What is the best revenge movie of all time?

From samurai fury and medieval vendettas to stylized hitmen and cold modern paybacks, revenge cinema crosses every genre and decade. Which dish do you prefer served coldest?

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Quentin Tarantino's 2003 blood-soaked martial arts epic follows The Bride's relentless quest for vengeance against her former assassin crew.

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Oldboy

Park Chan-wook's 2003 Korean masterpiece follows a man imprisoned for 15 years with no explanation, who seeks violent answers upon release.

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John Wick

Keanu Reeves plays a legendary retired assassin who comes back to kill virtually everyone in New York after a gang kills his dog and steals his car.

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Promising Young Woman

Carey Mulligan delivers a career-best performance as a woman who carries out a carefully orchestrated revenge scheme in this 2020 thriller.

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True Grit

A tenacious 14-year-old girl hires a grizzled US Marshal to track down her father's killer in the Coen Brothers' 2010 Western.

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The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio won his long-awaited Oscar as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who survives a bear attack and seeks vengeance against those who left him for dead.

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Carrie

A shy, telekinetic high school girl pushed too far by bullies unleashes her powers in spectacular fashion in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror classic.

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Gladiator

Russell Crowe plays a Roman general reduced to slavery who fights his way back to Rome to exact vengeance on the emperor who murdered his family.

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Léon: The Professional

A twelve-year-old girl seeks revenge for her family's murder with the help of a stoic hitman in Luc Besson's stylish 1994 thriller.

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I Saw the Devil

A special agent blurs the line between hunter and monster in this relentless 2010 Korean revenge thriller by Kim Jee-woon.

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Gone Girl

David Fincher's 2014 psychological thriller based on Gillian Flynn's novel becomes a battle of calculated revenge between a husband and wife.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller's 2015 action masterpiece is essentially one long, spectacular revenge chase across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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Prisoners

Hugh Jackman plays a desperate father who takes the law into his own hands when his daughter goes missing in Denis Villeneuve's tense 2013 thriller.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Jim Caviezel plays Edmond Dantès, who escapes from false imprisonment to exact elaborate revenge on those who betrayed him in this 2002 swashbuckler.

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