# Sam Peckinpah's films, ranked

The poet of slow-motion violence and the dying West: Peckinpah's films ordered from Ranker, Flickchart and The Penn Moviegoer, with The Wild Bunch on top.

- 183 votes · 14 items
- Nov 2, 2024 · Mitchell King
- https://even.best/en/l/3409/sam-peckinpah-s-films-ranked

## Top 14

1. **The Wild Bunch (1969)** (20 · ▲20 ▼0) — Aging outlaws on the Mexican border; on AFI's 100 greatest list.
2. **Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)** (15 · ▲18 ▼3) — James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson, music by Bob Dylan.
3. **Ride the High Country (1962)** (13 · ▲15 ▼2) — Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea guarding a gold shipment.
4. **The Getaway (1972)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw on the run.
5. **Convoy (1978)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Kris Kristofferson leads a truckers' revolt.
6. **Straw Dogs (1971)** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — Dustin Hoffman under siege in a Cornish farmhouse.
7. **Major Dundee (1965)** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — Charlton Heston leads a punitive expedition into Mexico.
8. **The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Jason Robards finds water in the desert.
9. **Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)** (9 · ▲12 ▼3) — Warren Oates on a bounty hunt across Mexico.
10. **Cross of Iron (1977)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — German soldiers on the Eastern Front, with James Coburn.
11. **The Osterman Weekend (1983)** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — Rutger Hauer in a Robert Ludlum spy plot; his last film.
12. **Junior Bonner (1972)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Steve McQueen as an aging rodeo rider.
13. **The Killer Elite (1975)** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — James Caan and Robert Duvall as rival agents.
14. **The Deadly Companions (1961)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — His first feature, with Maureen O'Hara.

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