A list of Western films released in the 1980s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||
| Belle Starr | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Bronco Billy | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Heaven's Gate | United States | Epic Western | ||
| Lee Majors, David Carradine, Pernell Roberts, Katherine Cannon, Michael Pataki, M. Emmet Walsh, Frank Campanella, J. A. Preston, Tracey Walter, Britt Leach, Sanford Gibbons | United States | Made for television Western | ||
| Honeysuckle Rose | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Kenny Rogers as The Gambler | United States | Made for television Western | ||
| The Legend of Alfred Packer | Jim Roberson | Patrick Dray, Ronald Haines | United States | Biographical Western |
| Lobo Negro | Rafael Romero Marchent | Spain | ||
| The Long Riders | United States | Outlaw Western | ||
| More Wild Wild West | Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Victor Buono, Jonathan Winters, René Auberjonois, Avery Schreiber, Dave Madden, Liz Torres, Candi Brough, Randi Brough, Harry Morgan, Hector Elias, Gino Conforti, Joe Alfasa | United States | Made for television science fiction Western (based on TV series The Wild Wild West) | |
| The Mountain Men | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Rodeo Girl | United States | Rodeo Western | ||
| Tom Horn | United States | Traditional Western biography of Tom Horn | ||
| Urban Cowboy | John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith, Barry Corbin, Brooke Alderson, Cooper Huckabee, James Gammon, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Daniels, Gator Conley, Tamara Champlin, Jerry Hall, Steve Strange, Norman Tucker, Jessie La Rive, Connie Hanson, Sherwood Cryer, Christopher Saylors | United States | Contemporary Western | |
| Wild Times | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Windwalker | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| 1981 | ||||
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer, Scott Glenn, Ken Call, Redmond Gleeson, William Russ, Buck Taylor, Michael Conrad, Perry Lang, John Quade, Steven Ford, John Quade, Roger Cudney Jr., Chad Hastings, Yvette Sweetman, Jerry Gatlin | United States | Outlaw Western | |
| Comin' at Ya! | Italy Spain United States | 3-D Western | ||
| Death Hunt | United States | Northern | ||
| Duelo a muerte | Spain | |||
| Fire on the Mountain | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Hard Country | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| The Legend of the Lone Ranger | United States | Fantasy Western | ||
| Outland | United States | Space Western | ||
| Pruncul, petrolul şi ardelenii | Mircea Diaconu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Tania Filip | Romania | Comedy western | |
| La venganza del Lobo Negro | Spain | |||
| Zorro, The Gay Blade | United States, Mexico | Comedy Western | ||
| 1982 | ||||
| The Avenging | United States | B Western | ||
| Barbarosa | Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Gilbert Roland, Isela Vega, Danny De La Paz, Alama Martinez, George Voskovec, Sharon Compton, Howland Chamberlain, Wolf Muser, Kai Wulff, Roberto Contreras, Luis Contreras, Jake Busey | United States | B Western | |
| The Grey Fox | Phillip Borsos | Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke, Don Mackay, Samantha Langevin, Tom Heaton, James McLarty, Sean Sullivan, Frank Turner | Canada | Traditional Western |
| Harry Tracy | Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael C. Gwynne, Jacques Hubert, Daphne Goldrick, Lynne Kolber, Alec Willows, Frank C. Turner, Fred Diehl, Jack Ackroyd, Walter Scott | Canada | Comedy Western | |
| Honkytonk Man | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| The Legend of Walks Far Woman | United States | |||
| The Man from Snowy River | Australia | Outback Western | ||
| Mother Lode | Charlton Heston, Nick Mancuso, Kim Basinger, John Marley, Dale Wilson, Rocky Zantolas, Marie George | United States | Contemporary Western | |
| Mountain Charlie | George Stapleford | Dick Robinson, Denise Neilson | United States | Family Western |
| Plainsong | Jessica Nelson, Teresanne Joseph, Lyn Traverse | United States | Western drama | |
| The Shadow Riders | Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Dominique Dunne, Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, Scanlon Gail, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeff Osterhage, Gene Evans, R. G. Armstrong, Marshall R. Teague, Jane Greer, Harry Carey, Jr., Jeannetta Arnette, Owen Orr | United States | Traditional Western | |
| Showdown at Eagle Gap | United States | B Western | ||
| United States | Time travel Western | |||
| Triumphs of a Man Called Horse | Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong, Anne Seymour, Buck Taylor, Lautaro Murúa, Simón Andreu, Roger Cudney, Gerry Gatlin, John Davis Chandler, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Sebastian Ligarde, Erika Carlsson, Anaís de Melo | United States Mexico Canada Spain | Revisionist Western | |
| The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch | United States | Comedy Western | ||
| 1983 | ||||
| Al oeste del Río Grande | José María Zabalza | Spain | ||
| Cowboy | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Eyes of Fire | Avery Crounse | United States | Horror Western | |
| Gold Rush Boys | United States | Gay pornographic Western | ||
| Un hombre llamado El Diablo | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Mexico | ||
| I Married Wyatt Earp | Marie Osmond, Bruce Boxleitner, John Bennett Perry, Jeffrey De Munn, Allison Arngrim, Ross Martin, Ron Manning, Josef Rainer, Charles Benton, Earl W. Smith | United States | Traditional Western | |
| United States | Traditional Western | |||
| Lone Star | Lewis Smith, Alan Autry, Terri Garber, John McIntire, Chuck Connors | United States | B Western | |
| Lone Wolf McQuade | Steve Carver | Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltran, L. Q. Jones, Dana Kimmell, R. G. Armstrong, Sharon Farrell, William Sanderson | United States | Contemporary Western |
| Mercenários de la muerte | Mexico | |||
| Sacred Ground | United States | |||
| The Scout | East Germany | Revisionist Western | ||
| September Gun | United States | B Western | ||
| Todo un hombre | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Mexico | ||
| 1984 | ||||
| Al Este del Oeste | Spain | Comedy Western | ||
| Calamity Jane | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Charrito | Mexico | Comedy Western | ||
| Draw! | Canada | Comedy Western | ||
| Man Hunt | John Ethan Wayne, Raimund Harmstorf, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Ernest Borgnine, Terry Lynch, Don Taylor, Farris Castleberry, Susan Wilson, Robin Fugget, Jack Dunlap, Danny O'Haco, Claud Hereford, Austin Ludson, Charles Julian, Lawrence Niemi, Arthur Rothbard, Ed Adams | Italy | Contemporary spaghetti Western | |
| No Man's Land | Marc Alaimo, Wil Albert, Frank Bonner, Donna Dixon, Terri Garber, Jack Garner, Estelle Getty, Sam J. Jones, Ralph Michael, Melissa Michaelsen, Janis Paige, John Quade, Dack Rambo, John Rhys-Davies, Jeremy Ross, Stella Stevens, Tony Swartz, Buck Taylor, Robert Webber, Roz Witt, Tom Willett | United States | B Western | |
| Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold | Spain United States | Mexico Western | ||
| 1985 | ||||
| Alien Outlaw | Phil Smoot | United States | Science fiction Western | |
| All American Cowboy | United States | Singing cowboy Western | ||
| Atkins | Helge Trimpert | East Germany | Euro-Western | |
| Forajidos en la mira | Alberto Mariscal | Mexico | ||
| El gatillo de la muerte | Fernando Durán Rojas | Fernando Almada | Mexico | |
| Lust in the Dust | United States | Comedy Western | ||
| Los matones del Norte | Mexico | |||
| Pale Rider | Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, John Russell, Chuck Lafont, Jeffrey Weissman, S. A. Griffin, Billy Drago, John Dennis Johnston, Charles Hallahan, Richard Hamilton, Fran Ryan, Marvin J. McIntyre, Gerry Gatlin | United States | Revisionist Western | |
| Robbery Under Arms | Australia | Outback Western | ||
| Rustlers' Rhapsody | United States | Comedy Western | ||
| Silverado | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Space Rage | United States | Space Western | ||
| Tex and the Lord of the Deep | Italy | Spaghetti Western/fantasy based on the Tex Willer comics | ||
| Wild Horses | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| The Wind Favors West | Dean Reading | Jack Dillon | United States | |
| 1986 | ||||
| Ahora mis pistolas hablan | Spain Mexico Colombia | |||
| Astucia | Mario Hernández | Mexico | ||
| The Aurora Encounter | Jim McCullough, Sr. | United States | Science fiction Western based on the Aurora, Texas, UFO incident | |
| Bianco Apache | Italy Spain | |||
| Gone to Texas | United States | Biography of Sam Houston | ||
| The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James[1] | United States | Outlaw Western (filmed at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum) | ||
| Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| La muerte de un pistolero | Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez | Mexico | ||
| La rebelión de los colgados | Mexico | Based on B. Traven's The Rebellion of the Hanged | ||
| Red Headed Stranger | Willie Nelson, Morgan Fairchild, R. G. Armstrong, Royal Dano, Katharine Ross, Sonny Carl Davis, Ted J. Crum, Marinell Madden, Bryan Fowler, Paul English, Bee Spears | United States | Traditional Western | |
| The Return of Josey Wales | Michael Parks, Rafael Campos, Everett Sifuentes, Suzie Humphreys, John Galt, Charles McCoy, Joe Kurtzo, Paco Vela, Bob Magruder, Benita Faulkner | United States | Traditional Western | |
| Río de oro | Ralph E. Portillo | Henry Adriano | Mexico | |
| Stagecoach | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Three Amigos | United States | Comedy Western | ||
| El tres de copas | Mexico | |||
| Uphill All the Way | United States | Comedy Western | ||
| 1987 | ||||
| United States | Made for television movie about the Battle of the Alamo | |||
| Desperado | United States | B Western | ||
| Django 2 | Franco Nero, Christopher Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Licia Lee Lyon, Robert Posse, Alessandro Di Chio, Rodrigo Obregón, Miguel Carreno, William Berger, Bill Moore, Consuelo Reina | Italy | Spaghetti Western | |
| Extreme Prejudice | Walter Hill | Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, Matt Mulhern, Larry B. Scott, Dan Tullis, Jr., John Dennis Johnston, Marco Rodríguez, Luis Contreras, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Mickey Jones, Thomas Rosales Jr. | United States | Contemporary Western action thriller[2] |
| The Gunfighters | Art Hindle, Reiner Schoene, Tony Addabbo, George Kennedy, Michael Kane, Lori Hallier, Wendell Smith, Howard Kruschke, Francis Damberger, Beverly Hendry, Moira Wally, Dale Wilson, Bryan Fustukian, Eric Kramer, Blair Haynes, Alex Green, Paul Whitney, Mike Evans, Jay Smith, Dennis Robinson. Glenn Beck, James DeFelice, Tom Glass, Paul Wood, Kevin Smith | United States | ||
| United States | Made for television Western (sequel to the TV series Gunsmoke) | |||
| Hawken's Breed | United States | |||
| Independence | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| United States | Traditional Western | |||
| La leyenda del manco | Jaime Casillas | Mexico | ||
| A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines | Soviet Union | Ostern | ||
| Near Dark | Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Joshua John Miller, Marcie Leeds, Tim Thomerson, Troy Evans, Roger Aaron Brown, James LeGros, Billy Beck, S.A. Griffin, Neith Hunter, Theresa Randle, Leo Geter | United States | Horror Western | |
| Poker Alice | Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, David Wayne, Susan Tyrrell, Pat Corley, Paul Drake, Annabella Price, Mews Small, Gary Bisig, Liz Torres, Gary Grubbs, John Bennett Perry | United States | Traditional Western | |
| Proud Men | Charlton Heston, Peter Strauss, Nan Martin, Alan Autry, Belinda Balaski, Maria Mayenzet, Red West, Billy Ray Sharkey, Buck Taylor, Greg Kupiec, Dale Swann, Steve Whittaker, Mark McIntire, John Woodbridge, Bud Walls, Darren Prentice | United States | Traditional Western | |
| Scalps! | Spain Italy | |||
| Straight to Hell | United Kingdom | Punk rock spaghetti Western | ||
| Timestalkers | United States | Science fiction Western | ||
| Walker | United States Mexico | Traditional Western | ||
| Yo soy el asesino | José Loza | Mexico | ||
| 1988 | ||||
| Merrill Connally, Casey Biggs, Enrique Sandino, Steve Sandor, Don Swayze, Derek Caballero, Martin Cuellar | United States | Drama Western | ||
| John Ireland, Robert Fuller, Barbara Anderson, Michael Landon, Jr., Brian A. Smith, John Amos, Peter Mark Richman, Gillian Greene, Kevin Hagen, William Benedict, Dabbs Greer, Rex Linn, Jerry Gatlin | United States | Made for television sequel to the TV series Bonanza | ||
| Pat Fraley (voice), Charlie Adler (voice), Susan Blu (voice), Ed Gilbert (voice), Alan Oppenheimer (voice) | United States | Animated Western (based on TV series BraveStarr) | ||
| The Cowboy and the Frenchman | United States | Short comedy Western | ||
| United States | B Western | |||
| Ghost Town | Richard Governor | United States | Horror Western | |
| The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound | John Kimball, Charles A. Nichols, Bob Goe, Jay Sarbry | Daws Butler (voice), Don Messick (voice), Michael Bell (voice), Allan Melvin (voice), Charlie Adler (voice), Pat Fraley (voice), B. J. Ward (voice), Frank Welker (voice), Pat Buttram (voice), Howard Morris (voice) | United States | Made for television animated Western (based on TV series The Huckleberry Hound Show) |
| Kasam | India | Action Western | ||
| The Man from Snowy River II | Australia | Outback Western | ||
| The Milagro Beanfield War | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Once Upon a Texas Train | United States | Made for television outlaw Western | ||
| Red River | Richard Michaels | United States | Cattle drive Western | |
| The Return of Desperado | United States | B Western | ||
| Stranger on My Land | United States | Contemporany Western | ||
| Sunset | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| The Tracker | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| War Party | United States | Contemporary Western | ||
| Where the Hell's That Gold? | Willie Nelson, Delta Burke, Jack Elam, Alfonso Arau, Gerald McRaney, Annabelle Gurwitch, John David Garfield | United States | Made for television comedy Western | |
| Young Guns | United States | Outlaw Western | ||
| Zalzala | Harish Shah | India | Action Western | |
| 1989 | ||||
| Billy the Kid | United States | Outlaw Western | ||
| Blood Red | Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn, Lara Harris, Joseph Runningfox, Al Ruscio, Michael Madsen, Elias Koteas, Francesca De Sapio, Marc Lawrence, Frank Campanella, Aldo Ray, Gary Swanson, Susan Anspach, Kevin Cooney, Julia Roberts, Charles Dierkop | United States | Western drama filmed in 1986 | |
| Cabalgando con la muerte | Alfredo Gurrola | Mexico | ||
| United States | B Western | |||
| United States | B Western | |||
| El fugitivo de Sonora | Mexico | |||
| El loco Bronco | Alberto Mariscal | Mexico | ||
| Lonesome Dove | United States | Traditional Western | ||
| Old Gringo | United States | |||
| United States | Horror Western | |||