# Rape Film...(festival? Can I have a better word, please?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268 "2013-05-13T22:24:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/21 "2013-05-14T21:28:05Z")
Preminger’s [Anatomy of a Murder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052561/) pushed the envelope back in 1959. Not just concerning rape, but all sorts of previously taboo topics. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/22 "2013-05-15T00:59:01Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > That Michael J Fox Vietnam film **Casualties of War** ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/23 "2013-05-15T01:05:40Z")
The Accused Straw Dogs (original and remake) Pulp Fiction Rob Roy ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/24 "2013-05-15T01:12:05Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Pulp Fiction I had to think for a minute to remember the rape in **Pulp Fiction**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/25 "2013-05-15T01:18:04Z")
For another bleak entry, there’s [Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_%28film%29), George Romero’s flick about a guy who thinks he’s a vampire and attacks women, injects them with tranquilizers, rapes them, kills them, and drinks their blood. It was made in the 70s and so is perfectly fine have no likeable characters or moments of joy or lightness. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/26 "2013-05-15T01:24:37Z")
Heaven’s Gate. Not totally a rape movie but has at the center one of the most disturbing rape scenes I have seen. Still resonates after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/27 "2013-05-15T01:24:42Z")
_Sudden Impact_ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/28 "2013-05-15T01:28:53Z")
IIRC, _Gone With The Wind_ had a spousal rape scene. Rhett carries a kicking Scarlett upstairs, the next day she’s happily combing her hair. I could be wrong, though. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/29 "2013-05-15T01:46:55Z")
An uncensored for television cut of Flesh + Blood ([Flesh+Blood (1985) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089153/)) starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It’s not as highly graphic as if could be, but it realistically shows what would have happened to a woman captured by a band of medieval mercenaries. There is however a big difference between some of the versions of this movie that get shown on regular television (where it comes across as a slightly rougher medieval romance) and what the original cut (in which they don’t hide the rapes and sexual abuse). ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/30 "2013-05-15T02:58:49Z")
[_Hannie Caulder_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068675/) - The title character (Raquel Welch) is raped, and her husband murdered, so she learns to shoot and goes after the bad guys. [_For a Few Dollars More_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059578/?ref_=sr_2) - Col Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) seeks revenge on the man who raped his sister. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/31 "2013-05-15T03:41:30Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Heaven’s Gate. Not totally a rape movie but has at the center one of the most disturbing rape scenes I have seen. Still resonates after all these years. The French movie _Baise-moi_ opens with a graphic and disturbing rape scene of two women. One of the women then goes on a killing spree but it’s not clear if this was a result of the rape. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/32 "2013-05-15T06:28:24Z")
\*The Fountainhead \*contains a rape “by engraved invitation.” Dominique does everything short of yanking Roark by the balls and flinging herself under him on the bed. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/33 "2013-05-15T09:53:54Z")
Naked Vengeance. The sheriff was trying his darndest to look like Clint Eastwood. I must be gay to be thinking of that instead of the nude scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/34 "2013-05-15T10:58:42Z")
Just opened up the IMDB site and found [this list](http://www.imdb.com/list/AG_O12R_Qd8/?ref_=tt_rls_3). Timely. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/35 "2013-05-15T11:40:48Z")
Let’s not forget GOLDFINGER – James Bond rapes Pussy Galore and she turns from the dark side. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/36 "2013-05-15T15:39:23Z")
The _Pulp Fiction_ cite reminded me of _Lawrence of Arabia_ (where it was basically implied). John Boy was a bad boy in [Last Summer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064573/). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/37 "2013-05-15T17:37:16Z")
_A Time to Kill_, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/38 "2013-05-15T19:01:15Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > \*The Fountainhead \*contains a rape “by engraved invitation.” Dominique does everything short of yanking Roark by the balls and flinging herself under him on the bed. Well, she does get her new fireplace hearth out of it, too. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/39 "2013-05-15T19:13:48Z")
[Speak](http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Kristen-Stewart/dp/B000A7Q2I2/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1368644945&sr=1-1&keywords=speak) with Kristen Stewart turning in a quite acceptable performance and [Bastard Out of Carolina](http://www.amazon.com/Bastard-Carolina-Jennifer-Jason-Leigh/dp/1572526807/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1368645133&sr=1-2&keywords=bastard+out+of+carolina), wherein Jenna Malone is raped by her stepfather and I was ready to murder Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character for letting her daughter be treated so badly. Jenna Malone was awesome in this part, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268/40 "2013-05-15T19:24:34Z")
[The Wild Angels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Angels) I found by accident while looking up some Easy Rider trivia. Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern are biker gang members. When Dern dies the gang rapes his wife in a crowded room during the wake, his real life wife Diane Ladd. A disturbing flick, to be sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rape-film-festival-can-i-have-a-better-word-please/658268.md?page=3)