The best Geoffrey Lewis’s western movies

Geoffrey Lewis

Geoffrey Lewis

31/07/1935- 07/04/2015
We present our ranking of the best Geoffrey Lewis’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Geoffrey Lewis.
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Maverick

Maverick
7/10
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter
7.4/10
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

My Name Is Nobody

My Name Is Nobody
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Leader of the Wild Bunch
Jack Beauregard, one of the greatest gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

Tom Horn

Tom Horn
6.8/10
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.

Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 19/11/1980
  • Character: Trapper Fred
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.

The Shadow Riders

The Shadow Riders
6.6/10
  • Genre: TV MovieWestern
  • Release: 28/09/1982
  • Character: Major Cooper Ashbury, Comanchero Leader
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.

Bad Company

Bad Company
6.9/10
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.

Blueberry

Blueberry
5.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/02/2004
  • Character: Greg Sullivan
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.

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/04/1978
  • Character: 2 Strike Snake
Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...

Down in the Valley

Down in the Valley
6.4/10
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is suspicious of her lover.

The Return of a Man Called Horse

The Return of a Man Called Horse
6.1/10
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.

Lust in the Dust

Lust in the Dust
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 14/11/1984
  • Character: Hard Case Williams
A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.

The Gun and the Pulpit

The Gun and the Pulpit
5.7/10
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.

The Culpepper Cattle Co.

The Culpepper Cattle Co.
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/04/1972
  • Character: Russ
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
6/10
1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal rights" and could be bought and sold for a profit. Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance explores the exploitation of Chinese workers during the building of American railroads. The workers not only spent long hours, but the work was often dangerous and fatal. The Chinaman is a fugitive on the run, and all odds are against him. While stealing a horse was a hanging offense in the Old West, our fugitive knows that killing a Chinaman is not a crime.

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
7.1/10
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton (Kiley). Written by John Sacksteder

Shoot the Sun Down

Shoot the Sun Down
4.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Scalphunter
Couple of strangers arrive in a small town, each one after a different thing.

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
6.1/10
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

September Gun

September Gun
5.6/10
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans. Ben Sunday picks an ideal spot, right in the center of town--the local saloon and "bawdy house".

Belle Starr

Belle Starr
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 31/03/1980
  • Character: Reverend Meeks
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.

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