When it comes to narratives, there’s nothing as intriguing as revenge stories. A wronged protagonist sets off on a journey seeking for justice—these kinds of stories just must be humanity’s weak spot. The more tragic, the more drawn we are to the story, and the more satisfying it is when justice is, at last, served.
Forgiveness is often viewed as the ideal behavior, but we can all admit that it isn’t the easiest nor is it the most pleasing. Because people are inherently selfish, people hurt others. But even when others hurt us, the wrongdoers often go unpunished and not all of us can risk everything to devote ourselves to the sole purpose of getting revenge. And so, the tales of others who succeed in punishing the evil are, in a way, a different kind of pleasure and even a consolation of its own sort.
Today, Maimovie ranked the top 10 not just the best, but the best bloodthirsty revenge movies where the protagonist is determined to do whatever it takes, even if it means spilling blood (both others and their own) to achieve their goal—punishing their enemies.
The following list was based on Maimovie on April 05, 2022, under the “blood thirsty” and “revenge” Keytalks. Check out the Maimovie app or website to discover more movies and shows.
2012, 2h 45m
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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1976, 1h 38m
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
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1985, 2h 40m
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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1998, 2h
The Daywalker known as “Blade” – a half-vampire, half-mortal man – becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
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1982, 2h 20m
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
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2011, 2h
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
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1992, 2h 10m
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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2008, 1h 39m
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
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1972, 2h 55m
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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2010, 2h 22m
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
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