the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater

a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company

a subgenre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combines the metaphorical ambitions of critically acclaimed Westerns with the excesses of the Spaghetti Westerns and the outlook of the 1960s counter-culture.

The Revisionist Western, Modern Western or Anti-Western is a subgenre of the Western movie that traces to the mid 1960s and early 1970s; it is characterized by a darker, more cynical tone, with focus on the lawlessness of the time period, favoring realism over romanticism.