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Best Western Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
82 western films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Death Rides a Horse, 7.0 on IMDb against 38 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly '1966 | Western | 8.8 | 97% | 90 | 8.5 | Sergio Leone |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West '1968 | Drama / Western | 8.5 | 96% | 82 | 8.3 | Sergio Leone |
| 3 | For a Few Dollars More '1965 | Western | 8.2 | 92% | 74 | 8.0 | Sergio Leone |
| 4 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance '1962 | Western | 8.1 | 95% | 94 | 7.8 | John Ford |
| 5 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 6 | A Fistful of Dollars '1964 | Western | 7.9 | 98% | 65 | 7.8 | Sergio Leone |
| 7 | The Wild Bunch '1969 | Western | 7.9 | 91% | 98 | 7.6 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 8 | The Magnificent Seven '1960 | Western | 7.7 | 93% | 74 | 7.5 | John Sturges |
| 9 | Hud '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.3 | Martin Ritt |
| 10 | The Great Silence '1968 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 11 | Lonely are the Brave '1962 | Western / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | - | 7.4 | David Miller |
| 12 | Ride the High Country '1962 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 13 | El Dorado '1966 | Western / Drama | 7.5 | 96% | 85 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 14 | True Grit '1969 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 87% | 83 | 7.3 | Henry Hathaway |
| 15 | Sergeant Rutledge '1960 | Western / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 16 | Support Your Local Sheriff! '1969 | Comedy / Western | 7.4 | 80% | 56 | 6.9 | Burt Kennedy |
| 17 | Hombre '1967 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 94% | 80 | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 18 | Treasure of Silver Lake '1962 | Western | 6.8 | - | - | 7.1 | Harald Reinl |
| 19 | Barren Lives '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.5 | - | - | 7.4 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| 20 | The Professionals '1966 | Western / Action | 7.3 | 89% | 75 | 7.1 | Richard Brooks |
| 21 | Shenandoah '1965 | Western / War | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 22 | How the West Was Won '1962 | Western | 7.1 | 85% | 56 | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 23 | The Misfits '1961 | Drama / Romance / Western | 7.2 | 94% | 77 | 7.0 | John Huston |
| 24 | The Big Gundown '1967 | Western | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Sergio Sollima |
| 25 | Comanche Station '1960 | Western | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Budd Boetticher |
| 26 | Django '1966 | Action / Western | 7.2 | 94% | 75 | 7.2 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 27 | Black God, White Devil '1964 | Western / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Glauber Rocha |
| 28 | One-Eyed Jacks '1961 | Western / Drama | 7.1 | 67% | - | 6.7 | Marlon Brando |
| 29 | McLintock! '1963 | Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 50% | 62 | 6.6 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 30 | The Sons of Katie Elder '1965 | Western | 7.1 | 100% | 72 | 7.0 | Henry Hathaway |
| 31 | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao '1964 | Fantasy / Western / Comedy | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.9 | George Pal |
| 32 | North to Alaska '1960 | Western / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.5 | Henry Hathaway |
| 33 | Face to Face '1967 | Western | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Sergio Sollima |
| 34 | The Mercenary '1968 | Western / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 80% | - | 6.9 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 35 | Death Rides a Horse '1967 | Western | 7.0 | 50% | 38 | 7.0 | Giulio Petroni |
| 36 | Flaming Star '1960 | Western | 6.5 | 92% | - | 6.5 | Don Siegel |
| 37 | Day of Anger '1967 | Western | 7.0 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Tonino Valerii |
| 38 | Will Penny '1967 | Western / Romance | 7.0 | 93% | - | 6.7 | Tom Gries |
| 39 | A Bullet for the General '1967 | Western | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Damiano Damiani |
| 40 | The Return of Ringo '1965 | Western | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Duccio Tessari |
| 41 | The Last Sunset '1961 | Western / Drama | 6.7 | 60% | - | 6.8 | Robert Aldrich |
| 42 | Apache Gold '1963 | Western | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Harald Reinl |
| 43 | Hang 'em High '1968 | Western / Drama | 7.0 | 93% | 62 | 6.9 | Ted Post |
| 44 | Antonio das Mortes '1969 | Western | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Glauber Rocha |
| 45 | The Desperado Trail '1965 | Western | 6.6 | - | - | 6.9 | Harald Reinl |
| 46 | The Alamo '1960 | War / Western | 6.8 | 55% | - | 7.1 | John Wayne |
| 47 | The Comancheros '1961 | Western | 6.8 | 100% | 55 | 6.7 | Michael Curtiz |
| 48 | Nevada Smith '1966 | Western | 6.9 | 50% | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 49 | Two Rode Together '1961 | Western | 6.7 | 86% | - | 6.4 | John Ford |
| 50 | Guns for San Sebastian '1967 | Western | 6.6 | - | - | 7.1 | Henri Verneuil |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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