Most movies have been made on a revenge theme. They portray the villain as a hero, as something has wrong been done to him in the past. They have a basic formula where the person who seeks to revenge has some ugly past. Her victim is somewhat not purely considered a victim.
Like something extreme has happened to the character by somebody. These victims face extreme sorrow, grief, and anger towards those who somehow created an immense loss or might have tried to kill them for some benefit.
So here we have short-listed some best revenge movies for you all that you must watch to see the hard victory on evil mo The Lady Eve
Year: 1941
Running time: 1h 34 min
A / U/A
Genre: Screwball comedy, Romance
Where to watch: Retro Reels, Prime Video, Vudu or Apple TV
Director : Preston Sturges
Cast/starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, William Demarest, Eugene Pallette, Eric Blore, Martha O’Driscoll
The Lady Eve is an American screwball movie based on Monckton Hoffe’s story, where a mismatched couple meets on a board ocean liner.
The movie plot deals with Charles, who falls for Jean, but later, he discovers that Jean is a gold digger. So he dumped her then Jean took a path of revenge. She again meets Charles with someone else’s identity.
The Crow
Year: 1994
Running time: 1h 42 min
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Genre: Action, Fantasy
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
Director : Alex Proyas
Cast/starring: Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Michael Wincott, Sofia Shinas, Bai Ling, Michael Massee, Ernie Hudson
Eric Draven, a musician and his fiancee were killed the night before their wedding by some violent member of a city gang. On the day of the first anniversary, Eric rises from the grave like a gothic mantle of the crow.
He tracks down all those people who mercilessly murdered them and confronted the head gangster to complete their mission. It is a supernatural revenge movie.
Sabrina
Year: 1995
Running time: 2h, 7 min
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
Where to watch: EPIX, Prime Video, Redbox, The Roku Channel
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast/starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Richard Crenna, Fanny Ardant, Lauren Holly, Angie Dickinson
Sabrina Fairchild is a daughter of a chauffeur who grew up in a Larrabee family. She always felt for David, the younger son of a family also considered a playboy. When she returns from Paris, she has become a glamorous woman now.
David also starts giving her attention, but his elder brother does not find this courtship good for the family, so he tries to break them up, but he, too, falls for her.
Leon: the Professionsional
Year: 1994
Running time: 1h 50 min
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Genre: Action, Drama
Where to watch: Netflix
Director : Luc Besson
Cast/starring: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello, Carl J. Matusovich, Elizabeth Regen, Michael Badalucco
Mathilda is only a twelve-year-old girl who faces many hardships and sees the dark side of life. Her father used to store drugs for the police and abused her a lot, even though her mom neglected her too.
She joins forces when her family is murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield and decides to take avenge for her family.
Machete
Year: 2010
Running time: 1h 45 min
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Genre: Action, Crime
Where to watch: Redbox, Prime Video, Apple TV or Vudu
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
Cast/starring: Danny Trejo, Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin
Machete was nearly left to die after a violent fight with a famous drug lord. He then leaves Texas and tries to forget the tragedy which happened to him. He was hired to hit covertly and was stabbed by a girl on his left leg, which he never thought triggered him.
Pretty Woman
Year: 1990
Running time: 1h 59 min
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
Where to watch: Disney+, Prime Video
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast / starring : Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Ralph Bellamy, Elinor Donahue
You all must have heard about Cinderella’s story, just like this movie’s story plot deals with two different people. Two people from completely different worlds fall in love with each other.
Edward’s rich businessman calls Vivian a prostitute, but they fall in love with each other now. Their hurdle is handling societal obstacles.
John Wick
Year: 2014
Running time: 1h 41 min
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Where to watch: Vudu, Prime Video, Netflix
Director : Chad Stahelski
Cast/Starring: Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Bridget Moynahan, John Leguizamo
John Wick, a legendary assassin, retired from his violent career when he married his love of life. But his wife’s sudden death shocked him a lot.
Tarasov and his thug steal his prized car and kill his puppy, which was the last gift from his gift. It triggered him. Now he seeks vengeance, and his colleague puts a huge bounty on his head.
The Craft
Year: 1996
Running time: 1h 41 min
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Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon prime
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast / Staring: Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer
Sarah, a new student, has three friends. Later she discovers all those witches and searches for a fourth member. They all have a troubled background, and this interconnected them.
Inglourious Basterds
Year: 2009
Running time: 2h 33 min
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Genre: War, Action
Where to watch: Notify
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast / Staring: Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl
In the first year of German occupation, Lt. Aldo Raine allied officer, assembled Jewish soldiers and made the team for a violent attack on Nazis.
They wanted to take off their scalps, and German actresses were sent to France as undercover agents so that they could bring down their leaders. Shosanna Dreyfus seeks to avenge the Nazi’s execution.
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Year: 2003
Running time: 1h 51 min
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Genre: Action, Crime
Where to watch: Amazon prime video
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast / Staring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama
The movie plot deals with a girl named Fueled, a former assassin who wakes up from a coma after four years. She recalls that her ex-boyfriend tried to kill her on her wedding day.
Now she decided to take revenge for her unbearable loss and injuries, and her unborn child had also died. She vows to take revenge on all those who participated in the task of hurting and killing her.
Bring It On
Year: 2000
Running time: 1h 39 min
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Genre: Comedy
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast / Staring: Kristen Dunstan, Gabrielle Union, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, Peyton Reed, Clare Kramer, Huntley Ritter
From the Rancho Carne High School in San Diego, the Toro cheerleading squad has the spirit to win the national championship trophy for the sixth year. But Torrance, their new team captain, discovers that another team has stolen her perfect plan.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Year: 2011
Running time: 2h 38 min
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Where to watch: Amazon prime video
Director: David Fincher
Cast / Staring: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer, Steven Jillian, Goran Visnjic
Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced financial reporter, was hired by Henrik Vanger, a wealthy Swedish industrialist, to solve a forty-year-old murder case of Henrik’s niece. He has a strong belief that someone from Harriet’s family killed him. It is a psychological thriller movie.
Django Unchained
Year: 2012
Running time: 2h 45 min
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Genre: Western, Action
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast / Staring: Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Leona Johnson
Django is a slave of an unorthodox Dr King Schultz, a German bounty hunter two years before the Civil war. He has to accompany him on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers.
And completing the mission successfully, Schultz frees Django. And now together, hunting the south most wanted criminals. Django meets his long-lost wife, who is still the slave of Calvin Candie.
Taken
Year: 2008
Running time: 1h 33m
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Genre: Action/ thriller
Where to watch: Prime Video
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast / Staring: Liam Nesson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, Leland Orser, Olivier Rabourdin, Katie Cassidy
A former government operative, Bryan Mills, is trying to find his daughter Kim. His worst fear is that his daughter and her friends are abducted by sex slavers in Paris when they all are on vacation.
Now he has to rescue her daughter within four days, and he uses all the skills he has learned yet.
V for Vendetta
Year: 2006
Running time: 2h 12 m
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Genre: Action Mystery & Thriller
Where to watch: VUDU, Prime Video, HBO Max
Director: James McTeigue
Cast / Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt
The story plot starts with a world war in London, a police state occupied by the fascist government. And Vigilante is only known as V, who uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors of the world where he lives.
He then discovers an ally in his fight against England’s oppressors when he saves a young woman Evey from the secret police.
Gone Girl
Year: 2014
Running time: 2h 29m
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime & Drama
Where to watch: Prime Video, VUDU
Director: David Fincher
Cast / Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil, Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
The movie plot starts in Carthage, where Nick Dunne and his glamorous wife Amy present as a perfect couple and blissful marriage in public.
The police suspect Nick in Amy’s disappearance on their fifth wedding anniversary. And police allegations and media coverage crumbled his happy marriage image and who Nick and Amy are.
Payback
Year: 1999
Running time: 1h 41m
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Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Where to watch: Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max., Apple TV+, Paramount.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Cast / Staring: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, David Paymer, Lucy Liu, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Duke
The story plot deals with a thief, Porter, who was betrayed by his wife, Lynn and his partner, Val. After a heist, he was shot in the back when he recovered from his wound.
He goes off the search in Val for his share of the money, but he cannot get his money. Now Porter challenges the imposing crime syndicate called the Outfit.
The Beguiled
Year: 2017
Running time: 1h 33m
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Genre: Drama/ war
Where to watch: Netflix, Prime Video
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast / Staring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Emma Howard, Angourie Rice, Oona Laurence
This plot is set around Civil War in 1863, where John McBurney, an injured Union soldier, seeks refuge at a female Southern boarding school.
The teachers and students both seem more than willing to help. But sexual tensions lead to dangerous rivalries where a woman with a wounded leg offers comfort and companionship to John.
Unforgiven
Year: 1992
Running time: 2h 11m
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Genre: Western & Drama
Where to watch: VUDU, Prime Video, HBO Max, Apple TV
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast / Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Anna Thomson, Frances Fisher, James Woolvett
The movie plots deal with an ageing outlaw and serial killer and a widower with two children, William Munny, who takes another job of killing after years when he turned to farm.
Two prostitutes disagree with the legal procedure conducted by the sheriff, and they hire a man to kill the accused.
Crazy Rich Asians
Year: 2018
Running time: 2h
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Kon M. Chu
Cast / Starring: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Michelle Yeoh
The movie plot deals with a girl named Rachel Chu, who is happy to accompany her longtime boyfriend, Nick.
They were going to Nick’s friend’s wedding in Singapore. Even she was surprised to learn the truth about nick that his family was super rich and considered the most eligible bachelors in the country. She has to face the spotlight and his mother’s disapproval.
The Punisher
Year: 2004
Running time: 2h 3m
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Genre: Action & Crime
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Cast / Starring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Laura Harring, Ben Foster, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
This dark movie plot is based on a comic book series. Frank Castle, an FBI agent, transfers into vengeful punishers because these criminals have killed his entire family, including his wife and son.
He was also severely injured, and Howard Saint, the crime lord, thought Frank was dead. When Frank recovers from his injuries, he seeks to revenge and dismantles Saint’s underworld empire.
The Brave One
Year: 2007
Running time: 2h 2m
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Genre: Thriller, Crime
Where to watch: Prime Video, Netflix
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast / Starring: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Zoë Kravitz, Mary Steenburgen, Luis Da Silva
The movie plot deals with a girl named Eric Bain, a radio host in New York. She was brutally attacked, she was left with severe injuries, and even her fiance was dead.
This tragedy haunts her, and she is on the path of taking revenge from also those who gave her this grief. Shen then wonders if she is no different than those who gave her suffering.
Hustlers
Year: 2019
Running time: 1h 50m
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Genre: Drama& Crime
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Cast / Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo, Cardi B
This movie plot is based on a true story of a strippers group. Destiny, who works as a stripper in a club, meets with Romana, and this meeting changes her life completely.
Romana, who used to earn a lot in the club, introduces Destiny to regular clients in this bar and teaches her to earn more.
But anyhow, the club collapsed. Now, these strippers are working on a daring scheme to earn more money to regain their old lives.
Death Wish
Year: 2018
Running time: 2018
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Genre: Action/ thriller
Where to watch: prime video
Director: Eli Roth
Cast / Starring: Bruce Willis, Vincent D’ Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Dean Norris, Kimberly Elise
The movie plot deals with a man named Dr Paul Kersey, a surgeon who sees the consequences of the violence in the city while working in the emergency room.
Intruders brutally attacked his wife and his younger daughter. He then becomes obsessed with delivering justice to all who have suffered due to violence.
This anonymously grabbed media attention and the public started wondering what to call this person a deadly avenger, guardian angel, or the Grim reaper.
Revenge
Year: 2017
Running time: 1h 48m
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Genre: Action/ Thriller
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Cast / Starring: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède
The movie plot deals with a girl named Jen enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend. But they were interrupted by his boyfriend’s two sleazy friends who arrived there for an unannounced hunting trip. The situation intensifies when tension mounts in the house.
This culminating situation transfers into a shocking act for Jen, where she is brutally assaulted by these three men in a desert and left there for her death. But she manages to survive and seeks relentless, bloody revenge on all those who gave her suffering.
Straw Dogs
Year: 1971
Running time: 1h 57m
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Genre: Thriller & drama
Where to watch:
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast / Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George
The movie’s plot deals with a couple who meet with an unexpected tragedy—David Summer and his wife, Amy, an Englishwoman.
To avoid the hectic lifestyle of a stateside, they relocate to where Amy was raised, a small town in rural Cornwall.
Two men from the village, one brutish man and another Charlie, raped Amy, triggering David and turning on his violent side.
Braveheart
Year: 1995
Running time: 2h 58 min
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Genre: War, Action
Where to watch: Prime video, Disney+
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast / Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson
William Wallace was a Scottish warrior who led his fellow citizens in a war against King Edward 1 to free his country. His love of life was slaughtered, and he threatened the king’s throne to free his homeland.
Darkman
Year: 1990
Running time: 1h 36 min
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Genre: Action, Horror
Where to watch: Vudu, Prime Video
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast / Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake
The story plot deals with Dr Peyton Wilder, who crime boss thugs assaulted. He was psychologically scared, but he survived. He tries to develop synthetic skin to take revenge on the crime boss.
Upgrade
Year: 2018
Running time:
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Genre: Science fiction, Action
Where to watch: Amazon prime video
Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast / Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Melaine Vallejo, Benedict Hardie, Harrison Gilbertson
Grey Trace is hospitalised due to brutal mugging, and his wife dies. A billionaire inventor offered him a cure. STEM, an artificial intelligence plant, enhances his body, and he realises he has some supernatural power.
He then seeks to take revenge on those thugs who destroyed his life.
True Gift
Year: 2010
Running time: 1h 51 min
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Genre: Western Drama
Where to watch: Netflix
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast / Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper
Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old farm girl, hires Cogburn to discover the mystery of her father’s murder. She wanted to avenge her father’s death. An outlaw named Tom Chaney murdered his father.