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10 Classic Western Films

The Coen brothers'latest film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is showing.It talks about the old west through six chapters. Each of chapters show a distinctly different type of Western which make person have a different sensibility about Western.

Now as a western film,The Ballad of Buster Scruggs might be the best set of stories Netflix has ever released. 

In fact,western film is the most unique genre of film in Hollywood movies.Today let's review top 10 classic western films.Like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rio Bravo,The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West and so on.


3:10 to Yuma
Release Date
2007-09-07
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Tree Line Films, Lionsgate
  • Director : James Mangold, Sheila Waldron, Mamie Mitchell
  • Stars : Russell Crowe , Christian Bale , Peter Fonda
  • In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
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True Grit
Release Date
2010-12-22
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Skydance Productions
  • Director : Thomas Johnston, Betsy Magruder
  • Stars : Hailee Steinfeld , Jeff Bridges , Matt Damon
  • Die 14-jährige Mattie Ross ist fest entschlossen, den kaltblütigen Mord an ihrem Vater nicht ungesühnt zu lassen. Da die Behörden ihr nicht helfen, will sie den feigen Mörder Tom Chaney mit eigenen Mitteln seiner gerechten Strafe zuführen. Für 100 Dollar engagiert sie den trunksüchtigen und raubeinigen U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, der es mit dem Gesetz selbst alles andere als genau nimmt. Widerwillig lässt er sich von Mattie überreden, sie auf die Jagd nach Chaney mit zu nehmen - quer durch die gesetzlosen Weiten der Prärie. Doch sie sind nicht allein, denn auch Texas Ranger LaBoeuf will den Flüchtigen stellen, um eine Kopfprämie zu kassieren, die auf Chaney wegen eines weiteren Mordes ausgesetzt ist. Unfreiwillig ziehen sie zu dritt weiter und schon bald kommt Mattie dem Mörder ihres Vaters gefährlich nah...
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A Fistful of Dollars
Release Date
1967-01-18
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : United Artists, Constantin Film
  • Director : Franco Giraldi, Julio Sempere, Mario Caiano
  • Stars : Clint Eastwood , Marianne Koch , Gian Maria Volonté
  • The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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Dances with Wolves
Release Date
1990-11-09
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Tig Productions, Majestic Films International
  • Director : Jan Evans, Angela Robinson, Kevin Costner
  • Stars : Kevin Costner , Mary McDonnell , Graham Greene
  • Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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Unforgiven
Release Date
1992-08-07
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Bill Bannerman, Grant Lucibello, Tom Rooker
  • Stars : Clint Eastwood , Gene Hackman , Morgan Freeman
  • William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Release Date
1962-04-13
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Paramount, John Ford Productions
  • Director : John Ford, Wingate Smith, Bud Brill
  • Stars : John Wayne , James Stewart , Vera Miles
  • A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Release Date
1969-07-04
  • Rate : 8.5
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Rafran Cinematografica
  • Director : Sergio Leone, Giancarlo Santi
  • Stars : Claudia Cardinale , Henry Fonda , Jason Robards
  • As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
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The Wild Bunch
Release Date
1969-06-19
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
  • Director : Clifford C. Coleman, Sam Peckinpah, Crayton Smith
  • Stars : William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Robert Ryan
  • An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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Rio Bravo
Release Date
1959-03-18
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director : Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick
  • Stars : John Wayne , Dean Martin , Angie Dickinson
  • The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Release Date
1979-09-01
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