10 Best Westerns NOT Set In The Old West

Winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards, No Country for Old Men is arguably the most well-received film on this entire list. Directed and written by the unstoppable and always-stellar Coen Brothers, No Country for Old Men follows a hunter (Josh Brolin) as he attempts to flee with some stolen cash from a psychopathic hitman (an Oscar-winning Javier Bardem).

Amongst all the chases, intense as hell gunfights and moody dialogue, there is also Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff Ed Bell, a weathered lawman whose faith in justice and peace is massively shaken. The whole thing is a stunning meditation on film-making and themes of peace, law, and the universal idea of good vs evil.

It's a Western modernised, with characters whose roles you can all recognised, but whose presence are altered by the way of the world they find themselves in.

And who can forget Jones' final speech in the closing moments of the film? Just thinking about it gives me the chills.