Films Give me Westerns!!

I've developed a new found love of Westerns, I'm not quite enjoying the black and white classics, but more the modern gritty takes on westerns.

so we're likely looking for post 1980 westerns here:

Unforgiven
Gran Torino
True Grit
The assassination of Jesse James
Even Cowboys vs Aliens had a certain charm!

I'm hoping the good people of Bit-Tech can recommends some more Westerns that I can go hunting for?

Fire away!

 

Tombstone?

Awesome film

 

Looks exactly like my kinda thing, +rep!

 

Every Spaghetti western, but particularly those by Sergio Leone:

Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More

There is also:

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)

 

3:10 to Yuma?

 

Pale Rider
Dances with Wolves
Young Guns

 

Appaloosa?

As suggested by Nexxo all of the Sergio Leone films are superb.

A slightly more out there recommendation would be The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
Crazy Korean western.

 

Absolutely do not discount the Sergio Leone films just because they are a little older. They are still some of the best. Same goes for Hang 'Em High, Outlaw Josey Wales and High Plains Drifter. Clint is almost always good in westerns.
For a new one I quite enjoyed, I suggest Blackthorn.

 

No Country For Old Men!

 

Blazin Saddles? Can't believe that hasn't been mentioned

Sam

 

My favourites are:
Unforgiven
Fist/Few/tG,tB,tU
The Outlaw Josey Wales (It ain't fer eatin', it's just fer lookin' through.)

Notice a theme? Heh.

Appaloosa, 3:10 to Yuma, Blazin' Saddles, Shane - all worthy of watching/owning without doubt.

 

All the really good ones have been mentioned I think, but here's some others:

Open Range
The Missing (was decent)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - stumbled on this one tonight. It's got Tommy Lee Jones so might be good.

The Deadwood HBO series is also really good.

 

Also There Will Be Blood, magnificent film.

 

3:10 to Yuma, Appaloosa, as previously recommended

I wouldn't call There Will Be Blood a western

 

O rly...?

I see your point, but the setting is majorly epic western ballpark, as is the cinematography. Plus there's plenty of lingering threat and sideline western themes, prospecting for (black) gold, expansion of railroads etc. Sure, there's no 6 gun shootout, but it's in my western section, right alongside Jesse James and No Country.

 

Just remembered, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is a great Korean take on the western.

 

I managed to pick that up for £5 on bluray.

 

A Fistful of Dynamite,
Jonah Hex (since you liked Cowboys and Aliens)

 

Jonah Hex was an abomination and shouldn't be mentioned in any semi-serious discussion of an otherwise awesome genre. Cowboys and Aliens is what Jonah Hex was aiming for, and missed by a country mile.

 

Another recommendation for 3:10 to Yuma, one of my favourite films.

Seraphim falls wasn't too bad.