10 Best Revenge Movies Of All Time

10. The Revenant - 2015

The old notion that revenge is a dish best served cold is taken to its literal extreme on The Revenant. Set in the wild western frontiers in the early 1800s, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hugh Glass, a skilled guide helping a trapping party hunt for furs in The Dakotas. When DiCaprio is badly mauled by a bear, the party do not expect him to survive. They leave, with the commander of the company asking an experienced older trapper, Fitzgerald, to give DiCaprio a proper burial when he passes away.

DiCaprio's son and another younger member of the party also stay with him. Once the main group have left, Fitzgerald treacherously tries to suffocate DiCaprio so they can get away as quickly as possible. DiCaprio's son sees this and Fitzgerald kills him in front of DiCaprio who is so badly wounded that he is unable to do anything, even to shout out.

Driven by the desire to extract his revenge on Fitzgerald, DiCaprio goes to extreme lengths, performing surgery on himself, hiding inside the carcass of a dead animal and literally dragging himself across snow and ice at times. It is a gruelling task, set against an unforgiving landscape. DiCaprio is equally unforgiving of Fitzgerald. A revenge classic.