4 Greatest Western Movies To Watch on Netflix Right Now

The Western keeps reinventing itself, moving from the John Ford and John Wayne era through Clint Eastwood to a 21st-century wave of neo-Westerns. Netflix’s catalogue now includes a wide range of modern classics that revisit the genre’s past while pushing it in new directions.

One standout is Jaymes Samuel’s feature debut The Harder They Fall, a Netflix original notable for its all-Black principal cast. Jonathan Majors plays Nat Love, who assembles a gang to confront Rufus Black (Idris Elba), joined by Zazie Beetz, Edie Gathegi, R.J.

Cyler, Regina King and LaKeith Stanfield. Equally distinctive is the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, an anthology of six Old West vignettes that mixes black comedy, whimsy and brutal moments with performances from Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson and others.

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