Western is a 1997 road movie directed by Manuel Poirier. It tells the story of the relationship between a Spanish shoe salesman and a Russian hitchhiker as they drive across the French countryside in search of love. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The Western is a genre of various arts, such as comics, fiction, film, games, radio, and television which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns and saloons of the Wild West. Characters typically include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, outlaws and soldiers. Some are set in the American colonial era.

Le western est un genre cinématographique dont l'action se déroule généralement en Amérique du Nord lors de la conquête de l'Ouest dans les dernières décennies du . Il apparaît dès l'invention du cinématographe en 1895, en filiation directe avec la littérature et la peinture prenant pour sujet l'Ouest américain. Il connait son apogée aux États-Unis au milieu du avec l'âge d'or des studios hollywoodiens, avant d'être réinventé par les cinéastes européens dans les années 1960.