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Fighting Back (1982)
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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 discrimination
Style:
psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, violence, vigilantism, urban, murder, brutality, blood, killing, teenager, vietnam war, city, exploitation, racism, interracial relations, vengeance, terrorism, rebellion, rivalry, society, law enforcement, city life, death wish, criminal heroes, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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Most similar movies to Fighting Back
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about vigilantism, rivalry, deadly, murder, vengeance, violence and vigilante mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Fighting Back: Street Fighters (1982), Death Wish (1974), Enemy Territory (1987), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Angel (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, gang, revenge, rape victim, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, underground, rape and revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, grindhouse, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, violence, revenge, vengeance, rape, police, gunfight, architect, gang, female nudity, hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, honolulu hawaii, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban ghetto life, society, life is a bitch, danger, ghetto, street gang, urban, murder, violence, racial injustice, african american ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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, violence, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante justice, hospital, cannon, gang, machine gun, murder, wine, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
15 year-old Molly is top of her high school class. But nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as a prostitute on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a ...
Style:
independent film, erotic, detective, slasher, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitution, serial killer, cheerleader, psychopath, teenage girl, child prostitute, vigilante, double life, private school, making love, high school, female protagonist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, southern california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, stylized, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, violence, gory, violent, chase, murder, vengeance, gunfight, death, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new york, vietnam, new jersey, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
29%
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, taxi, auto mechanic, taxi driver, teenager, woman with a gun, gang, big city, ghetto, driver, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles police detective hunts a rapist and a bomber of public buildings.
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, explosions, police detective, bomber, psychopath, woman in danger, terrorism, society, life is a bitch, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
childhood trauma, violence, vigilante, vengeance, vigilantism, policewoman, dead mother, pimp, criminal, murder, haunted by the past, lone wolves ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Style:
detective, cult classic, grindhouse, neo noir, spooky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, rape, violence, rape and revenge, interracial rape, female nudity, prostitute, street gang, woman in jeopardy, one man army, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, vigilante, mafia, murder, gangster, gang, law enforcement, rebellion, legal, on the run, blind ambition, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, serial killer, racial discrimination, interracial, corruption, police, investigation, police corruption, violent content, special agent, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
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, rape, rape and revenge, biker, biker gang, guy, cannon, youth, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
22%
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:
cult classic, slasher, grim, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, exploitation, vigilante, revenge, cannon, drug, trucker, automobile, truck, vietnam war, superhero, erotica ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
22%
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:
cult classic, perverse, neo noir, hood, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, violence, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, sniper, gang rape, rape victim, sexual assault, woman in jeopardy, vigilante justice ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style:
exciting, intense, suspense, serious, retro ...
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, conspiracy, judge, murder, political corruption, legal, vengeance, secret society, justice, lawyer, assassin ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
21%
875
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, police corruption, false accusation, frame up, political corruption, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder, gambler, revenge, police, explosions ...
Time:
year 1975, 50s, 70s
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
canuxploitation, vengeance, vigilante justice, vigilante, torture, farm, country, vigilantism, psychopath, bank, countryside, captivity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own ...
Style:
neo noir, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bad guy, good guy, guy, vigilantism, police corruption, murder, violent content, tough heroes, violence spree, rivalry, one man army, heroes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, france, europe, congo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
swat team, reluctant partners, vigilante, vigilantism, secret organization, crooked cop, nypd, revenge, gang, revolt, buddy cop, die hard ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
south america, los angeles, usa, venice beach california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, justice, prison, vigilante, revenge, master criminal, lawyer, retribution, fighting the system, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, vietnam war, revenge, ku klux klan, vigilantism, black, racial issues, racism, vietnam veteran, interracial relations, social decay, rebellion ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those ...
Style:
independent film, fast, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, working undercover, action violence, home invasion, police shootout, police officer, police detective, murder, car chase, special agent, partner ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results.
Style:
bloody, neo noir, bleak, witty, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, violence, police corruption, yakuza, drug dealer, police officer, vigilante, crime boss, corrupt cop, criminal, vigilantism, hitman ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
japan, east asia, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, black man white woman sex, black, woman with a gun, robbery, vigilante, hitman, nudity, gangster, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, redneck, small town, vengeance, danger, criminal syndicate, corruption, police corruption, sheriff, fighting crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
tennessee, usa, north america
Similarity:
20%
446
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:
rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
vigilantism, downfall, police corruption, soldier, vengeance, gangster, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, gang, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, south america, middle east
Similarity:
20%
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 western, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, fighting crime, vengeance, danger, gang, law enforcement, heroes, small town, special agent, revenge, rape ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths ...
Style:
serious, exciting, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, wall street, vigilante, corruption, vigilantism, cancer, fighting the system, money, breaking point, depression, nothing to lose, investment banker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, hood ...
Plot:
murder, gang, racism, vengeance, vigilantism, fall in love, criminal heroes, dishonesty, moral dilemma, starting over, introspection, crime gone awry ...
Similarity:
19%
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