Knights of the City (1970’s & 1980’s vigilante movies)

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.

Frustrated with the lenient criminal justice system, an LAPD homicide cop goes vigilante on various criminals, including a serial killer of women.

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 police search for the scarred rapist, without success. After recovering, she enlists the help of a cop, a mafioso, and a drag queen to help her track down her rapist.

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.

A deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.

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.

An inspector pursues a secret society of former police officers who go beyond the law by killing notorious criminals without trial.

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.

A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, undertakes training in firearms, martial arts and driving to wreak vengeance upon those who have forced her into prostitution.

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handedly cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

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 fact shakes up his dull existence, which he might wish he'd never left once he gets into trouble with gangsters.

A vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

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.

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.

A mysterious man returns to his former hometown to take revenge on the locals who murdered his parents when he was a boy.

Two men - a wealthy ad executive and a far-right factory worker - form a dangerous bond after the former confesses to the latter about murdering his daughter's drug-dealer boyfriend.

A children's television show host stalks and murders abusive parents.

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.

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.

High-schooler Molly secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She must survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Convict is recruited from a chain gang to help capture a Mexican drug lord.

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.

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.

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.