Best Western movies

Lightning Jack(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how ...



Junior Bonner(1972)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.



The War Wagon(1967)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.



Breakheart Pass(1975)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 12

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.



Good for Nothing(2011)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A young English woman is immigrating to her uncle's ranch - but is kidnapped on the way by a rugged outlaw who discovers a problem he never knew he had - leading them on a wild ride across the West.



Big Jake(1971)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 5

In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Big Jake McCandles' grandson and hold him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.



Das finstere Tal(2014)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Through a hidden path a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.



Surrounded(2023)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Former Buffalo Soldier Mo Washington travels West to lay claim on a gold mine. After her stagecoach is ambushed, Mo is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit's gang tries to free him.



Dust(2001)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. A burglar is held at gunpoint and forced to listen to a story. At the turn of the 20th Century, two brothers feud over a woman. She ...



The Ballad of Little Jo(1993)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-nineteenth century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's ...



Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità(1971)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.



Cheyenne Autumn(1964)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.



Nevada Smith(1966)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A naive half-Indian, half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.



Il grande silenzio(1968)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.



The Wind(2018)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard (INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY) as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of...



Chisum(1970)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.



Bad Girls(1994)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.



Support Your Local Gunfighter(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.



Bite the Bullet(1975)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.



Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson(1976)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.




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