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Plot Summary:
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexual, sexy
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Manrape (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman who has been raped by a work colleague plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
The Big Snatch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Guy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 80%
Gina (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
Similar in 84%
Naked Vengeance (1985)
Plot Summary:
Carla Harris, a beautiful but not so successful actress from L.A., witnesses how her husband is tragically killed in an attempt to save a woman from her male attacker. She travels to her parents' home in a small town in the mountains to get some rest only to be repeatedly harassed by redneck locals and a teenager. The local sheriff refuses to help and so it all ends up in a gang rape and with Carla's parents shot dead. Carla survives and escapes from the mental hospital to seek bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 87%
Buster and Billie (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 82%
Beyond the Law (1987)
Plot Summary:
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: crying
Similar in 89%
Dirty Weekend (1993)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, grim, independent film
Similar in 81%
East End Hustle (1976)
Plot Summary:
Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, cult film
Similar in 86%
Act of Revenge (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
Similar in 77%
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Plot Summary:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: social, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, southern gothic, crime drama, black cinema
Similar in 84%
Girls Are for Loving (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two women who like control face each other in a battle over jealousy and weaknesses. The US is about to sign a trade treaty with an Asian country; in exchange for friendly relations, the US will loan the Asians money to purchase US goods under contract. Evil siren Ronnie St. Clair tries various ways to find out which US companies will get these contracts, so that she can do some inside trading to make money on the stock market. The CIA hires gun-carrying, man-eating chanteuse and stripper, Ginger MacAllister, to put a stop to Miss St. Clair’s plan. Ginger and her CIA contact, Clay Boyer, an African-American, are attracted to each other. Will they live to ignite this spark?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
Similar in 77%
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)
Plot Summary:
A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, disturbing, touching, rough, suspense, crying, tension
Similar in 76%
A Gun for Jennifer (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman comes to New York City from Ohio to escape an abusive husband and gets entangled with murderous female vigilantes who prey on abusive men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 84%
Hannie Caulder (1971)
Plot Summary:
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, psychotronic, funny, perverse, cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Cry Rape (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
Similar in 84%
Lipstick (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, action thriller, spooky, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Straightheads (2007)
Plot Summary:
There is instant chemistry between Alice (Gillian Anderson), a businesswoman, and Adam (Danny Dyer), a younger working-class man who installs a security system in her London apartment. She takes him to a party in the country, and they end up making love. But the night turns horrific when they encounter three thugs who maim Adam and rape Alice. The incident turns them into fearful recluses until Alice spots the leader of their attackers (Anthony Calf) -- and the two victims plot a brutal revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak, erotic, suspense, sensual, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
The Lost Choices (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young women is raped while on her way home. When she is rejected by the police, because they don't believe her, she sets out revenge. But not only on her rapist, but also the police and everybody who did not believe her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Scared Silent (2002)
Plot Summary:
When the newlywed wife of a Minnesota police chief accuses a new officer on his force of raping her several years earlier, it sets the stage for a tense confrontation in this riveting story. Penelope Ann Miller and Reed Diamond star as Kathy and Doug Clifson, a hard-working couple whose lives are torn apart when a new officer, John McCrane, joins the force. Kathy recognizes him as the man who raped her when she was a teenager, and while other women soon come forward saying that McCrane also raped them, the police force closes ranks to protect one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic
Similar in 78%
Elle (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, erotic, psychological, controversial, intense, stylized, suspense, cult classic, psychological thriller
Similar in 86%
Breaking Point (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
The Accused (1988)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, poignant, thought provoking, compassionate, tense, rough, controversial, captivating, emotional
Similar in 89%
A Woman's Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her mother, a thirty-something woman discovers she was conceived through rape and vows revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 83%
The Funeral (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film, philosophical, hood, tense, rough, clever, serious, captivating
Similar in 75%
Straw Dogs (1971)
Plot Summary:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, bloody, dark
Similar in 85%
Sleepers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological, brutal, intense, emotional
Similar in 81%
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, detective, rough, bleak, serious
Similar in 78%
Death Wish (1974)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: controversial, disturbing, tense, grindhouse, intense, cult classic, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir
Similar in 81%
A Time to Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, sincere, suspense, serious, political, realistic, tense, brutal, intense, emotional
Similar in 89%
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot Summary:
A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, depressing, serious, realistic