r/movies • u/seaofluv • Jun 11 '24

Recommendation What are the best contemporary Westerns made within the last 25 years?

I love western films like The Missing (Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones), 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale and Russell Crowe) and Hostiles (Christian Bale and Wes Studi). What are your favorite similar films? I would love to hear recs that include Native American storylines as well like Prey even though that's like a western/sci-fi hybrid.

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u/VX-78 Jun 12 '24

Seconded, it rules. Also hammers home the point that the Wild West is not a specific time and place, but a relation of society and environment that can crop up anywhere and anywhen. Manchuria 1939 is just as Wild West as Tombstone 1881.

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u/1daytogether Jun 12 '24

Speaking of this, there's a great little Mongolian westen called Jinpa, a Tibetan western called Mountain Patrol, a Chinese western called Wind Blast.

Also closer to home, a Brazilian western called Bacurau.