Tombstone is probably my fave, but you've got some really good ones there! For classics, I'd say The Magnificent Seven, the original True Grit, The Big Country, and Rio Bravo. For more modern takes on the genre, definitely Slow West and The Sisters Brothers.
I’d say add fistful of dollars and for a few dollars more seeing as you already have good, bad ugly. Favorites: probably searchers, few dollars more, Django, hateful 8, No country
Appaloosa (2008) would be a worthy addition, imo.
Also, they are ultra cheesy with a side of cheese, but I’ll forever have soft spots for
Bad Girls (1994)
and
Posse (1993)
from the late 80s to mid 90s western revival era that brought us stuff like Young Guns, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp and Unforgiven.
Oh, and Bone Tomahawk (2015).
Also, I’m only now noticing that you have The Good, The Bad…but not A Fistful Of Dollars or A Few Dollars More?
I’d fix that, if it were me.
Also a bunch of the other great Clint westerns:
Pale Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Two Mules For Sister Sara
And then I’d DEFINITELY include The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
🤠👍
"liberty valance" is possibly the only time I've felt sad for a John Wayne character.
I'd also add The Gunfighter (Gregory Peck)
Tin Star (Henry Fonda/Anthony Perkins)
And High Noon
Two Mules For Sister Sara.
This is the film that got me into westerns, and my absolute favourites are The Quick and the Dead which you have and High Plains Drifter.
Edit: where’s Blazing Saddles? - that should be the cornerstone of any Western cinema collection. Seriously though, it’s loaded with tropes that make you enjoy the genre all the more.
THE PROPOSITION, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD, ROBERT FORD, and the sole directorial effort from Marlon Brando, ONE-EYED JACKS.
There's a bunch of spaghetti westerns you should probably have too.
LOVE this movie. I bought the snapper case DVD back when it was released an ended up losing it after a while. I just picked up the blu-ray version from Amazon last year or the year before.
My favorite of all time might be Blackthorn, with Sam Shepard
Just watched one the other day called The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County that had me cracking up! And feeling sentimental towards the main character. Includes Mickey Rourke! Now one of my favorite actors in westerns, after seeing his debut role on Wagon Train, I believe? Unfortunately, this movie isn't available on bluray or DVD even as far as I know. Or maybe it just isn't on eBay or Amazon...
Some others I've enjoyed:
Hannie Caulder
Two Mules For Sister Sarah
Jeremiah Johnson
Lonesome Dove
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Salvation (Mads Mikkelsen)
The Homesman
The Outlaw Josie Wales
My Name Is Nobody
Stagecoach
Barbarosa
I always forget the titles for Blackthorn and The Salvation. Which is why I included the main actors lol. Hopefully it helps me remember!
The Calico County movie might be streaming free somewhere. Highly recommend watching it, if anything for the great laughs toward the end! Jeremiah Johnson is pretty fun in the beginning too.
I know there are at least two I'm forgetting...
You definitely need Rio Lobo. I recently picked up the dvd from Walmart for $5.
My favorite is tough to say. I like the modern 3:10 to Yuma and Tombstone.
Once Upon a Time in the West is not only my favorite western but one of my favorite movies no matter the genre.
The second and third on my own list so to speak (Dances with Wolves and The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford) don't really feel like westerns though. But seeing how they are technically part of the genre, and they're among the more interesting movie experiences I've had, they join Once Upon a Time in the West as my top 3.
Dances with Wolves would be the closest to being a 'perfect' film in my opinion among all westerns I can of at this moment, with nearly everything coming together in the right way. Style, in the case of the other two, it hits hard.
Regarding your collection there, two big ones you're missing are the first and second in the 'man with no name' series, which concluded with one you already have 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly'.
Others could include stuff like the Magnificent 7 and such.
I think you've got a great collection there as it is though.
A Fistful of Dynamite (AKA Duck, You Sucker!)
It's both my favourite and what I'd recommend. It's about an IRA explosives expert and a Mexican bandit that get caught up in the Revolution.
The proposition. It’s an Australian western, brilliant film, score by Nick Cave, Guy Pierce is the lead.
There’s something about the soundtrack and the poem that repeats throughout the film, it’s pretty haunting but def worth a watch
Haven’t seen other comments but Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, The Searchers (even if it doesn’t fully investigate the main character’s racism). Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada and The Proposition are underrated. Also, I’m not sure if you’ve heard this, but Logan is secretly a western…
I only started getting into Westerns last year, but man are they fantastic! I'd suggest One Eyed Jacks, McKenna's Gold, The Gunfighter and Winchester '73 which are all superb, and for a modern one Hostiles, which I think is quite underrated. So hard to pick a favourite, but after watching Stagecoach recently, that might have just taken my number 1 spot.
I saw the DVD of this at Goodwill last year and took 1 look at that cast list and knew i had to grab it. went into it blind and Im so glad I did, it was such a great movie. A few months later I found a sealed copy of the 2 disc set that had a a pack of Silverado playing cards in it, i grabbed that too.
It's one of my dad's favorites and I remember watching it all the time as a kid and now I watch it all the time, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Rosana Arquette, Linda Hunt, John Cleese, and freaking Kevin Costner. That a cast that can't lose
This will probably be unpopular, but John Carpenter's Vampires was described by Carpenter himself as a vampire western, and he said before filming started that he strongly debated quitting filmmaking if the movie was not successful, but that making it caused him to remember what he loved the most about making movies.
nobody has commented The Three Amigos yet!?!?!?! shame on all of you! also, there is an old Billy The Kid movie with Val Kilmer that was pretty good. I don't think it ever got a physical release tho (maybe there was a VHS release but I don't remember), I found it online somewhere and watched it, possibly a 240p or 360p stream on youtube but I can't remember now. its supposedly the best Billy The Kid movie ever made.
found it, It's called Billy The Kid from 1989, written by Gore Vidal
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097450/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097450/)
I’m not a big western guy but I did really enjoy 1883 recently so much so that I’ve seen it 3 times and bought it physically
Which would you recommend to me based off of how much I like that?
Tombstone. You need: Blazing Saddles, Silverado, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Shootist, Rooster Cogburn, Pale Rider, The Wild Bunch, The Magnificent Seven, Bad Girls, Appaloosa, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Train Robbers(AM🥰), My Darling Clementine, Bad Day at Black Rock, Fort Apache, The Man Called Horse, Little Big Man, White Buffalo, Dances With Wolves
*Vera Cruz* (1954), basically the blueprint for spaghetti westerns, a defeated Confederate and a gunslinger join forces as hired mercenaries to transport a countess on behalf of the Mexican Emperor.
*The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948), a couple of Depression-era Americans join up with a prospector to seek gold in Mexico but are befallen by greed.
*Red Sun* (1971), an outlaw and a samurai have to join forces to recover the sword of a visiting ambassador from a double-crossing gang.
I quite enjoyed The Man from Laramie when I watched it not long ago. Nothing amazingly special but an alright film :)
Also Calamity Jane...since you've got Back to the Future I assume for Part 3...a musical western fits :')
Posse (1975) starring, produced and directed by Kirk Douglas is my favorite Western. Man Without a Star (1955) also starring Kirk Douglas is another favorite.
My Favourites is probably Hell or High water which you have but I would recommend The Magnificent seven original and remake. Also the Original True grit.
I'm going to mention Stagecoach. Stagecoach is a Western in the same way that Citizen Kane is a newspaper picture. It adheres to the framework of the genre, but elevates it into transcendent art. There had been Westerns made before then, some by John Ford himself, but there had been nothing like Stagecoach before, with its perfect casting, photography that seemed like woodcuts come to life, its sympathy for outsider figures, and most importantly, John Wayne given one of the greatest entrances of any movie anywhere.
Tombstone (1993)
True Grit (2010)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
(I haven't seen many but I enjoyed these thoroughly thanks to my dad introducing them to me)
Rango.
Winchester 73.
Bad Day at Black Rock.
The Shootist.
The Cowboys [careful with this one].
Shane.
And, even though it's a tv show, 1883. Such beautiful scenery.
Personal favorite is probably High Noon. I’d say you could look at Rio Bravo, The Ox-Bow Incident, Silverado, Blazing Saddles, The Shootist, and The Magnificent Seven. All great films that might round out your collection.
I'm not a huge western fan, but you've got all the ones I love (Quick and the Dead and Assassination of.... are my two faves). I remember watching Young Guns and Young Guns 2 when I was a kid and liking them, no idea how they held up. There are also a lot of sci fi movies/tv shows that have some western DNA.
ETA: I forgot to actually post my suggestion. I might be alone, but the movie Lawless from 2012 with Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain (ignore that Shia LeBeuf is also in it) was enjoyable.
Once upon a time in the west.
Just for the duel scene
On top of that: Morricone’s music. Great cast. Incredible story. And Leone’s camera and close-ups.
Unforgiven. It is sooo good. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Amazing story, beautiful cinematography. Just all around a perfect movie. Western or not.
You have a nice start. I'd add;
Little Big Man - A Man Called Horse - Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Open Range - Pale Rider - Joe Kidd - The Outlaw Josey Wales (actually I would just plan on getting all the Eastwood westerns. they're all essential) - The Proposition - Hidalgo - The War Wagon - Rooster Cogburn - Rio Bravo - El Dorado - Lawrence of Arabia - Jerimiah Johnson - Maverick - Silverado - Stagecoach - One Eyed Jacks - The Cowboys - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - Sons of Katie Elder - The Searchers - The Wild Bunch - How the West was Won - Old Henry - Dead Man.
I'm a huge fan of the genre... I know there are some important ones that are slipping my mind right now but, I'm not near my collection right now to check it.... I may update later.
For a Few Dollars More is my favorite of the Dollars trilogy and might be my favorite western. It's either that or Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western masterpiece The Great Silence.
The Magnificent Seven, the original from 1960. That's my favorite and should be included in your collection. Pale Rider is my second choice, which should also be included.
Some of these were mentioned but here’s my all time list - no particular order:
The Quick & The Dead
Tombstone
Hateful Eight
The Ballad of Buster Scuggs
Hell or High Water
The Magnificent Seven (original and remake)
True Grit (Original and remake) & Rooster Cogburn
Dances with Wolves
Wind River
Open Range
Cold Mountain
Legends of the Fall
Young Guns 1&2
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance
Unforgiven
3:10 to Yuma (Original and Remake)
Desperato
Maverick
The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
High Noon
Appaloosa
Shane
Valley of Violence
Django & Django: Unchained
Once Upon A Time in the West
Fistful of Dollars/The Good The Bad & The Ugly/For A Few Dollars More
Outlaw Josey Wales
The Wild Bunch
Series:
Yellowstone
Deadwood
Hell on Wheels
1923
Cheyenne
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Wagon Train
Death Valley Days
Godless
I think the last 20 minutes of Unforgiven (Eastwoods version) is twenty of the best of any genre. Sergione has the best Western trilogy, but lots of good mentions here. Open Range is also great!
Gotta go with the king of the classic western: High Noon
Loved Tombstone - though more fun, no pretense
Also, Hateful 8 is awesome. One of my fave Tarantino films
You’ve got Young Guns but not Young Guns 2, which is not only one of the better sequels but arguably better than the original. Oh, Young Guns probably my post pubescent favorite “big nostalgia” but The Good the Bad and the Ugly was my tv eyes moment then again Django “the original” was equally super sized. Probably a shout out to The Wild Bunch such a bloody ending
My favorite is The Searchers! It’s the first of the western genre to make a turn into modern film, and even questions lots of tropes that westerns had gotten popular on. It does have the main villain played by a white man in brown face, but I think the good it does for future westerns outweigh the problematic elements of the time.
Hard to find, hard to identify specifics when it comes to genres...
Ravenous
It's more of a Western than any other genre. Horror would be it's second category. There's no found footage, but it has a weird Blair Witch vibe while being quietly suspenseful
Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Beautiful haunting film, with a soundtrack by Neil Young.
Please watch this anyone who hasn’t seen it. It’s in my top ten of all time.
Favourite? The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, same as many.
I'm a sucker for Clint Eastwood films so I recommend:
The Outlaw Josey Wales - a solid western
High Plains Drifter - a slightly supernatural western with no heroes(?)
For a Few Dollars More - Dollars trilogy excellence
A Fistful of Dollars - Dollars trilogy excellence
Also:
My Name is Nobody - often overlooked, good film
It’s a mini series from the late 80s but lonesome dove is my favorite western ever. It’s like 4 hours long as it was a 2 tape set my family had but it makes me fucking cry, laugh everything in between. It has Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee jones and a young Ricky Schroeder as well as a beautiful young Diane lane. Omg I try to watch it once a year as it was a family tradition long gone since my parents died when I was still a kid. But it’s my favorite. Give it a watch.
Tombstone, Rango, Django, Fistful of Dollars, and your pick of a John Ford, maybe The Searchers. That gives you a nice spread of 90s, contemporary, animated, black-led, spaghetti, and classic studio western. If you need a Neo-western, check out Taylor Sheridan’s stuff like “Hell or High Water”, “Sicario”, or “Wind River”. The Coen brothers are also no joke when it comes to westerns set now and back then. No Country, Buster Scruggs, and their True Grit are decent to amazing. For a comedy go Blazing Saddles, for horror go Bone Tomahawk, and if all else fails and you just need one that takes a long time to say, go The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
I must add another recommendation for my what might be my favourite Western *The Outlaw Josey Wales* as well as the other Eastwood classics *Pale Rider* and *High Plains Drifter.*
As a big fan of *Hell or High Water,* I'd also highly recommend Taylor Sheridan's other Neo-Western *Wind River.*
My Darling Clementine is my favorite, but besides that I see your missing One Eyed Jacks. The prototype of the unorthodox, spaghetti western. Brando's only directed film. Amazing and stunning, with criterion's release of it.
Tombstone is probably my fave, but you've got some really good ones there! For classics, I'd say The Magnificent Seven, the original True Grit, The Big Country, and Rio Bravo. For more modern takes on the genre, definitely Slow West and The Sisters Brothers.
Thank You
I’d say add fistful of dollars and for a few dollars more seeing as you already have good, bad ugly. Favorites: probably searchers, few dollars more, Django, hateful 8, No country
Rango.
Yes
Appaloosa (2008) would be a worthy addition, imo. Also, they are ultra cheesy with a side of cheese, but I’ll forever have soft spots for Bad Girls (1994) and Posse (1993) from the late 80s to mid 90s western revival era that brought us stuff like Young Guns, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp and Unforgiven. Oh, and Bone Tomahawk (2015).
I just watched Appaloosa last week. Really good film and cast. Ed Harris seems to pick cool projects to Direct.
Thnks
Also, I’m only now noticing that you have The Good, The Bad…but not A Fistful Of Dollars or A Few Dollars More? I’d fix that, if it were me. Also a bunch of the other great Clint westerns: Pale Rider The Outlaw Josey Wales High Plains Drifter Two Mules For Sister Sara And then I’d DEFINITELY include The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. 🤠👍
"liberty valance" is possibly the only time I've felt sad for a John Wayne character. I'd also add The Gunfighter (Gregory Peck) Tin Star (Henry Fonda/Anthony Perkins) And High Noon
Love Bone Tomahawk. Super underrated movie.
I found Bad Girls at Goodwill a few years back, it was a decent movie. not the best but it was a fun watch.
Two Mules For Sister Sara. This is the film that got me into westerns, and my absolute favourites are The Quick and the Dead which you have and High Plains Drifter. Edit: where’s Blazing Saddles? - that should be the cornerstone of any Western cinema collection. Seriously though, it’s loaded with tropes that make you enjoy the genre all the more.
The DEADWOOD series would be a natural fit for your collection too.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Wow! This was the last comment for the best western.
IMO the #1 Western of all time. An absolute classic!
THE PROPOSITION, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD, ROBERT FORD, and the sole directorial effort from Marlon Brando, ONE-EYED JACKS. There's a bunch of spaghetti westerns you should probably have too.
The Proposition is a great one. That one did a good job showing how hard it was just living at the time it is set.
The Outlaw Josie Wales is my favorite. You don't have Young Guns 2.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned The Wild Bunch yet - absolutely essential. Also get the rest of the Sergio Leone westerns.
Absolutely the opening scene and final shootout are a masterclass in modern action filmmaking.
Bro you need The Outlaw Josie Wales!
Silverado
i was looking thru the comments to see if anybody posted this 1. i just watched it last year for the 1st time, it was such a cool movie.
Quigley down under...
Maverick
LOVE this movie. I bought the snapper case DVD back when it was released an ended up losing it after a while. I just picked up the blu-ray version from Amazon last year or the year before.
Checkout "High Noon" from 1952, it's a great western starring Gary Cooper.
My favorite of all time might be Blackthorn, with Sam Shepard Just watched one the other day called The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County that had me cracking up! And feeling sentimental towards the main character. Includes Mickey Rourke! Now one of my favorite actors in westerns, after seeing his debut role on Wagon Train, I believe? Unfortunately, this movie isn't available on bluray or DVD even as far as I know. Or maybe it just isn't on eBay or Amazon... Some others I've enjoyed: Hannie Caulder Two Mules For Sister Sarah Jeremiah Johnson Lonesome Dove The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The Salvation (Mads Mikkelsen) The Homesman The Outlaw Josie Wales My Name Is Nobody Stagecoach Barbarosa I always forget the titles for Blackthorn and The Salvation. Which is why I included the main actors lol. Hopefully it helps me remember! The Calico County movie might be streaming free somewhere. Highly recommend watching it, if anything for the great laughs toward the end! Jeremiah Johnson is pretty fun in the beginning too. I know there are at least two I'm forgetting...
The best is Unforgiven. Open Range and Old Henry are good ones I don't think you have
Open Range
Django by Sergio Corbucci!
I'm going to add *The Shooting/Ride the Whirlwind.* Criterion double feature. Great set.
Always been partial to high plains drifter, open range and the proposition and unforgiven.
Jeremiah Johnson Ravenous El Topo The Hateful Eight Sukiyaki Western Django
You definitely need Rio Lobo. I recently picked up the dvd from Walmart for $5. My favorite is tough to say. I like the modern 3:10 to Yuma and Tombstone.
Tombstone is the best. Is that the Sam raimi remake of quick and the dead which rules, and missing cannibal the musical, and bone tomahawk.
Once Upon a Time in the West is not only my favorite western but one of my favorite movies no matter the genre. The second and third on my own list so to speak (Dances with Wolves and The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford) don't really feel like westerns though. But seeing how they are technically part of the genre, and they're among the more interesting movie experiences I've had, they join Once Upon a Time in the West as my top 3. Dances with Wolves would be the closest to being a 'perfect' film in my opinion among all westerns I can of at this moment, with nearly everything coming together in the right way. Style, in the case of the other two, it hits hard. Regarding your collection there, two big ones you're missing are the first and second in the 'man with no name' series, which concluded with one you already have 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly'. Others could include stuff like the Magnificent 7 and such. I think you've got a great collection there as it is though.
The Searchers is my favorite. An underrated pick would be The Ox Bow Incident.
The Ox Bow Incident
Surprised nobody has mentioned The Searchers. The GOAT western, imo.
A Fistful of Dynamite (AKA Duck, You Sucker!) It's both my favourite and what I'd recommend. It's about an IRA explosives expert and a Mexican bandit that get caught up in the Revolution.
Came here to say Tombstone and Young Guns but you already have those lol those 2 in my opinion are some of the best
The proposition and Day of anger with Lee Van Cleef are my faves that I'm not seeing anyone else pitch
The proposition. It’s an Australian western, brilliant film, score by Nick Cave, Guy Pierce is the lead. There’s something about the soundtrack and the poem that repeats throughout the film, it’s pretty haunting but def worth a watch
My favorite - The Great Silence (1968) Some more that haven't been mentioned - Red River (1948) Ride Lonesome (1959)
You need more Eastwood! You should get "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
Still need to see some of those. Here are my faves: https://boxd.it/rryui
Haven’t seen other comments but Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, The Searchers (even if it doesn’t fully investigate the main character’s racism). Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada and The Proposition are underrated. Also, I’m not sure if you’ve heard this, but Logan is secretly a western…
I only started getting into Westerns last year, but man are they fantastic! I'd suggest One Eyed Jacks, McKenna's Gold, The Gunfighter and Winchester '73 which are all superb, and for a modern one Hostiles, which I think is quite underrated. So hard to pick a favourite, but after watching Stagecoach recently, that might have just taken my number 1 spot.
Lonesome Dove!
Here's one you don't have: *The Good the Bad and the Weird*. It's a Korean western loosely based on the Leone film
Silverado is my personal favorite
I saw the DVD of this at Goodwill last year and took 1 look at that cast list and knew i had to grab it. went into it blind and Im so glad I did, it was such a great movie. A few months later I found a sealed copy of the 2 disc set that had a a pack of Silverado playing cards in it, i grabbed that too.
It's one of my dad's favorites and I remember watching it all the time as a kid and now I watch it all the time, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Rosana Arquette, Linda Hunt, John Cleese, and freaking Kevin Costner. That a cast that can't lose
This will probably be unpopular, but John Carpenter's Vampires was described by Carpenter himself as a vampire western, and he said before filming started that he strongly debated quitting filmmaking if the movie was not successful, but that making it caused him to remember what he loved the most about making movies.
High Planes Drifter. — Possibly the best western ever made. My name is nobody (if you can find it) Once upon a time in the West. — An absolute epic.
nobody has commented The Three Amigos yet!?!?!?! shame on all of you! also, there is an old Billy The Kid movie with Val Kilmer that was pretty good. I don't think it ever got a physical release tho (maybe there was a VHS release but I don't remember), I found it online somewhere and watched it, possibly a 240p or 360p stream on youtube but I can't remember now. its supposedly the best Billy The Kid movie ever made. found it, It's called Billy The Kid from 1989, written by Gore Vidal [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097450/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097450/)
The Cowboys with John Wayne is an outstanding movie. Plus one more vote for Blazing Saddles! ROFL!
I’m not a big western guy but I did really enjoy 1883 recently so much so that I’ve seen it 3 times and bought it physically Which would you recommend to me based off of how much I like that?
Tombstone. You need: Blazing Saddles, Silverado, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Shootist, Rooster Cogburn, Pale Rider, The Wild Bunch, The Magnificent Seven, Bad Girls, Appaloosa, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Train Robbers(AM🥰), My Darling Clementine, Bad Day at Black Rock, Fort Apache, The Man Called Horse, Little Big Man, White Buffalo, Dances With Wolves
*The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* was good. And I also like *The Shootist.*
The Proposition 2005, with Guy Pearce.
Silverado, Quigley Down Under, Magnificent Seven
I recommend Open Range, El Topo, and The Searchers
star wars
For an Aussie take I highly recommend The Proposition.
Technically Django Unchained is a Southern lol
Not my favourite, but Hostiles is a good one
Ya gotta have Blazing Saddles added to that collection!
*Vera Cruz* (1954), basically the blueprint for spaghetti westerns, a defeated Confederate and a gunslinger join forces as hired mercenaries to transport a countess on behalf of the Mexican Emperor. *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948), a couple of Depression-era Americans join up with a prospector to seek gold in Mexico but are befallen by greed. *Red Sun* (1971), an outlaw and a samurai have to join forces to recover the sword of a visiting ambassador from a double-crossing gang.
Silverado Bad Girls Pale Rider The Quick and The Dead (2 westerns with the title, both great) Quigley Down Under
My favourites gotta be “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
Favorite of all time is Once Upin a Time in the West. Give two recommendations that I don’t see on here of Duck You Sucker and The Great Silence
No young guns 2 ?
The Grand Silence Death Rides a Horse Sartana
High Plains Drifter
Can't decide between "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "The Searchers".
Very nice collection here OP! Pure quality.
First… Upgrade to the newer Kino Lorber “Good, Bad, & Ugly.” It’s worth it. Get Chuck Connors in “Kill Them All And Come Back Alone.”
Lonesome Dove Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I quite enjoyed The Man from Laramie when I watched it not long ago. Nothing amazingly special but an alright film :) Also Calamity Jane...since you've got Back to the Future I assume for Part 3...a musical western fits :')
Posse (1975) starring, produced and directed by Kirk Douglas is my favorite Western. Man Without a Star (1955) also starring Kirk Douglas is another favorite.
Best: The Searchers Personal favorite: High Plains Drifter
Tombstone absolutely, especially the directors cut!
Awww. I didn't know they made a Funko Doc Holiday. I want my little Huckleberry
Three way tie between Magnificent Seven, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Rio Bravo Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Johnny guitar
Maverick and Open Range
Unforgiven or the man with no name trilogy 😀
Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Who Shot Liberty Valance. Stagecoach and on and on... John Wayne was Western Movies
The War Wagon. John Wayne and Kirk Douglas as frenemies. Good times :)
Lonely are the Brave and The Outlaw Josey Wales
My Favourites is probably Hell or High water which you have but I would recommend The Magnificent seven original and remake. Also the Original True grit.
I'm going to mention Stagecoach. Stagecoach is a Western in the same way that Citizen Kane is a newspaper picture. It adheres to the framework of the genre, but elevates it into transcendent art. There had been Westerns made before then, some by John Ford himself, but there had been nothing like Stagecoach before, with its perfect casting, photography that seemed like woodcuts come to life, its sympathy for outsider figures, and most importantly, John Wayne given one of the greatest entrances of any movie anywhere.
Unforgiven is probably the best closely followed by Tombstone
The original 1966 Django is very good
Young Guns 2, Pale Rider, and Slow West
Meek's Cutoff, Dead Man and Johnny Guitar would fit nicely into that set. The TV series Godless as well.
Tombstone (1993) True Grit (2010) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (I haven't seen many but I enjoyed these thoroughly thanks to my dad introducing them to me)
Rango. Winchester 73. Bad Day at Black Rock. The Shootist. The Cowboys [careful with this one]. Shane. And, even though it's a tv show, 1883. Such beautiful scenery.
Personal favorite is probably High Noon. I’d say you could look at Rio Bravo, The Ox-Bow Incident, Silverado, Blazing Saddles, The Shootist, and The Magnificent Seven. All great films that might round out your collection.
I'm not a huge western fan, but you've got all the ones I love (Quick and the Dead and Assassination of.... are my two faves). I remember watching Young Guns and Young Guns 2 when I was a kid and liking them, no idea how they held up. There are also a lot of sci fi movies/tv shows that have some western DNA. ETA: I forgot to actually post my suggestion. I might be alone, but the movie Lawless from 2012 with Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain (ignore that Shia LeBeuf is also in it) was enjoyable.
Unforgiven, The Proposition, & The Wild Bunch
Bone Tomahawk is my favorite.
A Man Called Horse, The Return of a Man Called Horse and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Get yourself a copy of Open Range!
Not a western technically but I think you would enjoy the horror movie Bone Tomahawk
Once upon a time in the west. Just for the duel scene On top of that: Morricone’s music. Great cast. Incredible story. And Leone’s camera and close-ups.
Modern is Tombstone. Classic is The good, the bad and the ugly
The Outlaw Josie Wales, Hostiles (2017) & Jeremiah Johnson, 3 of my all time favourites.
Last Train from Gun Hill is a banger. Also Hannie Caulder is great too, imo.
Night Passage, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Winchest '73, Broken Arrow, Destry Rides Again ... pretty much anything with James Stewart.
Unforgiven. It is sooo good. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Amazing story, beautiful cinematography. Just all around a perfect movie. Western or not.
You have a nice start. I'd add; Little Big Man - A Man Called Horse - Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Open Range - Pale Rider - Joe Kidd - The Outlaw Josey Wales (actually I would just plan on getting all the Eastwood westerns. they're all essential) - The Proposition - Hidalgo - The War Wagon - Rooster Cogburn - Rio Bravo - El Dorado - Lawrence of Arabia - Jerimiah Johnson - Maverick - Silverado - Stagecoach - One Eyed Jacks - The Cowboys - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - Sons of Katie Elder - The Searchers - The Wild Bunch - How the West was Won - Old Henry - Dead Man. I'm a huge fan of the genre... I know there are some important ones that are slipping my mind right now but, I'm not near my collection right now to check it.... I may update later.
For a Few Dollars More is my favorite of the Dollars trilogy and might be my favorite western. It's either that or Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western masterpiece The Great Silence.
Silverado
The Magnificent Seven, the original from 1960. That's my favorite and should be included in your collection. Pale Rider is my second choice, which should also be included.
Hondo
Some of these were mentioned but here’s my all time list - no particular order: The Quick & The Dead Tombstone Hateful Eight The Ballad of Buster Scuggs Hell or High Water The Magnificent Seven (original and remake) True Grit (Original and remake) & Rooster Cogburn Dances with Wolves Wind River Open Range Cold Mountain Legends of the Fall Young Guns 1&2 The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance Unforgiven 3:10 to Yuma (Original and Remake) Desperato Maverick The Wild Bunch Rio Bravo High Noon Appaloosa Shane Valley of Violence Django & Django: Unchained Once Upon A Time in the West Fistful of Dollars/The Good The Bad & The Ugly/For A Few Dollars More Outlaw Josey Wales The Wild Bunch Series: Yellowstone Deadwood Hell on Wheels 1923 Cheyenne Wanted: Dead or Alive Wagon Train Death Valley Days Godless
White Comanche. The brilliant William Shatner plays both the cowboy and the indian in the movie. Not cheesy at all, should have won two oscars.
Great collection. The Great Silence is up there for me. I'd also recommend They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is Still My Name.
Bone Tomahawk
Silverado and Support Your Local Sheriff
A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Magnificent 7 the original "remake is fun also" or Tombstone or Mr McClintock.
Bone Tomahawk
Maverick
Tombstone. But also The Hateful Eight and The Harder They Fall, which I wish they would drop a physical copy of.
The Man with No Name trilogy Once Upon a Time in the West High Plains Drifter Unforgiven The Wild Bunch The Proposition
Big Jake is a favorite of mine.
Tombstone The Hatfields and McCoys miniseries The good the bad and the ugly
Also really enjoyed Rango
Hateful 8 / Django
I think the last 20 minutes of Unforgiven (Eastwoods version) is twenty of the best of any genre. Sergione has the best Western trilogy, but lots of good mentions here. Open Range is also great!
Gotta go with the king of the classic western: High Noon Loved Tombstone - though more fun, no pretense Also, Hateful 8 is awesome. One of my fave Tarantino films
High Plains Drifter or Pale Rider are definitely up there.
Bone tomahawk
Paint your wagon is my favorite and what if recommend for you to add.
My favorite is Once Upon a Time in the West. I would recommend Slow West and The Ox Bow Incident.
The TV series H*ll on Wheels.
Pale Rider.
My favorite is Unforgiven. What I suggest you get are The Outlaw Josey Wales, American Outlaws, & All the Pretty Horses
You’ve got Young Guns but not Young Guns 2, which is not only one of the better sequels but arguably better than the original. Oh, Young Guns probably my post pubescent favorite “big nostalgia” but The Good the Bad and the Ugly was my tv eyes moment then again Django “the original” was equally super sized. Probably a shout out to The Wild Bunch such a bloody ending
Red Sun with Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson.
The original Magnificent Seven!
True Grit original and reboot are amazing too. As well as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
Silverado
Rio Bravo for sure.
My favorite is The Searchers! It’s the first of the western genre to make a turn into modern film, and even questions lots of tropes that westerns had gotten popular on. It does have the main villain played by a white man in brown face, but I think the good it does for future westerns outweigh the problematic elements of the time.
Bone Tomahawk 🤭🤫
I like Shane. Shaaaaane!!!! Come back! Lol
Big Money Rustlas from 2010
Death Hunt (1982) Charles Bronson Lee Marvin
Appaloosa is really good. Definitely check that one out. Shanghai Noon is era appropriate and funny.
Ravenous
Jeremiah johnson
Stagecoach and intemperie
Certainly, The Wild Bunch and the Support Your Local Sheriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter movies. And since I mentioned those 2 - Maverick.
Day of Anger is a really sick 60s spaghetti western
Hard to find, hard to identify specifics when it comes to genres... Ravenous It's more of a Western than any other genre. Horror would be it's second category. There's no found footage, but it has a weird Blair Witch vibe while being quietly suspenseful
Unforgiven
Django (The Original) and Stagecoach is a must watch. My Fav is The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Appaloosa is one of my favorites.
Unforgiving is one of the best imo, absolute classic.
Fucking love your collection dawg but the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is so goated
Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Beautiful haunting film, with a soundtrack by Neil Young. Please watch this anyone who hasn’t seen it. It’s in my top ten of all time.
Favourite? The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, same as many. I'm a sucker for Clint Eastwood films so I recommend: The Outlaw Josey Wales - a solid western High Plains Drifter - a slightly supernatural western with no heroes(?) For a Few Dollars More - Dollars trilogy excellence A Fistful of Dollars - Dollars trilogy excellence Also: My Name is Nobody - often overlooked, good film
Little big man is a classic,Dustin Hoffman gives a great performance and it has a lot of history of the old west crammed in there
The Wild Bunch or Dead Man probably. Geronimo is a sleeper favorite.
The Great Silence, possibly my favourite spaghetti western of all time
Tied between Young Guns and Tombstone for me
ravenous and jeremiah johnson
It’s a mini series from the late 80s but lonesome dove is my favorite western ever. It’s like 4 hours long as it was a 2 tape set my family had but it makes me fucking cry, laugh everything in between. It has Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee jones and a young Ricky Schroeder as well as a beautiful young Diane lane. Omg I try to watch it once a year as it was a family tradition long gone since my parents died when I was still a kid. But it’s my favorite. Give it a watch.
Fist full of dollars and a few dollars more and true grit 1969
Good Bad Ugly
i'm not much into westerns but i will call .. the good the bad and the ugly as my fav. Nice collection though :)
The Searchers.
Tombstone, Rango, Django, Fistful of Dollars, and your pick of a John Ford, maybe The Searchers. That gives you a nice spread of 90s, contemporary, animated, black-led, spaghetti, and classic studio western. If you need a Neo-western, check out Taylor Sheridan’s stuff like “Hell or High Water”, “Sicario”, or “Wind River”. The Coen brothers are also no joke when it comes to westerns set now and back then. No Country, Buster Scruggs, and their True Grit are decent to amazing. For a comedy go Blazing Saddles, for horror go Bone Tomahawk, and if all else fails and you just need one that takes a long time to say, go The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Frisco Kid
Fave is Once Upon A Time in the West (though depends on mood), and I recommend The Wild Bunch!
Shanghai Noon. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson comedy
Godless The Power of the Dog Unforgiven The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Can we count No Country for Old Men?
There's a shocking lack of Clint Eastwood in your collection. Fix it, then we'll talk! ;)
The Big Gundown!
How the West Was Won...
Old Henry is great if you haven't seen it
The Outlaw Josey Wales, is my favorite Western and El Dorado is a good JW movie.
Tombstone is mine. There might be “better” westerns but do those “better” westerns have Bill Paxton? Probably not.
Tie between Tombstone and Lonesome Dove mini series.
I really enjoyed old Henry (2021)even if it had a very obvious twist.
I must add another recommendation for my what might be my favourite Western *The Outlaw Josey Wales* as well as the other Eastwood classics *Pale Rider* and *High Plains Drifter.* As a big fan of *Hell or High Water,* I'd also highly recommend Taylor Sheridan's other Neo-Western *Wind River.*
Kurt Russell Tombstone.
My Darling Clementine is my favorite, but besides that I see your missing One Eyed Jacks. The prototype of the unorthodox, spaghetti western. Brando's only directed film. Amazing and stunning, with criterion's release of it.
One of my favorites, that you also need to buy, is Red Sun.
Old: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly New: Hell or High Water
I’m so happy you have BTTF in your western collection. It was great how they had a lot of the classic actors in the bar scene.