- Audio Description available for The Rider, Gone are the Days, Red Sun, Jane Got a Gun, Never Grow Old and Bone Tomahawk
- Closed Captions (CC) available for Gone are the Days, Red Sun and Bone Tomahawk
Five Fingers for Marseilles
Monday 3 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
MA15+
South Africa, USA, 2018
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Language: English, Afrikaans
Director: Michael Matthews
Starring: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo, Hamilton Dhlamini, Rapulana Seiphemo, Mduduzi Mabaso
What's it about?
Using the western genre as its basis, this is a film about a South African shanty town and five friends who swear to protect it from corrupt police and criminal gangs. The story follows Tau (Dabula), who runs away from the problems facing the town and returns years later to find out how his absence has changed the town and the people that he used to know.
The Rider
Tuesday 4 October, 9:40pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
M, AD
USA, 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Chloé Zhao
Starring: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier
What's it about?
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady (Brady Jandreau) is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States. The acclaimed second feature from Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao, which similarly uses non-professional actors and blurs the line between documentary and fiction.
Gone Are the Days
Wednesday 5 October, 9:35pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
M, AD, CC
USA, 2018
Genre: Western
Language: English
Director: Mark Landre Gould
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Tom Berenger, Danny Trejo, Lulu Wilson, Jamie McShane
What's it about?
The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn (Henriksen), a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sordid life his estranged daughter is forced to live. To save her, he must summon the inner demons he purged long ago, and finds that redemption is a hard road to travel.
Red Sun
Thursday 6 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
PG, AD, CC
France, Italy, Spain, 1971
Genre: Action, Western
Language: English, Spanish, Japanese
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Tetsu Nakamura
What's it about?
The Japanese ambassador (Nakamura) is traveling through the Wild West by train, when gangsters hold up the train, to rob a gold shipment. They also carry an ancient Japanese sword the ambassador was carrying as a present for the US president. The ambassador's bodyguard (played by the legendary Toshirô Mifune, best known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa) will go after them, with the aid of one of the gang's leaders betrayed by his pals. Directed by Terence Young (Dr. No, Goldfinger)
Dances with Wolves
Friday 7 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
M
UK, USA, 1990
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Language: English
Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
What's it about?
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar (Costner) tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe. One of only three westerns to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (along with 1931's Cimarron and 1992's Unforgiven).
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Monday 10 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
MA15+
Indonesia, 2017
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Western
Language: Indonesian
Director: Mouly Surya
Starring: Marsha Timothy, Yoga Pratama, Dea Panendra, Egy Fedly
What's it about?
In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina (Timothy), a young widow, is attacked, raped and robbed for her cattle. To defend herself, she kills several men of the gang. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption. But the road is long, especially when the ghost of her headless victim begins to haunt her. Described by Variety's Maggie Lee as a "satay western", this feminist spin on the genre is one of only four Indonesian films ever to make the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jane Got a Gun
Tuesday 11 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
MA15+, AD
USA, 2015
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Language: English
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Nash Edgerton
What's it about?
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane (Portman) reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. Directed by Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) and shot by Australia's Mandy Walker (Elvis, Tracks).
Never Grow Old
Wednesday 12 October, 9:35pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
MA15+
Ireland, 2019
Genre: Western
Language: English
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
Starring: Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Deborah Francois, Danny Webb, Tim Ahern
What's it about?
A once-peaceful frontier town becomes a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (Cusack) and his gang arrive and begin gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate (Hirsch) must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face as the death toll continues to rise.
Bone Tomahawk
Thursday 13 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Now streaming at SBS On Demand
MA15+
USA, 2015
Genre: Western, Horror
Language: English
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins
What's it about?
When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Russell), sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission - and survival itself - in serious jeopardy. This offbeat, gory horror-western marks the directorial debut of S. Craig Zahler, writer-director of Brawl In Cell Block 99 of Dragged Across Concrete.
When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Russell), sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission - and survival itself - in serious jeopardy. This offbeat, gory horror-western marks the directorial debut of S. Craig Zahler, writer-director of Brawl In Cell Block 99 of Dragged Across Concrete.
Kurt Russell stars in the 2015 western-horror hybrid Bone Tomahawk, showing this Wednesday 27th March at 8:35PM Source: SBS Movies
The Furnace
Friday 14 October, 9:30pm on SBS World Movies / Streaming after at SBS On Demand
M
Australia, 2020
Genre: Western, History
Language: English, Pashto
Director: Roderick MacKay
Starring: David Wenham, Ahmed Malek, Jay Ryan, Erik Thomson, Baykali Ganambarr
What's it about?
Set in the Western Australian outback during the gold rushes of the 1890s. To escape a harsh existence and return to his home country, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold. The film illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s ‘Ghan' cameleers, comprised mostly of Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who traversed the Nation's vast desert interior and formed unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.
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