Genre "Revisionist Western" Movies
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| 1. American Outlaws (year: 2001) |
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This loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor and ...
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| 2. Apache (year: 1954) |
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Apache was based on Paul I. Wellman's novel Broncho Apache, which in turn was inspired by a true story. Burt Lancaster plays Massai, a lieutenant of t ...
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| 3. Avenging Angel (year: 2007) |
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A man of the cloth takes up arms to avenge the violent murder of his wife and child in this made for television western starring Kevin Sorbo, Wings Ha ...
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| 4. Bandidas (year: 2006) |
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Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of producer/screenwriter Luc Besson (L ...
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| 5. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (year: 1974) |
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Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trou ...
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| 6. Conagher (year: 1991) |
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This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the budding relationship between b ...
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| 7. Dances with Wolves (year: 1990) |
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A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians, Kevin Costner's directorial debut was also a surpri ...
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| 8. Firecreek (year: 1968) |
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Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a band of recent returnees fr ...
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| 9. High Plains Drifter (year: 1973) |
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"Who are you?" the dwarf Mordecai (Billy Curtis) asks Clint Eastwood's Stranger at the end of Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter. & ...
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| 10. Jeremiah Johnson (year: 1972) |
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Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. A ...
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| 11. Joe Kidd (year: 1972) |
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In John Sturges' Americanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New ...
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| 12. Johnny Guitar (year: 1954) |
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title ...
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| 13. Once Upon a Time in the West (year: 1968) |
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In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on ...
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| 14. Ride the High Country (year: 1962) |
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This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would unexpec ...
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| 15. September Dawn (year: 2007) |
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Director Christopher Cain takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism with this romantic drama set against the backdrop ...
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| 16. Seraphim Falls (year: 2006) |
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Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War ...
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| 17. Silverado (year: 1985) |
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Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the tow ...
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| 18. Soldier Blue (year: 1970) |
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A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Be ...
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| 19. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (year: 1966) |
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In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastw ...
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| 20. The Outlaw Josey Wales (year: 1976) |
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Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the he ...
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