Best Western Movies

1) Unforgiven - 92 - Clint's masterpiece

2) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 69 - George Roy Hill (also directed the great films: A Little Romance 79, Slap Shot 77, The Sting 73) Staring Robert Redford and Paul Newman

3) Jeremiah Johnson - 72 - Sydney Pollack - Staring Robert Redford

4) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - 72 - John Huston - Staring Paul Newman

5) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 66 - Sergio Leone - Clint Eastwood

01. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (1966)
02. C'era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] (1968)
03. The Wild Bunch (1969)
04. Unforgiven (1992)
05. Per qualche dollaro in più [For a Few Dollars More] (1965)
06. Dead Man (1995)
07. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
08. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
09. Rio Bravo (1959)
10. My Darling Clementine (1946)
11. Per un pugno di dollari [A Fistful of Dollars] (1964)
12. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
13. The Searchers (1956)
14. High Noon (1952)
15. Giù la testa [Duck, You Sucker] (1971)
16. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
17. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
18. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
19. Blazing Saddles (1974).
20. The Proposition (2005)

Haven't seem much of the classics so my list may be skewed, but based on what i've seen i would say:

 

1. Unforgiven

2. The Good the Bad the Ugly

3. 310 to Yuma

4. Appaloosa

5. The Assassination of Jesse James

Dances With Wolves

Jeremiah Johnson

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Pale Rider

The Shootist

 

Some perhaps not considered westerns, but still like these movies.

Hmmm .... not really well versed in westerns, but the ones I've seen and liked are

 

The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Once Upon A Time In The West

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Great Silence

High Noon

Vera Cruz

 

and for some laughs ...

 

Sukiyaki Western Django

Not exactly your traditional "shoot 'em up" western, but I recently saw Open Range and loved it.

Last time I stayed at Best Western I saw this great movie on Cinemax called "Cancun Heat" although I lost interest and got real sleepy about 10 minutes in.

Edited by redshifter - 6/7/10 at 9:13am

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Quick and the Dead

Unforgiven

Fistful of Dollars

really, The Quick and the Dead?

well Sharon Stone is happy, she's finally in a film that made someones top 5 :)

Yes really, something else for a change :)

 

Its a nice movie. Energetic pace and camerawork, decent humor, good cast and its not that serious, but without becoming a parody. I'm not a big fan of the classic 'American' westerns, and there're already 3 spaghetti ones in my top5, so not much left :p (well, I liked 3:10, Silverado, Three Burials and Open Range too)

 

No Country for Old Men

I agree with aforementioned High Noon and The Treasure of Sierra Madre. In addition, how about Little Big Man and The Magnificent Seven? In case I might be accused of only picking classics, how about 3:10 to Yuma for my fifth?

Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

Your mention of Little Big Man reminds me that I quite like A Man Called Horse.