The revenge film is a thorny subgenre. Many films can be classified as a “revenge film,” but it is perhaps as prone to bleakness, misery, and extreme violence as any film. The revenge is often ...

it's a dish best served cold. There's something so sweet about revenge, and while payback makes you just as bad the person who started it, in the movies things work a little differently.

Despite not boasting widespread recognition in the modern era, The Big Heat remains one of the greatest big-screen revenge stories ever told ... some of the best film noir movies of all time ...