Movies Like Savage Dawn

If you liked Savage Dawn (1985), a action and thriller movie directed by Simon Nuchtern, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Missing in Action (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring…
2
Hamburger Hill (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also action
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They…
3
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his…
4
Hard to Kill (1990)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma…
5
Angel Town (1990)
★ 6.6/10Also action
A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's…
6
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
★ 6/10Also action
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
7
Assassination Games (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same…
8
We Die Young (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an…
9
Death Wish 3 (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
10
The Born Losers (1967)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller
A biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers…
11
The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also action and thriller
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…
12
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
13
Blood and Bone (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also action and thriller
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
14
Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also action
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
15
Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also action
Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…
16
Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
17
El Gringo (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
18
Avengement (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
19
Wake of Death (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the…
20
The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.