Highest-Rated Movies about 'The West', Sort by Popularity

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Tracks (2013), The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010), The Big Sky (1952), Nevada Smith (1966), Stir Crazy (1980), Cavalry (1936), All the Pretty Horses (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best The West movies.

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

Storyline: Taking place in the American Northwest in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in his assassination at the hands of Robert Ford the following April. In the time between these two fateful events, the young and jealous Ford befriends the increasingly mistrustful outlaw, even as he plots his demise.

Plot Keywords: jesse james, robber, wife, child, brutal, intense, wild ...

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#4. The Big Sky (1952)

Storyline: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.—Alfred Jingle

Plot Keywords: trader, indian, friend, man, cowboy, princess, spectacular ...

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#5. Nevada Smith (1966)

Storyline: Nevada Smith is the young son of an American-Indian mother and white father. When his father and mother are killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, to shoot on time, and to shoot straight. Everything that Nevada does goes to killing those three men. He learns to read and write just to learn their location. He pays people to tell him where they're at. He even goes to prison to kill one of them. While the movie is a Western and has plenty of action, it also takes a deep look into vengeance and how one can change after a haunting incident.—Chase Ard <Bullitt357@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: young man, killer, gunslinger, bandit, indian, brutal, cool ...

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#7. Cavalry (1936)

Storyline: Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: colonel, niece, scavenger, general, union soldier, father, spirited ...

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