My all-time favorite western, with truly magnificent cast and Elmer Bernstein score. A must for any serious film buff.

This light-hearted buddy film is a useful corrective to the darker, more violent westerns coming from Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone at roughly the same time.

Mean, dark and ugly, but one of the most exhilarating films ever made with bravura action sequences and awesome Ennio Morricone score. Lee Van Cleef is a villain of almost Shakespearean complexity, while Clint is an enigmatic antihero and Eli Wallach once again chews the scenery as a Mexican bandit.

This revisionist classic is an early attempt at the kind of stark realism that won Clint Eastwood an Oscar for "Unforgiven." Peckinpah's last classic before the booze took its toll.

Surrealist Mexican-made western with Zen gunfighters, lesbian cowgirls, enslaved dwarfs and pistol-packing Jesus freaks. To give you an idea of how strange it is, Marilyn Manson wants to star in the sequel.

The Duke joins forces with Rock Hudson in this corny but entertaining post-Civil War drama about ex-confederate and Union officers who join forces to fight against the Emperor Maximilian's invasion of Mexico.

Another western comedy, a hilarious self-parody from Sergio Leone about a wannabe gunslinger (Terence Hill) and an aging quick-draw artist who just wants to be left alone (Henry Fonda).

This rugged Russian-language version of Shakespeare's darkest tragedy is like a western with its sweeping panorama of bleak, desolate scenery and its evocation of a grubby medieval landscape populated by greedy, corrupt nobles and ignorant, starving peasants. Also, there are men on horseback and lots of fighting. An "eastern" worth looking into.

Sure, it's set in ancient Rome, but this revenge drama could have come straight from the typewriter of Sergio Leone. Russell Crowe's sullen hero owes a lot to Charles Bronson's character in "Once Upon a Time in the West."