"Can you dig it?"

When Cyrus, leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, is assassinated during a gathering of clans, all hell breaks loose. The Warriors, hailing from Coney Island, are wrongfully accused of the murder and must fight for survival as they make their way back home.

Set in the near future, Walter Hill's The Warriors is a mad concoction of youth rebellion exploitation cinema, Greek mythology, and comic-book aesthetics. Characteristic of the director's previous work, including Hard Times (1975) and The Driver (1978), the film's narrative is stripped back to its essentials, allowing its evocative style to shine through. The film proved dangerously rousing in its initial release, reportedly inciting actual violence and vandalism and leading to its withdrawal from several theaters. Filmed across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, with the New York subway connecting its disparate locations, it portrays the city on the brink of collapse, a nocturnal landscape of danger and survival. Hope lies in Coney Island, where the sea and redemption awaits.