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Top Westerns

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
3 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
4 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
5 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
6 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
7 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
8 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
9 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
10 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
11 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
12 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
13 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
14 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
15 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
16 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
17 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
18 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
19 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
20 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
21 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 383
22 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
23 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 468
24 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 539
25 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 541
26 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 558
27 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 579
28 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
29 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 620
30 Giant 1956 George Stevens 641
31 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
32 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 681
33 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
34 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 688
35 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 710
36 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 712
37 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 780
38 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 836
39 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 867
40 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 909
41 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 910
42 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
43 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 933
44 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 934
45 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 951
46 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1009
47 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1017
48 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1023
49 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1050
50 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold 1059
51 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1097
52 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1104
53 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne 1109
54 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1110
55 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack 1155
56 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1169
57 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1197
58 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1201
59 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1285
60 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
61 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1293
62 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1319
63 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1450
64 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1471
65 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1478
66 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1479
67 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1480
68 Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner 1504
69 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves 1519
70 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
71 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1550
72 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci 1583
73 Duck, You Sucker 1971 Sergio Leone 1676
74 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1697
75 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1704
76 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1707
77 Ulzana's Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich 1760
78 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1788
79 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 1791
80 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1823
81 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1837
82 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan 1839
83 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher 1853
84 Pale Rider 1985 Clint Eastwood 1877
85 The Proposition 2005 John Hillcoat 1878
86 Wagon Master 1950 John Ford 1890
87 The Long Riders 1980 Walter Hill 1944
88 Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler 1947
89 The Iron Horse 1924 John Ford 1956
90 The Shooting 1966 Monte Hellman 1958
91 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2026
92 Rancho Notorious 1952 Fritz Lang 2156
93 Rango 2011 Gore Verbinski 2164
94 Meek's Cutoff 2010 Kelly Reichardt 2171
95 El Dorado 1967 Howard Hawks 2172
96 Ride Lonesome 1959 Budd Boetticher 2197
97 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2205
98 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 Don Coscarelli 2253
99 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy 2266
100 Major Dundee 1965 Sam Peckinpah 2311
101 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 Tommy Lee Jones 2325
102 Antonio das Mortes 1969 Glauber Rocha 2330
103 Hell or High Water 2016 David Mackenzie 2457
104 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2464
105 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2475
106 They Died with Their Boots on 1941 Raoul Walsh 2487
107 Dodge City 1939 Michael Curtiz 2540
108 ¡Three Amigos! 1986 John Landis 2616
109 Lonesome Dove 1989 Simon Wincer 2658
110 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2668
111 The Harvey Girls 1946 George Sidney 2691
112 The Westerner 1940 William Wyler 2724
113 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 2763
114 Will Penny 1967 Tom Gries 2794
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