This list consists largely of the more occasional, big budget, postmodern westerns, and is not representative of the genre across time. Help is needed in adding the several thousand silent and talking western films and TV programs, made prior to the Clint Eastwood-Spaghetti Western days, which defined the genre for at least the first half of the 20th century.
- The Ballad of Little Jo Suzy Amis. A woman lives as a man in the old west. Director: Maggie Greenwald, 1994)
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady Joanne Woodward, Henry Fonda and Jason Robards
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Paul Newman, Geraldine Chapman. (Director: Robert Altman, 1976) Show biz cowboys versus real Indians.
- A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood spaghetti western)
- A Fistful of Dynamite (James Coburn/Rod Steiger spaghetti western)
- A Professional Gun (AKA "Mercenary", low-budget spaghetti western notable for references in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill)
- All the Pretty Horses, Matt Damon
- Annie Get Your Gun
- The Apple Dumpling Gang
- Bad Girls, Madeleine Stowe
- Barbarosa, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey
- Bend of the River
- The Big Country Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston
- Blazing Saddles, The best-known western parody
- The Bravados, Gregory Peck
- Breakheart Pass, Charles Bronson
- Brokeback Mountain, post-modern western about two cowboys who fall in love
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, two outlaws on the run)
- Cain's Cutthroats (1971, a western exploitation film with John Carradine and Darwin Joston)
- Cat Ballou, comedy, Lee Marvin, Jane Fonda
- China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
- Cimarron (1931)
- Cimarron (1960)
- The Crossfire Trail, Tom Selleck
- The Cowboys, John Wayne
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- The Desperate Trail, Sam Elliott
- Destry Rides Again, (1939 pacifist sheriff)
- Django, (1966, spaghetti western)
- Dodge City (city cleaned up by new sheriff)
- El Diablo
- El Dorado
- The Far Country, James Stewart, Walter Brennan
- Five Card Stud Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum
- For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone's story of bounty hunters; sequel to A Fistful of Dollars spaghetti western)
- Fort Apache (1948) John Ford movie starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne
- The Gunfighter
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, in Italian) (1966, Sergio Leone's take on the Old West and the American Civil War; another spaghetti western; second sequel to A Fistful of Dollars
- The Great Silence
- The Great Train Robbery (1903, not only the first Western ever made, but the first American film that told a sustained story)
- Hang 'Em High starring Clint Eastwood
- Heaven's Gate
- High Noon (1952, Gary Cooper, a small town under siege)
- High Plains Drifter (1973) Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis
- The Hired Hand (1971) Peter Fonda, Warren Oates
- Hombre Paul Newman, Richard Boone
- How the West Was Won (1963)
- Hud (1963, steamy love between a drifter and a married woman)
- The Iron Horse, director John Ford's first film (1924), starring George O'Brien
- The Jack Bull, John Cusack
- Jeremiah Johnson, Robert Redford
- Johnny Guitar Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden Strong ex-dance hall gal creates her own business. (Director: Nicholas Ray. 1954)
- Joe Kidd Clint Eastwood
- Last Train from Gun Hill, Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn
- Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman
- The Magnificent Seven (1960, a small town under siege, based on the Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai)
- Major Dundee Charlton Heston, Richard Harris
- Man in the Wilderness Richard Harris, John Houston, perhaps the most cinematic "survival drama" ever filmed.
- The Man from Snowy River, Australian western
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin)
- Maverick, Mel Gibson, James Garner, Jodie Foster, James Coburn
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- The Missing, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett
- Monte Walsh, Tom Selleck
- My Darling Clementine (1946, the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) Henry Fonda, Victor Mature. (Director; John FOrd, 1946)
- My Name is Nobody (spaghetti western)
- My Name is Trinity (a drifter and his brother, posing as a sheriff, defending a town against a rapacious cattle baron; spaghetti western)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone's tale of Western revenge; spaghetti western)
- Open Range (a "modern" epic Western starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening in a distinctly feminist role.)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, Henry Fonda in a tale of Frontier justice)
- Paint Your Wagon, comedy, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) James Coburn, Bob Dylan
- The Professionals (1966)
- The Proposition (2005)
- The Quick and the Dead, Sam Elliott
- The Quick and the Dead, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman
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