Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure > Western: 143 Films to Rent
- Great Silence, The (1968)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Wolff
- A 'pure' spaghetti western in the Italian language, with Trintignant playing a mute desperado being pursued by bounty–hunter Kinski through a…
- Scalphunters, The (1968)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Ossie Davis…
- A 'mountain' Western, with fur trapper Lancaster and ex–slave Davis teaming up to recapture a cargo of stolen pelts. The script aims at various…
- Villa Rides (1968)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Lom…
- Violent western set during the Mexican revolution, with Robert Mitchum playing a corrupt Texas gunrunner and pilot who joins Pancho Villa (Yul…
- Will Penny (1968)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence…
- An impressive, unromanticised view of an aging cowpuncher – played by Charlton Heston in possibly his finest dramatic performance – as he…
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (Se sei vivo spara) (1967)
- Dir. Giulio Questi
Feat. Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock
- A rather entrancing surrealistic version of the 'spaghetti western' involving a robbery gone wrong and an avenger from beyond the grave... but also…
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark
- Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
- Appaloosa, The (Southwest to Senora) (1966)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon…
- Minor, though well–crafted and photographed Western set around Brando's attempts to recover his prized horse from a Mexican bandit (Saxon).
- Nevada Smith (1966)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith…
- McQueen plays an orphaned half–breed in the West, who quests relentlessly for his parents' killers.
Beautifully made in some stunning…
- Hallelujah Trail, The (1965)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence…
- Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…