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Western Movie Index


Find below a breakdown of all Western movies by year and first letter.

See also: Domestic Box Office Analysis for Western Movies - Top Domestic Western Movies - Top International Western Movies - Top Worldwide Western Movies - Top Domestic Western Stars - Top International Western Stars - Top Worldwide Western Stars

  1. Index of Movies by Year
  2. Alphabetical Movie Index

The table below lists the top-grossing Western movie released in each calendar year (based on worldwide box office). Click on the year number for a list of all the Western films released that year. The "Annual Stats" links will take you to a summary of the domestic film business for Western movies for the year in question (this part of our archive starts in 1995). Click on the movie name to see information on the individual film.

YearAnnual
Stats
Total
Movies
Average
Production
Budget
Combined
Worldwide
Box Office
No. 1 Movie
TBD    14      
2024 Annual Stats  10    $31,143  The Stolen Valley
2023 Annual Stats  19  $200,000,000  $158,127,022  Killers of the Flower Moon
2022 Annual Stats  12    $77,795  Dead for a Dollar
2021 Annual Stats  21    $1,534,980  The Drover’s Wife
2020 Annual Stats  12  $38,000,000  $13,070,144  News of the World
2019 Annual Stats  21  $7,000,000  $2,403,529  The Kid
2018 Annual Stats  21  $25,000,000  $15,618,553  The Sisters Brothers
2017 Annual Stats  15  $32,500,000  $180,953,409  The Dark Tower
2016 Annual Stats  12  $30,500,000  $207,615,300  The Magnificent Seven
2015 Annual Stats  13  $15,850,000  $159,550,594  The Hateful Eight
2014 Annual Stats  10  $17,750,000  $97,994,122  A Million Ways to Die in The West
2013 Annual Stats  9  $225,000,000  $261,099,435  The Lone Ranger
2012 Annual Stats  6  $51,000,000  $449,841,566  Django Unchained
2011 Annual Stats  10  $69,750,000  $246,941,907  Rango
2010 Annual Stats  12  $28,966,667  $261,249,307  True Grit
2009 Annual Stats  2      
2008 Annual Stats  3  $10,015,000  $28,155,221  Appaloosa
2007 Annual Stats  3  $39,000,000  $86,903,752  3:10 to Yuma
2006 Annual Stats  5  $15,000,000  $20,256,033  Bandidas
2005 Annual Stats  1  $15,000,000  $13,454,474  Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada
2004 Annual Stats  5  $93,333,333  $208,484,618  Hidalgo
2003 Annual Stats  3  $47,000,000  $195,184,260  Shanghai Knights
2001 Annual Stats  3  $36,500,000  $14,224,483  American Outlaws
2000 Annual Stats  5  $37,666,667  $90,712,094  Shanghai Noon
1999 Annual Stats  2  $105,000,000  $221,860,114  Wild Wild West
1998 Annual Stats  2      
1996 Annual Stats  1    $1,078,064  Dead Man
1995 Annual Stats  6  $19,500,000  $61,755,141  Desperado
1994    8  $46,500,000  $448,378,821  Maverick
1993    4  $25,000,000  $94,606,162  Tombstone
1992    1  $14,400,000  $159,157,447  Unforgiven
1991    4  $23,000,000  $11,339,912  Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1990    4  $26,333,333  $733,852,579  Dances with Wolves
1988    2  $13,000,000  $58,413,671  Young Guns
1986    3      
1985    3  $16,450,000  $79,457,653  Pale Rider
1983    3  $3,152,500  $13,141,628  Lone Wolf McQuade
1982    1  $5,000,000  $20,659,423  The Man From Snowy River
1981    3  $18,000,000  $13,515,679  The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1980    2  $10,000,000  $62,117,199  Urban Cowboy
1979    3      
1976    5    $59,800,000  The Outlaw Josey Wales
1975    5    $56,916,500  The Apple Dumpling Gang
1974    4    $45,411,063  The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
1973    4  $5,069,392  $26,700,000  High Plains Drifter
1972    6    $67,557,117  Jeremiah Johnson
1971    9  $800,000  $113,782,684  Billy Jack
1970    11  $3,716,946  $47,609,552  Little Big Man
1969    10  $5,666,667  $153,861,241  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968    10  $1,627,500  $21,536,688  Bandolero!
1967    9  $666,667  $26,935,359  Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966    7    $19,571,015  The Professionals
1965    6  $3,800,000  $30,617,095  Shenandoah
1964    3    $147  Cheyenne Autumn
1963    2    $61,000,000  How the West Was Won
1962    4  $3,200,000  $8,000,498  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1961    4    $379  Two Rode Together
1960    4  $12,000,000  $7,920,293  The Alamo
1959    4    $5,800,064  Rio Bravo
1958    4    $14,400,000  The Big Country
1957    5      
1956    9  $1,000,000  $39,201,017  Giant
1955    4      
1954    6    $18,843,487  Vera Cruz
1953    6    $28,200,000  Shane
1952    3      
1951    3    $5,500,000  Across the Wide Missouri
1950    9      
1949    3      
1948    5  $3,000,000  $9,023,778  Red River
1946    4  $6,000,000  $25,610,931  Duel in the Sun
1945    1      
1943    3      
1941    1      
1940    4  $1,312,500  $9,172,000  Boom Town
1939    6      
1938    1      
1937    1      
1936    2      
1934    1      
1933    1      
1931    1      
1930    1      
1929    1      
1928    1    $5,300  Shooting Stars
Total  492  $29,651,897  $5,595,793,442  Django Unchained

The table below shows the highest-grossing Western movie that begins with each letter of the alphabet. Click on the name of the film to go to its page. Or click on the letter at the beginning of each row for a list of all the Western movies beginning with that letter.

IndexTotal
Movies
Average
Production
Budget
Combined
Worldwide
Box Office
No. 1 Movie
1  2      
3  2  $48,000,000  $71,171,825  3:10 to Yuma
7  1      
A  20  $39,000,000  $168,993,572  The Apple Dumpling Gang
B  48  $9,683,813  $575,270,865  Back to the Future Part III
C  22  $13,000,000  $52,249,538  City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
D  38  $29,571,429  $1,043,195,898  Django Unchained
E  7      
F  13  $18,000,000  $8,197,962  For a Few Bullets
G  25  $9,900,000  $50,473,500  Giant
H  31  $39,811,111  $503,394,677  The Hateful Eight
I  5    $53,647  In a Valley of Violence
J  13  $25,000,000  $54,799,898  Jeremiah Johnson
K  5  $103,500,000  $158,239,914  Killers of the Flower Moon
L  31  $36,378,750  $588,199,598  The Lone Ranger
M  32  $26,203,125  $539,176,444  Maverick
N  7  $38,000,000  $12,993,052  News of the World
O  16  $15,500,000  $101,703,826  Open Range
P  17  $3,084,696  $99,161,121  Pale Rider
Q  3  $26,000,000  $39,965,565  Quigley Down Under
R  26  $57,666,667  $291,572,103  Rango
S  50  $21,578,333  $276,361,349  Shanghai Knights
T  31  $23,020,000  $374,633,285  True Grit
U  6  $14,400,000  $214,075,734  Unforgiven
V  7    $9,184,981  Vera Cruz
W  29  $49,708,333  $268,655,034  Wild Wild West
Y  4  $13,000,000  $94,070,054  Young Guns
Z  1