Killing in self defense movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant killing in self defense movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, suspense and psychological films and TV shows about / with killing in self defense, murder, violence, danger, female protagonist, blood, death, chase, flashback and cell phone plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as killing in self defense: Last Night in Soho (2021), Private Parts (1972), Reborn (2018), Road House (1989), The Menu (2022), Hunt Her, Kill Her (2022), Girl in Trouble (1963), Terror Tract (2000), Thelma & Louise (1991), It (2017).
Best films
New films
| Eliminators (2016) | 5.6 | |
| It (2017) | 7.3 | |
| Kill Me Twice (2019) | 4.4 | |
| The Inseminator (2014) | 6.4 | |
| The Toll (2020) | 5.3 |
List of killing in self defense movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Style:
gothic, suspense, postmodern, psychological horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
murder, time travel, fashion designer, rape, nostalgia, nightmare, brothel, female serial killer, plot twist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, female teacher, suicide of mother ...
Time:
60s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1969, year 1965 ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Teenage runaway Cheryl splits from Ohio and ends up in Los Angeles staying at an old rundown hotel full of weirdos. The weirdest of all is George and he has a crush on Cheryl.
Style:
allegory, slasher, psychosexual thriller, dark comedy, scary ...
Plot:
voyeurism, runaway, virgin, rat, alcoholic, photographer, electrocution, peeping tom, aunt niece relationship, electric shock, female friendship, reverend ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
search for mother, child abduction, female protagonist, postpartum depression, doctor, morgue, murder, stillborn child, killing in self defense, darkroom, electrocution, therapy ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable -- ...
Style:
sexy, cult classic, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, small town, stripper, bouncer, nightclub, one man army, vigilante, bar fight, violence, skinny dipping, voyeur, bare breasts ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
missouri, memphis, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, atmospheric, splatter, art house ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
food, restaurant, murder, social satire, food critic, mass murder, perfectionist, chef, grudge, cooking, obsession, actor ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A desperate young mother, Karen, takes a job as the night shift janitor at a large furniture factory. She is told that she is the only one working at this time. But, after seeing a strange vehicle idling in the parking lot and finding a door to the ...
Style:
minimal cast, independent film, spooky
Plot:
first day on the job, ex husband, woman in jeopardy, criminal conspiracy, babysitter, ex husband ex wife relationship, hand to hand combat, female protagonist, bloody violence, revenge, survival horror, killing in self defense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Bored farmer's daughter sets out to make it in the big city. She gets mixed up with freaks, perverts and degenerates and winds up a stripper in New Orleans.
Style:
independent film, grindhouse
Plot:
sexual assault, rape victim, sexploitation, model, attempted rape, teenage girl, runaway, stripper, loss of innocence, on the run, voyeurism, exploitation ...
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers ...
Style:
anthology, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, psychopath, suburban life, real estate agent, dark humor, unfaithful wife, hanged woman, house, caught cheating, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, erotic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, friendship, feminism, female friendship, escapades, fugitives, sexualized violence, attempted rape, revenge, on the road, rape, feminist ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place:
arizona, southern usa, bolivia, oklahoma, usa ...
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687K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style:
scary, suspense, spooky, horrifying, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, coming of age, fear, small town, monster, evil clown, stephen king, villain, missing person, murderer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1988, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
maine
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during ...
Style:
cult classic, historical drama, period piece, retro, anamorphic ...
Plot:
western hero, brother brother relationship, gunfight, modern western, wyatt earp, husband wife relationship, wagon train, modern west, civil war, gunslinger, old west, historical event ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
arizona, kansas, tucson arizona, missouri, alaska ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Style:
inspirational, hood, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, redemption, underdog, youth, destiny, competition, football, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.
Style:
detective, independent film, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, necrophilia, murder, incest, serial killer, implied incest, twins, hypnosis, stalker, investigation, psychopath, violent content ...
Time:
80s
Place:
massachusetts
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Haunted by her sister's suspicious death, Kelly Holden enlists the help of murder-mystery novelist Graydon Jennings to help solve the crime. Together they discover that Kelly's sibling was living quite the double life -- sleeping with a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, crying
Plot:
danger, investigation, uncover truth, murder, woman in danger, who done it, obsession, murder mystery, false identity, dead woman, writers, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm...only to crash their car, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid they come across a house occupied by a man-hating ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mystery killer, serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory, mansion, secret, blood, violence, sexual relations, woman in danger, destiny ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young singer/songwriter, despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may be a danger to her and those close to her.
Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalker, erotica, passion, music band, cheating wife, seduction, sex scene, obsessed fan, guitarist, drug use, celebrity, musician's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, sentimental, intense, suspense
Plot:
prison, poetry, wrongful conviction, female protagonist, male protagonist, redemption, mistaken identity, sacrifice, tragic romance, moral dilemma, family drama, investigation ...
Place:
india
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41K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a ...
Style:
intense, rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
vigilante, fbi, one man army, mafia, small town, vengeance, gangster, tough heroes, revenge, heroes, law enforcement, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1986
Place:
chicago, usa, north carolina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Boi leads an isolated life on a mountain with his unwed daughter and his mentally disabled son Maize. Feeling death approach, he becomes obsessed with the continuation of the family line and he resolves to find his son a wife. After numerous intense ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, minimal cast
Plot:
sex education, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dream, family problems, family relations, social problems, unfulfilled love, antisocial behavior, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
Plot:
serial killer, portrait, therapist, female killer, breaking and entering, villainess, fbi, police partner, bald woman, police detective, fbi agent, murder investigation ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a teen girl and her mom inherit an old house, little do they know that a mysterious person is hiding in the attic – a teen boy who has been living there for months.
Style:
light, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
handyman, teenage girl, teenager, teen romance, inheritance, murder suspect, teenage protagonist, secret, mother daughter relationship, teenage boy, female protagonist, corrupt cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, bloody, scary ...
Plot:
revenge, female vigilante, serial rapist, female killer, kidnapping, vengeance, sex slave, captive, abduction, murder, human trafficking, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lily and her son John live alone in a small town as her husband has been killed fighting the war in France. Or at least that is what she told John, but the arrival of Frank back in the town leads him to find out that she not only has been lying ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, aging, small town, murder, power relations, social relations, small town life, haunted by the past, legal, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, post world war two
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Ethiopia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, social, political ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human rights, legal investigation, injustice, righting the wronged, false accusation, against the odds, legal, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, ambition, hopes ...
Time:
year 2014, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
africa, ethiopia, east africa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fatal attraction, obsession, stalker, stalking, woman in danger, couple relations, sex scene, psychopath, vengeance, danger, fear, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been ...
Style:
sad, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
wife beater, world war one, trade, 007, world history, colonialism, blaxploitation, worker, human spirit, boss and employee, society, misfit ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
africa, nigeria
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style:
tense, sexy, detective, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hacker, rape, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, strong female lead, sexual abuse, age difference, violence against women, goth, femme fatale, strong female character ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1949, year 1958 ...
Place:
scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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12K
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Shah Rukh Khan and Sharad Kapoor are the leaders of the two rival gangs. Aishwarya Rai is Shah Rukh Khan's twin sister. Shah Rukh is in love with Priya Gill. Chandrachur Singh is Sharad Kapoor's younger brother who studies in a catering ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting, melancholic ...
Plot:
twins, gang, street gang, rivalry, family relations, siblings relations, love affair, fall in love, love and romance, secret, attempted murder, gang war ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india, goa india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, erotic, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, adultery, infidelity, twists and turns, dangerous attraction, seduction, fatal attraction, sex scene, abusive husband, murder, cheating wife, female nudity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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11K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her ...
Style:
sexy, scary, perverse, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
masked man, sexy girl, porn actress, twerking, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, psychopath, danger, home invasion, bare breasts, nude black woman ...
Time:
2010s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
canada
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