The 15 Greatest Revenge Movies, Ranked

There's nothing more satisfying than a good revenge flick. When someone believes they're wronged in movies, it's their duty to get justice, even if that means leaving a pile of dead bodies along the way. But what are the best revenge films of all time? We narrowed down the 15 greatest, based on their Metacritic ratings. Let's check them out, starting with the best.

Disclosure: Metacritic is a CBS Interactive website, GameSpot's parent company.

The Bride returns on her mission to find and kill her former lover, Bill: the man that left her for dead on her wedding day. However, she has to go through a few of her former associates to get to him.

Metacritic Score: 83

In this dark and horrifying musical, Benjamin Barker returns to London under the guise of Sweeney Todd. He wants to get revenge on a judge who falsely accused him of a crime, which caused Todd to lose custody of his child.

Metacritic Score: 83

In the town of Big Whisky, a prostitute is attacked and cut up by some cowboys. The women put a bounty on the cowboys, and a group men come together to help them out.

Metacritic Score: 82

Django, a freed slave, teams up with a German bounty hunter in order to find and free Django's wife, who is in the custody of a plantation owner named Calvin Candie.

Metacritic Score: 81

Small town diner owner, Tom Stall, stops a robber and becomes a celebrity for his actions. This catches the attention of a man who thinks Tom is someone that wronged him in the past, who refuses to leave Tom alone.

Metacritic Score: 81

A man with no short-term memory is on the search for the person who killed his wife, which is the last thing he can remember.

Metacritic Score: 80

Rooster Cogburn, a U.S. Marshall, is hired by a teenager hunt down her father's killer. This is a remake of the 1969 John Wayne classic film of the same name.

Metacritic Score: 80

The children of Elm Street are being hunted down, one-by-one by a man with a burnt face. However, he only kills them while they're asleep.

MetaCritic Score: 78

John Wick returns after being forced out of retirement, again, by the assassins guild. This time, he's off to Rome to seek vengeance. Check out our review roundup for John Wick 2.

Metacritic Score: 75

A woman is falsely imprisoned for 13 years for the death of a young boy. With the help of other inmates, she goes on the hunt for the person responsible for the boy's death.

Metacritic Score: 75

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, 11 Israel athletes were killed. The film--based on true events--follows five men on a mission to track down those responsible for the deaths.

Metacritic Score: 74

Chan-wook Park's most famous film follows Dae-Su, who is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years. When he gets out, he tries to hunt down the person responsible for his stolen life. Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance--all directed by Park--are called The Vengeance Trilogy.

Metacritic Score: 74

A remake of the 1962 film, Robert DeNiro stars as Max Cady, a convicted rapist who seeks revenge on his public defender, 14 years after he was sent to prison.

Metacritic Score: 73

Terrance Stamp plays an ex-con from England who travels to Los Angeles to hunt down the man he thinks is responsible for his daughter's death.

Metacritic Score: 73

Leonardo DiCaprio plays a young man who seeks vengeance against The Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis), who killed his father during a violent gang war in mid-1800's Manhattan.

Metacritic Score: 72