Avengers, Antiheros, Vigilantes

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.

Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.

A monsignor recruits a new priest to his parish in Los Angeles where the newcomer proceeds to turn vigilante and take on various thugs and criminals that rule the neighborhoods.

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.

Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

The adaptation of Death Wish.

Framed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief he had only just arrested.

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

With his wife and daughter being held hostage, a seasoned ex-military man is involved in a shady smuggling operation to save his family.

After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.

An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.

A top New York detective is sent to Los Angeles where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

A crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.

Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.

An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.

A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.

A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life.

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.