Thanks to titles like Death Wish, Taxi Driver, Ms. 45, and Vigilante, the ’70s and ’80s gave us some of the best revenge thrillers of all time. Decades later, a lot of the movies from this era still define what audiences expect from the subgenre, and few films have captured their successes. At that time in cinema, all you really needed was to have one character wronged by someone, typically through an act of violence, and we could sympathize with a protagonist who would go to great lengths to get their revenge.

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