Stacker's 100 Best Western Films of All Time According to Fans (Nov2023 Update)
"Exploring myths around American identity, Westerns are always set in the "frontier," a land untamed by an eastern, city-slicker mindset. These movies explore the cowboy figure, embodied by actors such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, who are bolstered by their moral flaws as they wander through settings rendered in stunning panoramic cinematography. Western themes obsess over codes of honor, justice, & gender; what it means to be a man. The cowboy figure in Westerns seems authentic, not carefully crafted through symbols, myths, and fantasies. While they haven't all withstood the test of time, for many movie fans, Westerns are classics. Stacker surveyed all Westerns classified as feature films and TV movies with more than 5,000 user votes on IMDb. Films are ranked by IMDb user scores, & ties were broken by the number of votes. Read on for the best of classic Westerns directed by John Ford, Sergio Leone, and others, as well as recent revisions of the genre & its themes." - stacker.com
avg. score: 36 of 100 (36%)
required scores: 1, 10, 26, 43, 60
