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Movies Like The Bad Bunch

If you liked The Bad Bunch (1973), a drama movie directed by Greydon Clark, 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. 1Platoon

    Platoon (1986)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

  2. 2Full Metal Jacket

    Full Metal Jacket (1987)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

  3. 3Casualties of War

    Casualties of War (1989)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

  4. 4Jacknife

    Jacknife (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.

  5. 5Cardboard Boxer

    Cardboard Boxer (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

  6. 6Boyz n the Hood

    Boyz n the Hood (1991)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to…

  7. 7Apocalypse Now

    Apocalypse Now (1979)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret…

  8. 8Shaft

    Shaft (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

  9. 9The Last Full Measure

    The Last Full Measure (2020)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a…

  10. 10The Killing Fields

    The Killing Fields (1984)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid…

  11. 11Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

    Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

    ★ 5.8/10Also 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…

  12. 12Gardens of Stone

    Gardens of Stone (1987)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic…

  13. 13Gran Torino

    Gran Torino (2008)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

  14. 14Blue Thunder

    Blue Thunder (1983)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are…

  15. 15Menace II Society

    Menace II Society (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

  16. 16Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

    Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial…

  17. 17Birdy

    Birdy (1984)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull…

  18. 18Saint Jack

    Saint Jack (1979)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he…

  19. 19Coffy

    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…

  20. 20Born on the Fourth of July

    Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    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.

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