Films Containing Themes or Major Scenes of Gender Violence
Compiled by Claire N Kaplan
Updated 5/11/12
Narrative films (fiction):
1.
Accused, The (1988) • Dir: Jonathan Kaplan
2.
Affliction (1997) ) • Dir: Paul Schrader
3.
AmericanBeauty (1999) • Dir: Sam Mendes
4.
Basic Instinct (1992) • Dir: Paul Verhoeven
5.
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) • Dir: Anjelica Houston
6.
Beauty and the Beast (Disney version)
7.
Blue Velvet (1986) • Dir: David Lynch
8.
Born in Flames (1983) • Dir: Lizzie Borden
9.
Boys Don’t Cry (1999) • Dir: Kimberly Peirce
10.
Burning Bed, The (TV) (1984) • Dir: Robert Greenwald
11.
Cape Fear (1992 version) • Dir: Martin Scorsese (plus the original directed by Lee J. Thompson and starring
Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum)
12.
Carousel (1956) • Dir: Henry King
13.
Chicken Run (animated 2000) • Dir: Peter Lord & Nick Park
14.
Chinatown (1974) • Dir: Roman Polanski
15.
Clockwork Orange, A (1971) • Dir: Stanley Kubrick
16.
Color Purple, The (1985) • Dir: Stephen Spielberg
17.
Crimes of the Heart (1986) • Dir: Bruce Beresford
18.
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) • Dir: Blake Edwards
19.
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) • Dir: Frank Perry
20.
Enough (2002) • Dir: Michael Apted
21.
Extremities (1986) • Dir: Robert M. Young
22.
Fatal Attraction (1987) • Dir: Adrian Lyne
23.
Fear • Dir: James Foley
24.
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) • Dir: Jon Avnet
25.
Gaslight (1944) • Dir: George Cukor
26.
Gone with the Wind (1939) • Dir: Victor Fleming
27.
Great Santini, The (1979) • Dir: Lewis John Carlino
28.
Hans Christian Anderson (1952) • Dir: Charles Vidor
29.
Higher Learning (1995) • Dir: John Singleton
30.
Jagged Edge (1985) • Dir: Richard Marquand
31.
Joy Luck Club, The (1993) • Wayne Wang
32.
Jury of Her Peers, A (1980) Short film (30 minutes) • Dir: Sally Heck
33.
Killer Inside Me, The (2010) • Dir: Michael Winterbottom
34.
Independence Day (1983) • Dir: Robert Mandel
35.
La Strada
(1954) Dir: Federico Fellini
36.
Mad Max (1983) Dir: George Miller
37.
Mi Vida Loca
(1995) • Dir: Allison Anders
38.
Mona Lisa (1986) Dir: Neil Jordan
39.
Monster (2003) • Dir: Patty Jenkins
40.
Natural Born Killers (1994) • Dir: Oliver Stone
41.
North Country (2005) • Dir: Niki Caro
42.
Nuts (1987) • Dir: Martin Ritt
43.
Oklahoma! (1955) • Dir: Fred Zinnemann
44.
Oliver! (1968) • Dir: Carol Reed
45.
Once Were Warriors (1994) • Dir: Lee Tamahori
46.
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) • Dir: Sergio Leone
47.
Osaka Elegy • Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
48.
Piano, The (1993) • Dir: Jane Campion
49.
Pixote : a lei do mais fraco
(2001) • Dir: Hector Babenco
50.
Prince of Tides, The (1991) • Dir: Barbra Streisand
51.
Question of Silence, A [De stilte rond Cristine M.] (1982)
• Dir: Marleen Goris
52.
Precious (2010) • Dir: Lee Daniels
53.
Pulp Fiction (1996) • Dir: Quentin Tarantino
54.
Raging Bull (1980) • Dir: Martin Scorsese
55.
Rashomon
(1950) • Dir: Akira Kurosawa
56.
Real Women Have Curves (2002) • Dir: Patricia Cardozo
57.
Shame (1987) • Dir: Steve Jodrell
58.
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) • Dir: Frank Darabont
59.
Shoot the Moon (1987) • Dir: Alan Parker
60.
Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) • Dir: Joseph Ruben
61.
Straw Dogs (1981) • Dir: Sam Peckinpah
62.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) • Dir: Elia Kazan
63.
Sudden Impact (1983) • Dir: Clint Eastwood
64.
Taming of the Shrew (various versions)
65.
Te
doy mis ojos) • Dir:
Iciar Bollain
66.
Tess (1979) • Dir: Roman Polanski
67.
Thelma and Louise (1991) • Dir: Ridley Scott
68.
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991) • Dir: Nancy Kelly
69.
Time to Kill, A (1996) • Dir: Joel Schumacher
70.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) • Dir: Robert Mulligan
71.
Two Women [La Ciociara] (1960) • Dir: Vittorio De Sica
72.
Unforgiven (1992) • Dir: Clint Eastwood
73.
War of the Roses, The (1991) • Dir: Danny De Vito
74.
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993) • Dir: Brian Gibson
75.
Wild At Heart (1990) • Dir: David Lynch
76.
Wide Sargasso Sea, The (1993) • Dir: John Duigan
77.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl) • Dir: Joan Chen
78.
Any and all horror films (old and new)
Documentaries
1.
Against My Will • Dir: Ayfer Ergun (First Run / Icarus Films)
2.
Awful Normal (2004) • Dir: Celesta Davis (Cinequest)
3.
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (2004) • Dir: Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
4.
Brandon Teena Story, The (1998) • Dir: Susan Muska and Gréta Olafsdóttir
5.
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004) • Dir: Petr Lom (First Run / Icarus Films)
6.
Crimes of Honour • Dir:
Shelley Saywell (First Run / Icarus Films)
7.
Cruel and Unusual (2006) • Dir: Janet Baus; Dan Hunt; Reid Williams
8.
Defending Our Lives (1993) • Dir: Margaret Lazarus (Cambridge Doc. Films)
9.
Deliver Us From Evil (2006) • Dir: Amy Berg
10.
Domestic Violence (2001) • Frederick Wiseman
11.
Dreamworlds (200) • Dir: Sut Jhally
12.
Game Over: Gender, Race and Violence in Video Games (2002) • Media Education Foundation
13.
Gift of a Girl (1997) •
Jo Smith; Mayyasa Al-Malazi
14.
Hidden Victims: Children of Domestic Violence (2000)
15.
House on Fire (1998) • Dir: Diane Best
16.
Human Touch: Pain and Power (1995)
• Dir: Vejan Lee Smith (Third World Newsreel)
17.
Killing Us Softly (3): Advertising’s Image of Women (2002) • Media Education Foundation
18.
Murderer or Murdered (2004) • Dir:
Mahvash Sheikholeslami
19.
No! The Documentary (2005) • Dir: Aishah Shahidah Simmons (California Newsreel)
20.
Rape Is… (2002) • Dir: Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich (Cambridge Doc. Films)
21.
Rape Stories () • Dir: Margie Strosser
22.
Searching for Angela Shelton (2004) • Dir: Angela Shelton
23.
Senorita Extraviada,
Missing Young Woman (2001) • Dir: Lourdes Portillo (Women Make Movies)
