'90s Westerns
AMC Movie List

'90s Westerns

Call it a comeback! Which late 20th-century cowboy flick deserves top billing?

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1 Tombstone
Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer breathe new life into the legend of Wyatt Earp. Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton round out the cast. 217 469
2 Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood's grim gunfighter tale turns the conventional ingredients of the Western into the stuff of Greek tragedy. 212 422
3 Dances with Wolves
Great storytelling helped Kevin Costner's epic nab Best Picture at the Oscars, despite its three-hour length. 161 397
4 Wyatt Earp
All those vast landscapes earned Lawrence Kasdan's Kevin Costner vehicle a Best Cinematography Oscar nod. 90 332
5 Quigley Down Under
Tom Selleck's bad-ass American gunslinger breaks new ground by moving the operation to Australia. 88 338
6 Geronimo: An American Legend
Director Walter Hill, no stranger to the genre (Wild Bill, Broken Trail) teams up with Jason Patric and Robert Duvall for this biopic. 29 271
7 Young Guns 2
The genre keeps it cute with Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Philips, Christian Slater, and Kiefer Sutherland. 18 308
8 City Slickers
This fish-out-of-water comedy finds Billy Crystal and Jack Palance going head-to-head for laughs. -60 306
9 Dead Man
Quirky director Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law) reimagines the Western, with Johnny Depp in the lead role. -95 253
10 Posse
Mario van Peebles' tale of black cowboys is an appealing corrective to the conventional Western ethos. -138 266