Loosely adapted from Albert Camus’ short story “The Guest,” David Oelhoffen’s refreshingly sincere Western follows a schoolteacher (Viggo Mortensen) in 1950s Algeria who must escort a confessed killer to trial.

During the same decade he was cast as James T. Kirk, William Shatner took some audacious (and often ill-advised) risks on the big screen, including this spaghetti Western, which casts him as mixed-race twin brothers. 

A deeply satisfying throwback to a period when Westerns came along every week, Kristian Levring’s old-fashioned oater casts Mads Mikkelsen as a homesteader out to avenge the black hats. 

Jefferson Moneo’s directorial debut evokes the badlands of his native Saskatchewan for a modern-ish Western about outlaws who converge in the hills of Big Muddy Valley.