20 Best Movies Like The Warriors You Need to Watch
The Warriors is one of the best gang movies of all time, even though it is made in now late 1979. If you have watched it, you are certainly hungry for more, well don’t worry, as we have made this article to show you other similar gang movies like The Warriors.
The film centers on a fictitious New York City street gang who must travel 30 miles (48 km), from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf in Coney Island in southern Brooklyn, after they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader.
After reports of vandalism and violence, Paramount temporarily halted their advertising campaign and released theater owners from their obligation to show the film. Despite its initially negative reception, The Warriors has since become a cult film and has been reappraised by film critics. The film has spawned several spinoffs, including video games and a comic book series.
Now let’s check out the list of the best movies like The Warriors every gang movie lover needs to watch at least once.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Los Angeles. Police Lieutenant Bishop has been assigned to take over the supervision of a police station that is in the process of moving, which still has only one policeman and two female officers.
A bus arrives at the station with three dangerous prisoners, including the death row inmate Napoleon Wilson. Suddenly, a man bursts in there, unable to utter a single word due to shock.
He is running away from members of the ruthless Cholo gang, one of whose members he killed, after they killed his daughter. As six members of the gang recently died in a police ambush, a massive night attack follows on the station, which is defended only by Bishop, the brave officer Leigh, and two prisoners armed by Bishop.
The Outsiders (1983)
In 1966, in Tulsa, teenagers are divided into two groups. If you are a “soc”, you have wealth, cars, and a future. However, if you are a “greaser”, you are an outsider, you only have your friends…and the dream that one day you will finally belong to someone.
When two “greasers”, Ponyboy (Howell) and Johnny (Macchio), clash with the cruel Bob Sheldon (Garrett), a member of the “soc” group, things get out of control, leading to tragic consequences that will change their lives forever.
Rumble Fish (1983)
Teenager Rusty James (M. Dillon) in the absence of excitement in his native provincial town eagerly participates in fights, gets drunk, plays pool, hangs out with his friends Smokey (N. Cage), Steve (V. Spano) and B.J. Jackson (C. Penn ) and has fun with his girlfriend – schoolgirl Patty (D. Lane). His life is empty and all relationships are shallow – his mother is gone, his father (D. Hopper) is a drunkard. He is almost killed in one of the street fights between neighborhood gangs, but then his charismatic older brother, called Motorcycle Boy (M. Rourke), who was once the leader of the gang and now the police closely follow his every step, returns to the city.
Fantasizing about his brother’s adventures, Rusty James sees him as an unattainable role model. However, Motorcycle Boy has changed and is no longer the tough, untouchable hero that the local delinquents admire.
Mad Max (1979)
In the time after the nuclear disaster, the Earth is devastated. The survivors managed to organize their lives, but anarchy reigns, and various gangs run rampant. The police are powerless.
When he loses his partner, police officer Max Rockatinsky (Mel Gibson) decides to retire and live a family life, but in one of his devastating raids, a motorcycle gang kills his wife and child. Since then, his only goal is to catch the killers.
Class of 1984 (1982)
Andrew Norris (Perry King) has come to a new school to teach music. His only problem is a group of student drug dealers, led by piano genius Peter Stegman (Timothy Van Patten), who will oppose anyone who tries to stand in his way.
Original Gangstas (1996)
The film details the deteriorating state of an impoverished Gary neighborhood terrorized by a street gang called the Rebels. When the gang murders a local boy, it prompts the emergence of several individuals who grew up in the neighborhood: the original members of the Rebels.
Harry Brown (2009)
After his wife dies, retired soldier Harry Brown spends most of his days playing chess with his best friend Leonard. There is more and more street violence in his neighborhood every day, but Harry tries to ignore it and keep his peace.
However, when the thugs in the neighborhood kill Leonard, and the police investigation does not show concrete results, Harry decides to take justice into his own hands and turns into a ruthless avenger.
West Side Story (1961)
This adaptation of the Broadway play opens with an aerial view of Manhattan. We meet two rival street gangs: the Jets, second-generation American teenagers, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. When the war between the Jets and the Sharks reaches its peak, the leader of the Jets, Riff (Russ Tamblyn), decides to challenge the Sharks to one last fight.
He agrees to meet with the leader of the Sharks, Bernard (George Chakiris), at a war council to be held at the school dance. To make it more convincing, Riff brings along his old friend Tony (Richard Beymer). But Tony fell in love with Barnard’s sister Maria (Natalie Wood). Their love story, like that of Romeo and Juliet, will end tragically.
Black Rain (1989)
Mike Conklin (Michael Douglas) and Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) are New York detectives entrusted with the important task of delivering the dangerous yakuza Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) to the Japanese authorities.
But when, by a fatal mistake, he is delivered to yakuza disguised as police officers, the only thing left for them is to face the unknown streets of Osaka and try to correct their dangerous mistake. But the impossible mission will be facilitated by the local professional Masumoto (Ken Takakura) and the beautiful waitress Joyce (Kate Capshaw).
Safe (2012)
In a fixed fight, in which he had to lose, ex-cop and fighter, Luke Wright (Jason Statham) unexpectedly wins and angers Emil Docheski (Sándor Técsy), the head of the Russian mafia. As punishment, Docheki’s son Vassily (Joseph Sikora) and his men kill Wright’s pregnant wife, but also threaten to kill anyone he gets close to. Luke leaves his life behind and becomes homeless.
Meanwhile, in China, the little girl Mei (Catherine Chan), a math genius, is kidnapped by triad leader Han Jiao (James Hong), who wants to erase all electronic traces of his illegal business. Mei is sent to New York, where she is kept by the brutal gangster Quan Chang (Reggie Lee). A year later, Han arrives from China and asks Mei to memorize the long code numbers. The vehicle she was in is attacked by the Russian mafia, and Mei is taken away by Emila, who asks her to reveal the code.
Mei refuses, and before they can continue questioning her, the police, led by the corrupt Captain Wolf (Robert John Burke), who works for Han, burst in. In the wake of all this chaos, Mei escapes to the subway, where she runs into Luke, who is thinking about suicide.
The Exterminator (1980)
After the best friend of a military veteran is brutally attacked on the streets of New York, John Eastland decides to take justice into his own hands and reveal to criminals the true meaning of war.
Nighthawks (1981)
The infamous international terrorist Woolgar (Rutger Hauer) arrives in New York. Police officers Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) are tasked with stopping a dangerous criminal, so they are transferred to an elite anti-terrorist unit led by a British expert.
The city is threatened with complete chaos, and DaSilva and Fox must find the terrorist before he causes disaster. Deke DaSilva comes face to face with Wulgar, but he hesitates and the criminal manages to escape, injuring his partner in the process. Now DaSilva is on Wulgar’s target list.
The Gauntlet (1977)
Ben Shockley (C. Eastwood) is a hard-drinking police detective. Neither he himself nor his superiors in Phoenix think much of him. That’s why his boss entrusts him with, as he says, a completely unimportant task.
From Las Vegas in the neighboring state of Nevada, a prisoner is to be brought to Phoenix to testify in a completely insignificant trial. In Las Vegas, Shockley soon realized two things. Prisoner Gus Mally (S. Lock), a prostitute, will testify in a very important trial of the mobsters because she knows a lot about their connections in the highest places, and the mobsters and Shockley’s boss don’t want Shockley and the prostitute to reach Phoenix alive.
Because of this, their car was already blown up in Las Vegas, and after that the police machine-gunned her house due to a wrong tip. Shockley forces a police officer in a patrol car at gunpoint to take them to the Arizona border where the boss has promised to send a convoy of police cars to take them to Phoenix. But now even Shockley, admittedly under the influence of the smart prisoner, realized that something was wrong.
Death Wish (2018)
dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who witnesses the consequences of violence in his city every day. One day, his wife and daughter, who were victims of an attack in their shared home, arrive at his hospital.
With the police overburdened with other crimes, Paul, eager for revenge, sets out to hunt down his family’s attackers. When an anonymous criminal killer begins to attract media attention, the city wonders if the deadly vigilante is a guardian angel… or an angry executioner.
48 Hrs. (1982)
Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is a cop who likes to work alone and doesn’t follow the rules of the police profession. When he meets two colleagues, who go to the hotel to make a routine arrest of petty criminals, Jack joins them.
The cops knock on the door and the criminals open fire and Jack comes face to face with one of them. He points the gun at him, but the other one is already aiming at Jack’s colleague, so Jack throws his gun in surrender. But the policeman still dies, and his colleagues at the station think that Jack acted cowardly. Jack learns that these were not ordinary petty criminals, but convicted robber Albert Ganz (James Remar) and his colleague Billy Bear (Sonny Landham), who rescued him from prison.
When he gets out of prison, Albert Ganz kills his former colleagues one by one, and one of his former associates is Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), who is still in prison. Jack goes to prison and asks Reggie for cooperation, but he initially refuses. An experienced policeman is persistent and bails him out of prison for 48 hours, which is the time they have available to find the criminals.
Over the Edge (1979)
The suburb of Nova Grenada seems calm and idyllic. However, for the teenage community of this region, it is a wasteland, with nothing to do and nowhere to go. As a result, many of them turn to drugs and crime.
Carl, a polite but malleable boy, falls under the influence of his older “friend” Richie. Will Carl allow himself to become one of New Grenada’s aimless rebels? Or will they see how Richie and his friends are a bad example?
Training Day (2001)
The only danger greater than crossing the line between law and crime is the policeman stepping on it. Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke will take us through the drug-infested streets of Los Angeles, where common notions of good and evil are often a deadly delusion.
The young idealist Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) wants to become a narcotics agent of the Los Angeles Police Department and prevent dealers from selling drugs on the streets, but it will seem extremely difficult for him because he has to spend 24 hours of his training with agent Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington).
Harris is a veteran, with the Narcotics Division for over a decade, and his methods have become, to put it mildly, questionable over time, if not outright corrupt. As the day goes by, Hoyt witnesses these methods first hand, while he is driven mad thinking about who is the real culprit in the whole story and where exactly the answers lie.
Streets of Fire (1984)
Ellen Aim (D. Lane) is a singer in a rock band who is kidnapped during a concert by a motorcycle gang led by Raven Shaddock (W. Dafoe). When Reva Cody (D. Van Valkenburgh), who was in the audience, saw this, she called her brother Tom (M. Paré) to come back to town and search for Ellen.
Known to the police as a juvenile delinquent, Tom immediately attracts attention with his return. He is soon joined in his search by ex-soldier McCoy (A. Madigan) and Ellen’s manager Billy Fish (R. Moranis), and the trio sets out for a distant and dark part of the city where the imprisoned Ellen is alone.
Bad Boys (1983)
Juvenile delinquent Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) lives by stealing purses from old women or smashing and robbing cars, until the moment he ends up in a juvenile prison due to the involuntary murder of a boy.
To make matters worse, the murdered boy is the brother of Mick’s eternal nemesis Paco Moreno (Esai Morales), a drug dealer who has his eye on Mick’s girlfriend J.C. Walenski (Ally Sheedy). Paco rapes her and because of that she ends up in the same prison as Mick.
The Wanderers (1979)
A group of young people of Italian origin in the Bronx are gathered in a gang called the Wanderers. They are preoccupied with proving themselves and constant conflicts with other gangs, petty mischief and gaining their first sexual experiences.
Richie (K. Wahl) and Joey (J. Friedrich) lead this group that is just trying to avoid responsibility, have fun and overcome carefully hidden insecurities and fears. Richie is in a relationship but also embarks on an adventure with a new girlfriend (N. Allen), not knowing that his first girlfriend is pregnant. All the gangs will eventually come together to take on the worst, the Ducky Boys.
