Western Top 100 Movies - Rotten Tomatoes, a list by smccrack

7.8

/58057/

75

/1229/

76

/1194/

4.0

/87974/

100

/48/

86

/803/

93

/15/

4.0

age 11+

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

89

8.2

/140272/

79

/2005/

79

/1294/

4.3

/82178/

100

/54/

93

/1450/

98

/10/

4.0

age 13+

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

83

7.9

/115531/

75

/1983/

76

/1531/

4.0

/84298/

94

/90/

89

/1533/

89

/7/

age 11+

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

83

7.6

/21316/

75

/501/

74

/456/

4.1

/43580/

94

/52/

85

/259/

83

/4/

4.0

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.

84

7.8

/102688/

75

/2049/

76

/1530/

3.9

/125881/

87

/102/

88

/2475/

94

/15/

4.0

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

80

7.6

/44752/

74

/758/

76

/729/

3.9

/34378/

86

/50/

87

/1064/

84

/15/

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

87

8.0

/72756/

78

/1602/

78

/1222/

4.2

/69439/

96

/50/

90

/1204/

93

/18/

4.0

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

79

7.7

/109393/

76

/3012/

75

/1912/

3.8

/69521/

89

/47/

87

/2270/

74

/13/

age 13+

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

88

8.1

/87725/

78

/1614/

78

/1240/

4.3

/83458/

95

/56/

92

/1200/

94

/10/

4.0

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

81

7.9

/250663/

78

/6518/

78

/4555/

4.0

/318789/

98

/56/

91

/3308/

65

/7/

age 11+

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

88

8.8

/881643/

85

/13572/

84

/9335/

4.5

/660478/

97

/76/

97

/11687/

90

/7/

3.0

age 15+

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

83

8.5

/380877/

82

/5931/

82

/4723/

4.4

/252296/

96

/67/

94

/4737/

82

/9/

2.5

age 14+

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

81

7.4

/54467/

74

/1184/

73

/827/

3.7

/29264/

87

/54/

84

/1339/

83

/17/

4.0

age 11+

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

86

7.9

/94631/

75

/1714/

75

/1285/

4.1

/71973/

91

/67/

90

/1765/

98

/20/

4.0

age 16+

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

78

8.0

/237812/

77

/3679/

76

/2386/

4.2

/170067/

89

/63/

92

/3895/

66

/13/

2.5

age 13+

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

83

7.6

/30031/

73

/578/

71

/432/

4.1

/56707/

85

/62/

86

/564/

93

/17/

4.0

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

72

6.9

/66419/

69

/3949/

67

/1400/

3.5

/67837/

84

/45/

70

/952/

77

/4/

age 13+

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

81

7.7

/162550/

77

/5689/

72

/2004/

3.8

/190408/

89

/74/

90

/11986/

73

/12/

4.0

age 15+

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

79

7.8

/85674/

77

/2344/

74

/1240/

3.9

/59870/

91

/46/

91

/1787/

69

/9/

3.0

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

60

6.7

/18859/

67

/431/

67

/399/

3.8

/22960/

57

/46/

54

/364/

57

/15/

1.5

age 16+

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.

56

6.5

/91163/

68

/2424/

63

/1090/

3.3

/75074/

45

/42/

67

/3923/

52

/13/

1.0

age 11+

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

72

6.9

/49077/

68

/1500/

68

/832/

3.5

/85015/

83

/77/

74

/1608/

78

/18/

A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.

82

8.0

/306998/

78

/7077/

78

/4545/

3.9

/149223/

87

/132/

87

/7016/

72

/20/

4.0

age 15+

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

72

6.8

/67125/

70

/1931/

64

/836/

3.4

/37111/

87

/45/

65

/1848/

70

/25/

3.5

age 14+

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

87

8.2

/464389/

80

/8860/

79

/4779/

4.2

/285639/

96

/108/

93

/6478/

85

/34/

4.0

age 18+

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

67

6.7

/1920/

64

/57/

58

/29/

3.3

/814/

77

/53/

64

/23/

3.0

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

75

7.8

/188756/

79

/6538/

75

/2337/

3.9

/200014/

76

/50/

93

/10942/

50

/22/

age 16+

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

69

7.0

/125256/

72

/3370/

68

/1699/

3.4

/41589/

67

/55/

71

/2580/

62

/28/

3.0

age 12+

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

70

7.5

/197217/

74

/4026/

73

/2768/

3.5

/132670/

61

/61/

87

/6582/

45

/23/

3.0

age 15+

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

60

6.5

/111477/

67

/2925/

65

/1882/

3.5

/98818/

62

/50/

54

/1946/

49

/21/

2.0

age 16+

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

69

7.5

/108195/

72

/2077/

72

/1676/

3.9

/114217/

69

/51/

88

/3163/

62

/20/

1.5

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

80

7.4

/35179/

72

/693/

69

/394/

3.9

/30745/

91

/140/

83

/441/

79

/23/

4.0

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

69

6.7

/46164/

69

/1077/

68

/1174/

3.3

/18977/

73

/63/

72

/1443/

65

/19/

3.0

age 13+

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

39

4.9

/172556/

57

/6456/

53

/3483/

2.3

/97014/

16

/130/

28

/9717/

40

/25/

1.0

age 13+

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

69

6.6

/141325/

67

/4810/

64

/2687/

3.1

/85407/

80

/130/

65

/7462/

77

/30/

3.0

age 14+

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

63

6.3

/7074/

62

/126/

59

/107/

3.2

/1558/

62

/85/

49

/103/

62

/28/

3.5

age 18+

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

46

5.9

/18420/

65

/512/

60

/269/

2.8

/4413/

13

/101/

67

/827/

25

/26/

1.0

age 13+

When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James.

39

34

5.3

/6605/

58

/192/

59

/119/

2.4

/1345/

2

/50/

29

/147/

29

/10/

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.

59

6.4

/29077/

65

/577/

60

/382/

3.1

/8930/

54

/59/

53

/1146/

56

/16/

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.

76

7.4

/83024/

74

/2211/

72

/1159/

3.7

/29944/

79

/182/

84

/2046/

67

/40/

3.5

age 15+

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

58

6.5

/41329/

67

/1034/

63

/672/

3.1

/14740/

58

/169/

51

/981/

55

/40/

2.0

age 18+

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

55

6.1

/23435/

61

/459/

57

/352/

2.9

/8700/

29

/157/

46

/628/

47

/38/

3.5

age 15+

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

60

6.4

/19444/

64

/232/

59

/226/

3.1

/12764/

53

/100/

53

/1094/

65

/33/

2.5

On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is suspicious of her lover.

76

7.3

/57482/

71

/1222/

70

/686/

3.8

/33837/

86

/131/

85

/3148/

73

/31/

age 17+

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.

78

7.3

/43068/

71

/703/

70

/624/

3.7

/13699/

84

/148/

81

/1639/

77

/35/

4.0

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

61

6.6

/36424/

67

/930/

64

/605/

3.2

/8585/

57

/86/

53

/1421/

62

/21/

age 15+

The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.

45

31

5.8

/3134/

59

/78/

53

/49/

2.9

/314/

17

/54/

49

/346/

25

/18/

age 16+

A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.

81

7.6

/348729/

75

/7776/

72

/3888/

3.8

/181745/

89

/225/

86

/32470/

76

/37/