Movies Like Open Season

If you liked Open Season (1974), a action and drama movie directed by Peter Collinson, 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 2: The Beginning (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also action 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…
2
Blind Fury (1989)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thriller
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
3
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and 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.
4
Mexicali (2026)
★ 7.7/10Also action and drama
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
5
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…
6
Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
★ 6/10Also action and thriller
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
7
Hamburger Hill (1987)
★ 6.6/10Also action 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…
8
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…
9
The Nightingale (2018)
★ 7/10Also drama and thriller
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of…
10
Dead Presidents (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and action
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans…
11
Brimstone (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and 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.
12
Death Wish II (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also action and drama
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
13
The Replacement Killers (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's…
14
Harry Brown (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
15
Polar (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also action and 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.
16
The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also action and drama
As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
17
In the Blood (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
18
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.
19
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also action and thriller
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…
20
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
★ 5.8/10Also action and thriller
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.