Westerns worth watching
by ysabelkid42 | created - 06 Feb 2018 | updated - 4 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Office Space (1999)
R | 89 min | Comedy
Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu
Votes: 287,772 | Gross: $10.82M
2. The Young Riders (1989–1992)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The adventures of the riders of the Pony Express.
Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Ty Miller, Gregg Rainwater
Votes: 2,485
3. Bad Girls (1994)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore
Votes: 13,556 | Gross: $15.24M
4. Lonesome Dove (1989)
TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane
Votes: 25,937
5. Hidalgo (2004)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson, Louise Lombard
Votes: 85,577 | Gross: $67.29M
6. Comanche Moon (2008)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Western
The adventures and love lives of young Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae leading up to their retirement to the city of Lonesome Dove.
Stars: Steve Zahn, Ryan Merriman, Keith D. Robinson, Wes Studi
Votes: 3,290
7. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
PG-13 | 272 min | Western
In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove", two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that's on a mission to annex Santa Fe.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 1,932
8. Streets of Laredo (1995)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama, Western
Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern railroad baron to track down Joey Garza, a new breed of killer.
Stars: James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty
Votes: 2,299
9. Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995–1996)
TV-14 | 42 min | Western
After two years spent bounty hunting, womanizing, and drinking away the painful memories of his late wife, Hannah, Newt Call returns to town to find many things have changed.
Stars: Scott Bairstow, Eric McCormack, Kelly Rowan, Paul Johansson
Votes: 602
10. Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994–1995)
42 min | Western
The life and times of Newt Call as he set out to make his way in the world. Newt took part in some of the major events of the Western era, while meeting some of the legendary figures of the frontier.
Stars: Scott Bairstow, Christianne Hirt, Eric McCormack, Paul Le Mat
Votes: 790
11. The Sacketts (1979)
PG | 240 min | Drama, Western
After the Civil War, Tennessee brothers Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are herding cattle out West while Tell Sackett is prospecting for gold in the hills.
Stars: Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage, Glenn Ford
Votes: 2,215
12. Crossfire Trail (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western
Rafe promises a dying friend to look after his wife and 40,000 acre ranch in Wyoming. A powerful businessman wants the ranch and widow by whatever means necessary.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, David O'Hara
Votes: 3,672
13. Rough Riders (1997)
16+ | 240 min | Action, Drama, History
Undersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called "The Rough Riders" to fight in the Spanish-American War.
Stars: Tom Berenger, Sam Elliott, Gary Busey, Brad Johnson
Votes: 2,286
14. Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
TV-14 | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance
Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger
Votes: 29,347
15. Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
TV-14 | 81 min | Drama, Western
Head back to Lonesome Dove in this sequel to one of the most-loved miniseries of all time.
Stars: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Ricky Schroder, William Petersen
Votes: 2,898
16. Into the West (2005)
TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans.
Stars: Joseph M. Marshall, Irene Bedard, Gil Birmingham, John Terry
Votes: 7,557
17. The Harder They Fall (2021)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Western
When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge.
Director: Jeymes Samuel | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, RJ Cyler, Edi Gathegi
Votes: 71,251
18. True Women (1997)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
Stars: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Michael York
Votes: 2,511
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