A Dish Best Served Cold: Revenge Cinema

By: Elric

“Revenge is a confession of pain” – Latin Proverb

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening” – Alfred Hitchcock

“Revenge proves its own executioner.” – John Ford

Missing:
Walking Tall

• 01
  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  Sam Peckinpah
• 02
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 03
  The Virgin Spring
  Ingmar Bergman
• 04
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 05
  Coffy
  Jack Hill
• 06
  Death Wish
  Michael Winner
• 07
  Get Carter
  Mike Hodges
• 08
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 09
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 10
  The Unknown
  Tod Browning
• 11
  Cape Fear
  J. Lee Thompson
• 12
  Vigilante
  William Lustig
• 13
  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  John Cassavetes
• 14
  Hamlet
  Michael Almereyda
• 15
  The Long Goodbye
  Robert Altman
• 16
  Carrie
  Brian De Palma
• 17
  The Hit
  Stephen Frears
• 18
  Straw Dogs
  Sam Peckinpah
• 19
  The Long Good Friday
  John Mackenzie
• 20
  The Limey
  Steven Soderbergh
• 21
  Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 22
  Sonatine
  Takeshi Kitano
• 23
  Hardcore
  Paul Schrader
• 24
  Thriller: A Cruel Picture
  Bo Arne Vibenius
• 25
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 26
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 27
  Three Colors: White
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 28
  The Tracker
  Rolf de Heer
• 29
  Cape Fear
  Martin Scorsese
• 30
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 31
  The Man Who Laughs
  Paul Leni
• 32
  King of New York
  Abel Ferrara
• 33
  The Last House on the Left
  Wes Craven
• 34
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 35
  Scum
  Alan Clarke
• 36
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 37
  I Spit on Your Grave
  Meir Zarchi
• 38
  The Descent
  Neil Marshall
• 39
  Ms. 45
  Abel Ferrara
• 40
  Born from Pain
  Alex & Niko
• 41
  One-Eyed Jacks
  Marlon Brando
• 42
  Duck Amuck
  Chuck Jones
• 43
  Taken
  Pierre Morel
• 44
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 45
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 46
  Sleuth
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 47
  Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  Quentin Tarantino
• 48
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 49
  V for Vendetta
  James McTeigue
• 50
  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  Nicholas Meyer
• 51
  Hard Candy
  David Slade
• 52
  Mad Max
  George Miller
• 53
  Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• 54
  Friday the 13th
  Sean S. Cunningham
• 55
  Desperado
  Robert Rodriguez
• 56
  Léon: The Professional
  Luc Besson
• 57
  Batman
  Tim Burton
• 58
  The Crow
  Alex Proyas
• 59
  Gladiator
  Ridley Scott
• 60
  Titus
  Julie Taymor
• 61
  Lady Snowblood
  Toshiya Fujita
• 62
  Sleepers
  Barry Levinson
• 63
  Dangerous Liaisons
  Stephen Frears
• 64
  The Outlaw Josey Wales
  Clint Eastwood
• 65
  Extreme Prejudice
  Walter Hill
• 66
  Harry Brown
  Daniel Barber
• 67
  Edge of Darkness
  Martin Campbell
• 68
  The Count of Monte Cristo
  Rowland V. Lee
• 69
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 70
  The Brave One
  Neil Jordan
• 71
  Blue Steel
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 72
  One Deadly Summer
  Jean Becker
• 73
  Death Rides a Horse
  Giulio Petroni
• 74
  Hobo with a Shotgun
  Jason Eisener
• 75
  I Spit on Your Grave
  Steven R. Monroe
• 76
  Lady Vengeance
  Park Chan-wook
• 77
  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  Park Chan-wook
• 78
  The Bride Wore Black
  François Truffaut
• 79
  Katalin Varga
  Peter Strickland
• 80
  Straw Dogs
  Rod Lurie
• 81
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke