Rango

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 2 Mar 2011 · English

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.

Boss Nigger

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 17 Aug 1975 · English

Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

The White Buffalo

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 1 May 1977 · English

In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.

Support Your Local Sheriff!

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 26 Mar 1969 · English

In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.

Death of a Gunfighter

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 25 Apr 1969 · English

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town, on hiring him, had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

The Gunfighter

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 26 May 1950 · English

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Open Range

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 11 Aug 2003 · English

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Hombre

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 21 Mar 1967 · English

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Young Guns II

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 1 Aug 1990 · English

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 1 Dec 1972 · English

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 1 Jul 1975 · English

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.

The Last Wagon

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 21 Sept 1956 · English

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.