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Western Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
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Frontier Crucible
2025 · Drama
Eddington
2025 · Comedy
The Unholy Trinity
2025 · Action
Heads or Tails?
2025 · Western
Broke
2025 · Drama
Rust
2025 · Western
Gunslingers
2025 · Action
Day of Reckoning
2025 · Action
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025 · Comedy
Adios Amigo
2024 · Western
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
2024 · Drama
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024 · Drama
Golden Kamuy
2024 · Action
Calamity Jane
2024 · Western
The Settlers
2024 · Crime
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Crime
Butcher's Crossing
2023 · Drama
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023 · Action
Blood & Gold
2023 · Action
Strange Way of Life
2023 · Western
Organ Trail
2023 · Horror
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
2023 · Action
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
2023 · Drama
The Old Way
2023 · Action
The Last Manhunt
2022 · Western
Dead for A Dollar
2022 · Thriller
Goliath
2022 · Crime
Terror on the Prairie
2022 · Thriller
Thar
2022 · Action
Ghosts of the Ozarks
2022 · Mystery
Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up!
2022 · Animation
The Last Son
2021 · Action
The Harder They Fall
2021 · Drama
Old Henry
2021 · Western
Cry Macho
2021 · Drama
Spirit Untamed
2021 · Adventure
High Ground
2021 · Action
No Man's Land
2021 · Action
News of the World
2020 · Action
The Pale Door
2020 · Drama
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