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Death Wish
Why this pick
Like Vigilante, it channels urban fear and institutional frustration into blunt, morally uneasy revenge, with a grim 1970s New York texture and a steadily hardening ordinary-man protagonist.
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MOVIE1982 1h 30m USA
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Its wounded family man, stripped-down momentum, and severe atmosphere make it a close match for Vigilante’s bitter transformation of personal trauma into methodical retribution.
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The Exterminator
Why this pick
A raw, low-budget New York revenge thriller with comparable street-level grime, anger at criminal impunity, and an escalating one-man campaign against violent predators.
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Class of 1984
Why this pick
It shares Vigilante’s abrasive early-1980s exploitation energy: a decent adult pushed past the limits of legal authority by brazen, destructive violence.
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Ms .45
Why this pick
Abel Ferrara’s stark New York nightmare offers the same furious vigilante impulse and sleazy street atmosphere, rendered with a more subjective, emotionally punishing intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Don Blakely
Prago
Joseph Carberry
Ramon
Woody Strode
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Frank Pesce
Blueboy
Mike Miller
Dr. Fallon
Vincent Beck
Judge Sinclair
Bo Rucker
Horace
Randy Jurgensen
Detective Russo