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Hang 'em High(1968)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 54min | Western
3.5/5 (with 310 votes)

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Rio Bravo(1959)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 21min | Western
3.9/5 (with 467 votes)

The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

Outland(1981)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Science Fiction, Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 245 votes)

An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.

Pale Rider(1985)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Western
3.6/5 (with 442 votes)

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Mackenna's Gold(1969)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 8min | Adventure, Action, Western
3.3/5 (with 72 votes)

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

My Darling Clementine(1946)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Western, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 170 votes)

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

Warlock(1959)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Western
3.4/5 (with 61 votes)

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

Posse(1975)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Western
2.9/5 (with 26 votes)

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

Renegade(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Western
2.4/5 (with 93 votes)

U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.

The Gunfighter(1950)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 25min | Western
3.6/5 (with 72 votes)

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Heaven's Gate(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 39min | Drama, Western
3.4/5 (with 144 votes)

Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.

Last Train from Gun Hill(1959)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Western, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 81 votes)

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

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3 Godfathers(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Western
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

The Duel at Silver Creek(1952)

1h 17min | Western
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from one raid, he meets femme fatale Opal Lacy, who may not be healthy for him to know. When Luke, now calling himself the Silver Kid, joins forces with Marshal Tyrone, the gang had better watch out ...unless something drives a wedge between the new allies.

The Lone Ranger(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Adventure, Western
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to mine silver on Spirit Mountain which is sacred to the Indians.

A Lawless Street(1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 18min | Action, Western
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

The Night of the Grizzly(1966)

1h 48min | Adventure, Western
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces opposition both from a neighbor who wants that land for his own sons, and from a grizzly bear nicknamed "Satan" who keeps killing Cole's livestock.

Bad Company(1972)

1h 33min | Western, Drama
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.

Dark Command(1940)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.

South of Heaven, West of Hell(2000)

1h 44min | Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900s. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. Christmas, journey through the desert to a small town that the ruthless Henry Clan has hit in order to save Casey's love, Adelyne.

Directed by Dwight Yoakam

Death of a Gunfighter(1969)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Western
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

Trail Street(1947)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 24min | Western
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.

The Last Challenge(1967)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Western
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

Fast on the Draw(1950)

55min | Crime, Western

As a boy, Shamrock's parents were killed. He took possession of a pistol belonging to his father, a famous marshal. Now that he is grown, he takes the job of marshal and uses the same gun, but he still has to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents.

Directed by Thomas Carr

Evil Roy Slade(1972)

1h 37min | TV Movie, Western, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.

Directed by Jerry Paris - With John Astin

Horizons West(1952)

1h 21min | Western
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.

Ride a Crooked Trail(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 27min | Romance / Love, Western
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy.

Directed by Jesse Hibbs - With Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Bill Walker, Eddie Little, Henry Silva, ...

Man with the Gun(1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 23min | Western
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out.

Arizona Colt Returns(1970)

1h 30min | Action, Western
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The rough and tough bounty hunter suddenly becomes the hunted when a $1,000 reward is put on his head for a stagecoach robbery he didn't commit in this action-packed sequel.

Yuma(1971)

1h 15min | Western, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.

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