Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Western: 145 Films to Buy & Rent
- Silent Tongue (1993)
- Dir. Sam Shepard
Feat. Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix
- A personal project for playwright/actor/director Shepard, this ghost story chiefly indicts the mistreatment of the native Indian. Haunting film…
- Tombstone (1993)
- Dir. George P. Cosmatos
Feat. Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer
- Not–so–young guns Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Earp and Holliday don't quite make it past being big boys in dress–up. There's…
- El Mariachi (1992)
- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez
- A cause celebre of low–budget film–making, this $7000 Tex–Mex wonder about a guitar–player mistaken for a gangster contains…
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman…
- Clint Eastwood delivers the film of his acting and directing career with a smoulderingly dark rendering of a smart script about an aging gunfighter…
- Young Guns 2 (1990)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland…
- The long–neglected Western finds popularity with a new generation with an all–star youthful cast.
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- Old Gringo (1989)
- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits
- Western following an American school teacher (Jane Fonda) who is captured by soldiers of Pancho Villa's army while working in Mexico in 1913, and…
- Young Guns (1988)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland…
- The long–neglected Western finds popularity with a new generation with an all–star youthful cast.
- Steel Dawn (1987)
- Dir. Lance Hool
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe…
- Cheesy post–apocalyptic western with Mr. Patrick Swayze as Nomad the Warrior – a man wandering the desert with a large sword seeking to…
- Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, The (1986)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson…
- Likeable version of the last years, not days, of the legendary Frank and Jesse James played by 'outlaw' country music stars Johnny Cash and Kris…