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Top 5 Best Revenge Movies to See At Least Once

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There is something undeniably satisfying about watching a cinematic hero—or antihero—get pushed a little too far, dust off a terrifying set of skills, and embark on a mission to settle the score.

Whether it is fighting through entire syndicates for a puppy or surviving a sub-zero wilderness out of sheer spite, here are five legendary revenge movies that turn the old adage “living well is the best revenge” completely on its head.

1 John Wick (2014)

John Wick doesn’t bother with convoluted subplots. Instead, Keanu Reeves glides through neon-lit Russian bathhouses and underground assassin hotels with balletic “gun-fu” precision. It reminds every bad guy on Earth that before you bully an unassuming stranger, you might want to check if he’s the “Baba Yaga” first.

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John Wick (2014)

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Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

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Before this movie came out, action cinema had gotten a bit sluggish. Enter John Wick: a retired hitman who just wanted to grieve his late wife in peace alongside an adorable beagle pup named Daisy. When an entitled mobster’s son breaks into his home, steals his car, and commits the ultimate cinematic cardinal sin of harming the puppy,

2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2003–2004)

Quentin Tarantino took every kung-fu classic, spaghetti western, and anime trope he loved, threw them into a blender, and handed Uma Thurman a custom Hattori Hanzō katana. The Bride wakes up from a four-year coma, wills her toes to move, and immediately drafts a color-coded hit list to take down her former boss/lover, Bill, and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

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An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

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Vol. 1 delivers hyper-stylized Tokyo nightclub brawls in a yellow tracksuit, while Vol. 2 serves up dusty desert shootouts and martial-arts training montages featuring a grumpy bearded master. It is wildly theatrical, violently fun, and arguably the most stylish vendetta ever committed to film.

3 Payback (1999)

Most revenge protagonists want complete world domination or a grand moral reckoning. Porter (Mel Gibson) just wants his exact cut of a robbery: $70,000. Not $140,000, not millions—just seventy grand.

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Payback (1999)

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With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead — or so they…

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Payback is darkly comedic neo-noir drenched in cool blue tones and 1990s attitude. Porter (Gibson) is unapologetically an antihero, but his blue-collar stubbornness makes you root for him.

4 The Revenant (2015)

If you ever need proof that spite is a viable fuel source, Hugh Glass is your man. After surviving a brutal grizzly bear attack in the 1820s wilderness, Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is left behind in a shallow grave by his treacherous comrade John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy).

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The Revenant (2015)

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In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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In this beautifully shot movie, Glass literally crawls across the frozen South Dakota frontier—sleeping inside animal carcasses, braving freezing rapids, and eating raw bison liver—solely to deliver the beating of a lifetime.

5 Oldboy (2003)

Park Chan-wook’s South Korean masterpiece is operatic, unhinged, and totally unforgettable. Oh Dae-su is an ordinary businessman who gets abducted off the street, locked in a bizarre private hotel room for a decade and a half, and fed nothing but fried dumplings.

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Oldboy (2003)

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With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

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This movie features one of cinema’s most famous continuous-shot corridor brawls, Oldboy keeps you hooked right up until a third-act plot twist that will leave your jaw on the living room floor.

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