Forget Eastwood, These Are 10 Best Westerns Not Made in the USA
While most people think that the Western genre was developed and hyped only in the USA, the real fate of this outlaw genre is actually much more complex.
Of course, the genre was created by American directors, who spent the first five decades since the invention of film perfecting the Western formula, but its modernization came courtesy of foreign directors.
Here are the 10 best non-American westerns, ranked:
Don't be surprised to see the most iconic American Western of all time, "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly," on this list, as while its cast consisted of prominent US actors and it was produced in Hollywood, its director was an iconic Italian director, Sergio Leone, who shot the film according to the rules of the Spaghetti Western, a genre born and bred in Italy.
There are many English-language films on this list, but all of them were produced in non-American countries and have their own unique styles and personalities that simply do not allow them to be compared to classic Hollywood westerns.
The world of western cinema is vast and interesting, and if you want to learn more about the cinema, you should ignore the naysayers of the genre and dive right into the wonderful world of non-American western films.