Highest-Rated Movies about 'Revenge Murder'

Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Lady Snowblood (1973), Zorba the Greek (1964), A Very Long Engagement (2004), In the Bedroom (2001), The Sicilian Clan (1969), The Nightingale (2018), The Crying Game (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Revenge Murder movies.

#16. The Girl Next Door (2007)

Storyline: In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters, Meg and disabled Susan are placed in the care of their mentally unstable aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, Willie, Ralphie, and Donny the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy, David whose life will be changed forever.

Plot Keywords: physical abuse, bound and gagged, abuse, underage drinking, bondage, torture, teenage girl ...

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#17. Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

Storyline: The story is of a deaf-mute hitman and his partner who are based in Bangkok. He is friends with his partner's girlfriend who is a stripper at a local club. They go about their assassination business as usual as the boss climbs the underworld ladder and forms new alliances. Flashbacks explain how he got to this point in his life. He forms a relationship with a young woman from the pharmacy who is caring and innocent. The hunts continue as treachery begins. A big name hit makes him realize that good people are hurt by his actions. The first rule of assassination closes in on him as he strikes revenge.—Scott, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Plot Keywords: bullying, shot in the chest, shot in the eye, shot in the forehead, shot in the head, shot in the leg, shot in the shoulder ...

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#18. Class of 1984 (1982)

Storyline: There's something strange going on at the graffiti-covered Lincoln High, as teachers are carrying loaded guns, and the students have to walk through a metal detector before they enter the classroom. Before long, the school's new music teacher, Andrew Norris, will learn firsthand that it's even worse than it looks, as the drug-plagued institution is the territory of the charismatic Peter Stegman and his brutal gang of crazed followers. Now, under those dire circumstances, it's only a matter of time before the professor and the pupil lock horns, with unforeseen consequences. But, do drastic times call for drastic measures? In the end, is there a cure for violence?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: high school, punk, city, juvenile delinquency, female nudity, revenge, sadism ...

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#19. Peppermint (2018)

Storyline: An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

Plot Keywords: revenge, vigilante, martial arts, corruption, revenge killing, female protagonist, loss of husband ...

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#20. The Silencing (2020)

Storyline: A reformed hunter now living secluded in a wildlife sanctuary after the disappearance of his teen daughter years ago saves a young girl from being killed by a serial killer but get caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. His path crosses with the town's sheriff who also seem to bring the serial killer to justice after the discovery of a dead body of a teen girl.—Fella_shibby@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: serial killer, hunting, human hunting a human, revenge, sheriff, dead girl, motel ...

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#21. Cold Pursuit (2019)

Storyline: Quiet family man and hard-working snowplow driver Nels is the lifeblood of a glitzy resort town in the Rocky Mountains because he is the one who keeps the winter roads clear. He and his wife live in a comfortable cabin away from the tourists. The town has just awarded him "Citizen of the Year." But Nels has to leave his quiet mountain life when his son is murdered by a powerful drug lord. As a man who has nothing to lose he is stoked by a drive for vengeance. This unlikely hero uses his hunting skills and transforms from an ordinary man into a skilled killer as he sets out to dismantle the cartel. Nels' actions ignite a turf war between a manically unpredictable gangster known as Viking and a rival gang boss. Justice is served in one final spectacular confrontation that will leave (almost) no one unscathed.

Plot Keywords: revenge, black comedy, remake, assassin, gay kiss, drug lord, drug cartel ...

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#22. Willard (2003)

Storyline: This is the story of Willard Stiles who is a social misfit taking care of his ill and fragile but verbally abusive mother Henrietta in a musty old mansion that is also home to a colony of rats. Willard then finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and is eventually fired by his cruel and uncaring boss, Mr. Frank Martin, a vicious man whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one.

Plot Keywords: rat, mental institution, falling from height, fired from the job, employer employee relationship, dead father, animated title sequence ...

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#24. Day of the Woman (1978)

Storyline: The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She rents a riverside cabin in upstate New York to work on her novel, attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals. They catch Jennifer one day and strip her naked for the village idiot (Matthew) and rape her. Jennifer is later attacked and raped a further two times by the four degenerates, and her novel is also destroyed. But Jennifer recovers, and in her now-twisted, psychotic state, she begins to seek revenge on the men.

Plot Keywords: revenge, rape, independent film, woman wearing only a man's shirt, male frontal nudity, small town, cult film ...

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#25. Stitches (2012)

Storyline: The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle goes to the birthday party of little Tom and the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home and the clown revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: kneed in the groin, kneed in the crotch, high heels, soccer ball, accident, stabbed in the back, race against time ...

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#27. The Ward (2010)

Storyline: In 1966, in North Bend, Oregon, the runaway Kristen is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Kristen is introduced to Dr. Gerald Stringer, who uses experimental therapy. Then she meets the inmates Emily, Sarah, Zoey and Iris and the tough nurse Lundt. During the night and in the shower later, Kristen sees the ghost of a woman and she learns that she is Alice Leigh Hudson, a mysterious wicked intern that has disappeared. When Iris is ready to go home, she is attacked by the ghost of Alice in the basement and murdered. She vanishes and the inmates decide to seek Iris out. Then Sarah is abducted by the Alice and also killed; the next one is Emily. Meanwhile Kristen escapes from her room and meets Zoey, expecting to protect her. However, Zoey is kidnapped by Alice and Kristen runs to Dr. Stringer's office. She snoops his desk and finds a report with the truth about Alice.

Plot Keywords: flames, chase, morgue, face slap, back from the dead, lobotomy, female antagonist ...

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#28. Crack House (1989)

Storyline: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

Plot Keywords: gang, blaxploitation, crack cocaine, drug dealer, hispanic, mexican american, revenge murder ...

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#29. The Rhythm Section (2020)

Storyline: Blake Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed in a plane crash. When Stephanie discovers that the crash was not an accident, she enters a dark, complex world to seek revenge on those responsible and find her own redemption. Based on the novel by Mark Burnell, from director Reed Morano ("The Handmaid's Tale") and the producers of the James Bond film series, The Rhythm Section also stars Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown.—Paramount Pictures

Plot Keywords: revenge murder, self justice, vigilante justice, female vigilante, vigilante, traumatized protagonist, vendetta ...

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