Best Revenge Movies
The best revenge movies ever made, ranked by audience score. The Godfather Part II takes it at 8.6, and the 20 films below prove how much range the premise has — Harakiri, The Punisher: One Last Kill and Léon: The Professional pull it in completely different directions.
20 titles · average score 8.1 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
The Godfather Part II (1974)
★ 8.6 · 14,191 ratingsIn the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
- 2
Harakiri (1962)
★ 8.5 · 1,261 ratingsDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce…
- 3
The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
★ 8.3 · 2,080 ratingsAs Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
- 4
Léon: The Professional (1994)
★ 8.3 · 16,364 ratingsLéon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.…
- 5
Oldboy (2003)
★ 8.2 · 10,087 ratingsWith 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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How this list is ranked
Nothing on this page is hand-picked to hit a word count. We pull films matching this list's criteria from TMDB, require a real audience behind each score, and rank by that score — 20 titles averaging 8.1. The page rebuilds daily, so new releases appear here as soon as enough people have rated them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best revenge movie?
The Godfather Part II (1974) at 8.6, ahead of Harakiri and The Punisher: One Last Kill. All 20 films on this page average 8.1.
How do you find revenge movies?
Through TMDB's keyword tagging, which is maintained by its community and goes far deeper than genre labels — it catches films that share a premise even when they belong to completely different genres.
Is this list updated?
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