Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

When El Jefe discovers his teenage daughter was knocked up by Alfredo Garcia, he places a million dollar bounty on Garcia’s head. Warren Oates, seeing it as an easy payday since he knows Alfredo is already dead, takes his girlfriend on a road trip to Garcia’s grave to retrieve the head. Unfortunately nothing is as easy as it sounds. An ugly, brutal film, Oates brings a grizzled, weariness to his role, especially as the body count mounts up and his desperation grows. There is a single-mindedness to completing the job even when it doesn’t seem to make any sense to continue doing so.