Subgenre Sampler
      Action/Adventure > Western: 147 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Heaven's Gate (1980) 
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt… 
- One of Hollywood's biggest financial disasters contributed to the demise of United Artists studios. Despite its flaws, this full–length version…
 
Long Riders, The (1980) 
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine… 
- Sombre treatment of the perennial Jesse James/Cole/Younger–gang saga, starring real–life brothers Carradine, Keach and Quaid, does…
 
Tom Horn (1980) 
- Dir. William Wiard
Feat. Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth… 
- Flawed but beautifully lensed tale based on a real–life Wyoming bounty hunter, who outlived the wild years of the 19th century and was…
 
Comes A Horseman (1978) 
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Jane Fonda, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth… 
- An unusual attempt to transfer the grand mythos of the Western to a latterday setting, with Fonda playing a ranch boss, who mixes it up with a cousin…
 
Goin' South (1978) 
- Dir. Jack Nicholson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd… 
- The ‘Western’ done as farce, with troublesome outlaw Jack Nicholson rescued from the gallows by Mary Steenbergen, in a marriage of…
 
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…
 
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…
 
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.…