The Urban Western is a subgenre that defies most conventions of the traditional Western. These narratives take place in, as the name implies, heavily populated city environments. Although this contrasts with the visual aesthetic that the genre is known for, the setting is still one of isolation and crime running rampant. Protagonists here are typically nonconformists who live against the status quo. This means they can be antiheroes whose methods don't cooperate with the law, vigilantes who take the law into their own hands, or perhaps a classic Western stock character from the American Southwest is planted into an urban environment.
Coogan's Bluff
Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to escort a prisoner back. Before they can leave, the prisoner escapes and Coogan sets out to capture his prisoner.
Midnight Cowboy
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
Dirty Harry
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.
The Getaway
A convict leaves jail on parole and promptly joins his wife in a bank robbery.
Magnum Force
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
Death Wish
Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs.
Assault on Precinct 13
Isolated and cut off from the city inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station, a group of police officers and convicts must join forces to defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder, who have taken a blood oath to kill someone trapped inside the precinct.
The Enforcer
A group of terrorists is blackmailing San Francisco for $2 million, and it's up to Harry and his new partner to stop them.
Urban Cowboy
A young man enters a mechanical bull-riding contest and hopes to save his failing marriage.
Sudden Impact
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
Robocop
Robocop is created to stop a crimewave which is spreading all across America. All goes well at first and Robocop stops every sleaze ball he encounters, but there are forces which will stop at nothing to see him eliminated.
The Dead Pool
Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target.
Heat
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop, following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
Cop Land
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls "Cop Land", a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big-city police officers Freddy's long admired. But when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he must take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Assault on Precinct 13
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cop's intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
A History of Violence
Tom Stall becomes a local hero after killing two criminals intent on robbing his diner in small-town Indiana and leaving no witnesses, but Tom's past is called into question when the media hype attracts three mobsters who insist they have an old score to settle with the quiet family man.
Gran Torino
A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
Drive
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
McCloud
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud is the toughest cowboy to ever take on the mean streets of New York. McCloud is in a series of continual showdowns with the meanest criminals in New York and the toughest boss around.
Burst Angel: The Complete Series
A new law's been passed in Tokyo. Ordinary folks are now allowed to freely carry firearms; shoot, they're even legally allowed to use'em. You might think that crime would increase, and you'd be right... but an angel's just come to Earth. She's an enigma, but with her partners Sei, Amy, and Meg, she's the best chance this town's got. Her name's Jo. And there's a new sheriff in town.
Justified: City Primeval
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell's attorney, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.
