The 16 Best Spaghetti Western Films of All Time

Dusty duels, revenge sagas, and revolution-era chaos scored to unforgettable music — the Italian reinvention of the American frontier. Which one rides tallest?

1. 1
   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

   Sergio Leone's sweeping 1966 masterpiece following three gunslingers hunting buried gold amid the Civil War.
   1000pts
2. 2
   My Name Is Nobody

   The 1973 comic western produced by Leone, in which a drifter idolizes an aging gunslinger.
   551pts
3. 3
   A Bullet for the General

   Damiano Damiani's 1966 political western about a bandit gang running guns during the Mexican Revolution.
   551pts
4. 4
   The Big Gundown

   Sergio Sollima's 1966 chase western pitting a lawman against a fugitive he slowly comes to trust.
   551pts
5. 5
   Once Upon a Time in the West

   Leone's operatic 1968 epic of vengeance, railroads and a harmonica-playing avenger in the dying West.
   428pts
6. 6
   A Fistful of Dollars

   Leone's 1964 breakthrough that launched Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name and the whole genre.
   350pts
7. 7
   Django

   Sergio Corbucci's blood-soaked 1966 tale of a coffin-dragging drifter caught between rival gangs.
   350pts
8. 8
   Compañeros

   Corbucci's 1970 revolutionary adventure with a Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican rebel forced together.
   350pts
9. 9
   For a Few Dollars More

   Leone's 1965 second Dollars film teaming two bounty hunters against a ruthless bandit.
   350pts
10. 10
    The Great Silence

    Corbucci's stark 1968 snowbound western about a mute gunfighter facing merciless bounty killers.
    350pts
11. 11
    Day of Anger

    Tonino Valerii's 1967 film about a young outcast mentored into gunfighting by a cold veteran.
    350pts
12. 12
    Duck, You Sucker!

    Leone's 1971 revolution-era epic pairing a Mexican bandit with an Irish explosives expert.
    257pts
13. 13
    The Mercenary

    Corbucci's 1968 Zapata western following a Polish mercenary aiding a Mexican mine worker turned rebel.
    257pts
14. 14
    Sabata

    Gianfranco Parolini's 1969 gadget-filled western starring Lee Van Cleef as a sharpshooting bounty hunter.
    257pts
15. 15
    Death Rides a Horse

    Giulio Petroni's 1967 revenge western in which a young man and an ex-con hunt the same killers.
    143pts
16. 16
    Keoma

    Enzo G. Castellari's stylish 1976 late-genre western about a half-Native gunfighter returning to a plague-struck town.
    143pts