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Total (6 films): $87.2 million. Death Wish franchise is an American vigilante action-thriller film series based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. The films follow the character Paul Kersey, portrayed by Charles Bronson in the original series, and Bruce Willis in the 2018 remake.
- Herbie Hancock
- Dino De LaurentiisHal LandersBobby Roberts
- Michael Winner
- Wendell Mayes
Jul 24, 1974 · Death Wish: Directed by Michael Winner. With Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats. 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.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Michael Winner
- 1974-07-24
- Senior Staff Writer
- Death Wish 3 (1985) Charles Bronson's Death Wish series became sort of a cartoon with Death Wish 3, where Kersey returns to New York to avenge a friend's murder.
- Death Wish (1974) Based on the anti-vigilante novel of the same name, Death Wish - whose 2018 remake received brutal reviews - became one of the most controversial thrillers of the decade.
- Death Wish V: The Face Of Death (1994) Not only was Death Wish V: The Face Of Death Charles Bronson's final outing as Kersey, it was his last theatrical release too.
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) Death Wish 4 is the first entry not directed by Winner and is probably the most generic of the bunch. Following the death of his girlfriend's daughter from an overdose, Kersey sets up A Fistful Of Dollars trilogy-style revenge plot where he turns two feuding gangs against each other.
Death Wish is a 1974 American vigilante action-thriller film loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Brian Garfield. Directed by Michael Winner, the film stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, an architect who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and daughter molested during a home invasion.
- BJ Colangelo
- Death Wish (1974) The original "Death Wish" became one of the most controversial films of its time, with an ultra-violent streak that shocked the nation.
- Death Wish 3. Remember how I said Brian Garfield hated the fact the "Death Wish" films became a sequel-churning machine that completely lost sight of the novel's intent?
- Death Sentence. Okay, so you might be wondering why this random James Wan movie from 2007 ended up on this list, but hear me out. "Death Sentence" is loosely based on Brian Garfield's novel of the same name, which is a sequel to his "Death Wish" novel, so technically that puts this film under the franchise's umbrella.
- Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Another Los Angeles revenge thriller, "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" was the franchise's response to the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the war-on-drugs/tough-on-crime era of Reagan's presidency.
6 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Death Wish 3. 1985 1h 30m R. 5.8 (17K) Rate. 18 Metascore. 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.
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First His wife is murdered when their apartment is broken into, 8 years later his mentally ill daughter is raped and murdered. After all this Kersey is never the same and ends up taking on the drug lords and various criminals of the world. Number of Movies: 5. Revenue: $91,699,582. Sort. Death Wish II. Death Wish 3. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.
