Every western movie streaming on MagentaTV+ in Germany right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MagentaTV+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MagentaTV+ DE
Directed by Sergio Leone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSergio Leone's operatic standoff perfected the western's visual grammar—three gunslingers frozen in ritualistic anticipation before explosive violence.
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTarantino weaponizes the western's moral reckoning with slavery, making genre violence politically consequential.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Directed by Joel Coen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChigurh's coin-flip morality replaces the gunslinger code, making this neo-western about the genre's obsolescence in modern lawlessness.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Directed by Sergio Leone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLeone establishes the bounty hunter archetype with Clint Eastwood's economy of movement—style over dialogue becomes the western's native language.
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisceral survival ordeal replaces gunplay; the frontier itself becomes the antagonist, not man versus man.
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Directed by Sergio Leone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Man With No Name weaponizes the western's moral ambiguity, playing towns against themselves to expose civilization's thin veneer.
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChamber piece claustrophobia subverts western mythology—isolation breeds paranoia instead of heroic individualism.
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Directed by Joel Coen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCoen Brothers strip the western to moral absolutes: a child's unflinching code of justice versus corrupt adult compromise.
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
Directed by David Mackenzie
✦ MovieMuse AI takeModern economic desperation replaces outlawry; the bank heist becomes a working-class tragedy.
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Directed by Arthur Penn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeconstructs frontier mythology through unreliable narration, interrogating the western's glorification of Indian conquest and Manifest Destiny.
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Directed by Henry Hathaway
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFemale protagonist wielding moral authority over grizzled lawman subverts the genre's patriarchal power dynamics without abandoning its code.
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Directed by Tonino Valerii
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElegantly explores the gunslinger archetype's obsolescence, visualizing the Old West's death through its last legendary shootout.
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Directed by Scott Cooper
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRevisionist western that weaponizes intimacy between captor and captive to expose the racism embedded in frontier military ideology.
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransplants western archetypes to Manchuria, proving the genre's DNA survives when severed from American geography and mythology.
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
Directed by Henry Hathaway
✦ MovieMuse AI takeElder sons reclaim stolen legacy; family honor overrides law as justice metric.
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town.
Directed by Ted Post
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLynching's near-death transforms the protagonist into avenging lawman, weaponizing frontier justice against the mob that perverts it.
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Directed by Michael Winner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeProcedural gunslinger narrative substitutes bureaucratic law for mythic heroism, grounding the western in institutional consequence.
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnsemble heroism and diverse leadership challenge the lone gunslinger archetype.
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Directed by Henry Hathaway
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHalf-breed avenger's quest examines how frontier racism fractures identity, complicating the revenge narrative's moral clarity.
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
Directed by John Wayne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReimagines the Alamo as inevitable tragedy rather than heroic sacrifice, stripping the western's founding myth of redemptive purpose.
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Directed by Kristian Levring
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLone man's justified killing triggers systemic violence, exposing how frontier justice collapses into vengeance without institutional law.
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Directed by Thomas Bezucha
✦ MovieMuse AI takeA modern revenge tragedy that invokes classical western codes of honor and family duty within rural landscapes stripped of romanticism.
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Directed by Howard Hawks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCivil War haunts the post-war frontier, using betrayal as lens to examine how western order emerges from historical rupture.
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWomen's agency drives the narrative; female trauma reshapes western rescue mythology entirely.
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
Directed by Kevin Costner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSprawling settlement saga prioritizes communal migration over individual frontier conquest.
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.
Directed by John Huston
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKirowa tribe's claim to the adopted daughter interrogates settler legitimacy, centering Indigenous sovereignty over frontier family mythology.
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Directed by Mona Fastvold
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFemale intimacy replaces gunfighter brotherhood as the western's emotional core, redefining community on the isolated frontier.
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Directed by Bouli Lanners
✦ MovieMuse AI takeApocalyptic setting strips away frontier mythology entirely, leaving only outlaws and madness in a godless wasteland.
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
Directed by Damiano Damiani
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConfidence scheme targets Indian-hater authority, using con-man cunning to subvert the western's typical power hierarchies.
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Directed by Enzo Barboni
✦ MovieMuse AI takeModern setting abandoned; unclear neo-western premise undermines generic coherence—western tropes require historical specificity to function.
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures...
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