Western Movie Synopses
Explore 115 detailed plot summaries for western films
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 • Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 • Sergio Leone
Django Unchained
2012 • Quentin Tarantino
For a Few Dollars More
1965 • Sergio Leone
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 • John Huston
El Infierno
2010 • Luis Estrada
Unforgiven
1992 • Clint Eastwood
Dances with Wolves
1990 • Kevin Costner
The Hateful Eight
2015 • Quentin Tarantino
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 • John Ford
Bacurau
2019 • Kleber Mendonça Filho
High Noon
1952 • Fred Zinnemann
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 • Kelly Asbury
Stagecoach
1939 • John Ford
The Big Country
1958 • William Wyler
The Wild Bunch
1969 • Sam Peckinpah
They Call Me Trinity
1970 • Enzo Barboni
Tombstone
1993 • George P. Cosmatos
The Revenant
2015 • Alejandro González Iñárritu
Legends of the Fall
1994 • Edward Zwick
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 • Clint Eastwood
3:10 to Yuma
1957 • Delmer Daves
Dead Man
1995 • Jim Jarmusch
Hell or High Water
2016 • David Mackenzie
High Plains Drifter
1973 • Clint Eastwood
Hud
1963 • Martin Ritt
Old Henry
2021 • Potsy Ponciroli
Red River
1948 • Howard Hawks
Shane
1953 • George Stevens
Spirit Untamed
2021 • Elaine Bogan
True Grit
2010 • Ethan Coen
True Grit
1969 • Henry Hathaway
8 Seconds
1994 • John G. Avildsen
Blazing Saddles
1974 • Mel Brooks
Open Range
2003 • Kevin Costner
Pale Rider
1985 • Clint Eastwood
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 • Sam Peckinpah
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 • Kim Jee-woon
Brimstone
2016 • Martin Koolhoven
Lawless
2012 • John Hillcoat
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 • Joel Coen
The Great Race
1965 • Blake Edwards
The Nightingale
2018 • Jennifer Kent
The Professionals
1966 • Richard Brooks
Eastern Western
2025 • Biliana Grozdanova
Fort Apache
1948 • John Ford
How the West Was Won
1962 • Henry Hathaway
The Dressmaker
2015 • Jocelyn Moorhouse
The Proposition
2005 • John Hillcoat
Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970 • Don Siegel
Big Jake
1971 • George Sherman
Bone Tomahawk
2015 • S. Craig Zahler
Hidalgo
2004 • Joe Johnston
News of the World
2020 • Paul Greengrass
Silverado
1985 • Lawrence Kasdan
Far and Away
1992 • Ron Howard
Hang 'em High
1968 • Ted Post
Let Him Go
2020 • Thomas Bezucha
The Sisters Brothers
2018 • Jacques Audiard
Westworld
1973 • Michael Crichton
Wyatt Earp
1994 • Lawrence Kasdan
Broken Arrow
1950 • Delmer Daves
Last of the Dogmen
1995 • Tab Murphy
Last of the Renegades
1964 • Harald Reinl
Millionaires' Express
1986 • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Rust
2025 • Joel Souza
Slow West
2015 • John Maclean
The Power of the Dog
2021 • Jane Campion
Young Guns
1988 • Christopher Cain
Appaloosa
2008 • Ed Harris
McLintock!
1963 • Andrew V. McLaglen
Oklahoma!
1955 • Fred Zinnemann
Oscar Shaw
2026 • R. Ellis Frazier
Tall in the Saddle
1944 • Edwin L. Marin
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951 • Michael Gordon
Will Penny
1967 • Tom Gries
Frontera
2014 • Michael Berry
The Big Sky
1952 • Howard Hawks
The Magnificent Seven
2016 • Antoine Fuqua
Young Guns II
1990 • Geoff Murphy
Eddington
2025 • Ari Aster
Hangman's Knot
1952 • Roy Huggins
In the Lost Lands
2025 • Paul W. S. Anderson
Last Man Standing
1996 • Walter Hill
Outland
1981 • Peter Hyams
Shanghai Noon
2000 • Tom Dey
The Thicket
2024 • Elliott Lester
Americana
2025 • Tony Tost
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991 • Phil Nibbelink
Duel at Diablo
1966 • Ralph Nelson
The Missing
2003 • Ron Howard
The Unholy Trinity
2025 • Richard Gray
¡Three Amigos!
1986 • John Landis
Extreme Prejudice
1987 • Walter Hill
Gunslingers
2025 • Brian Skiba
In a Valley of Violence
2016 • Ti West
The Legend of Zorro
2005 • Martin Campbell
The Lone Ranger
2013 • Gore Verbinski
American Outlaws
2001 • Les Mayfield
Bandidas
2006 • Joachim Rønning
Once Upon a Time in China and America
1997 • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Peace Hotel
1995 • Wai Ka-Fai
Cowboys & Aliens
2011 • Jon Favreau
How the West Was Fun
1994 • Stuart Margolin
The Maverick Queen
1956 • Joseph Kane
Bad Girls
1994 • Jonathan Kaplan
Killing Faith
2025 • Ned Crowley
Wild Wild West
1999 • Barry Sonnenfeld
The Ridiculous 6
2015 • Frank Coraci
Jonah Hex
2010 • Jimmy Hayward
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
1976 • Barry Shear
Honor of the West
1939 • George Waggner
Ranger Courage
1937 • Spencer Gordon Bennet
Steele of the Royal Mounted
1925 • David Smith
The Laramie Trail
1944 • John English