7 Western Films I like That You Should Stream

Dust, regret, silence, weird gestures, and some moral ambiguity thrown in….

Ride the High Country (1962)

This one starts a bit slow, but every small choice feels loaded where Peckinpah is hinting at bigger things – the kind of moral ambiguity that makes your brain ache.

Ride the High Country Trailer

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The Shooting (1966)

I had no clue what was happening for the first 20 minutes. when I watched this – two guys, a mysterious woman, desert, tension – like every step is a threat, and where the silence is terrifying.

The Shooting Trailer

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True Grit (2010)

After watching True Grit, you’re left thinking “why don’t more Westerns do this?” It’s Sharp dialogue and the period detail just slices through everything.

True Grit Trailer

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Slow, but very mesmerizing, with Brad Pitt as Jesse James – magnetic, fragile, haunted – and features some fantastic cinematography, and I swear some shots could easily just be hung in a gallery.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Trailer

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Deadwood: The Movie (2019)

Yes, technically a TV spin-off, but it’s a full on Western experience, that’s foul mouthed and stubborn where the little gestures are everything.

Deadwood: The Movie Trailer

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The Proposition (2005)

Australia does Westerns, apparently, and this one is sleak, harsh, morally gray, featuring family, loyalty, betrayal all tangled in a desert that punishes everyone.

The Proposition Trailer

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The Homesman (2014)

Tommy Lee Jones quietly flips everything. – women, grief, emotional labor – this is the real frontier, and it will probably make you question what courage even is.

At least, it should.

The Homesman Trailer

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Have a Western Streaming Day

Our lifes are full of regrets, so why not watch some Western films that are full of them, because why not?

Western films aren’t just about saloons and shootouts, they are mainly about humanity, and they will remind you of that over and over.

Simon Leasher

A lover of cinema for over 35 years, I have watched many films from around the world in many different genres, yet I still normally always come back to trashy slasher horror films when in doubt. More

And yes, The Godfather 2 is better than The Godfather.