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Heads or Tails? (2025 film)
Heads or Tails? (Testa o croce?) is a 2025 Italian-American anti-Western by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi, and John C. Reilly as Buffalo Bill; Cannes Un Certain Regard 2025, inspired by the 1890 butteri legend.
Heaven's Gate (film)
Heaven's Gate (1980) is Michael Cimino's Western epic about the 1892 Johnson County War, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, and Isabelle Huppert; a roughly $36 million United Artists flop pulled after one week, later critically reappraised.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is a 2024 American Western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner, the first of a planned four-film saga.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 is Kevin Costner's 2024 Western drama, the second of four planned chapters, 190 minutes, premiered out of competition at Venice on September 7, 2024, but shelved in the U.S. after its August 16, 2024 theatrical date was pulled when Chapter 1 underperformed.
Hostiles (film)
Hostiles (2017) is an American Western directed by Scott Cooper, starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, and Wes Studi, adapted from a Donald Stewart manuscript; filmed in New Mexico, released January 2018, grossing $29.8 million. Distinct from the 2017 horror film Hostile.
In a Valley of Violence
In a Valley of Violence is a 2016 Western written and directed by Ti West, starring Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga, and James Ransone; a drifter's revenge after his dog is killed in the town of Denton, Texas.
Jane Got a Gun
Jane Got a Gun is a 2016 American Western directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, and Ewan McGregor, set in 1871 New Mexico Territory; notorious for its director and cast upheavals and a $1.5 million gross on a $25 million budget.
Killing Faith
Killing Faith is a 2025 supernatural Western thriller written and directed by Ned Crowley, starring Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, and Bill Pullman, about a freed slave and a doctor escorting a girl whose touch kills across the 1849 Arizona Territory; released by Shout! Studios.
Last Man Standing (1996 film)
Last Man Standing is a 1996 American action film directed by Walter Hill, starring Bruce Willis as a gunman who pits two bootlegging gangs against each other.
Long Shadows (film)
Long Shadows is a 2025 American Western, William Shockley's feature directorial debut, starring Blaine Maye, Dermot Mulroney, Jacqueline Bisset, and Dominic Monaghan; released November 7, 2025 by Quiver Distribution.
Maverick (film)
Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy directed by Richard Donner, adapted from the 1957–1962 television series, with Mel Gibson as gambler Bret Maverick and James Garner as Marshal Zane Cooper.
Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff: 2010 Kelly Reichardt Western, written by Jon Raymond, starring Michelle Williams and Bruce Greenwood. Slow, feminist retelling of Stephen Meek's lost 1845 Oregon Trail shortcut, shot in 1.33:1, Venice SIGNIS winner.
News of the World (film)
News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Tom Hanks as a newsreader escorting a girl raised by the Kiowa to her relatives.
Old Henry
Old Henry (2021) is an American action western written and directed by Potsy Ponciroli, starring Tim Blake Nelson as an Oklahoma farmer revealed as Billy the Kid. Premiered at Venice 2021, released October 1, 2021; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Open Range (2003 film)
Open Range (2003) is a Western directed by and starring Kevin Costner with Robert Duvall, based on Lauran Paine's novel The Open Range Men. Free grazers fight a rancher in 1882; released August 15, 2003, grossing $58.3 million.
Pale Rider
Pale Rider is Clint Eastwood's 1985 Western, written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, in which a mysterious Preacher defends California gold miners from Coy LaHood; a Shane-inspired Cannes competitor that earned $41.4 million on a $6.9 million budget.
Posse (1993 film)
Posse is a 1993 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles, about Black soldiers defending a Black town from the Ku Klux Klan.
Quigley Down Under
Quigley Down Under is a 1990 Australian-outback Western directed by Simon Wincer, starring Tom Selleck as sharpshooter Matthew Quigley, with Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman; John Hill's long-delayed script, filmed entirely in Australia for Pathé and released by MGM/UA in October 1990.
Ride with the Devil (film)
Ride with the Devil (1999), Ang Lee Civil War drama from Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, written by James Schamus, starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, and Jeffrey Wright as Missouri Bushwhacker guerrillas; a box-office flop later reissued by Criterion.
Rust (2024 film)
Rust (2024) is a Joel Souza Western starring Alec Baldwin as outlaw Harland Rust, completed after the 2021 on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, released May 2025 to mixed reviews.
Seraphim Falls
Seraphim Falls is a 2006 Western, David Von Ancken's feature directorial debut, starring Liam Neeson as Confederate colonel Carver hunting Pierce Brosnan's ex-Union officer Gideon across the 1868 West; filmed in New Mexico and Oregon, released January 2007.
Silverado (film)
Silverado (1985) is Lawrence Kasdan's ensemble Western starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, and Danny Glover, released by Columbia on July 10, 1985, shot in New Mexico, nominated for two Oscars, and restored to 4K in 2025.
Slow West
Slow West (2015) is John Maclean's feature-debut revisionist Western, a UK/New Zealand co-production starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee, set in 1870 Colorado but shot in New Zealand, winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Sukiyaki Western Django (スキヤキ・ウエスタン ジャンゴ) is Takashi Miike's 2007 Japanese western spoken entirely in English, remaking Corbucci's Django with Genji-Heike clan gangs, a Venice competition entry, and a Quentin Tarantino cameo.
Texas Rangers (2001 film)
Texas Rangers (2001) is a Steve Miner Western starring James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, and Ashton Kutcher, based on George Durham's book Taming the Nueces Strip; a $38 million Miramax/Dimension film that grossed only $763,740 worldwide.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 six-part Western anthology film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen for Netflix, starring Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, and Brendan Gleeson; their last film together to date.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a 2017 American Western written and directed by Jared Moshe, starring Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Jim Caviezel, and Kathy Baker. An aging sidekick avenges his senator partner's murder, is accused of it, and must expose the powerful men responsible; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Ballad of Little Jo is Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western starring Suzy Amis as Josephine Monaghan, a woman passing as a man in the frontier West, based on the real Jo Monaghan; released by Fine Line Features, it grossed about $543,091 domestically.
The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli is a 2010 post-apocalyptic Western directed by the Hughes brothers, starring Denzel Washington as a wanderer protecting the last Bible from Gary Oldman's warlord Carnegie; grossed $94.8M, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Dark Valley
The Dark Valley (Das finstere Tal) is a 2014 Austrian-German Alpine western drama by Andreas Prochaska, adapted from Thomas Willmann's novel, starring Sam Riley as a vengeful stranger; it won eight Lolas and was Austria's 87th Academy Awards submission.