Western × Drama Genre

  • Western — frontiers, and the doom of civilization
  • Drama — endurance, and the weight of an ordinary life

Frontier life at a human pace. Families, farms and small towns, and the people who live with the West’s hard choices long after the gunfight.

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Western × Drama films

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  • Django Unchained

    2012

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    1968

  • The Hateful Eight

    2015

  • Dances with Wolves

    1990

  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

    2002

  • The Revenant

    2015

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    1969

  • Rio Bravo

    1959

  • True Grit

    2010

  • El Infierno

    2010

  • Hell or High Water

    2016

  • Legends of the Fall

    1994

  • Redeeming Love

    2022

  • Dead Man

    1995

  • Giant

    1956

  • High Plains Drifter

    1973

  • Train Dreams

    2025

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    2007

  • Lawless

    2012

  • Little Big Man

    1970

  • Pale Rider

    1985

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