Western
see all genres ›Concepts of chivalry and honor, cowboys on the open range and stylized violence characterize the western, where wilderness and “civilization” are at odds and a lone hero sets right a conflict that threatens the community. In the western dream life, historical figures such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp are often remembered by actors who played them: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gary Cooper and others.
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Genres / Western
SUB-GENRES · Spaghetti Western · Mexican Western
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Tombstone Rashomon
The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western towns ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in TOMBSTONE RASHOMON, the truth is shared by six conflicting, yet historical perspectives. In doing...Watch Movie
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Heartland
A woman arrives at the property of a reclusive Scottish famer to work as his housekeeper. Paid near-starvation wages, she continues working day and night, hoping to use her savings to ensure a bright future for her ten-year-old daughter. Touched by her diligence, the farmer slowly falls in love...Watch Movie
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The Strangers Gundown
With its horror-movie styling and ultra-violent nature, this perfect example of a Euro gothic western garnered an "X" rating on its initial Italian release. During the Civil War, three Confederate officers, leaders of a Confederate regiment, sell out to the Yankees, kill the...Watch Movie
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Silver Lode
A stranger in town becomes the target of a lynch mob in Allan Dwan's feverish Western noir, made at the height of the nation's "Red Scare" witch hunts and now acclaimed as one of the most concise anti-McCarthy parables ever made by Hollywood. About to marry the lovely Rose (Lizabeth Scott) on the...Watch Movie
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Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Bill Kiowa (Montgomery Ford) is released after a five-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. The bandit El Fego (Tatsuya Nakadai), who did the actual crime, also killed Kiowa's young Native American wife. Once free, Kiowa raises a gang to go after the man who framed...Watch Movie
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The Man Called Noon
The legendary gunslinger Rubel Noon loses his memory after being shot during an ambush. While recovering from his injuries and amnesia, he befriends an outlaw named Rimes. Together, they try to piece together the little threads of information they have on the ambush and...Watch Movie
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Barbara Stanwyck stars as "a woman of fire… in a land aflame!!!" in Allan Dwan's tough-as-nails 1954 Western, gorgeously shot in Montana’s scenic Glacier National Park. "Stripping off her petticoats and strapping on her guns" (as the original press material screamed),...Watch Movie
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The Great Train Robbery
More than a crucial historical artifact, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY reveals the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. Known for using such innovative filming techniques such as double exposure, cross-cutting and camera...Watch Movie
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Passion
Set in Old Spanish California of the 1800s, a dashing young rancher (Cornel Wilde) seeks vengeance for the murder of his wife (Yvonne de Carlo). Her identical twin (also played by Yvonne de Carlo) accompanies the rancher on their hunt for outlaw (Rodolfo Acosta) and his gang. Will lawman Castro...Watch Movie
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Tennessee's Partner
"You're rotten Tennessee, dirty. And, what’s more, you like it that way!" cries a local brothel owner to a unrepentant professional gambler in Allan Dwan's surprisingly illicit Western, set "when the West was a shameless young hussy!," as the original poster memorably stated....Watch Movie
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There's a Noose Waiting for You...Trinity!
Trinity is an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by the family that he abandoned years earlier. Unfortunately for him a ruthless bounty hunter is on his trail. The bounty hunter tracks Trinity down and forces him to return to his violent ways in...Watch Movie
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The Blue Hotel
Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naïve Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince the Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish....Watch Movie
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Angel and the Badman
ANGEL AND THE BADMAN was the first film that John Wayne produced and also starred in. Gunman Quint Evans (John Wayne), badly injured, arrives at a farm owned by a Quaker family. With their help he recovers and forms a relationship with Penelope Worth (Gail Russell) who...Watch Movie
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Brave New West
An off-the-wall odyssey that tells the story of how one man's passion for the natural world fueled the creation of an extraordinary and unlikely institution in the American West. It also shows how the passion of youth is tempered and ripens with age into a balanced view of a natural world. Jim...Watch Movie
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Two Gun Gussie
When Sheriff Whooping-Cough Charlie mistakes Harold Lloyd's hapless piano player for a gunslinger, Lloyd learns that being a tough dude is all an act. That is, until he runs into the real thing at the bar! The place goes to pieces, but there's time for a kiss before this wild one-reeler is through.Watch Movie
