01 A new gladiator seeks revenge against the Roman commanders who destroyed his home.
50 Best Revenge Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · February 23, 2026
Kill Bill turned revenge into a genre-blending epic told across two full films, while John Wick proved a simple grief-driven premise could sustain an entire modern action franchise.
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02 An American remake following the same amnesiac revenge premise as the Korean original.
03 A Jewish-American squad and a cinema owner both plot separate revenge against the Nazi high command.
04 A freed slave turned bounty hunter goes after the plantation holding his wife.
05 A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer using notes and tattoos as his only memory.
06 A masked vigilante wages a one-man war against a totalitarian British government.
07 Six standalone stories of ordinary people pushed past their breaking point, each sharper than the last.
08 A brutal survival drama built on Leonardo DiCaprio's most physical performance.
09 A father takes the law into his own hands after his daughter goes missing.
10 A retired gunslinger takes one last job and confronts exactly what that violence cost him.
11 Three childhood friends are pulled back together by a murder tied to a trauma none of them ever discussed.
12 A struggling rancher agrees to escort a captured outlaw to the train that will hang him.
13 A troubled Vietnam veteran is pushed by a hostile small-town police force into a one-man war.
14 A laid-off man's ordinary bad day curdles into a citywide rampage.
15 A wrongly imprisoned woman engineers an elaborate revenge on her release.
16 A hitman reluctantly takes in the young girl next door after her family is murdered.
17 A farmer whose family was murdered becomes an outlaw hunted across the post-Civil War frontier.
18 A mild-mannered academic is pushed into shocking violence defending his home.
19 A woman reads her ex-husband's violent new novel and starts seeing her own life inside it.
20 Israeli agents hunt down the organizers of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
21 A father is put on trial for killing the men who assaulted his young daughter.
22 A London gangster returns to his hometown to investigate his brother's suspicious death.
23 A murdered musician is resurrected to avenge his own death and his fiancée's.
24 A man who watched his family's killers walk free engineers an elaborate revenge on the justice system itself.
25 Excommunicated and hunted by every assassin alive, Wick fights for his life across the globe.
26 A debt from Wick's past forces him back into the very underworld he tried to leave.
27 A retired operative uses a very particular set of skills to find his kidnapped daughter.
28 A released convict terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his prison sentence.
29 A returning POW hunts the men who murdered his family and stole his war medals.
30 A hacker becomes the prime suspect in a murder tied to her own violent past.
31 A thief double-crossed by his own partner wants exactly the money he's owed, nothing more.
32 A drifter's clumsy revenge plot draws his estranged family into a spiraling blood feud.
33 A British ex-convict travels to Los Angeles to find out who really killed his daughter.
34 A convict woman pursues the soldiers who destroyed her family through the Tasmanian wilderness.
35 A teenage girl turns the tables on the man she suspects of preying on children.
36 A father hunts down the gang that killed his son, and it spirals into an all-out war.
37 A mother wipes out the cartel that killed her family in broad daylight.
38 A grief-driven vigilante story carried by Jodie Foster.
39 A sharp, unsettling take on revenge dressed up as a rom-com.
40 Revenge as a full gothic musical, gleefully theatrical.
41 The quieter, more patient half of the same revenge story.
42 A revenge thriller as much about mood as the actual answer.
43 A brutal cat-and-mouse revenge story that keeps escalating past comfort.
44 A patient, methodical revenge plot built over years.
45 The vigilante-revenge template a whole genre borrowed from.
46 Are you not entertained, and revenge has rarely felt this earned.
47 Denzel Washington in full righteous-revenge mode.
48 A revenge mystery with one of the most shocking twists ever put on screen.
49 Built a whole new kind of stardom for Keanu Reeves on precision and grief.
50 A revenge epic told through pure genre-blending style.
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