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maggiem's "Revenge Films"

Revenge films are one of my favorite subgenre of films. The plot is always simple: get back at those who’ve hurt you. Most of the films add a word of caution about becoming as evil as those you are hunting, like Bergman’s Virgin Spring. Other films are simply overblown celebrations of vengeance and virility, like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish series. Some movies on this list aren’t straight-up revenge films but are included because of the strong vengeance theme or moral (example: Wild Things, The Ox-Bow Incident).

Any I missed? Please leave them in the comments!

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1. The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
 
2. Lady Snowblood
by Toshiya Fujita
 
3. The Last House on the Left
by Wes Craven
 
4. Death Wish
by Michael Winner
 
5. The Searchers
by John Ford
 
6. I Spit on Your Grave
by Meir Zarchi
 
7. Ms. 45  
8. Chato's Land
by Michael Winner
 
9. The Bad Sleep Well - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
 
10. Thriller - A Cruel Picture  
11. Unforgiven
by Clint Eastwood
 
12. The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Greengrass
 
13. Hannie Caulder [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
by Burt Kennedy
 
14. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
by Chan-wook Park
 
15. Lady Vengeance
by Chan-wook Park
 
16. Oldboy
by Chan-wook Park
 
17.
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The Black Cat (1934)
by Edgar G. Ulmer
 
18. Point Blank
by John Boorman
 
19. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
by Mike Hodges
 
20. The Ox-Bow Incident
by William A. Wellman
 
21. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (Box Set)
by Quentin Tarantino
 
22. Straw Dogs - Criterion Collection
by Sam Peckinpah
 
23.
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Crank
by Brian Taylor
 
24. Man on Fire
by Tony Scott
 
25. The Quick and the Dead
by Sam Raimi
 
26. Cape Fear
by J. Lee Thompson
 
27. Memento  
28. Sin City  
29. Desperado
by Robert Rodriguez
 
30. Mad Max
by George Miller (II)
 
31. The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series)
by Alex Proyas
 
32. Foxy Brown
by Jack Hill
 
33. Once Upon a Time in the West
by Sergio Leone
 
34. Braveheart  
35. Coffy
by Jack Hill
 
36. Titus
by Julie Taymor
 
37. Get Carter
by Mike Hodges
 
38. The Limey  
39. Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
40. Hamlet
by Michael Almereyda
 
41. For A Few Dollars More  
42. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
by Sam Peckinpah
 
43.
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Irréversible
by Gaspar Noé
 
44. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
by Robert Fuest
 
45. Pumpkinhead
by Stan Winston
 
46.
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Savage Streets
by Danny Steinmann
 
47.
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Bury Me an Angel
by Barbara Peeters
 
48. Valdez is Coming
by Edwin Sherin
 
49. Five Fingers of Death
by Chang-hwa Jeong
 
50. Bloodsport
by Newt Arnold
 
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Created by maggiem on Nov 03, 2006.