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Rape and revenge films (rape/revenge) are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s. Rape/revenge movies generally follow the same three act structure: Act I: A woman is raped/gang raped, tortured, and left for dead. Act II: The woman survives and rehabilitates herself.
Nov 3, 2008 · In an era of rapidly increasing sexual freedom (and rapidly lowering social stigma for women who chose not to remain blushing virgins until the wedding day), Fatal Attraction sounded a shrill ...
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Feb 20, 2024 · Five years ago, Nicolas Cage starred in Vengeance: A Love Story, an adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novella Rape: A Love Story. Cage plays John Dromoor, a police officer investigating a case...
- Kill Bill: Volume 1
- A Vigilante
- Promising Young Woman
- The Brave One
- The First Wives Club
- Lady Vengeance
- 9 to 5
- Hard Candy
- Jennifer's Body
- Carrie
The start to a trilogy of films unapologetically devoted to one woman's revenge, Kill Bill: Volume 1 is the story of an assassin known as The Bride, whose wedding day was destroyed by her jealous ex-lover. He was responsible for not only the wedding, but the death of her unborn child, and his bloodshed put her in a coma for four years. When she awa...
A Vigilante features Olivia Wilde as you've never seen her before - cold, calculating, and incredibly violent. She stars as a woman who's been the victim of domestic abuse in all the worst ways, and vows to never again let her (or anyone else) experience the same. Once word of her exploits spread, women, men, and children come to her for her patent...
Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie in Promising Young Woman, about a young woman who had a promising career in medicine ahead of her, before a traumatic event involving her best friend forced her to drop out of medical school and work at a coffee shop. RELATED: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 5 Times Xander Was A Nice Guy (And 5 Times He Was A "Nice Guy") Ba...
Like a gender-swapped Death Wish with superior acting, The Brave Oneshowcases the toll that violence takes on a person who isn't accustomed to being its perpetrator. Jodie Foster stars as a woman who is the only survivor of an attack while on a stroll in the park with her boyfriend. RELATED: The 10 Best Movie Hitmen, Ranked While processing her gri...
There aren't any gunfights, shootouts, or martial arts in this film, but with the charisma of the three leads, there's no need for that sort of over-the-top theatricality. It features the talents of Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn as three first wives who've had enough of their ex-husband's foolishness. When one of their friends commits...
When a woman, Lee Geum-ja (Lee Yeong-ae), goes to prison for kidnapping and killing children, she spends 13 years behind bars away from her young daughter. She fantasizes about getting her revenge by killing the police officer who forced her confession as well as the teacher who put her away. RELATED: The 10 Best Revenge Movies, Ranked Part of Park...
A classic screwball revenge comedy from the '80s, starring the comedic talents of Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda, 9 to 5 somehow makes the act of taking vengeance on one's surly, sexist boss seem like a maniacal fever dream full of laughs. In fact it is as three secretaries, long since taken for granted by their chauvinistic overlord, de...
What begins as a precocious teenager named Haley (Ellen Page) meeting a photographer in a coffee shop (Patrick Wilson) turns concerning when he invites her back to his house. What he doesn't know, is Haley is fully aware of his vile intentions, and is plotting to secure his confession. RELATED: 10 Twisted Thrillers To Watch If You Like Shutter Isla...
Megan Fox stars as a true "man eater", a Homecoming Queen idolized for her looks and objectified for her body in a movie that many are saying was ahead of its time. It highlights issues of misogyny and chauvinism within the genre of slasher horror without feeling preachy. When Jennifer gets possessed by a demon, she gets a true taste for human fles...
In the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's classic horror novel, Sissy Spacek plays Carrie White, a shy girl from an overly religious household who isn't well liked at school. As she struggles not to break under the verbal abuse from both classmates and her mother, bizarre occurrences make her realize that she may have supernatural powers. RELATED: 1...
Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.
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Apr 29, 2014 · We present a dozen movies, from Hollywood, France and South Korea, that treat the vengeful-woman theme with fondness or dread, as comedy, melodrama or stark tragedy.
