Best Western Movies & Films Subgenre

Top 21 must-see best western movies from western movies, including Bone Tomahawk, Near Dark, Blood Quantum, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Old Ways, The Wind, The Burrowers, Ravenous, Vampires, and Tremors 4: The Legend Begins ranked and rated by score.


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Western Movies List

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1). Bone Tomahawk (2015) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.87/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 130,943 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1/10 | Metascore: 7.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R
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Plot / Synopsis: S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk (2015) is a horror western that is about cannibals in the old west. Watched the trailer and noticed that the film does seem to take a slower paced western feel build up. RLJ Entertainment is releasing the film on VOD and iTunes this October 23, 2015. Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili...

Director: S. Craig Zahler
Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons


2). Near Dark (1987) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 47,748 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $3,369,307
Plot / Synopsis: A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter.Tagline: Killing you would be easy, they'd rather terrify you...forever...

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein


3). Blood Quantum (2019) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.98/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 5,792 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: The term "blood quantum" refers to a colonial blood measurement system that is used to determine an individual's Indigenous status, and is criticized as a tool of control and erasure of Indigenous peoples. The words take on even more provocative implications as the title of Jeff Barnaby's sophomore feature, which grimly depicts an apocalyptic scenario where in an isolated...

Director: Jeff Barnaby
Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Olivia Scriven


4). From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.46/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 357,821 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10 | Metascore: 4.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $25,836,616
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Plot / Synopsis: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.Tagline: A terrifying evil has been unleashed. And five strangers are our only hope to stop it...

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu


5). The Old Ways (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.38/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 8,880 | Metascore: 6.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
The Old Ways is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated...

Director: Christopher Alender
Stars: Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, AJ Bowen


6). The Wind (2018) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 8.2/10 | Metascore: 6.6/10 | MPAA Rating: 0 | Gross: $28,252
Plot / Synopsis: A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard (INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY) as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land. The film is directed by Emma Tami, written by Teresa Sutherland and stars Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, and Julia Goldani Telles. It was produced by...

Director: Emma Tammi
Stars: Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Ashley Zukerman, Dylan McTee, Miles Anderson


7). The Burrowers (2008) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,592 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.Tagline: Evil will surface...

Director: J.T. Petty
Stars: Clancy Brown, David Busse, Harley Coriz, Jocelin Donahue, Alexandra Edmo


8). Ravenous (1999) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.07/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 45,380 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.2/10 | Metascore: 4.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $2,062,405
Plot / Synopsis: In a remote military outpost in the 19th Century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sad**tic cannibal.Tagline: Survival is the only option...

Director: Antonia Bird
Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones


9). Vampires (1998) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.64/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 66,385 | Rotten Tomatoes: 4.4/10 | Metascore: 4.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $20,308,772
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Plot / Synopsis: Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight.Tagline: The blood confrontation of the ages is about to begin...

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell


10). Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 14,750 | MPAA Rating: PG-13
Plot / Synopsis: A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer's ancestor, Hiram.Tagline: A Revolution Has Begun...

Director: S.S. Wilson
Stars: Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago, Brent Roam, August Schellenberg


11). Ghost Town (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.89/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,911 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $75,000
Plot / Synopsis: Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman. Tagline: The good. The bad. The Satanic...

Directors: Richard McCarthy, Mac Ahlberg
Stars: Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover


13). The Pale Door (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 4.5/10 | Metascore: 3.9/10 | MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: The Dalton gang finds shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after a train robbery goes south. Seeking help for their wounded leader, they are surprised to stumble upon a welcoming brothel in the town's square. But the beautiful women who greet them are actually a coven of witches with very sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws...

Director: Aaron B. Koontz
Stars: Melora Walters, Natasha Bassett, Zachary Knighton, Noah Segan, Bill Sage


14). Gallowwalkers (2012) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.12/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 8,558 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A cursed gunman (Snipes) whose victims come back from the dead recruits a young warrior to help in the fight against a gang of zombies. Tagline: Live by the gun. Die by the gun. Come back for more...

Director: Andrew Goth
Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kevin Howarth, Riley Smith, Tanit Phoenix Copley, Simona Roman


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