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The Warriors is a 1979 American action thriller film directed by Walter Hill.Based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, 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 on Coney Island in southern Brooklyn after they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader.
The gangs in attendance that are most frequently mentioned include the Black Spades, Ghetto Brothers, Savage Skulls, Turbans, and Seven Immortals. This historic treaty among South Bronx gangs lasted until the crack cocaine wars erupted during the early 1980s. Some of the Gangs that attended the Hoe Avenue peace treaty meeting: Alley Cats; Bachelors
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
The 1962 book, All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs by Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum, featured real accounts of the Gowanus Boys. The gang was located in the Gowanus section of South Brooklyn, and was one of the earlier neighborhood crews that would evolve into the larger, loosely affiliated South Brooklyn Boys street gang.
Pages in category "Gangs in New York City" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. ... 0–9. 14K (triad) 18th Street gang; 80 Blocks from ...
Across 110th Street is a 1972 American neo noir action thriller film directed by Barry Shear and starring Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa and Paul Benjamin.The film is set in Harlem, New York and takes its name from 110th Street, the traditional dividing line between Harlem and Central Park that functioned as an informal boundary of race and class in 1970s New York City.
Detective Movie The Hot Rock: Peter Yates: Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman: United States [53] Prime Cut: Michael Ritchie: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins: United States [54] Rika the Mixed-Blood Girl: Kō Nakahira: Rika Aoki, Yasuo Arakawa, Satoshi Moritsuka: Japan: Crime thriller [55] Street Mobster: Kinji Fukasaku: Noboru ...
1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. H. 1970s hood films (7 P) Pages in category "1970s gang films"