swap_horiz Meek's Cutoff Alternatives

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The Revenant

The Revenant is a 2015 epic Western by Alejandro G. Inarritu, based partly on Hugh Glass and notable for Leonardo DiCapr...

Survival Revenge Frontier Fur Trade

8.1 Great

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Sweet Country

Sweet Country is a 2017 Australian revisionist Western directed by Warwick Thornton, set in 1929 Central Australia and a...

Australian Aboriginal Revisionist Outback

8.0 Great

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Westward the Women

Westward the Women is a 1951 American Western directed by William A. Wellman, notable for centering a wagon train of wom...

Classic Wagon Women Frontier

7.7 Good

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Ulzana's Raid

Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 American revisionist Western by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and noted for its Vietna...

Apache Revisionist Frontier Cavalry

7.7 Good

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Old Yeller

Old Yeller is a 1957 Disney frontier drama directed by Robert Stevenson, notable for its Texas-set story of a boy and hi...

Classic Family Texas Frontier

7.6 Good

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The Grey Fox

The Grey Fox is a 1982 Canadian biographical Western by Phillip Borsos, notable for Richard Farnsworth as train robber B...

Canadian Outlaw Revisionist Train Robbery

7.6 Good

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Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage is a 1946 Technicolor Western directed by Jacques Tourneur, notable for its Oregon setting and unusually...

Classic Frontier Oregon Tourneur

7.5 Good

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The Shooting

The Shooting is a 1966 American acid Western directed by Monte Hellman, noted for its spare desert mystery and early pro...

Desert Western Revisionist Acid Western

7.5 Good

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Old Henry

Old Henry is a 2021 American Western by Potsy Ponciroli, notable for Tim Blake Nelson as a farmer whose hidden past shap...

Siege Outlaw Revisionist Farmer

7.4 Good

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Will Penny

Will Penny is a 1967 American Western starring Charlton Heston, notable for its aging cowboy realism and winter-range se...

Revisionist Aging Cowboy Charlton Heston

7.3 Good

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The Hired Hand

The Hired Hand is a 1971 American Western directed by Peter Fonda, notable for its countercultural tone and Vilmos Zsigm...

Revisionist Peter Fonda Drifter New Hollywood

7.3 Good

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Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun is a 1967 American Western directed by John Sturges, notable for its post-O.K. Corral focus on Wyatt Ear...

Revenge Revisionist Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday

7.1 Good

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The Big Sky

The Big Sky is a 1952 American Western directed by Howard Hawks, notable for its fur-trade river journey starring Kirk D...

River Frontier Hawks Trappers

7.0 Good

14

The Proud Ones

The Proud Ones is a 1956 American Western starring Robert Ryan, notable for its town-marshal plot and CinemaScope treatm...

Classic Frontier Town Marshal

6.9 Fair

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Run of the Arrow

Run of the Arrow is a 1957 Western directed by Samuel Fuller, notable for following a Confederate veteran into Sioux lif...

Civil War Revisionist Samuel Fuller Sioux

6.9 Fair

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The Culpepper Cattle Co.

The Culpepper Cattle Co. is a 1972 American Western directed by Dick Richards, notable for its revisionist view of a tee...

Coming Of Age Revisionist Frontier Cattle Drive

6.9 Fair

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The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 MGM Western by John Sturges, notable as Robert Taylor's last A-picture as top-billed lea...

Classic Revenge Western Outlaw

6.9 Fair

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Ride in the Whirlwind

Ride in the Whirlwind is a 1966 American Western directed by Monte Hellman, written and co-produced by Jack Nicholson an...

Western Outlaw Revisionist Frontier

6.9 Fair

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The Plainsman

The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Art...

Classic Biopic Western Frontier

6.8 Fair

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Murder at Yellowstone City

Murder at Yellowstone City is a 2022 American Western by Richard Gray, a gold-rush murder mystery filmed in Montana with...

Modern Mystery Western Frontier

4.7 Poor