Film
- A Misunderstood Boy (1913)
- Broncho Billy and the Vigilante (1915), Broncho Billy
- The Vigilantes (1918)
- The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
- The Purple Vigilantes (1938), The Three Mesquiteers
- Border Vigilantes (1941), Hopalong Cassidy
- The Oxbow Incident (1942)
- Lone Star Vigilantes (1942)
- The Vigilantes Ride (1943)
- Vigilantes of Dodge City (1944), Red Ryder
- Cornered (1945)
- Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947), Red Ryder
- The Vigilantes Return (1947)
- The Vigilante (1947)
- Desert Vigilante (1949), Durango Kid
- Vigilante Hideout (1950)
- Dirty Harry series (1971, 1973, 1976, 1983, 1988)
- Shaft (1971) and (2000)
- Coffy (1973)
- High Plains Drifter (1973)
- The Seven-Ups (1973)
- Walking Tall franchise (1973, 1975, 1977; 2004)
- Death Wish series (1974, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1994)
- Street Law (1974)
- Truck Turner (1974)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Trackdown (1976)
- Vigilante Force (1976)
- Lipstick (1976)
- Deadbeat (1977), (aka: Tomcats; Getting Even; Avenged)
- Mad Max (1979) and its sequel The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max II) (1981)
- The Exterminator (1980) and its sequel Exterminator 2 (1984)
- The Star Chamber (1983)
- Vigilante (1983)
- Lethal Weapon series (1987, 1989, 1992, 1998)
- Mr. India (1987)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Above the Law (1988)
- Shahenshah (1988)
- Batman franchise (1989, 1992, 1995, 1997; 2005, 2008, 2012)
- The Punisher franchise (1989, 2004, 2008)
- Vigilante Cop (aka Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance, TV 1991)
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
- Falling Down (1993)
- The Crow (1994)
- The Guyver 2: Dark Hero (1994)
- Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
- Leon aka The Professional (1994)
- Eye for an Eye (1996)
- A Time to Kill (1996)
- The Boondock Saints (1999) and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
- The Limey (1999)
- Chopper (2000)
- Unbreakable (2000)
- Skins (2002)
- The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
- Daredevil (2003)
- A Man Apart (2003)
- 4 the People (2004)
- Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
- Man on Fire (2004)
- Saw series (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
- Suspect Zero (2004)
- Anniyan (2005)
- The Devil's Rejects (2005)
- Four Brothers (2005)
- Hard Candy (2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- V for Vendetta (2006)
- Vagabond Vigilante (2006)
- The Brave One (2007)
- Death Sentence (2007)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- Ghost Rider (2007)
- Outlaw (2007)
- Shooter (2007)
- Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
- Straightheads (2007)
- TMNT (2007)
- Taken (2008)
- Hancock (2008)
- Beer for My Horses (2008)
- Watchmen (2009)
- Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
- Harry Brown (2009)
- Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
- The Reverend: Vigilante Vampire (2009)
- Defendor (2010)
- Edge of Darkness (2010)
- Kick-Ass (2010)
- Super (2010)
- Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
- Gone (2012)
- Bad Ass (2012)
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
- Jack Reacher (2012)
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—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
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