Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Maurizio Merli, John Steiner
- One of the last belated gasps of the 'spaghetti western' genre, with the handsome Merli playing a bounty hunter whose special talent is with the…
- White Buffalo, The (1977)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson…
- Rugged and hokey psycho–adventurism in which Charles Bronson channels Captain Ahab in his quest to hunt down a mythical albino buffalo.
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster…
- Off–key satire on 'official' American history, with Paul Newman as the charismatic fraud Bill Hickock, whose Wild West Show toured America in…
- Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, The (1976)
- Dir. Melvin Frank
Feat. Goldie Hawn, George Segal, Conrad Janis…
- Sassy spoof of the old west sees a scheming saloon singer and a suave card shark fall in love through a series of misadventures.
- Missouri Breaks, The (1976)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton…
- Startling 70s Western, pairs regulator Marlon Brando and horse rustler Jack Nicholson for a brutal, yet often comic game of…
- Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
- Clint Eastwood mixes action, high drama, humour and landscape to create one of his most satisfying tales of the Wild West. His peaceful farmer turns…
- Return of a Man Called Horse, The (1976)
- Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis
- Renowned sequel to the notorious Western, with English aristocrat Harris returning to Dakota and the Yellow Hand Sioux tribe he was inducted into.…
- Shootist, The (1976)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. John Wayne, Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall
- Celebrated finale to John Wayne's career playing an aging gunfighter seeking obscurity but assailed by cancer and various 'young guns', out to prove…
- Bite the Bullet (1975)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Gene Hackman, James Coburn
- Gene Hackman and James Coburn are adversaries who contest a gruelling 700–mile horse race.
- Breakheart Pass (1975)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna…
- Charles Bronson plays a prisoner being transported on a train with a small U.S. army unit and medical supplies through the Rocky mountains. The…