,000

The Naked Spur (1953)

Summary: A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Release Date: March 06, 1953

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western

Director: Anthony Mann

Writers: Sam Rolfe

, Harold Jack Bloom

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,261,000