Top 15+ Great Western Films if You've Seen All The Classics

1) Westworld (1973)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

If you loved the HBO series but haven't seen the original film it was based on, it still holds up! This film came from a screenplay by Michael Crichton, and it pioneered digital image processing techniques to create pixelated POV shots from the perspective of its android characters.

3) Hannie Caulder (1971)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

This early Raquel Welch western film is a known inspiration for the Quentin Tarentino classic Kill Bill. Welch plays a frontier wife who asks a bounty hunter to train her as a gunslinger after a gang of criminals kill her husband and destroy her home.

5) Last Man Standing (1996)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

At the height of his action hero fame, Bruce Willis starred as a gun-for-hire in this action film that bombed at the box office. It is a credited remake of the Akikra Kurosawa classic Yojimbo, which also famously inspired Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars to the point where Japanese company Toho sued the Italian filmmaker.

7) Ravenous (1999)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

If you want to watch a Western and don't mind it having some horror and comedy tones thrown in, you should check out this underrated 1999 film which starred Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. Pearce plays John Boyd, who is stationed at a remote U.S. Army base in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and learns that the soldiers there have taken to cannibalism.

8) Near Dark (1987)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

If you're still intrigued by the idea of vampires in a Western setting, check out this Kathryn Bigelow flick from the late-80s that is considered a cult classic today. A young man Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) has to leave home after he's bitten by a mysterious woman and becomes a vampire, getting tied up in a group of roaming fellow vampires.

10) The Last Movie (1971)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Hopper directed and starred in this meta-drama about a stuntman on a Western movie hot off the success of his film Easy Rider. Hooper allegedly followed the script only loosely in production, and had a difficult and elongated editing process. The film was a critical and commercial failure upon its initial premiere, but has achieved cult status for modern audiences.

11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

This 2007 revisionist history film about the murder of infamous outlaw Jesse James was a box office flop upon its first release, but it's lauded as one of the best films of the year for its mature visual language and excellent lead performances by Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck.

13) Red Sun (1971)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

It's long been known that Samurai films and Western films share DNA, with landmark Westerns like The Magnificent Seven being an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Well, in this Franco-Italian co-production Red Sun, massive stars from that era came together including Tosirō Mifune, Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, and Alain Delon.

The film follows Mifune and Bronson's characters as they try to recover a ceremonial Japanese sword that was stolen from an ambassador while he was on a train to Washington D.C..

14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

1) Westworld (1973), 3) Hannie Caulder (1971), 5) Last Man Standing (1996), 7) Ravenous (1999), 8) Near Dark (1987), 10) The Last Movie (1971), 11) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), 13) Red Sun (1971), 14) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Yet another great flick that got a bafflingly mixed reception on its release. Spider-Man and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi took on the Wild West, featuring a criminally uncommon female protagonist with Sharon Stone as The Lady as well as a standout performance by a young Leonardo DiCaprio.

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