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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
36 films tagged revenge
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
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2000 · Thriller
A man who can no longer form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. The scenes run in reverse order, so at the start of each one you know as little as he does.
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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2013 · Thriller
A man living out of his car hears that the person who killed his parents is being let out of prison, and drives home to do something about it. Very little talking, and he is not good at any of it.
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2000 · Action
A master swordsman hands over his famous blade to be retired, and it is stolen the same night by someone who fights as well as he does. Wire-work fights over rooftops, with a lot of longing in between.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Action
A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.
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2012 · Action
A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.
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2011 · Crime
A Hollywood stunt driver takes getaway jobs at night and keeps himself to himself, until his neighbour's husband comes home from prison. Long quiet stretches, then sudden and very hard violence.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2024 · Action
A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2011 · Action
A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Action
John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.
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2010 · Action
A comic-obsessed teenager buys a wetsuit online and starts patrolling his neighbourhood as a superhero, which goes about as well as you would expect. Very violent, and going for laughs throughout.
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2003 · Action
A woman wakes from a coma and starts working through a list of the people who put her there, beginning in a suburban kitchen and ending in a Tokyo nightclub. Huge fights, chapters out of order.
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2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
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2016 · Thriller
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.
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2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
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2013 · Thriller
Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.
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2020 · Thriller
A woman in her thirties who walked out of medical school spends her nights pretending to be too drunk to stand, to see what men do next. Bright colours, pop songs, and a mean sense of humour.
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2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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2012 · Action
A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2013 · Action
The life of Ip Man, the martial arts teacher who later taught Bruce Lee, told through the men he fought and the woman he could not have. The fights are slowed down and shot in the rain.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Thriller
An assassin waits in an empty Paris office for a target, and when the job goes wrong he sets about the people who sent him. Chapter by chapter, with his voice in your ear the whole way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Horror
A heart surgeon has taken a teenage boy under his wing, and the boy starts turning up wherever the surgeon's family happens to be. Everyone speaks flatly on purpose, and it builds slowly.
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2006 · Mystery
Two London stage magicians fall out after an accident and spend years trying to work out and wreck each other's best trick. Told in pieces, out of order, out of the two men's notebooks.
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2015 · Adventure
A fur trapper in the American wilderness of the 1820s is mauled by a bear and left behind by his party, and starts crawling back. Long, cold, nearly wordless, and shot in daylight and snow.
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2016 · Drama
A Tehran couple rehearsing a stage production of Death of a Salesman move into a new flat, where something happens to the wife one evening and the husband sets out to find who was responsible. Quiet and slow, and built almost entirely out of arguments.
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2011 · Thriller
A plastic surgeon works alone at his country estate on a new kind of skin, watching the woman he keeps locked upstairs on a screen. Cold and controlled, and it jumps back in time about halfway.
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2017 · Drama
Months after her daughter's murder goes unsolved, a woman rents three billboards outside her town to ask the police chief why. Angry, funny in a mean way, and full of shouting.
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2018 · Science fiction
A man left paralysed after an attack is offered an experimental chip that gets him walking again, and the chip turns out to have opinions of its own. It is short, fast and very violent.
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2014 · Comedy
Six separate stories from Argentina about people who reach the end of their patience and act on it. Each runs about twenty minutes, and each one escalates further than you expect.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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