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  1. Feb 27, 2024 · Slow West (2015) Once upon a time, 1870 to be exact, a 16-year-old kid traveled from the cold shoulder of Scotland to the baking heart of America to find his love. His name was Jay. Her name was ...

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    • 10 The Horse Whisperer
    • 9 Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron
    • 8 The Longest Ride
    • 7 Oklahoma!
    • 6 Two Mules For Sister Sara
    • 5 Calamity Jane
    • 4 The Man from Snowy River
    • 3 Open Range
    • 2 Legends of The Fall
    • 1 Brokeback Mountain

    The Horse Whispereris based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nicholas Evans, and provides an endearing romance that can capture the attention of even the most disinterested viewer. In this movie, Robert Redford plays a horse trainer named Tom. He has a talent for understanding horses, so when a young girl (Scarlett Johansson) and her horse get...

    While not a full-fledged romance, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron has a good deal of it. Told from the perspective of the titular horse, Spirit was wild and free with his herd in The Great Plains. That all changed when he gets captured by the United States Calvary. Spirit is freed by the Lakota Native Little Creek and soon falls for his mare named...

    In a list of best romances, of course, Nicholas Sparks is going to have his chance to shine, and he wrote the book for this touching western romance, The Longest Ride. Sophia (Brit Robertson) is a college student with dreams of entering the art world in New York, while Luke is a professional bull rider. They couldn’t be any more different, and yet ...

    A smash hit on both screen and stage, Roger’s and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is a timeless western romance musical that still holds up to this day. Set in the year just before Oklahoma achieved statehood, the story follows cowboy Curly McLain, who finally summons up the courage to ask out the farm girl Laurey Williams. He didn’t realize that she had f...

    What list of westerns would be complete without an appearance from Clint Eastwood? Two Mules for Sister Sarasees Eastwood play Hogan, a cynical war veteran in Mexico looking to earn a fortune by trading arms to the Juarista rebels who are fighting against the French Emperor Maximilian. While there, he finds himself as a protector of Sara (Shirley M...

    In a not-so-authentic depiction of famous western heroes, Calamity Jane takes place in Deadwood and sees the western heroine attempt to bring star power to her saloon. However, instead of a famous actress, she gets an assistant with big dreams. Calamity soon finds herself competing with said assistant for the affections of one Lieutenant Danny Gilm...

    Based on the poem of the same name by Banjo Paterson,The Man From Snowy River sees Tom Burlinson on a journey to prove his worthiness to inherit the family ranch after his father dies. The task proves to be tougher than he thought, though, when he takes a job working for Harrison (Kirk Douglas) and is quickly fired for his lack of skill. While empl...

    Kevin Costner is, without a doubt, one of the kings of the western genre, and it’s in Open Range that he’s at his best. The film is more action than romance as it sees Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) and his hired hands taking up arms to face off against a corrupt lawman. The movie is slow-paced for the most part, but only to save itself for the brut...

    Here is Brad Pitt in one of his finest films. Set in the early-20th Century, Legends of the Fall is a complicated love triangle between three brothers and a young woman. After moving to rugged Montana, Samuel (Henry Thomas) returns from Harvard with his fiancé (Julia Ormond), who quickly attracts the affections of Tristen (Pitt) Samuel’s brother. H...

    There was only one movie that could have taken the number one spot on this list. Ang Lee’sBrokeback Mountain is a perfect blending of two genres to create a beautiful love story. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) find themselves in an unexpected romance when they sign on to herd a rancher's sheep. They enjoy their whirlw...

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  2. Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages. It comprises two of the branches of Romance languages: Italo-Dalmatian and Western Romance . It excludes the Sardinian language and Eastern Romance .

  3. Some classifications include Italo-Dalmatian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance. Other classifications place Italo-Dalmatian with Eastern Romance . Sardinian does not fit into either Western or Eastern Romance, having split off earlier than the two.

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    • Romantic Comedy. On the other side of the genre, we have the highly popular subgenre known as the romantic comedy. Filmmakers and audiences alike discovered early on that laughter and love make great on-screen partners.
    • Chick Flick. An offshoot of the romantic comedy, a new subgenre term emerged in modern film—the chick flick. This specific niche of romance films combines comedy, drama, and romance—often predominantly marketed toward women.
  5. Apr 14, 2007 · While Italian or American western film share some similarities in structure and plot, they are also very different in tone, and portrayal of life in the old West. Although the Italian western would “Let our rigorous testing and reviews be your guidelines to A/V equipment – not marketing slogans”

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