Cold Sweat (1971)

In this adaptation of a Richard Mathieson novella, (also the basis of an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) Charles Bronson's Joe Martin must protect his wife and daughter from a criminal gang he used to drive for - they've come back into Joe's life seeking redress for a wrong they feel Joe committed against them.

★★★☆☆

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Death Wish (1974)

For one brief moment, Charles Bronson's Dr Paul Kersey - an architect whose wife is killed and daughter raped by gangbangers (one of them a young and lanky Jeff Goldblum) - steps out onto a NYC rooftop and surveys the city from above, and this vigilante may as well be in Gothan in a mask and cape, or, come to think of it, perhaps he's more like Victor Zsasz because it's a pretty unpleasant, unrewarding, socially troubling revenge he metes out.

★★★☆☆

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