Every western movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 16 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US
Directed by Clint Eastwood
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStranger as avenging ghost reconstructs town identity; landscape mirrors moral corruption.
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Directed by Richard Brooks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRuthless mercenary code and moral ambiguity elevate a rescue mission into genre-defining examination of frontier justice.
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Directed by Joel Coen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInterconnected vignettes capture the western's elegiac quality—characters caught between myth and historical reckoning.
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
Directed by John Maclean
✦ MovieMuse AI takeScottish outsider perspective defamiliarizes western conventions while preserving its austere landscape and gunslinger mythology.
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Directed by Jane Campion
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRepressed sexuality and psychological warfare replace gunfights, modernizing the rancher's iron will into something genuinely menacing.
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
Directed by D.J. Caruso
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGold Rush setting grounds romantic idealism against brutal frontier realities and systemic exploitation of women.
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.
Directed by Jeymes Samuel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlack outlaw protagonist reclaims the mythic gunslinger archetype, centering marginalized voices within classical western revenge narrative.
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
Directed by Scott McGehee
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFamily reckoning on inherited ranch land replaces adventure, interrogating what legacy actually means in the American West.
Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved in order to care for their ailing father.
Directed by Ricky Staub
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlack Philadelphia cowboys assert cultural ownership of western identity, challenging geographic and racial assumptions of the genre.
Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.
Directed by Rodrigo Prieto
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMagical realism infuses Mexican gothic sensibility, transforming vengeful ghost story into supernatural western meditation.
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
Directed by Seth MacFarlane
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSelf-aware comedy deconstructs cowardly protagonist trope while maintaining genuine affection for western genre conventions.
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Directed by Carlyle Eubank
✦ MovieMuse AI takeContemporary rodeo setting preserves western's exploration of masculine decline and the fading American frontier myth.
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
Directed by Raj Singh Chaudhary
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesert noir atmosphere and police procedural framework reimagine western as philosophical crime investigation in lawless terrain.
A mysterious stranger arrives in a village situated in the Thar desert and crosses paths with a veteran cop investigating a case of brutal killings.
Directed by Marcelo Galvão
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGenerational gunslinger legacy becomes noir-inflected tragedy, darkening the mythic outlaw father-son relationship.
In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
Directed by Frank Coraci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnarchic comedy genealogy foregrounds found-family bonds over individualistic gunslinger heroism, subverting masculine western ideals.
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWWII-era setting relocates western's outlaw mythology into global conflict, questioning American frontier mythology during fascism.
At the tail end of World War II, a bandit leader and his crew go up against his sworn enemy and the Japanese army to rob a train full of gold.
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