Top 10 BEST Western Movies Ever Made
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- Official countdown of the top 10 greatest western movies based on their IMDB ratings as of 2022, including old-school classics, spaghetti western favourites and even some modern masterpieces.
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For a Few Dollars More is superb, the initial uneasy partnership between Clint and LVC slowly grew throughout the movie until its satisfying culmination in the end. Loved it.
I agree. I like it a lot more than the first film and it's at least a match for the third.
Thank you! I catch so much crap for placing For a Few Dollars More as my favorite of the trilogy.
@@mantislake4141 It is indeed the finest of the trilogy.
Yesss I think it's wayyy better than the good the bad and the ugly in both pacing, character dynamics and villains
I would have included "The Outlaw Josey Wales". The scene with Josey and Ten Bears (Will Sampson) is one of my favorite movie scenes ever.
"Now spit"
I reckon so.@@ericcouch
"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie"
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Once Upon a time in the west
3. Unforgiven
4. For a few more dollars
5. Django Unchained
6. Butch Cassidy and the sundance Kid
7. The searchers
8. High Noon
9. A Fitful of dollars
10. A fistful of dynamite
11. The Outlaw Josey Wales
12. True Gritt (Both)
13. The hateful 8
14. The great silence
15. Rio Bravo
I like a lot of those. I stopped watching Tarantino films several years ago so I won't bother with him.
@@trhansen3244 I agree Django is not worth watching. Tarantino makes very low IQ reverse scenario films
Where would you rate The Magnificent Seven?
Tombstone needs to be in the top 10
True . Although there is a bit of overacting going on in it
I enjoy Tombstone and think it was better than one or two on this list. That said, I could name 20 better westerns
Based on imdb ratings, so it's not really the best 10 westerns. Online lists are always skewed more modern films to an extent (Django Unchained).
@@matthewsanders5460 ok let’s hear them, I’ve been on a western binge lately, I need some recommendations.
It was aight, I just watched Red River it was great
I'd like to see Tombstone, The Magnificent 7 & Silverado in the top 10....at least for me they should be in there.
They aren't top ten caliber. They are very good movies but they are up against masterpieces.
@@castlerock58 Tombstone is easily in top 3. From production, acting and top level actors, to the action and fight scenes. That scene alone of them walking to the OK Coral with the music was so dramatic and nothing I've seen in any other movie.
Open Range deserves a spot on that list
great movie
Absolutely. But a Top 10 Westerns list is very hard..... one almost has to do it by decades!
@@TwoTonePictures it is hard, and most of the listed films would not be on it.
Best western, best adventure, best buddy movie, best musical score and best movie ever, all in one. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
not about the American west - about Italian attitudes and history
@@user-hr1km9ww7o here you are pretty wrong. Leone was a history buff and way of showing the west - in this case during the civil war - is damn good.
My favorite all-time film, and best music score ever. I was fortunate to see this first-run in the theater in 1968.
Great list! Was surprised not to see "Searchers" or "Outlaw Josey Wales"
It's not a great list at all, it's clickbait content mass produced.
@@101mazzThat explains why the Coen‘s „True Grit“ didn‘t make it.
That the searchers was omitted invalidates the entire list
I agree. Any list of great westerns that does not include both of these films cannot be taken seriously.
What are your guys top 5. Been plying red dead redemption. I’ve become obsessed w the western era Can you guys put me on w good movies
the sergio leone triology was top tier!!
Why is not a single person mentioning "The Wild Bunch"? The greatest Western ever made.
Agreed
His listing is wrong. Yes, The Wild Bunch is top two. And The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is not a western!
@@frederickpando9444the treasure of sierra madre is an adventure western
Not to mention Broken Trail, Open Range, The Searchers, Tue Grit (both versions), Tombstone. I could go on.
Red river
Once upon a time in the West is #1 for me. Bronson, Jason Robards and Henry Fonda, all at their best!
Any history of the very best western movies *must* include Stagecoach, Red River, Rio Bravo, and The Searchers.
Red River is a western Mutiny on the Bounty(Clark Gable version)
Agree Good Bad Ugly, a complete movie, Eli Wallach should of received an academy award!
Should have not of or should've.
Life long western fan here.
Unforgiven is the best ever made. A near perfect western.
The Shootist is the best one left out.
I'll give to give Django Unchanged another chance. Didn't finish it. Seemed very contrived. I'm a big Tarantino fan though and it's so well rated, I'll have to see it.
Good list. I don't feel Sierra Madre is a western in the traditional sense, so I would probably include The Magnificent Seven instead. Also, I'm sure many feel The Searchers belongs on there (but I don't necessarily agree). Overall I agree with your list, especially #1 and 2.
I think The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach are a few I would have included.
the final scene of stagecoach when they are escaping on the wagon is EPIC ! just saw it recently @@trhansen3244
Bogart never really did Westerns. I wonder why ? Shame, as he would've made a great cowboy. Great though it is, Sierra Madre isn't a Western. It doesn't have any of the criteria.
Some odd choices, much better ones missing.
Lol😂
Django Unchained is the big one on this list that sticks out, it's decent but not top 10 and I also don't think Dances with Wolves belongs on this list.
@@EddieHenderson92 A matter of taste I guess, I've seen it once, but wouldn't watch it again. While I can watch many other westerns over and over again.
1) The Good The Bad and The Ugly ; 2) Rio Bravo ; 3) Tombstone ; 4) The Alamo ( original ) ; 5) The Revenant ; 6) The Outlaw Josey Wales ; 7) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ;
8) Ride The High Country ; 9) The Professionals ; 10) Appaloosa
Not even close
Great list
What about the wild bunch?
Not The Revenant! Please no!
Nice
The Outlaw Josey Wales was a favourite as a kid. For me, it took Clint Eastwood to a new level. Great list though! Thanks for the video.
The Magnificent Seven should be here, as well The Oxbow Incident, Red River and The Wild Bunch.
The harmonica payoff in once upon is just so damn good.
1. Unforgiven
2. The Searchers
3. The Good the Bad & the Ugly
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
6. My Darling Clementine
7. Shane
8. The Gunfighter
9. High Noon
10. Stagecoach
I agree with all of those except 1, 6, 7 and 9. The Gunfighter is an excellent film, doesn't get near enough attention.
STAGECOACH not being in here is a mortal sin man
Once upon a time is the greatest western ever. I was surprised that the Magnificent Seven didn’t get a mention.
Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Open Range should all be on this list.
We're gonna need a bigger list. 😉
You had me 'til Tombstone.
Wyatt Earp stinks! :D
@@PandyBong for the record out the ones I listed it is my least favorite.
@@mantislake4141 Tombstone is the most popular western in the last 30 or so years. I get people have a soft spot for Clint Eastwood but Tombstone was the best action western produced, maybe ever with a bunch of top level actors.
Loved The Magnificent Seven, but spot on with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Like you said, one of the best movies ever made.
Magnificent Seven is ok but so inferior to Seven Samurai I just can't rank it near the top
I do like it though
Calavera in The Magnificent Seven, served as an early prototype of Tuco (the Good the Bad and the Ugly) as did the more anglicized Charlie Gant (How the West was Won). IMHO, without Eli as Tuco, G,B&U would not be on this list.
@@Querymonger So sick of hearing about Seven Samurai, when 9 out of 10 film lovers would rather watch The Magnificent Seven.
@@trhansen3244Wrong. Theres a reason you keep hearing about it
@@Querymonger Because people want to be appear more sophisticated than they really are.
Liked your video, I'm 67 For a few.......was my first western at age 15 on my birthday, enjoyed all westerns and continuing movies I missed. Thank you
All great movies, but I submit two more for consideration: The Magnificent Seven (original) and The Outlaw Josey Wales. But I will have to say that my two favorites to watch multiple times are Silverado and Big Jake.
Outlaw Josey Wales is a great western. Silverado is so close to being a top western but I think they included a few too many characters and I usually love Jeff Goldblum but I think he was wasted in that film.
@@footbru I don't think anyone really cares about any silly Samurai movies. That's why no one mentions it.
Why isn't Shane at the top of this list? And what about "The Big Country," for which folk-singer Burl Ives deservedly won an Oscar as best supporting actor?
Shane best western ever
Young Guns is the Western I've watched the most over the years
One of the best!
Where in the hell is The Wild Bunch?
Yes where?
For me the wild bunch is number 1
Love the vids! It's rad to have a channel just for one of my favorite genres! Looking forward to more cool stuff in 2023!
Popularity is not the best measure of a great western. It is a poor metric which requires no contribution containing insight or understanding on your part and so what is the point of your channel? I could get this lineup of westerns from people in an elevator or lobby. Here is a more esoteric list in no particular order:
Joe Kidd, Jeremiah Johnson, Ulzana’s Raid, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Buster Scruggs, Open Range, Rio Bravo, McLintock, Tombstone. The spaghetti western should be a separate category. Westerns are an American genre. Although I enjoy the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, some of the soundtrack could gag a maggot and the distortion of history and the horrible dialogue is the exact opposite of the clean, direct beauty of Ride Lonesome. I don’t like the portrayal of Indians in Ride Lonesome but the movie is otherwise perfect.
Glad to see Once Upon a Time in the West at number 2, and your high praise. One of my favorite movies of all time. Period.
High Noon is one of the best movies ever made.
I’ve always loved “the man who shot liberty valance”…..lee Marvin’s liberty valance is up their with Val kilmers Doc Holliday
Great minds think alike 💯👍
It's a brilliant western, with three great actors at their very best.
It's a masterpiece.
The outlaw Jose Wales has to be in top 10 if not no 1
My Top 5 western movies are
1 Broken Arrow- James Stewart
2 The good the bad and the Ugly - Eastwood
3 '73 Winchester- James Stewart
4 3:10 to Yuma - Glen Ford (1957)
5 Gunfight at O.K Corral - Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Honorary mentions to Actors
John Wayne, Henry Fonda Lee van Cleefe and Randolph Scott.
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years old and liked it a lot.
When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error.
Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?”
Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.”
WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run!
As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!”
I immediately turned the movie off.
Excellent examples - except for the Italian lesson in Vendetta.
I would find a place for They Still Call Me Trinity.
While I love the entire Trinity series and their slapstick humor, I could never place them on a list of the best western movies. That being said, they are still awesome .@@trhansen3244
A terrific list of Westerns for sure…….The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gets my vote. In more recent times Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall has become one of my major favourites.
A good list. You are correct in saying that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the best Western as well as a top movie in general.
In my opinion Unforgiven deserve a place amongst top 3. And Clint Eastwood ‘s Outlaw Josey Wales deserve to be in top three.Then the guy has missed more deserving movies like The Professionals, Open Range, Magnificent Sevens, movies made on Gun fight at O K Corral and few others ( at the moment I am unable to remember)...
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years-old and liked it a lot.
When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error.
Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?”
Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.”
WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April 22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run!
As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!”
I immediately turned the movie off.
the Scalphunters -Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters; Cowboy -Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon; the Wild Bunch - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan...usually get overlooked, but they´re first rate !!
1. The Outlaw Josie Wales
2. Tombstone
3. Open Range
4. True Grit (John Wayne)
5. The Man Who shot Liberty Valence
6. High Plains Drifter
7. Unforgiven
8. The Searchers
9. Rio Bravo
10. Pale Rider
Tombstone, The 3 Amigos, Fort Apache, How The West Was Won, Jeremiah Johnson, Blazing Saddles, Outlaw Josef Wales, The Magnificent 7, War Wagon. Best series Lonesome Dove, Hell On Wheels, Deadwood, The Lone Ranger/Gunsmoke/Yellowstone.
I miss Vera Cruz, Winchester 73, Rio Bravo and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Quiggly Down Under is also a great "western" movies and I didn't read anyone else mentioning it. Tom Selleck has some outstanding westerns in his filmography.
It's in my western top . Such a great one. And selleck is one of my most favorite western actors.
Barf me
@@BluesmanDizzy
I liked Quigley Down Under when it hit video rental shelves. I have no idea if I would like it as much today.
@@GladiusOstentis It still works for me. I've watched the movie about ten times, and still like it just as much as the first time I saw it. Planning on another session soon.
And the sacketts
Thanks for the list, which includes many gems. My Darling Clementine is a very great film and this western and should feature in more Top 10 Western lists than it does.
I'm a western addict, my favourite film is 'veracruz' Burt Lancester, must see film, great movie...
All 10 of them are masterpieces, great movies ❤❤🎞🎞👍👍
LVC is and always will be the man!!
Great list!!! Love them all!!! And love the western genre!!! However, Outlaw Josey Wales needs to be in here also!!! And even perhaps High Plains Drifter. (For just its uniqueness)
Good list, but simply switch #1 and #2 and there you have it. Once Upon a Time in the West is an amazing film, for me, #1. And a lot of people have never seen it.
1. Tombstone
2. Good the bad & the ugly.
3. The Searchers
4. Outlaw Jose Wales
5. El Dorado
6. True Grit (original)
7. The Unforgiven
8. Stagecoach
9. Man in the Wilderness
10. Dances With Wolves
Oh ... MAN IN THE WILDERNESS ... one of the most underrated westerns. Along with THE LAST HUNT, WESTWARD THE WOMEN, YELLOW SKY and THE UNFORGIVEN.
I've seen every one of these westerns and you're correct. They're all great films. A couple of my favorites are "The Long Riders" and "Rango."
Great Job!!! Excellent Effort. Thanks
Only a couple of these would make my top 10. Hardly any of the classics are in this list. Most would fall into the 'revisionist' category, which points to a younger audience, the sort of people who go on imdb and rate films. It's not a very good guide.
Dances w Wolves feels beautifully derivative of a 'wagon train' episode: 'woman who walks with wolves' ("the Ruth Marshall story")... actually fell asleep watching it as a kid; but to anyone else w similar recollection, I strongly suggest a revisit(!)
This list isn't so bad as far as top 10 lists go. The Unforgiven is probably the only modern western that deserves to be on there. The problem with IMDB is that any recent movies (that came out in the internet age) get rated relatively better than older movies.
This is a well-known fact.
No love for Django Unchained? Not my list either but it's respectable.
Yes, Django is grossly overrated and doesn't deserve to be on this list. Especially considering the lack of some real classics like True Grit and even some more modern classics like Tombstone.
@ericcouch - it's subjective and we're all fans of Westerns but I love Django Unchained and think Tombstone is overrated (bloated cast and a last act that's sloppy compared to the rest - still like it though). Can I ask what you dislike about DU?
The Big Country really should have made this list.
The good, the bad and the ugly is a pleasant movie, nothing else. It is not even in the same league as Once upon a time in the west, which is not only the greatest western film but the best film ever made.
Unforgiven gets the number 1 spot. Its just brilliant on so many levels. Most of clints films should be in the top 10 also Young Guns should be in there.
Young Guns is entertaining but also silly. It's the 1980s MTV version of a Western.
Great list! Very surprised The Searchers didn't make it!
I think it should have.
If you can find it, try to watch the extended edition of dances with wolves, explains more details.
Ridicolous!
The great silence, Keoma and Wild Bunch are my personal faves.
The Outlaw Josie Wales and Soldier Blue!!
Well that’s the best list of the top 10 westerns I’ve seen. Got it pretty much right. Honorable mentions to Outlaw Josey Wales, Open Range and HPD as well as Lonesome Dove and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma
Tombstone should be here. It's forever quotable, and hits so many classic western notes. An honorable mention , for me, goes to 1969's True Grit, if for nothing else the final scene where John Wayne takes on four outlaws in a horseback gunfight.
Not a huge fan of Tombstone, though I think Kilmer was brilliant in it but I think the original True Grit is oddly overlooked.
the 2010 remake of True Grit is also oustanding
The Searchers is definitely a top 10 film for me
My favorite Western, and favorite overall movie, is The Wild Bunch!
Number 1 and 2 are just absolute best, watch it so many times 😎
Thank you for recommending Dances with wolf.
Thank you so much 😢
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Shane, High Noon, The Big Country, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Lonesome Dove (TV if allowed), The Magnificent 7, Dances With Wolves, For A Few Dollars More, Tombstone, The Last Of The Mohicans and, if LD not allowed, The Searchers. Beat that lot!!
I have the following as my top 5, according to my Imdb rating - outside those listed above:
1, Face to Face
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Companeros
4. The Hateful Eight
5. True Grit (2010)
If he found room for Treasure of the Sierra Madre (not truly a western) he could have found room for Shane. It's got some corny parts by today's standard but the story holds up well and Jack Palance is still the best bad guy ever. Once upon a Time in the West is a good film, but hardly different than Leone's others. The Searchers is different and Wayne plays a dark character unlike his usual.
The good the bad and the ugly & the magnificent seven(1960) with yul brynner, McQueen, Bronson, coburn, vaughn etc is all I need western wise. That soundtrack….absolutely brilliant as well
Fantastic list. I probably would have slid "True Grit" into the list somewhere but choices, choices. Great stuff kid.
Great list! I would have included The Searchers, Shane, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and High Plains Drifter. IMHO.
High Noon, The Searchers,The good bad and the ugly,Gunfight at the ok corral,My Darling Clementine, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit,Tombstone ,3:10 to Yuma
Winchester '73-James Stewart.
The Westerner- Gary Cooper.
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean- Paul Newman.
True Grit- John Wayne.
The Wild Bunch- William Holden.
High Plains Drifter- Clint Eastwood.
Breakheart Pass- Charles Bronson.
Two Mules For Sister Sara- Shirley MacClaine.
Blazing Saddles-Gene Wilder.😅😅
Good list but no Sam Peckinpah? Not one? And yet Tarantino makes the list? If that is a reflection of the IMDB scores than it is a sad scoreboard indeed. Take out the Tarantino and one of the Leone films and include Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch. Just my humble opinion.
nah, Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are two of best western movies of al time, no Sam Peckinpah westerns can surpass those two.
@@g.panitikan1929 never said they did :)
I agree with you. I think the movie The good, the bad and the ugly and the movie Once upon a time in the west are tide for first place. In my opinion only. Awesome video!
i think silverrado deserves to be mentioned.. along with true grit..buut i have no argument with the list. i wish we would see a return to westerns on network tv,,some reboots of classic shows from the 50's and 60's
I would rate The Searchers and Tombstone ahead of Django Unchained and even Unforgiven. I'd also include Silverado and The Professionals ahead of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which isn't a Western in the truest sense.
Broken Trail and Open Range deserve a top spot too.
Ten personal favourites -
Yellow Sky (1948)
The Searchers (1956)
The Ox Bow Incident (1943)
Red River (1948)
Shane (1953)
Rio Grande (1950)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
3.10 To Yuma (1957)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Red Badge Of Courage (1951)
the dates of these classics betray your age.....at least they do mine........ah those were the days
@@danmalic6688 I'm not quite as old as that, Dan but I have always loved the classic films.
Interesting list, especially the ones you didn't include! Glad to see Butch & Sundance - it's often missed out by would-be gatekeepers because it isn't vicious or nihilistic enough.
I think John Wayne's point about High Noon was that any town that didn't stand by their sheriff in similar circumstances would soon be overrun by outlaws, so the film was unrealistic?
It's because most of those involved in the creation of the film were suspected Communists.
N.B. this was height of the Red Scare and long before Hungarian Uprising and Prague Spring - so some of the most intelligent and thoughtful people had communist sympathies.
I really can't care what that coward thought about High Noon.
High Noon is anti-communist in a way that it is anti-collectivist and about the triumph of the individual
The top ones I have been watching repeatedly in order: The good, the bad and the ugly, For a few dollars more, They call me Trinity, Trinity is still my name, My name is nobody, Once upon the time in the west, Red Sun.
Shane and the outlaw Josey Wales must have been very close to being on the list.
Young guns will always be my favorite. You should make your own top 10 or 20 list!
Extremely disturbing that nobody mentioned The Big Country from 1958, I believe is the greatest Western Motion picture of all time!!!!!
Lee Van Cleef is in four of them
NOT EVEN CLOSE
In no specific order:
Unforgiven, El Dorado, True Grit (original), The Searchers, Tombstone, Red River, Pale Rider, Hang Em High, Big Jake, & Rio Bravo.
The fact that A Fistful of Dollars, 3:10 to Yuma, Tombstone, and the remake of True Grit aren't on here shows that IMDB voters have not experienced enough westerns.
Yes!❤ Definitely No1 western is “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! Congratulations! ❤
I know it's not a theater movie, but "Lonesome Dove " is hands down the best Western ever! "Open Range" is right up there also.
How the hell did The Searchers not even make this list?
Hombre with Paul Newman Fasted Gun with Glenn Ford Unforgiven Clint Eastwood Shootist Jonh Wayne is my Favorites
Very Nice Video, Tnx From Navi Mumbai India.❤
Good choices, i also like Silverado and Rio Bravo. Growing up in Sweden in the 60s and 70s i enjoyed these TV-series as a child: Bonanza, High Chaparall and How the west was won(Macahan family)
What about The Undefeated, The Horse Soldiers, Shane, The Wild Bunch, Son of Paleface, The Cowboys, Paint your Wagon. It all depends on Personal Choice and qualities like Entertainment Value, Well Filmed, Good Scripts, Decent Actors and Longevity. Spaghetti Westerns really don't have many of the Qualities mentioned. You watch one the rest are all the same. Cheaply made, Filming so so, Scripts are basic and Actors in the films are like they are from a bad Soap Opera or over dubbed Kung Fu Film. Certain fact its hard to beat John Ford Westerns for Filming
Paint your Wagon geht gar nicht!
It’s so difficult to name just the top 10 westerns! We who love westerns probably wouldn’t ever agree on the definitive top 10! I have no disagreement with your selections, but my top 10 would be those that I can watch over & over! So I would have The Searchers, Outlaw Josie Wales, Tombstone, The Westener, The Wild Bunch, Magnificent Seven, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, High Noon, Once Upon a Time in the West, & Along Came Jones! Honorable Mention, Junior Bonner & Nevada Smith! I would be remiss if I didn’t mention one Randolph Scott movie so I’d select Western Union or The Desperadoes!