Knights of the City (1970’s & 1980’s vigilante movies)
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Death Wish II (1982)
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1. Vigilante (1982)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda
Votes: 4,536
2. The One Man Jury (1978)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Frustrated with the lenient criminal justice system, an LAPD homicide cop goes vigilante on various criminals, including a serial killer of women.
Director: Charles Martin | Stars: Jack Palance, Christopher Mitchum, Pamela Susan Shoop, Cara Williams
Votes: 249
3. Tigress (1969)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Patricia has always been bullied, and her abusive alcoholic of a father was no help either. One night she is assaulted in her apartment but she doesn't see the face of her attacker. The ... See full summary »
Director: Glauco Del Mar | Stars: Perla Faith, Jose L. Dones, Johnny H., Cindy Lee
Votes: 27
4. The No Mercy Man (1973)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A decorated Vietnam War vet returns home to his small southwestern town, only to find carnies and bikers are stepping all over it, prompting him to take action.
Director: Daniel Vance | Stars: Steve Sandor, Rockne Tarkington, Richard X. Slattery, Heidi Vaughn
Votes: 190
5. Revenge! (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman, Carol Eve Rossen
Votes: 180
6. Death Wish (1974)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Votes: 44,031 | Gross: $22.00M
7. Execution Squad (1972)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (Enrico Maria Salerno) tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 842
8. Vigilante Force (1976)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After oil is found in a small town and local factory shut down, violent crime skyrockets. A young man has had enough and calls in his older brother, a cynical Vietnam vet, who cleans the streets but then tries to take over the town.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters
Votes: 1,080
9. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius | Stars: Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius
Votes: 8,520
10. Walking Tall (1973)
R | 125 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn
Votes: 6,746 | Gross: $4.75M
11. Il giocattolo (1979)
118 min | Crime, Drama
The squalid life of meek bookkeeper Vittorio is interrupted when he becomes friends with police officer Sauro. Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, at which he proves to be gifted. This ... See full summary »
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Marlène Jobert, Arnoldo Foà, Olga Karlatos
Votes: 368
12. Foxy Brown (1974)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter
Votes: 12,026 | Gross: $2.46M
13. Valdez Is Coming (1971)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Western
A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher
Votes: 4,532 | Gross: $0.06M
14. Deep in the Heart (1983)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Director: Tony Garnett | Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann
Votes: 412
15. Kid (1990)
R | 91 min | Action, Thriller
A mysterious man returns to his former hometown to take revenge on the locals who murdered his parents when he was a boy.
Director: John Mark Robinson | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Sarah Trigger, Brian Austin Green, R. Lee Ermey
Votes: 755
16. Joe (1970)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Two men--wealthy conservative Bill and far-right factory worker Joe--form a dangerous bond after Bill confesses to Joe about murdering his daughter's drug-dealer boyfriend.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott
Votes: 4,202 | Gross: $19.32M
17. An Eye for an Eye (1973)
PG | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
A children's television show host stalks and murders abusive parents.
Director: Larry G. Brown | Stars: Tom Basham, Gene Carlson, Gretchen Kanne, David Carlile
Votes: 219
18. The Executioner (1975)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 346
19. Dirty Harry (1971)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
Directors: Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Votes: 168,269 | Gross: $35.90M
20. Angel (1983)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun
Votes: 4,585 | Gross: $17.49M
21. Billy Jack (1971)
GP | 114 min | Action, Drama
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
Director: Tom Laughlin | Stars: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Victor Izay
Votes: 6,596 | Gross: $98.00M
22. The Killing Zone (1991)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action
Convict is recruited from a chain gang to help capture a Mexican drug lord.
Director: Addison Randall | Stars: Deron McBee, Armando Silvestre, James Dalesandro, Agustín Bernal
Votes: 215
23. We're Fighting Back (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama
A group of city youth decide to form a neighborhood watch and clean their streets and the subway from criminals who rob and abuse the good people every night and day.
Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Kevin Mahon, Paul McCrane, Joe Morton, Ellen Barkin
Votes: 85
24. Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Drama
A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: William Smith, Tony Young, Michael Haynes, Peter Brown
Votes: 592
25. Angel of Vengeance (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she escapes and makes plans to take her vengeance on them.
Directors: Ted V. Mikels, Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Jannina Poynter, David O'Hara, Macka Foley, Carl Irwin
Votes: 304
26. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond
Votes: 5,358
27. Ms .45 (1981)
R | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto
Votes: 12,535
28. Road of Death (1973)
R | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two couples on a picnic are attacked by a gang of vicious bikers, who beat up the men and rape the women. One of the men finds out who the bikers are, arms himself and goes after them.
Director: Rene Martinez Jr. | Stars: Carol Connors, Joe Banana, Jack Birch, Lea Vivot
Votes: 81
29. Devil's Express (1976)
R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough black martial artist cop takes on warring street gangs and an evil demon that haunts the New York City subways.
Director: Barry Rosen | Stars: Warhawk Tanzania, Larry Fleischman, Wilfredo Roldan, Stephen DeFazio
Votes: 539
30. True Grit (1969)
G | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate
Votes: 51,430 | Gross: $31.13M
31. The Beasts (1980)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.
Director: Dennis Yu | Stars: Eddie Chan, Sing Chen, Kent Cheng, Ching Yee Chong
Votes: 248
32. Defiance (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An out-of work merchant seaman single-handedly tames a powerful street gang "The Souls" that has been terrorizing his neighborhood on New York City's Lower East Side.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Danny Aiello, Rudy Ramos
Votes: 1,403
33. The Exterminator (1980)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York City. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York City into a great war zone, and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James
Votes: 6,557
34. Yan zhi hu (1981)
83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two gangs of knife-wielding women in bikinis join forces to assassinate a gangster boss responsible for killing their fathers.
Director: Chih-Chao Chang | Stars: Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiao-Fei Li, Sha Ma, Chia-Lin Sun
Votes: 49
35. Double Game (1977)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Drugs, murders, robberies. In Turin, violence is an everyday fact of life, but a mysterious vigilante starts cleaning up the streets. In fact, the killer is a cop, Moretti, who went ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Ausino | Stars: George Hilton, Emanuele Cannarsa, Giuseppe Alotta, Annarita Grapputo
Votes: 246
36. Magnum Force (1973)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan pursues a conspiracy of vigilante cops, who are not above going beyond the law to kill San Francisco's undesirables.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul
Votes: 66,627 | Gross: $4.56M
37. Death Wish II (1982)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia, J.D. Cannon
Votes: 18,123 | Gross: $16.10M
38. Stanley (1972)
PG | 108 min | Horror
A young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.
Director: William Grefé | Stars: Chris Robinson, Alex Rocco, Steve Alaimo, Susan Carroll
Votes: 819 | Gross: $0.14M
39. The Black Gestapo (1975)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross
Votes: 1,336
40. Cain's Cutthroats (1970)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have... See full summary »
Director: Ken Osborne | Stars: John Carradine, Scott Brady, Robert Dix, Don Epperson
Votes: 174
41. French Connection II (1975)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard
Votes: 20,892 | Gross: $12.48M
42. The Revengers (1972)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Western
When a rancher's family is massacred by a gang of outlaws, he assembles a mean team of convicts as his posse to pursue the killers.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin
Votes: 1,380
43. Wheels of Fire (1985)
R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a postapocalyptic future, a ruthless vehicular gang called the Highway Warriors is conquering the wasteland through murder and plunder. During a raid, they kidnap the sister of a road warrior named Trace. He brings hell down upon them.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Gary Watkins, Laura Banks, Lynda Wiesmeier, Linda Grovenor
Votes: 1,033
44. Lawman (1971)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $5.94M
45. The Annihilators (1985)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of the gang.
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. | Stars: Jim Antonio, Sid Conrad, Gerrit Graham, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Votes: 711
46. An Eye for an Eye (1981)
R | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.
Director: Steve Carver | Stars: Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark
Votes: 4,524 | Gross: $7.68M
47. Siege (1983)
R | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths, and all the patrons are killed except for one man who escapes and takes refuge in an apartment occupied by a group of friends, who will do anything they can to protect him and survive the siege.
Directors: Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell | Stars: Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney, Terry-David Després
Votes: 1,298
48. Firepower (1979)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach
Votes: 1,134
49. Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
PG | 95 min | Action
An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, James Franciscus, Lloyd Haynes
Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $18.33M
50. Savage Streets (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
Directors: Danny Steinmann, Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Dryer, Johnny Venokur
Votes: 5,696
51. Enemy Territory (1987)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Frances Foster
Votes: 982 | Gross: $0.20M
52. The Mean Machine (1973)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After 2 years in prison Ricco is released and on a path of vengeance. His father, the head of a mafia family, is gunned down by the ambitious Don Vito and now Ricco is looking to settle the score.
Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo, Eduardo Fajardo
Votes: 522
53. Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976)
R | 71 min | Crime, Horror
A witch resurrects a murdered Vietnam vet and takes revenge on his killers.
Director: Jack Weis | Stars: Ronald Tanet, Maureen Ridley, Herbert G. Jahncke, Wayne Mack
Votes: 297
54. The Zebra Force (1976)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime
A group of Vietnam vets, tired of the depredation of the Mafia on their neighborhood, decide to take on the mob on their own terms--but by using a very different twist.
Director: Joe Tornatore | Stars: Mike Lane, Richard X. Slattery, Rockne Tarkington, Glenn R. Wilder
Votes: 269
55. Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Thriller
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
Director: Richard Gardner | Stars: Anthony Holt, Richard Gardner, Laurie Tait Partridge, Candy Castillo
Votes: 279
56. Johnny Firecloud (1975)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Young American Indian gets out of the army and returns home to find his tribe victimized by a white rancher.
Director: William Allen Castleman | Stars: Victor Mohica, Ralph Meeker, David Canary, Frank DeKova
Votes: 392
57. Indio (1972)
85 min | Drama, Western
A greedy land developer steals the land from an Apache Indian tribe. His plan involves shooting most of the Apaches but an Apache warrior survives and gets revenge.
Director: Rodolfo de Anda | Stars: Jorge Rivero, Mario Almada, Jorge Russek, Monica Favel
Votes: 24
58. F/X (1986)
R | 109 min | Action, Thriller
A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young
Votes: 22,211 | Gross: $20.60M
59. SFX Retaliator (1987)
85 min | Action
Special effects producer Steve Baker helps a woman being chased by the Mafia, but then they follow him and his wife.
Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Gordon Mitchell, Linda Blair, David Light
Votes: 140
60. Denjin Zabôgâ (1974– )
30 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A bionic vigilante avenges the death of his scientist father by using his invention, a lethal transforming robot/motorcycle, to fight his murderers, the evil Sigma Organization led by the ... See full summary »
Stars: Akira Yamaguchi, Masahiro Kamiya, Eiichi Kikuchi, Ken Okabe
Votes: 24
61. The Guardian (1984 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Thriller
Plagued by crime, the residents of a NYC condominium hire a seemingly over-zealous security expert to patrol the building.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett Jr., Arthur Hill, Tandy Cronyn
Votes: 497
62. The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
159 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Tsunehiko Watase, Masaomi Kondô
Votes: 592
63. Chato's Land (1972)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Western
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland
Votes: 6,258 | Gross: $0.42M
64. Lady Snowblood (1973)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
Director: Toshiya Fujita | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza
Votes: 16,294
65. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup
Votes: 1,448
66. Simple Justice (1989)
R | 97 min | Crime
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for... See full summary »
Director: Deborah Del Prete | Stars: Cady McClain, Matthew Galle, Doris Roberts, Cesar Romero
Votes: 50
67. The Last House on the Left (1972)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 40,273 | Gross: $3.10M
68. Fighting Back (I) (1982)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto
Votes: 765 | Gross: $3.34M
69. Victims (1982)
82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Paulie is falling to pieces. His every encounter with the opposite sex ends in violence, while stirring up memories of his prostitute mother and her brutal pimp and the sexually abusive hooker who molested him as a child.
Director: Tony Vorno | Stars: Lois Adams, Laura Borenstein, Ron Borenstein, Don Brown
Votes: 86
70. Gloria (1980)
PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich
Votes: 11,426
71. Pale Rider (1985)
R | 115 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny
Votes: 64,684 | Gross: $41.41M
72. The Enforcer (1976)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
Director: James Fargo | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 49,150 | Gross: $46.20M
73. Walking Tall Part II (1975)
PG | 109 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late-1960s Tennessee.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Bo Svenson, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler, Robert DoQui
Votes: 1,515
74. Mad Max (1979)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Votes: 222,284 | Gross: $8.75M
75. Nowhere to Hide (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Robin MacEachern, Michael Ironside
Votes: 498 | Gross: $0.85M
76. The Kill Reflex (1989)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Chicago policeman (Fred Williamson) hunts his partner's killer and catches on to a cover-up.
Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Maud Adams, Bo Svenson, Phyllis Hyman
Votes: 333
77. My Bodyguard (1980)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Paul Quandt
Votes: 10,837 | Gross: $22.48M
78. Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police commissioner forms a secret motorized brigade in order to fight a dangerous terrorist who is depositing bombs throughout the city of Turin.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Marcel Bozzuffi, Carole André, Ivan Rassimov, Riccardo Salvino
Votes: 720
79. Moonshine County Express (1977)
PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a hillbilly moonshiner is murdered by a powerful competitor, his tough three daughters discover a stash of prohibition whiskey and start undercutting their father's killer's business, with help from a local race car driver.
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 494
80. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
Votes: 9,332 | Gross: $16.53M
81. Darkman (1990)
R | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake
Votes: 69,823 | Gross: $33.88M
82. Ninja Champion (1986)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action
A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten and raped. A few months after the assault, she is hunting down the three (who happen to be diamond ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Bruce Baron, Pierre Tremblay, Phillip Ching, Jack Lam
Votes: 299
83. Red Scorpion (1988)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure
A Spetsnaz commando is sent on a covert mission by his Soviet superiors to infiltrate a rebel army and assassinate its leader.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 9,773 | Gross: $4.19M
84. Out for Justice (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With his partner executed in broad daylight by a psychotic mafia enforcer, a veteran Brooklyn officer vows revenge. But is the unstoppable detective prepared to face the truth and pay the price of blood?
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa
Votes: 25,781 | Gross: $39.67M
85. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa
Votes: 2,826
86. Taxi Killer (2022)
106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jenny, a young taxi driver, is assaulted and raped by four thugs. Since the police seem to have no time to look for their assailants, Jenny, tired of not getting justice, decides to take revenge on her own.
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Catherine Hickland, Chuck Connors, Walter D'Amore, Eddie J. Fernandez
Votes: 73
87. The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
PG | 100 min | Action, Drama, Western
Forced by personal circumstances, Marshal Chris Adams recruits a writer and five prisoners to help him eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 3,397
88. The Gladiator (1986 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 98 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Ken Wahl, Nancy Allen, Robert Culp, Stan Shaw
Votes: 838
89. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PG | 135 min | Western
Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney
Votes: 79,827 | Gross: $31.80M
90. The Devastator (1986)
R | 79 min | Action, War
This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Rick Hill, Katt Shea, Crofton Hardester, Terrence O'Hara
Votes: 308
91. Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 3,427
92. The Taste of Vengeance (1968)
119 min | Drama, Western
A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian who is rescued by his friend, Daniel. The two, with brother Robert, set ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Gianni Garko, Ivan Rassimov, Elisa Montés, Roberto Miali
Votes: 173
93. Zorro (I) (1975)
G | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache
Votes: 4,265
94. Stunt Squad (1977)
97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After criminal gangs wreak havoc in the streets of Italy, a take-no-guff police commissioner forms a highly trained band of motorcycle riding cops to stop them.
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Marcel Bozzuffi, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Riccardo Salvino, Claudia Giannotti
Votes: 324
95. Lipstick (1976)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenage sister's music teacher.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft
Votes: 2,732 | Gross: $8.33M
96. The Dogs (1979)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Pierre Vernier
Votes: 650
97. Vengeance (1976)
R | 94 min | Drama, Western
Tom's parents are killed by Mexicans after their leader (Van Cleef) rapes his mother as he watched. He sets out to exact revenge and is ultimately helped by a successful gold prospector who has been robbed by the same group.
Director: Joseph Manduke | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, John Marley, Glynnis O'Connor
Votes: 655
98. Thunder II (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Drama
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Karen Reel, Bo Svenson
Votes: 284
99. The Black Alley Cats (1973)
81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: Sunshine Woods, Sandy Dempsey, Charlene Miles, Johnnie Rhodes
Votes: 150
100. I Drink Your Blood (1971)
R | 83 min | Horror
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.
Director: David E. Durston | Stars: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson
Votes: 4,146
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