Fantastical and original movie set in 19th Century frontier country. Blake (Depp) becomes a wanted man and takes to the hills where he meets "Nobody", an Indian who thinks Depp is the English poet. Both comic and thought-provoking with wonderful visual landscapes and sound music, from cult director Jim Jarmusch. find out more...

The highly eccentric and totally brilliant Alexandro Jodorowsky doesn't make films like anybody else. Directed, written by and starring the man himself "El Topo" is a violent, surreal, quasi-religious Western, if that makes sense (which like the film it doesn't). AJ plays the nomadic lone gunslinger of the title, mostly shooting people for the first half, before being reincarnated as the comedian-cum-holyman protector of a community of deformed outcasts. No doubt some would attempt to read all s find out more...

A superb historical film which explores the myth and reality of the tough trappers who roamed the unconquered West in the 1850s. Tenderfoot Jeremiah learns to fish, trap beaver, tell one Indian from another and stay alive. And all shot on location in fantastically beautiful desolate Utah snowscapes. find out more...

'Ride In The Whirlwind' was a cheapie shot back-to-back with 'The Shooting' and scripted by Jack Nicholson telling the story of three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a band of vigilantes until two are dead and the third becomes a killer in self-defence. A gritty, stylised cult western. find out more...

Norwood and Velma are on their honeymoon, but after a bungled assassination attempt Norwood and his partners rob a bank and Velma is forced to cut their romantic break short. Continuing on their well worn path of ineptitude the gang lurch from one screw up to the next until they find dubious refuge at the hideout of the McMahon gang. Caffeine is the ingredient for disaster, that and Velma's wandering eye, oh and Dr Farben, replete with lush but lethal bodyguard. Directed by Alex Cox and with a m find out more...

The story follows Willett Gashade, an ex-bounty hunter who returns home searching for his brother, only to discover that he has disappeared. He is met by Coley, a frazzled cowboy and along with a beautiful but tempestuous woman the eclectic trio set out across the Utah desert. Along the way Gashade is reluctantly joined by the menacing presence of bounty hunter Billy Spear and as the tension escalates so violence becomes inevitable. Monte Hellman reinvented the Western genre with 'The Shooting', find out more...

In this controversial and acclaimed story of drag-racing drifters, the drivers of a Pontiac GTO and a '55 Chevy fight an obsessive battle across the back roads of America for possession of each other's 'pinks' and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker. Dominating this hypnotic existential journey is Warren Oates as the obsessive ‘GTO', with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (in their first and only acting roles) his rivals for both car and woman. "Two-Lane Blacktop" is an existentialist 6 find out more...

In the mid-C19th William Walker operated out of Latin America as a soldier of fortune, but he was not merely a mercenary for hire, he was also a doctor, a lawyer and, most dangerous of all, an idealist. When Walker invaded Nicaragua, at the behest of robber baron Wanderbilt, he decided against handing the country over, instead declaring himself President, and sighting that America was obligated to "protect our neighbours from oppression". A glorious and bloody re-interpretation of history, ‘Walk find out more...