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List of female vigilante movies

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 5.4
 45K
Countdown (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Style: scary, mysterious, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: phone terror, fear, supernatural, countdown, death, youth, demon, race against time, teenager, survival, supernatural power, game ...
Time: 21st century
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Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Style: humorous, exciting, psychotronic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: superhero, female protagonist, female warrior, anti heroine, tough girl, superhero team, woman fights a man, female assassin, superheroine, one woman army, young girl, female vigilante ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, sicily, new jersey
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Sworn to Justice (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After masked attackers kill her sister and young nephew, a female psychologist takes the law into her own hands by acting as a defense witness by day and a ruthless avenger by night.
Style: sexy, erotic, detective, independent film, neo noir
Plot: one woman army, female fighter, strong female lead, revenge, woman with a gun, women, female fight, female martial artist, corrupt cop, female warrior, anti heroine, violence ...
Time: 90s
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 5.4
 11K
Carrie (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, rough, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: telekinesis, high school, bullying, gory, stephen king, psychic power, strong violent content, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Rhythm Section (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, intense, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, revenge, female warrior, female protagonist, sex scene, murder, mentor protege relationship, vigilante, female secret agent, vengeance, female assassin, tragic event ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, london, madrid, tangier morocco ...
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 5.3
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Madness (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, controversial, slasher, poliziottesco ...
Plot: bare breasts, rape, murder, erotica, home invasion, exploitation, rape victim, female vigilante, voyeurism, infidelity, female masturbation, vigilante justice ...
Time: 80s
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Angel Terminators 2 (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bullet, a female triad member, is recently released from prison. Bullet hooks up with her old gang rather quickly, although she is being closely watched by her policeman father and his gritty female partner Big Aunt . Bullet steals some jewels ...
Style: action packed
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, heroic bloodshed, female vigilante, femme fatale, triad, anti hero, female police officer, revenge, police, arrest ...
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 5.1
 2K
Silver Hawk (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Michelle Yeoh plays Lulu Wong, a much-idolised rock star and philanthropist by day, and a super heroine, Silver Hawk, who fights injustice in skin-tight black leather outfit as her alter-ego. Richie Ren plays police detective Richman, who has an ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, daring rescue, good versus evil, rivalry, danger, escapades, female martial artist, female warrior, imaginary, women, disguise ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: asia, hong kong
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 3.0
 435
Cemetery High (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of High School girls with guns go on a killing spree. They are intent on ridding the world of scummy men.
Style: slasher, spoof, independent film, horror spoof
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, high school, revenge, woman with a gun, teenager, anti heroine, female vigilante, bare breasts, schoolgirl, murder, female protagonist, female friendship ...
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 5.0
 508
The Word (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, teenage love, drunken teenager, high school life, youth, teenage life, revenge, jealousy, coming of age, rivalry, murder, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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At the End of the Tunnel (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, introvert, heist, surveillance, trap, investigation, police investigation, gang of outlaws, criminal, thief, robbery, police detective ...
Time: year 2016
Place: buenos aires argentina
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 6.2
 70K
Kate (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After she's irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
Style: suspense, cult classic, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female assassin, murder, revenge, assassin, female protagonist, woman, yakuza, fight, poison, strong female lead, murderer, vengeance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: tokyo, japan, osaka japan
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A Woman's Revenge (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, stylized
Plot: vengeance, tragic love, couple relations, society, dishonesty, dull life, family relations, prostitute, infidelity, unfulfillment, loneliness, estrangement ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, portugal
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A Face to Die For (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
Style: rom com, slasher
Audience: chick flick
Plot: disfigured face, disfigured, surgery, fashion designer, prison, revenge, plastic surgery, female vigilante, face, facial scar
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 4.7
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Daddy's Girl (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bloody, scary ...
Plot: abusive stepfather, rape and revenge, held captive, serial killer, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, captivity, captive, lynching, murder investigation, murderer, police investigation, family problems ...
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 5.6
 3K
Alice (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Alice spends her days enslaved on a rural Georgia plantation restlessly yearning for freedom. After a violent clash with plantation owner Paul, Alice flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon ...
Style: independent film, historical drama
Plot: slavery, plantation, rape, civil rights, women, woman, black, deep south, revenge, highway, forest fire, diner ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 1850s
Place: georgia
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 4.9
 114
Barracuda (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Summer, a phone sex operator, is at the end of her emotional rope. She begins recording her callers as proof of how normal, professional men can also be pedophiles and rapists. When no one will believe or listen to the taped phone conversations with ...
Style: sexual, dark comedy
Plot: vigilante, violence, vigilantism, sexuality, moral dilemma, drug use, strong female lead, sex work, human trafficking, dilemma, sex worker, serial killer ...
Place: venice
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 4.8
 8K
The Courier (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier ...
Style: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, crime thriller ...
Plot: police, female warrior, one woman army, danger, survival, crime boss, bomb, messenger, gunfight, chase, trap, chases and races ...
Time: 2010s
Place: tower bridge london, washington d.c., empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Deep in the Heart (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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.
Style: independent film, sexual
Plot: revenge, rape, vengeance, female nudity, rape and revenge, teacher, sexual abuse, lawyer, harassment, anger, medical examination, hunting ...
Place: texas, austin texas, boston, america, dallas texas ...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An old flame of Bruce Wayne's strolls into town, re-heating up the romance between the two. At the same time, a mass murderer with an axe for one hand begins systematically eliminating Gotham's crime bosses. Due to the person's dark ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, intense, talky, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, batman, organized crime, murder, good versus evil, vengeance, vigilante, brutality, betrayal, justice, fighting crime, old love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.8
 4K
Lady J (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Style: costume drama, melancholic, disturbing, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: aristocracy, widow, revenge, betrayal, love, marriage, broken heart, forgiveness, male female friendship, brothel, tenderness, spinster ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france
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 4.3
 3K
Uninhabited (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, horrifying, psychological
Plot: island, couples, ghost, couple relations, supernatural, danger, camping, young lovers, confined, isolation, sailing, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Maidens Revenge (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two sisters plot for revenge against the drug-lord who murdered their family and took their home, now being used as a base for their experiments on aphrodisiacs. The older sister becomes a prostitute in order to get close to the gang. Later, she ...
Plot: women in prison, martial arts, scientist, biker, drug lord, female protagonist, machine gun, rape, lesbian, revenge, torture, prisoner ...
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Wrong Number (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Greed results in murder in the tumultuous world of Internet stocks.
Style: black comedy, independent film, detective, dark comedy, surprise ending
Plot: gambling, female vigilante, female nudity, flashback, adultery, murder, nightmare, narration from the grave, topless dancing, world
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The Haunted Castle (1969)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745, and focuses on a noble Lord Nabeshima Tango-no-kami (note the name). He rides out one day and sees a parasol on the ...
Style: suspense
Plot: samurai, folklore, creature, monster, ghost, supernatural power, woman, revenge, female vigilante, mistress, blind man, murder of brother ...
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A Woman's Revenge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for his suicide. By finding Suzy in Paris, Cecile is trying to seek the truth by playing a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: lesbian subtext, couples, rivalry, love and romance, vengeance, uncover truth, love triangle, female vigilante, female protagonist, female female relationship, death of husband, death of lover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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 19K
She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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5 Lady Venoms (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two groups of knife-wielding and kicking women in bikinis join forces to kill a gang boss responsible for killing their fathers. But they're not very effective. After three attacks on the culprit, the worst damage he suffered was having his ...
Plot: women, female fight, vigilante justice, revenge seeker, gymnastics, beach, car chase, gambling, revenge, female protagonist, death of father, nude dance ...
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 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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In the Name of the Son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The new movie of Vincent Lannoo.
Style: semi serious, cynical, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: sexual abuse, unlikely criminals, vengeance, losing-it hero, rivalry, society, life is a bitch, double life, racism, vigilantism, pedophilia, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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