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Movies that feel likeThe Magnificent Seven (2016)

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

If you loved The Magnificent Seven, the closest films we have are The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Equalizer 3 (2023) and Training Day (2001). All three share The Magnificent Seven's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pusher 3 (2005).

πŸ… 64% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Antoine Fuquaepickineticgrittywarm
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The Magnificent Seven
1960 Β· dir. John Sturges
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7western

The original gunslinger crew this remake owes literally everything to

The difference: Studio-era restraint and a cleaner moral clarity than the 2016 grit

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

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The Equalizer 3
2023 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· crimeMaxHulu

The same hand behind both of them: Antoine Fuqua

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than The Magnificent Seven does

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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Training Day
2001 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.8action Β· crime Β· drama

Same director's unflinching eye for violence and moral compromise

The difference: A single corrupt cop's bad day, no frontier village or gunslingers

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

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Dances with Wolves
1990 Β· dir. Kevin Costner
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8adventure Β· drama Β· westernPrime Video

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Trades the momentum of The Magnificent Seven for an angle of its own

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicideβ€”and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

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Pusher 3
2005 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Old friendship gets tested when violence closes in fast

The difference: A drug-world crisis over one bad night, not a hired-gun campaign

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

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The Irishman
2019 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama Β· historyNetflix

Epic where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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The Lone Ranger
2013 Β· dir. Gore Verbinski
πŸ… 31%β˜… 6.4action Β· adventure Β· western

An unlikely partnership rides out to right a frontier wrong together

The difference: A masked-hero origin story, lighter on ensemble camaraderie

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

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Kick-Ass 2
2013 Β· dir. Jeff Wadlow
πŸ… 32%β˜… 6.5action Β· adventure Β· crimeNetflix

A ragtag crew straps in together to fight a threat too big for one

The difference: Costumed vigilantes in a modern city, not gunslingers on horseback

After Kick-Ass' insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist β€” reborn as The Mother Fucker β€” only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.

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xXx: Return of Xander Cage
2017 Β· dir. D.J. Caruso
πŸ… 46%β˜… 5.2action Β· adventure Β· crimePrime Video

Adrenaline-driven action pits one crew against overwhelming odds

The difference: Globe-trotting spy spectacle, no frontier town or moral reckoning

Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.

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Point Break
2015 Β· dir. Ericson Core
πŸ… 12%β˜… 5.3action Β· adventure Β· crime

Kinetic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Magnificent Seven does

A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 Β· dir. Teddy Chan Tak-Sam
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crimePrime Video

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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Mechanic: Resurrection
2016 Β· dir. Dennis Gansel
πŸ… 28%β˜… 5.8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on western

Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

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