Best Western movies of 1980s

Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Urban Cowboy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.



The Long Riders(1980)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 49

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.



¡Three Amigos!(1986)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.



Pale Rider(1985)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.



Heaven's Gate(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.



Young Guns II(1990)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.



Lust in the Dust(1985)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.



Rustlers' Rhapsody(1985)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and ...



Straight to Hell(1987)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of ...



The Mountain Men(1980)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor, and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.



Occhio alla penna(1981)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discover gold under the village.



Barbarosa(1982)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law.



The Man from Snowy River II(1988)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.



Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat(1989)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.



The Legend of the Lone Ranger(1981)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The sole surviving Texas Ranger of an ambush arranged by Butch Cavandish returns to fight back as a masked hero.



Foo gwai lit che(1986)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its ...



Windwalker(1980)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians ...



Django 2 - Il grande ritorno(1987)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A gunfighter-turned-monk returns to his former life when his estranged daughter is kidnapped by a Hungarian slaver.



Ghost Town(1988)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.




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