Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "seeking-revenge"

1. Road House (1989)

R | 114 min | Action, Thriller

A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a degree in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara

Votes: 100,162 | Gross: $30.05M

2. Promising Young Woman (2020)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be - she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

Director: Emerald Fennell | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown

Votes: 211,511

3. Black Butler (2008–2011)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

Ciel Phantomhive takes care of the many unsettling events in Victorian England. Aided by Sebastian Michaelis, his loyal butler with seemingly inhuman abilities. But is there more to this black-clad butler than meets the eye?

Stars: J. Michael Tatum, Brina Palencia, Michael C. Pizzuto, Monica Rial

Votes: 9,256

4. Red Sonja (1985)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith

Votes: 44,861 | Gross: $6.95M

5. Snake Eyes (2021)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A G.I. Joe spin-off centered around the character of Snake Eyes.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira

Votes: 44,452

6. Redo of Healer (2021)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Keyaru is a healing magician who is sexually abused repeatedly by others. Using his healing magic, he goes back four years into the past to get revenge on the ones who abused him.

Stars: Yuya Hozumi, Ayano Shibuya, Shizuka Ishigami, Natsuki Aikawa

Votes: 5,019

7. Trust (I) (2010)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.

Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke

Votes: 44,005 | Gross: $0.12M

8. Walker: Independence (2022–2023)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Abby Walker's husband is murdered before her eyes. On her quest for revenge, Abby crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, where they encounter residents running from their own pasts.

Stars: Katherine McNamara, Matt Barr, Katie Findlay, Greg Hovanessian

Votes: 3,792

9. I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)

Unrated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Jennifer is still haunted by the memory of being gang raped and almost killed years ago. At her therapist's advice, she joins group therapy and meets similar women. She befriends one and they want more than just talk - justice/vengeance.

Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: Sarah Butler, Jen Landon, Doug McKeon, Gabriel Hogan

Votes: 15,538

10. The Secrets We Keep (I) (2020)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

Director: Yuval Adler | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Jackson Dean Vincent

Votes: 7,269

11. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.

Director: Bo Arne Vibenius | Stars: Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius

Votes: 8,515

12. Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)

R | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After surviving an invasion on her peaceful homeworld, a beautiful avenger must stop a powerful psychopath from gaining immortality and rescue her kidnapped sister.

Directors: Michael Coldewey, Michel Lemire | Stars: Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Pier Paquette

Votes: 9,319

13. Witchfinder General (1968)

Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Horror

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.

Director: Michael Reeves | Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark

Votes: 12,208

14. M.F.A. (2017)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist. An unlikely vigilante emerges, set out to avenge college girls whose attackers walked free.

Director: Natalia Leite | Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Clifton Collins Jr., Leah McKendrick, Peter Vack

Votes: 7,443

15. Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A kick boxer is out to avenge his brother.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Dave Bautista, Alain Moussi, Gina Carano, Jean-Claude Van Damme

Votes: 12,153

16. Badlapur (2015)

Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raghu begins walking a fine line between good and evil as he exacts violent revenge on two criminals who killed his family 15 years ago.

Director: Sriram Raghavan | Stars: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi

Votes: 25,829 | Gross: $0.37M

17. Underworld: Endless War (2011)

18 min | Animation, Short, Action

Follows Selene across 3 separate periods in history as she hunts a group of Lycan brothers.

Stars: Laura Harris, Trevor Devall, Paul Dobson, Mark Oliver

Votes: 1,852

18. The Man from Laramie (1955)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Western

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell

Votes: 12,003

19. The Illustrated Man (1969)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins

Votes: 3,460

20. Peter Pan (1924)

105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.

Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali, Esther Ralston

Votes: 1,260 | Gross: $0.63M

21. On Dangerous Ground (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper

Votes: 8,059

22. Faceless (1988)

98 min | Horror, Thriller

When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum

Votes: 1,833

23. Riding Shotgun (1954)

Passed | 73 min | Western

When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 1,381 | Gross: $1.40M

24. Chill Factor (1999)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A new biological chemical weapon that explodes up to temperatures over fifty degrees Fahrenheit, falls into the hands of two men who try to make sure that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.

Director: Hugh Johnson | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer

Votes: 10,101 | Gross: $11.23M

25. The Killing Kind (1973)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.

Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders

Votes: 1,263

26. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,157

27. Frankenstein (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

When a detective begins investigating a series of horrific murders, she is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.

Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann, Adam Goldberg

Votes: 2,031

28. Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014)

Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama

A period action film centered on a militia group who turn against an unjust nobility.

Director: Yoon Jong-bin | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Gang Dong-won, Lee Sung-min, Cho Jin-woong

Votes: 3,873 | Gross: $0.28M

29. Koziyat rog (1972)

R | 105 min | Drama

The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view ... See full summary »

Director: Metodi Andonov | Stars: Katya Paskaleva, Anton Gorchev, Milen Penev, Todor Kolev

Votes: 2,841

30. Acolytes (2008)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Three teenagers blackmail a serial killer.

Director: Jon Hewitt | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory, Hanna Mangan Lawrence

Votes: 2,482

31. The Secret 6 (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama

After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.

Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow

Votes: 1,049

32. Counter Investigation (2007)

Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Thriller

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.

Director: Franck Mancuso | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lucas, Agnès Blanchot, Aurélien Recoing

Votes: 3,751

33. The Goddess of 1967 (2000)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Distraught Japanese businessman obsessed with Citroën DS (French car brand nicknamed Goddess) and a troubled blind 17-year-old Aussie girl who promised to sell him one drive through the Australian Outback to kill her abusive grandfather.

Director: Clara Law | Stars: Rose Byrne, Rikiya Kurokawa, Nicholas Hope, Elise McCredie

Votes: 1,936

34. The Contractor (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Elizabeth Chase is busy remodeling her new home with her husband and daughter. She hires a contractor, Javier, to help. But soon, Elizabeth starts to grow suspicious of Javier and learns that he'd targeted the family all along.

Director: Sean Olson | Stars: Danny Trejo, Christina Cox, Brad Rowe, Taylor Spreitler

Votes: 747

35. Martingale (2024)

Crime

A crafty casino security officer is swallowed up by the seedy underworld of her small town as she searches for the man who allegedly raped and killed her teenage daughter.

Director: Jeremy Berg | Stars: William Shockley, Kelly Sullivan, Konstantin Melikhov, Courtney Carl

Votes: 12

36. A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)

100 min | Comedy, Western

Two drifters meet and soon become travelling companions. But one of them, Tim (Gemma), is being chased by a crazed killer and his band of gunmen to settle an old score. The two (Adore being... See full summary »

Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka, Federico Boido

Votes: 625

37. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)

107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii

Votes: 1,388

38. Almost Mercy (2015)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror

Jackson and Emily aren't like the other kids. Two burgeoning sociopaths on the brink of total meltdown. Ticking time bombs seeking revenge. Who will unravel first?

Director: Tom DeNucci | Stars: Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Nick Principe, Ian Lyons

Votes: 1,176

39. Black Fox: Good Men and Bad (1995 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Western

A man seeks revenge on the bigot who shot his wife to death in 1860s Texas.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kim Coates, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey

Votes: 226

40. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991 Video Game)

T | Action, Sci-Fi

Ryu, Ken and a roster of six international newcomers compete to get the chance to take on the evil dictator M. Bison, the leader of the Shadaloo organization, who plans to brainwash the best fighters to work in his organization.

Star: Johnpaul Williams

Votes: 1,897

41. Revenge! (1971 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman, Carol Eve Rossen

Votes: 180

42. Viva! Django (1971)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western

Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.

Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Stelio Candelli, Glauco Onorato, Donato Castellaneta

Votes: 583

43. Sexcapade in Mexico (1973)

X | 78 min | Drama

A young girl and her boyfriend go on a trip to Mexico, but are kidnapped by three thugs and taken to a mountain cabin.

Director: William De Diego | Stars: Cynthia Thornell, Steven Johnson, Shannon Cooper, Louis Ojena

Votes: 43

44. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Action platformer for SNES, Sega Genesis and Sega CD based on Kenneth Branagh's movie of the same name. The game starts Frankenstein's monster seeking revenge against his creator. The plot is conveyed through still images and text.

Votes: 17

45. Grave Vengeance (2015)

109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Western

The world economy has collapsed. Governments and society have crumbled. Bill Walker is a man on a mission. He is hunting raiders that murdered his family and left him for dead. This is his quest for revenge, His Grave Vengeance.

Director: George Demick | Stars: Thom Booton, Nick Faust, Sarah Murphree, Catherine Curtis

46. The Nude Body Case in Tokyo (1981)

81 min | Crime, Thriller

Learning of childhood friend Meihua's death, Lingling goes to Japan to find Meihua's sister, Meifeng. Brutal gangsters demand Lingling return an item Meihua stole, and hold Meifeng hostage. Old friends help Lingling confront the gang.

Director: Yang-Ming Tsai | Stars: Hui-Shan Yang, Te-Kai Liu, Sha Ma, Emily Y. Chang

Votes: 46

47. Oi batsoi poulane tin iroini (1989 Video)

Crime

Officer Georgiou is transfered from Evros to Athens. When the drug smugglers rape and kill his wife and daughter, he goes after bloody revenge by shooting the guilty ones in the genitals!

Director: Dimitris Tzelas | Stars: Kostas Karagiorgis, Anna Tsoga, Roula Stergiou, Mimis Thiopoulos

Votes: 29

48. Pertarungan Iblis Merah (1988)

85 min | Action

After his wife and servant are raped and murdered by past criminal associates who also steal his treasure map, Markoni sets out for revenge.

Director: Denny H.W. | Stars: Aznah Hamid, Barry Prima, Baharuddin Haji Omar, Advent Bangun

49. Appartement à vendre (2015)

12 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A female real estate agent shows an apartment to two young men. The visit should have been like any other one, but the men have other expectations.

Director: Jeanne Tachan | Stars: Julie Méjean, Aurélien Gilles, Sydney Karsenti

Votes: 51

50. Pi li da niu (1982)

86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.

Director: Yao-Chi Chen | Stars: Hsia Yin, Alan Tam, Pauline Yuk-Wan Wong, Lun Hua

Votes: 16