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Essential Westerns You Need to See in Your Lifetime

This is a list of the best Westerns that you need to see in your lifetime. The western is a genre of movies 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 The Great Train Robbery (1903), 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 (2007)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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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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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
6
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
7
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
8
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
9
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
10
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
11
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   71%
12
Django (1966)
Django (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
13
Django Unchained (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
14
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
15
El Topo (1970)
El Topo (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
16
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
17
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
18
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   61%
19
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
20
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
21
The Great Silence (1968)
The Great Silence (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
23
The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   74%
24
Hell or High Water (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
25
High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
26
High Plains Drifter (1973)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
27
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
28
Logan (2017)
Logan (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
29
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
30
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
31
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
32
No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
33
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
34
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
35
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
36
The Power of the Dog (2021)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
37
The Proposition (2005)
The Proposition (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
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Rango (2011)
Rango (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
39
The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
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Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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