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19 films tagged western
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A rodeo rider comes to in the snow of a Nevada meadow with his horse gone and his foot freezing, and starts working his way towards shelter. It cuts between that walk and the life that got him there.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A U.S. Marshal arrests a wanted outlaw at her farmhouse and leans on the local sheriff, still shaken by a hostage standoff six months back, for men to help hold her. Most of it is the waiting, and what she does to the deputies while they wait.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A horse trainer short of money, and carrying a grief she has not dealt with, keeps a group of wayward teenagers on her ranch. A modern western built around the ranch and the people on it.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Buffalo Bill takes his Wild West show to Rome, an Italian cowherd beats his cowboys in front of a crowd, and days later that cowherd and a young Frenchwoman are running with a bounty on them. A western, set in Italy.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Wildfire takes a cowboy's ranch and leaves him in a FEMA camp among others who lost their homes, where he starts again alongside his daughter and his ex-wife. A quiet Western set after the fire rather than during it.
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2005 · Romance
Two young ranch hands spend a summer minding sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963, and carry what happens there quietly through the next twenty years of jobs and marriages. Slow, mostly quiet, and covering a long stretch of time.
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2012 · Action
A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
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2023 · Crime
In 1920s Oklahoma the Osage are rich from the oil under their land, and one by one they start dying. Three and a half hours, told mostly from the side of the white men who married into the tribe.
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2007 · Drama
In 1881 the last of the James gang is coming apart, and a nineteen-year-old who has read every dime novel about Jesse talks his way into the crew. Very slow, narrated throughout, more waiting than shooting.
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2015 · Mystery
A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.
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2021 · Drama
In 1925 Montana two brothers run a cattle ranch until one marries a widow and brings her and her grown son home, which the other takes badly. Very slow, and most of the threat is in what nobody says.
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2015 · Adventure
A fur trapper in the American wilderness of the 1820s is mauled by a bear and left behind by his party, and starts crawling back. Long, cold, nearly wordless, and shot in daylight and snow.
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Little-known
2018 · Drama
A young rodeo rider on the South Dakota plains is told he cannot ride again after a head injury, and has to work out what else he is for. Played by the real people involved, quiet and slow.
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Little-known
2019 · Thriller
A village in the Brazilian backlands buries its matriarch and finds itself missing from the map, with armed strangers arriving. Starts as a portrait and turns into something much harder.
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Little-known
2014 · Crime
A Texas picture framer shoots a burglar in his living room in 1989, and the dead man's father comes looking for him. It changes shape twice and ends up somewhere else entirely.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon start selling fried cakes made with milk taken at night from the only cow in the territory. Very slow and very gentle.
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Little-known
2018 · Science fiction
A teenager and her father land on a toxic forest moon to dig for gems, and meet other prospectors already working it. Small, muddy and handmade.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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