Critically acclaimed Western movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Marlon Brando,

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker,
Directors : John Ford,

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, James Coburn,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.

Actors : Jason Robards, George Grizzard, Jane Fonda, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : Julián Mateos, Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Warren Oates,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

Two survivors of the initial Magnificent Seven outfit, Chris and Vin, recruit four new members in order to re-form the outfit and defend a few Mexican villages from attacks by vicious bandits.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Actors : Thayer David, Conrad Janis, Goldie Hawn, George Segal,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Lloyd Nolan, Rita Hayworth, John Wayne,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.

Actors : John Ericson, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, Tony Randall,
Directors : George Pal,

A mysterious circus comes to a western town bearing wonders and characters that entertain the inhabitants and teach valuable lessons.

Actors : Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt, John Schuck,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.

Actors : Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, James Stewart, Patrick Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, Tom Tryon, James Caan,
Directors : Arnold Laven,

What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach,
Directors : John Sturges,

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

Actors : Maria Schell, Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Baxter,

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Emilio Fernández, John Saxon, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Mosko Alkalai, Gabi Amrani, Richard Boone,
Directors : Jerry Hopper,

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Richard Widmark, Vito Scotti, Luana Anders,
Directors : Stuart Millar,

A young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.

Actors : Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Geo Anne Sosa, Lincoln Kilpatrick,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

An outnumbered swordsman/gunfighter tries to prevent wealthy landowners from annihilating local Indians.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.