Movies Like Salvador

If you liked Salvador (1986), a drama and war movie directed by Oliver Stone, 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
Darfur (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also war and drama
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
2
Redacted (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also war and drama
A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
3
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
4
Coffy (1973)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
5
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit…
6
Storm Warning (1951)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
7
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
8
Casualties of War (1989)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
9
Hamburger Hill (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also war and drama
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…
10
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also war and drama
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…
11
The Brave One (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
12
Walker (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and war
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
13
Sometimes in April (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and war
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
14
Foxfire (1996)
★ 6/10Also drama
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
15
Harry Brown (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
16
Polar (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
17
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
★ 7/10Also drama and war
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
18
The Funeral (1996)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
19
Brimstone (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
20
The Dead Pool (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick…