Best Western Movies on Now TV

Every western movie streaming on Now TV in the UK right now — 11 films ranked by rating, checked against Now TV’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Now TV GB

No Country for Old Men (2007)

IMDb 8.2 🍅 93% 2h 2m

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.

Blazing Saddles (1974)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 33m

Directed by Mel Brooks

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMel Brooks deconstructs western tropes through absurdist humor, making the genre's racial and narrative conventions the explicit subject rather than backdrop.

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Legends of the Fall (1994)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 61% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 13m

Directed by Edward Zwick

✦ MovieMuse AI takeOperatic cinematography and tragic fraternal rivalry elevate the ranch as mythic space where natural beauty amplifies emotional and moral reckoning.

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

Old Henry (2021)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 94% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 39m

Directed by Potsy Ponciroli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts the lawman-versus-outlaw binary by making moral authority itself ambiguous, forcing viewers to question which side embodies justice.

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

Shenandoah (1965)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 45m

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCivil War intrudes upon pastoral independence; shows western myth's fragility.

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

Westworld (1973)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 84% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 29m

Directed by Michael Crichton

✦ MovieMuse AI takePresciently uses the gunslinger archetype to explore how technology transforms the western's central myth of human agency and control.

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

Eddington (2025)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 28m

Directed by Ari Aster

✦ MovieMuse AI takeContemporary western confronts neighbor-versus-neighbor division; genre reflects modern political fracture.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

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Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 42m

Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRepositions Chinese railroad workers as western protagonists, fundamentally reframing whose story the genre has historically centered and marginalized.

So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.

The Thicket (2024)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 45m

Directed by Elliott Lester

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses a female outlaw as the moral and narrative core, inverting masculine heroism while maintaining the revenge-quest structure's raw emotional weight.

An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.

Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 24% Letterboxd 2.6 2h 6m

Directed by Richard Gray

✦ MovieMuse AI takeExplicitly centers a Black protagonist in a frontier town, forcing reckoning with the western's historical erasure of Black settlement and survival.

A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.

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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)

IMDb 4.8 🍅 22% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 34m

Directed by P.J. Pesce

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTreats the outlaw couple as romantic anti-heroes whose transgression becomes spiritual, merging western lawlessness with supernatural B-movie excess.

Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.

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