Some of the greatest Westerns ever made tweak the genre’s traditions and expectations — traditions and expectations created by countless films that like their good guys to wear white hats, their bad guys to be instantly identifiable villains, their saloons to play host to barroom brawls, and their climactic shoot-outs to be rousing.

Share your opinions in the thread below and remember to keep it respectful. The best Western movies of all time range from the likes of High Noon in the 1950s to The Revenant in the 2010s, but each one is timeless.

The 25 best westerns ever made, in alphabetical order List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 1. A Fistful of Dollars A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge. 2. Back to the Future Part III

Best Westerns include classic good-vs-evil stories with great characters, still shaping modern action and adventure genres. Westerns have often been criticized as a genre offering the same, tired tropes and recycled stories – something that many blame for the genre’s ‘death’ following its huge popularity from the 1930s to the late 1960s.