Best Western Movies of 2020

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.

Set in 1965, outlaw lovers, Eve and Austin, await their getaway driver in the Mojave Desert after committing a bank heist. Austin's racial prejudice threatens to tear them apart when he finds out that Eve has a Black mother. Meanwhile, a well-known Italian director watches their every move.

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

In late 19th century Montana, an artist (Benjamin Rigby) seeking inspiration explores the landscape with his Native American guide (Kiowa Gordon), and finds his conceptions of himself and of the world around him challenged. In 1970s Barstow, California, a questioning youth's (Uly Schlesinger) mundane existence is given a shot of adrenaline by the arrival of a new exchange student (Jessica Allain) who envelops them within her own lust for life. In present-day Wyoming, a trans teenager (Ryan Cassata) works through his self-destructive feelings with his perceptive, non-binary therapist (Kate Bornstein).

Jane Montana, a rough and tough law-woman, is in a pickle. A gang of outlaws led by a man named Buford has kidnapped a helpless damsel.

Off a lonely Texas highway, a group of hustlers prey on the desperados who have come for sex, drugs and Mommas special milk. When a murderous cowboy rolls into town, a young trans boy quickly sees an opportunity to feed the physical and emotional hunger that has long been ignored by the neglectful Momma. As the boys begin to fall one by one, Penny is caught between the Cowboys lustful rage, and the greed and corruption that Momma represents.

When Henry proposes it looks like Rebecca will get her fairytale ending until her daughter invites a visitor from her past to the ranch that will change the Petersons and Landsburgs forever.

The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.

After a ruthless cattle baron announces his bid for governor, four estranged siblings set out on a quest for revenge for the death of their family. Setting aside old feuds and impossible odds, they will face off with a man who owns every gun hand in the territory.

After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.

BMO is on his way to Mars when a cute extraterrestrial nicknamed "Olive" knocks his spaceship off course, causing a crash landing on a mysterious space station. Upon realizing this strange place is in peril, self-appointed Sheriff BMO enlists Y5, a curious rabbit friend, to help save the day. Will teamwork prevail, or will the powers that be foil this adorable duo's good deeds?

A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the family’s outrageously decadent daughters and discovers that something quite unusual is happening at the ranch.

Alice travels west along with a ruthless bounty hunter in search of her lost husband.

When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly

One cowboy embarks on a quest to find the ultimate cowboy hat while exploring the origin, evolution, quintessential stylings, and solidification of this iconic American West expression.

A Feature western gene film, 60 minutes in length and shot on green screen, and locations actors are placed into worlds created by 3D models.

Dev and Jonas are two rogues on sort-of-opposite sides of the law in the 1880's. When they accept a job that seems like easy money from a powerful mining company owner, they end up getting more than they bargained for.

Victoria Stokes, a young daughter of a wealthy businessman, runs away to escape an arranged marriage with an evil coal tycoon businessman Langley Prescott so she can instead be with the man she truly loves, Joshua Forbes.

Mexican families are being forced off their land by the Saxon's who come to colonize this underpopulated state. Two Mexican families, the Iturraldes and the Villareals, find their peaceful existence shattered when they refuse to sell their ranches to the Mackenzies, an Irish family who will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want, lies deep in this extensive and fertile land... oil.

When two gunslingers stumble into each other things go wrong.

The year is 1859. Wanted fugitive Jimmy Joe Brown and his gang stop in the cleanest saloon one can visit with a bounty on one's head the size of theirs.

In a desolate village where few live and aren't living well, two dim yet eccentric outlaws; Boyle and Neville seek refuge from a ruthless bailiff who ravages the countryside in search of them along with his trusty confidant; a sword. The eponymous characters interact with the obscure and weary townsfolk, down trodden by crop failure. Within these interactions sprout outlandish dialogue and actions of sinful intentions as time frays and the glimmer of the blade gets brighter as The Bailiff draws nearer.

A short elusive ode to the curvature found on a woman's bottom, shown through beautiful and mystifying images.

In the West, a young man seeks to take revenge on his older brothers for an unspeakable crime.

Boyle steps down as Chief Highwayman and starts to pursue a life in riverside fishing and writing in seclusion and serenity. Upon writing his memoirs, he stumbles across a startling, dream like memory. To decipher it he is put through trials of struggle and trauma. Upon the brook, sinister lurks in the reeds.

Set in 1870s Oregon, an obsessive carpenter relocates his pregnant wife and young daughter to an isolated land with the promise of a better life, but instead is plagued by grief and paranoia.

Three New Yorkers have a standoff for who can get the last donut in a "free donut" box.

With the help of Satan, Jack battles his vengeful enemies.

On the search for treasure, two westerners have an unlikely encounter on Boulder Hill.

On his hunt for a wanted deceiver, a cunning bounty hunter gets captured by another notorious bounty hunter.

When a young girl goes missing, her family wrestles with grief. Fearing for the worst, her sister takes the law and justice into her own hands.

A young man faces his inner demons and the icons of generations after taking an unknown drug.

On the great frontier a gold-miner, an American Indian, a band of outlaws, and a corrupt sheriff clash under the desert sun in search of riches, revenge, and redemption.

A silent short film following two immigrants as they attempt to make their way past the border into the United States.

On the search for treasure, two westerners have an unlikely encounter on Boulder Hill.

A satire on old Western films, 'Mexican Stand-Off' follows two friends as they dual with Nerf guns in their front yard.A satire on old Western films, 'Mexican Stand-Off' follows two friends as they dual with Nerf guns in their front yard.

After a man is haunted by a gruesome dream which prophecies his death, he tries to take his fate in his own hands.

In the Old West, a wicked salesmen has created a magical saloon of broken promises. When a young girl makes a wager to save her brother, his paradise begins to fall.

In a bottle, there is everything I dream of.

A Bounty Hunter hunts down the criminal Sadie Morgan.

In a robbery gone wrong, two women are forced to reckon with their values, livelihood, and relationship.

Two men drive into the desert. A question is asked and the answer has a violent outcome

In the summer of 1867, a reserved young woman named Birdie accidentally murders her abusive husband and races off into the Wild West in search of the mythical No Man's Land, a town run and governed entirely by women.

Two private investigators hurry to find information about the whereabouts of a man who they fear might be in danger.

Chicago-based new media artist jonCates’ influential body of work mixes the urgency of punk with the poetics of glitch. His latest project, a glitch Western, takes shape as a feature film and interactive game that critiques the myths and ideology of the American West.