30 Cowboy Movies to Watch for Westerns, Outlaws, and Frontier Justice
A cowboy movie guide with gunfighters, frontier towns, revenge, lawmen, outlaws, and sweeping Western drama. Explore summaries, ratings, trailers, cast details, and watch availability.
Rank 1Movie
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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2Movie
Once Upon a Time in the West
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.
3Movie
Unforgiven
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.
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4MovieDjango Unchained
2012★ 8.2
5MovieTrue Grit
2010★ 7.3
6MovieTombstone
1993★ 7.6
7MovieThe Magnificent Seven
1960★ 7.5
8MovieThe Magnificent Seven
2016★ 6.5
9MovieThe Searchers
1956★ 7.7
10MovieHigh Noon
1952★ 7.7
11MovieButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969★ 7.6
12MovieThe Wild Bunch
1969★ 7.6
13MovieThe Hateful Eight
2015★ 7.8
14Movie3:10 to Yuma
2007★ 7.2
15MovieThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007★ 7.1
16MovieThe Revenant
2015★ 7.5
17MovieThe Power of the Dog
2021★ 6.7
18MovieThe Sisters Brothers
2018★ 6.8
19MovieThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018★ 7.1
20MovieNews of the World
2020★ 6.9
21MovieHostiles
2017★ 6.9
22MovieOpen Range
2003★ 7.2
23MovieSilverado
1985★ 6.9
24MovieA Fistful of Dollars
1964★ 7.8
25MovieFor a Few Dollars More
1965★ 8.0
26MovieShane
1953★ 7.3
27MovieRio Bravo
1959★ 7.8
28MovieThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962★ 7.8
29MovieDances with Wolves
1990★ 7.8
30MovieYoung Guns
1988★ 6.7
About this list
A cowboy movie guide with gunfighters, frontier towns, revenge, lawmen, outlaws, and sweeping Western drama. Explore summaries, ratings, trailers, cast details, and watch availability.
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