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Best Western Movies

of the 1990s

The 20 highest-rated western movies released between 1990 and 1999, ranked by IMDb score.

1

Unforgiven(1992)

8.2 IMDb96% RT85 Meta

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutal

2

Tombstone(1993)

7.8 IMDb76% RT50 Meta

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badg

3

Dead Man(1995)

7.5 IMDb69% RT62 Meta

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

4

Legends of the Fall(1994)

7.5 IMDb45 Meta

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loya

5

Maverick(1994)

7 IMDb67% RT62 Meta

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a wom

6

Ravenous(1999)

6.9 IMDb52% RT46 Meta

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U

7

Quigley Down Under(1990)

6.9 IMDb52% RT51 Meta

American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines

8

El Mariachi(1993)

6.8 IMDb91% RT73 Meta

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The d

9

City Slickers(1991)

6.8 IMDb87% RT70 Meta

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

10

Ride with the Devil(1999)

6.7 IMDb65% RT69 Meta

Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border

11

Far and Away(1992)

6.6 IMDb51% RT49 Meta

In director Ron Howard’s period epic, a young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner gypped by her family’s hostile land takeovers

12

The Quick and the Dead(1995)

6.5 IMDb62% RT49 Meta

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

13

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West(1991)

6.5 IMDb59% RT

Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they

14

Young Guns II(1990)

6.5 IMDb31% RT47 Meta

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico

15

Last Man Standing(1996)

6.4 IMDb42% RT44 Meta

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the hi

16

Troublemakers(1994)

6 IMDb

Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.

17

Almost Heroes(1998)

5.8 IMDb5% RT

Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before Lewis and Clark.

18

Bad Girls(1994)

5.2 IMDb13% RT

Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.

19

Lucky Luke(1991)

5.2 IMDb

Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.

20

Wild Wild West(1999)

4.9 IMDb16% RT40 Meta

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and i

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