Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with vigilante genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 115 films · Page 2.
Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, political thriller film, vigilante film
Force Recon Scout Snipers Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger and his spotter Donnie Fenn provide overwatch for a black ops mission in Ethiopia. The mission is successful, but while covering the retreat of friendly forces, an enemy attack hel…
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime thriller film, vigilante film
A psychopathic sniper, later referred to as "Scorpio", shoots a woman while she swims in a San Francisco skyscraper rooftop pool. He leaves behind a threatening letter demanding he be paid $100,000 or he will kill more people. The note is …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film, vigilante film
Paul Kersey, a trauma surgeon, lives with his wife Lucy and daughter Jordan in Chicago. When the family visits a restaurant with Paul's brother Frank, a valet parking attendant named Miguel secretly copies their address after hearing that …
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Action, Adventure, Romantic Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, medieval film, romance film, swashbuckler film, vigilante film
In 1194, English nobleman Robin of Locksley has spent years in an Ayyubid prison in Jerusalem, having followed King Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade. Robin and his comrade Peter Dubois escape, saving the life of a Moor named Azee…
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Biographical picture, Blaxploitation, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
One night shortly before Malcolm Little is born, a party of Klansmen surround the Little family home in Omaha, Nebraska, break all the windows, and ride off into the night. Malcolm has a Grenadian mother and African-American father. His fa…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
An FBI bust of a smuggling operation in Tampa results in the deaths of Bobby Saint, the son of mafia boss Howard Saint, and Otto Krieg, an arms dealer. However, Krieg's death was faked, and he is later revealed to be undercover FBI agent F…
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Action, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
At the Tarasco bar in Mexico, Buscemi, an American man, talks about witnessing a massacre in another bar, committed by El Mariachi, a Mexican with a guitar case full of guns. Tarasco's patrons are uninterested until Buscemi mentions drug l…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, thriller film, vigilante film
An older woman, Evelyn Mercer, is murdered at a convenience store in Highland Park, Michigan when a robbery occurs that results in the death of the store clerk and her, the sole witness. The incident brings her four adopted sons back home …
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Action, Thriller, action film, action thriller, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film
Eleven years after returning home from Burma, John Rambo lives in Bowie, Arizona, at his deceased father's horse ranch, which he manages with his old friend Maria Beltran and her granddaughter Gabriela. Gabriela is told by her friend Gizel…
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LGBTQ-related film, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, anthology film, chase film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film, zombie film
Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, martial arts film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
In 1982, young Matt Murdock is accidentally blinded by radioactive waste shortly after witnessing his father, washed-up boxer Jack "The Devil" Murdock, extorting money for local mob boss Eddie Fallon. Despite this, Matt's remaining senses …
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, action film, buddy film, crime thriller film, drama film, vigilante film
In Boston, Irish American fraternal twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus attend Mass, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese. Later, while Connor and Murphy are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day with friends, three Russian …
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Torture Porn, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
Mari Collingwood plans to attend a concert with her friend Phyllis Stone for her 17th birthday. Mari's parents, Estelle and John, express concern about her friendship with Phyllis, but they let her go and give her a peace symbol necklace. …
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Late Western, Western film, vigilante film
During the American Civil War, the wife and son of Missouri farmer Josey Wales are murdered by pro-Union paramilitaries led by the brutal Captain Terrill. With his farm burned down and nothing else to live for, a hardened Wales joins a gro…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"Just Another Saturday Night" Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking The Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since …
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, rape and revenge film, vigilante film
Paul Kersey is a middle-aged architect who lives in Manhattan with his wife, Joanna. Their adult daughter, Carol, and her husband, Jack Toby, live nearby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the grocery store by three muggers …
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Dramedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, comedy drama, vigilante film
In 1926, in the fictitious outback town of Dungatar, State of Victoria, 10-year-old schoolgirl Myrtle Dunnage is blamed for the death of classmate Stewart Pettyman. A sympathetic policeman, Sergeant Horatio Farrat, sends her away. Twenty-f…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, action film, crime film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, romance film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film, vigilante film
Eric, an addict with a troubled childhood, struggles with life and nightmares at a rehabilitation center. Shelly, a musician with similar issues, receives a video on her cell phone from her friend Zadie that incriminates Vincent Roeg, a cr…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
Joe is a traumatized hired gun who specializes in rescuing trafficked girls, using brutal methods against their captors. He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City. Joe has flashbacks of the abuse he and his mot…
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Crime, Destiny, Thriller, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, vigilante film
In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rus…
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Action, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, drama film, girls with guns, vigilante film
In 1992, in Bogota, Colombia, drug baron Don Luis Sandoval sends his enforcer Marco and a gang of armed men to kill his gang member Fabio Restrepo and his family because Fabio has defied him by trying to leave his prolific drug crime activ…
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Action, action film, vigilante film
Four years after witnessing the horrors of a brutal regime in the fictional Central Asian nation of Turgistan, American billionaire and philanthropist Magnet S. Johnson, who made his fortune from inventing neodymium magnets, fakes his own …
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Action, action film, thriller film, vigilante film
Retired CIA officer Bryan Mills visits his daughter, Kim, to deliver an early birthday gift. After an awkward visit, he invites his former wife, Lenore, to dinner. Although she declines, she later shows up at his apartment and tells him ab…
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Horror, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vigilante film
The Shadow Mountains In 1983, in the Pacific Northwest, recovering alcoholic war veteran (former MACV-SOG unit) lumberjack Red Miller lives with his girlfriend, artist and author Mandy Bloom, who had an abusive childhood. Mandy works as a …
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