Movies like The Brotherhood of Justice

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The Brotherhood of Justice (1986)
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The Brotherhood of Justice (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of high school students, led by a rich boy Derek, is sick of school violence and decides to become underground vigilantes named "Brotherhood of Justice". It starts with the idea "watching people", but things quickly get out of control. "Brotherhood of Justice" turns out another gang of violence. Derek wants to stop it but it is too late, so he takes responsibility for it and gives himself to the law.
Style: retro, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: vigilante, gang, high school, revenge, school, vigilantism, violence, love triangle, masked man, diner, moral dilemma, gang leader, rivals, love interest, lynch mob, car bomb, saving a life, failed pilot, brotherhood, vigilante justice, american football, cocaine, youth, teenage life, vengeance ...
Time: 80s

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Most similar movies to The Brotherhood of Justice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, rough, serious and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gang, violence, rivalry, revenge, vigilantism and vengeance mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Brotherhood of Justice: Class of 1984 (1982), The Principal (1987), 3:15 (1986), Boy Wonder (2010), Young Warriors (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Class of 1984 (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Andy is a new teacher at a inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. There is metal detectors at the front door and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, punk, teacher, revenge, gang, violence, rape, bullying, juvenile delinquency, sexual cruelty, vigilante, school ...
Time: 80s, future, year 1982, 20th century
Place: usa
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100%
 6.3
 12K
The Principal (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean ...
Style: feel good, hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, manly
Plot: teacher, high school, youth gang, vigilante, vigilantism, gang, mentor, gangster, ghetto, chase, urban, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oakland california
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47%
 5.6
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3:15 (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here the cobras rule the school and everyone in it. ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: teenager, street gang, high school gang, club, gangster, high school, school, vengeance, rivalry, youth, drug dealing, starting over ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 9K
Boy Wonder (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, violence, vengeance, childhood trauma, criminal, vigilantism, dead mother, pimp, murder, haunted by the past, policewoman, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Young Warriors (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, revenge, vigilante, fraternity, biker, guy, cannon, youth, vigilantism, rape, rape and revenge, rivalry ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: california
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35%
 6.0
 4K
The New Kids (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
Style: disturbing, slasher, captivating, tense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, kidnapping, bullying, amusement park, dog attack, violence, sexual harassment, teenager, school bully, orphan, small town, gang ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: florida, usa
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34%
 4.0
 241
As Night Comes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang's anarchist ways, ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: youth, halloween, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, gang, vengeance, teenager, violence, social misfits, gory, chaos and mayhem, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Savage Streets (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
Style: slasher, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, controversial ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape and revenge, revenge, rape, violence against women, violence, female vigilante, gang, tough girl, nudity, payback, vigilantism, murder ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Band of the Hand (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Style: cult classic, retro, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, survival, gangster, wilderness, revenge, drug addiction, teenager, street punk, underground, law, explosions, rehabilitation ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, usa, everglades, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Walking Tall: The Payback (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man goes back to his hometown that is now overrun with crime and single-handedly takes justice into his own hands.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, neo noir, neo western
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, fighting crime, vengeance, danger, gang, heroes, law enforcement, small town, special agent, revenge, cowboy ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
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30%
 4.3
 429
Rockaway (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: vigilantism, soldier, vengeance, police corruption, downfall, gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, gang, police investigation, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) takes on the local drug cartel.
Style: cult classic, detective, grindhouse, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, violence, hospital, cannon, gang, drug, brutality, gangster, murder, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams). An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary. Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, vigilante, vigilantism, high school, die hard, tough heroes, ghetto, interracial, gangster, education, murder, ak 47 ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, vietnam, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Dangerously Close (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school student, bullying, vigilante, fascism, high school, street gang, teenager, gang, school bully, killer, cannon, school ...
Time: year 2016, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Defiance (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, gang, street gang, vigilantism, revenge, violence, city, criminal, urban, criminal gang, sailor, nightclub ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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28%
 5.5
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Crack House (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, black, rape victim, poverty, nudity, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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27%
 6.0
 16K
The Substitute (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: high school, teachers and students, teacher, hidden identity, vigilante, bullying, danger, gang, undercover, gangster, substitute teacher, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Walking the Edge (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style: hood, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, auto mechanic, taxi, woman with a gun, teenager, gang, driver, big city, ghetto, taxi driver, vengeance, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Fighting Back (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial ...
Style: tense, exciting, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, vigilante, vigilantism, violence, urban, teenager, vietnam war, city, exploitation, vengeance, interracial relations, racism ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa
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26%
Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, neo western
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, gangster, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, special agent, retiring, small town, rivalry, law enforcement, vengeance, starting over ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: dallas texas, texas
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26%
 7.2
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Harry Brown (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style: tense, suspense, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, vigilante, murder, revenge, violence, brutality, investigation, gangster, vigilante justice, widower, urban ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, persia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.4
 4K
Renegades (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style: detective, suspense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, buddy cop, police corruption, car chase, violence, revenge, law enforcement, machismo, partners against crime, reluctant partners, undercover, working undercover ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Exterminator 2 (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.
Style: slasher, cult classic, grim, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, exploitation, vigilante, revenge, cannon, anti hero, drug, guy, superhero, truck, automobile, vietnam war ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.2
 17K
Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 17K
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, shootout, woman in jeopardy, gang rape, rape victim, sniper, cannon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Back in the Day (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, hood ...
Plot: murder, gang, racism, crime gone awry, fall in love, introspection, dishonesty, vengeance, criminal heroes, starting over, police corruption, moral dilemma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: school shooting, serial killer, killer, captive, held captive, hostage, vengeance, school, high school, psychopath, power relations, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 170K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, vigilantism, violence, superhero, tough guy, one man army, comic hero, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, virginia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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