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Revenge (2017 film)
Revenge (2017) is Coralie Fargeat's French rape-revenge thriller debut, starring Matilda Lutz as Jen, who survives an assault by three men in a desert house and hunts them down; premiered at TIFF 2017, released 2018, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Revenge of the Creature
Revenge of the Creature (1955) is Universal-International's 3-D sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed by Jack Arnold, in which the Gill Man is captured and displayed at a Florida marine park; it marks Clint Eastwood's film debut.
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) is a Jeff Kanew college comedy starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards as nerd freshmen fighting the Alpha Beta fraternity at Adams College; a Fox hit grossing over $30 million that spawned sequels and later controversy.
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is a 1987 American comedy sequel directed by Joe Roth, following the Tri-Lambda fraternity to Fort Lauderdale.
Revenge of the Ninja
Revenge of the Ninja is a 1983 Cannon Films martial arts film, the second of the Ninja trilogy, directed by Sam Firstenberg and starring Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki, a former ninja in America whose doll-import business hides a heroin smuggling operation.
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Revenge of the Pink Panther is a 1978 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, the last Pink Panther film starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 Barbet Schroeder drama, from Alan Dershowitz's book, about Claus von Bulow's appeal; Jeremy Irons won the 1991 Best Actor Oscar. The phrase also names academic reversal-of-fortune theses.
Reversion (2025 film)
Reversión (Reversion) is a 2025 Spanish-Dominican psychological thriller directed by Jacob Santana, a remake of the Korean film Forgotten (2017), starring Jaime Lorente and Belén Rueda, released in Spain on 7 November 2025.
Revisionist Western
Revisionist Western: a Western film, TV, or literary mode that subverts classical genre conventions and frontier myth, flourishing in the late 1960s and 1970s amid Vietnam-era upheaval, with films like The Wild Bunch, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Little Big Man, and Unforgiven, and debated by scholars like Barry Langford and Andrew Patrick Nelson.
Revolution (1985 film)
Revolution is a 1985 historical war drama directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Al Pacino as a New York fur trapper drawn into the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary Road (film)
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama directed by Sam Mendes, adapted from Richard Yates's 1961 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as an unhappily married couple.
Revolver (2005 film)
Revolver is a 2005 crime thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as gambler Jake Green, who falls under the protection of two enigmatic loan sharks.
Revolver (리볼버) (2024 film)
Revolver (리볼버) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller directed by Oh Seung-uk, starring Jeon Do-yeon as an ex-police officer seeking a vanished promised payout after a two-year prison term. Released August 7, 2024; won 2025 Baeksang Best Director and Best Actress.
Revolver Rita
Revolver Rita (ரிவால்வர் ரீட்டா), 2025 Tamil black comedy action film by JK Chandru starring Keerthy Suresh; released 28 November 2025, CBFC U/A 16+, ₹4.76 crore gross, streamed on Netflix from 26 December 2025.
Rewind (2023 film)
Rewind (2023) is a Philippine romantic drama directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar, starring Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera; an MMFF 2023 entry that became the highest-grossing Filipino film until Hello, Love, Again.
Rex Reed
Rex Reed (Rex Taylor Reed, 1938–2026), American film critic and celebrity-profile writer for the New York Observer, New York Times, and Vogue; NYFCC member from 1975, author of Do You Sleep in the Nude?, co-host of At the Movies.
Rhea Chakraborty
Rhea Chakraborty (रिया चक्रवर्ती), born 1992 in Bangalore, is an Indian actress and former MTV video jockey. Hindi debut Mere Dad Ki Maruti (2013); later linked to the 2020 Sushant Singh Rajput death case, NCB arrest, and 2020 bail.
Rhinestone (1984 film)
Rhinestone (1984) is a Bob Clark musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, based on "Rhinestone Cowboy." It cost about $28 million, grossed $21.4 million, won two Razzies, and is not streaming.
Rhythm (2000 film)
Rhythm (ரிதம்) is a 2000 Tamil musical romantic drama directed by Vasanth, starring Arjun Sarja and Meena as two widowed strangers in Mumbai, with A. R. Rahman's five-element soundtrack and lyrics by Vairamuthu; released 15 September 2000, it underperformed initially but became a beloved classic.
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson (born 1973, Silver Spring, Maryland) is the American writer-director of Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Knives Out whodunits with Daniel Craig, and creator of Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne.
Rich and Famous (江湖情)
Rich and Famous (江湖情, Gong woo ching, Black Vengeance) is a 1987 Hong Kong triad film directed by Taylor Wong, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, and Alex Man; a prequel to Tragic Hero that earned HK$21,014,608 in Hong Kong.
Rich and Strange
Rich and Strange (aka East of Shanghai) is Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 British International Pictures romantic comedy about a London couple whose inheritance-funded world cruise nearly wrecks their marriage; a box-office failure he later defended.
Rich Flu
Rich Flu (La fiebre de los ricos) is a 2024 Spanish-Chilean satirical sci-fi thriller by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, director of The Platform, in which a virus kills the world's wealthiest people, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Rich Koz
Rich Koz (born 1952, Park Ridge, Illinois) is the American broadcaster and writer who has played horror host Svengoolie since 1979, first as Son of Svengoolie on WFLD and since 1995 on MeTV, winning Chicago Emmys and Rondo Awards.
Richa Chadha (रिचा चड्ढा)
Richa Chadha (रिचा चड्ढा), Indian actress and producer born 1986 in Amritsar; Filmfare Critics Award winner for Gangs of Wasseypur; runs Pushing Buttons Studios with Ali Fazal, makers of Girls Will Be Girls.
Richa Gangopadhyay (রিচা গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়)
Richa Gangopadhyay (রিচা গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়), now Richa Langella, is a former actress in Telugu, Tamil, and Bengali cinema (2010–2013), known for Mayakkam Enna, Leader, and Mirchi, who left films at 27 for an MBA and now runs RL Creative LLC.
Richa Pallod
Richa Pallod (రిచా పల్లోద్), Indian model and actress born 1980 in Mumbai, works across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema; Filmfare Telugu Best Actress 2001 for Nuvve Kavali, active 1991–2015.
Richard Brake
Richard Brake (Richard Colin Brake, born 1964, Ystrad Mynach, Wales) is a Welsh character actor known for Joe Chill in Batman Begins, Doom-Head in 31, the Night King in Game of Thrones, and four Rob Zombie films.
Richard Bright (actor)
Richard James Bright (1937-2006), American character actor known as Al Neri in all three Godfather films; also Panic in Needle Park, Marathon Man, The Sopranos; killed by a bus in Manhattan in 2006.
Richard Bull (actor)
Richard Bull (1924–2014), American character actor, played shopkeeper Nels Oleson in all nine seasons of Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983, 147 episodes) and was the Seaview's doctor on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.