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100 Most Essential Westerns of All Time

The western is a genre of movies that are set in the American West in the 19th and early 20th centuries, prominently featuring cowboys, gunslingers, bandits, Native American tribe members, and other archetypal characters of western fiction. Although the genre's roots can be traced even earlier to 1903's The Great Train Robbery, director John Ford is usually considered to have shaped the Western into a distinct film form with films such as The Iron Horse (1924) and Stagecoach (1939), the latter of which ushered an era of extreme popularity for the genre. Westerns differed from most other early movies of the United States in their use of location photography. They also made liberal use of typecasting with actors such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood reprising essentially the same role in each of their movies and becoming iconic figures in the process.
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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Aferim! (2015)
Aferim! (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes®   76%
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Bacurau (2019)
Bacurau (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
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Bend of the River (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
9
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Big Gundown (1966)
The Big Gundown (1966)
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
12
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
13
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
14
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
15
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   71%
16
Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
17
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   40%
18
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Django (1966)
Django (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Django Unchained (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
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A Dog's Will (2000)
A Dog's Will (2000)
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Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   75%
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El Dorado (1966)
El Dorado (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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El Topo (1970)
El Topo (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
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The Far Country (1954)
The Far Country (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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First Cow (2019)
First Cow (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
28
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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For a Few Dollars More (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
30
Fort Apache (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
Forty Guns (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
32
Giant (1956)
Giant (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
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The Great Silence (1968)
The Great Silence (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Greed (1924)
Greed (1924)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
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The Gunfighter (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   74%
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes®   59%
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