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Rather than repeat what others have listed,will try to mention a couple of my old favorites that are not well known.Both oddly enough,star the late Burt Lancaster.
The Professionals.(1966) Set during the Mexican revolution.
Ulzanas Raid (1972) One of the very few Indian Wars films historically accurate.Try to view the R version,not the PG one shown on TV.
No one has mentioned The Searchers yet. One of my favorite John Wayne movies.
"Cut out their eyes so they'll be blind in the Spirit World"
Actually, it has been mentioned twice.
It is indeed a good movie.
Most of my favorites have been mentioned.
I always liked another Ford/Wayne collaboration: Stagecoach.
The characters (random people all brought together in a besieged stagecoach) might seem somewhat cliched, but this movie was made in 1939--maybe Thomas Mitchell (Scarlett's father in Gone With the Wind) was actually one of the first drunken doctors in a Western.
For more modern westerns, I'll go with The Assassination of Jesse James, and Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil. Neither is your standard western, but IMHO they are both beautifully written and filmed. Ride With the Devil is about a fairly obscure (no less tragic) aspect of the Civil War. The Assassination of Jesse James, from the excellent novel by Ron Hansen, has powerful imagery and a sorrowful undercurrent of inevitability. There is plenty of robbing and shooting, but this film is more about behind-the-scenes human fallibility: resentment and betrayal abound.
Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short time ago, they were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters, there were three men.
Cheyenne: So?
Harmonica: Inside the men, there were three bullets.
Cheyenne: That's a crazy story, Harmonica, for two reasons. One, nobody around these part's got the guts to wear those dusters except Cheyenne's men. Two, Cheyenne's men don't get killed.
Harmonica: Well, you know music, and you can count - all the way up to two.
[Cheyenne spins the magazine of his revolver]
Cheyenne: All the way up to six if I have to...
[gestures to Harmonica's wound]
Cheyenne: And maybe faster than you.
Heh heh, yep that scene is fresh in my head. The actual scene with the "three dusters" in the beginning is great, esp. the long lead-up at the train station, with the fly, dripping water, and sound effects. Sergio Leone drags them out to perfection.
not really. after you've seen it enough times, you really just wanna skip to the Val Kilmer scenes.
I disagree, Doc was dieing of TB, the only realistic portrayal of him. He had a house near mine up in Carr Canyon, died in a hospital in Colorado. It was waaay more realistic than the John Huston films that put Tombstone and Fort Apache in Monument Valley, they are nothing like that
I liked the sam peckinpah version of pat garrett & billy the kid Great cast james coburn kristofferson
slim pickens death scene is arguably the most moving scene ever in motion pictures. The directors cut is the best version Good music from bob dylan (alias) who also acted in the film Keep the change bob.
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Does Wild Wild West w/ Will Smith count??? 
