12 Monkeys (Movie)
A homeless man tries to rape a woman but is stopped before starting.
Sexual abuse in the film is part of its broader thematic exploration of LGBT+ rights, treatment and culture. For example; the uncertainty, for many people within this community, of whether a place they are visiting is going to be safe for and accepting of them or not. The topic is treated relatively sensitively. Most intense/potentially disturbing scenes occur between 0:30:16-0:31:16 and 1:08:35-1:08:59. In the first one (a flashback), one protagonist recalls an episode where his uncle tried to sexually abuse him when he was a child (portrayed on-screen). He somehow turned the tables and tricked the molester instead. The anecdote ends up being empowering for the character. In the second one, another protagonist is assaulted by a group of homophobic men: they restrain him and spread his legs. He is eventually rescued by the other protagonists.
One hour into the movie, a voiceover describes that the tomatoes are "pillaging and raping" and we hear a woman scream.
There are multiple on screen attempted rape scenes.
An evil king gives women he captured to his people: the women are seen screaming and being pushed into a hut by a bunch of men (16:10-16:20). The queen of a peaceful group of wanderers is captured by an evil king who forces her to be part of his harem. She is kept in a cage and while no sex is shown, it can be assumed that he probably assaulted her over the years. One of the two protagonists gets a bit handsy with a sleeping woman in the evil king's harem: his brother pulls him away and they put a blanket over her (50:25). Later in the scene, the harem women awaken and excitedly jump on the barbarians to have sex. One of the two men says "no" at first because they are on a mission, but then changes to "yes" after all the women pile onto him.
Basket Case (Movie)
The female characters endure (and have endured) lots of implicit, attempted sexual violence, though they all swiftly retaliate against their abusers.
At several points in the film, people use John Malkovich's body without his permission to have sex with people. At one point, one of the main characters pretends to be another while in Malkovich in order to have sex with someone without their knowledge. Worthy of note: in a fit of jealousy, the protagonist tackles his wife, threatens her with a handgun, and forces her to make a phone call. He then locks her in a cage, ties her hands, and puts tape over her mouth. Though the actions themselves are upsetting, they are presented as ridiculous and inappropriate, and the protagonist later faces consequences for his actions.
Black Butler II (TV Show)
The film contains at least 3 rape scenes. One ends with the victim being violently murdered by cannibals. There are also 2 scenes of vaginal impalement, all extremely graphic.
Clerks (Movie)
A woman accidentally has sex with a dead body in a bathroom with no lightbulb (nothing is shown, it is all in dialogue). The scene is played for laughs, as well as other rape jokes.
A gang of boys sexually assaults a woman and attempts to rape her but she escapes (5:00-9:00). The scene is graphic and the victim can be seen distraught and struggling. A male gang breaks into a woman's home and rapes her, while her handicapped husband is forced to watch (12:00-14:00). The protagonist, a teenager male, is sexually assaulted by his social worker (23:20-25:00). Later, he breaks into another woman's home and bludgeons her with a phallic-shaped sculpture: she is not sexually assaulted (40:00-42:00). A video briefly shows a woman being gang raped (1:13:10-1:13:20). The last few seconds of the film show a sex-scene between the protagonist and a woman. It looks fairly aggressive but it is not clear whether or not it is consensual (2:13:30-2:13:55).
The Craft (Movie)
A man makes a sexual comment about his girlfriend's underage daughter. Another man attemps to rape the protagonist while he is under the influence of a love spell. This implies that he acts out of "love" and puts the blame for the assault on the spellcaster. The same man later becomes the victim of sexual assault / attempted rape when another woman disguises herself as his love interest and makes out with him until she is stopped.
Cruising (Movie)
Multiple gay men arekilled before or during sexual encounters.
Cujo (Movie)
Shortly after breaking up with a man she was having an affair with, a woman is approached in her home by the man, who attempts to talk her back into continuing their affair. When she refuses, he kisses her and attempts to put his hand up her skirt, but she fights him until he relents.
Dagon (Movie)
The title character, a Lovecraftian deity, demands human women as tributes for him to rape and reproduce with. One character mentions how this happened to his mother. The two main female characters are both victims of Dagon in this manner. One is encountered after this has already happened and, traumatized and impregnated by the deity, she commits suicide. The other main female character is shown chained and suspended naked above a pit with Dagon in it, into which she is lowered. When she is brought back up, she is clearly traumatised both physically and psychologically.
Deadly Prey (Movie)
Death Wish II (Movie)
Death Wish 3 (Movie)
A man forces a teenage girl to have sex with him in order to secure a record deal for her band (22:00): he rips her clothes off and gets on top of her.
Donnie Darko (Movie)
A high school teacher is arrested for possessing and publishing child pornography. A highschooler says to another teenager that he hopes he gets molested. Two high school boys make a female classmate umcomfortable, standing behind her, touching her hair, saying they like her breast. A young girl asks when she can have a baby and her brother jokingly say not until eighth grade. While under hypnosis, the protagonist answers negatively to his therapist when he asks him if he thinks about "fucking his family" (36:16-36:50).
When the protagonist turns into his monstruous alter ego, he forces a woman to engages in an abusive relationship with him. It is implied that he repeatedly raped and beat her and a long scene about halfway into the movie shows him harassing and threatening her. He later strangles her to death. In the final scenes of the movie, the evil protagonist also attempts to sexually harrass his fiancee before people intervene.
El Topo (Movie)
There are many rape scenes, some of which are real, filmed rape and not just simulated. While the director stated upon release that the on-screen rape was a real rape, he later stated in 2019 that this claim was a publicity stunt that he later regretted, and that the rape was simulated.
Evil Dead II (Movie)
The rape scene (by trees) from the first movie is recreated. The clothes of the victim are tore off and vines and branches try to enter her mouth.
Fat Girl (Movie)
The final scene of this film is designed to be shocking, in a film otherwise largely focused on the grooming of the main character's older sister (~15 years old) by a university aged man: a stranger suddenly murders the sister and her mother with an axe before graphically raping the protagonist (~12 years old).
Faults (Movie)
At one point in the film, the main female character lures an older man, who is hired to help her escape from a cult, into heavy kissing. As the film presents it, she has powers learned from her cult that she states in the scene “put her in control” of him. In the next scene, the same man finds the awoman engaging in sexual acts with her father while her mother watches.
A man and women are having consensual sex, but the man then grabs the woman and forces her to turn over (1:27:40). She tells him to stop and that he is hurting her, but he then commences to violently rape her anally. She is later shown waking up covered in scratches and bruises.
Flash Gordon (Movie)
The lead female character is mind controlled and remotely caressed over her whole body using alien technology. The assailant discuss her sexual response with another male character. The lead female character is forced into a sexual relationship with a male character and then forced to marry him (27:00-28:00). There is a discussion with a slave girl in which the lead female character discusses that she has decided not to fight the sexual relationship and marriage (50:42-51:12). The male character enters the bedroom, begins to remove his clothes and starts to caress a woman's leg, before realising that it is the wrong person (59:40-1:01:10). A female character is bound and whipped by a woman and a man. There is a strong suggestion that there is a sexual aspect and the man is later promised that he can marry the prisoner once she has been interrogated (1:42:06-1:42:36). There is an attempted forced marriage which during which the female lead is forcibly restrained.
Foxfire (Movie)
Freeway (Movie)
The film's opening sequence has drawings of women in scenarios suggestive of sexual assault. A teenage girl's stepfather attempts to sexually assault her early on the film but is pushed off. Later, she is picked up on the road by a pedophile and murderer posing as a counselor. He gets her to open up about her sexual assault by her father in graphic detail, and then attempts to get her to say degrading sexual things as a form of therapy. When she tries to escape, he attempts to rape her.
Freeze Me (Movie)
Rape and revenge are central to the plot of this movie.
A rapist is stabbed while attempting to rape someone (1:07:30-1:09:00). A girl makes out with a male teacher without his consent.
Frisk (Movie)
One character exposes another character to paraphilia. One character (implied to be an adult) is a sex worker to older teen clients. He is emotionally stunted from sexual abuse and recreational drug dependency so his soundness of mind is in question when he nominally consents to sex work. One character suffers emotional incest and sexual coercion from his older brother, and this remains unresolved. In the book, it's implied that these are all reconstructed suspicions or fantasies, including violent murders, but the film adaptation keeps ambitious which events might have happened in the story.
Gummo (Movie)
In a clip, a young girl speaks (voice over) about her father molesting her. In another clip, a drunk man asks another man to kiss him and despite his refusal, tries to kiss him. He also says that he was abused by his parents as a kid. In another clip, a boy speaks about a man who uses to have drugged sex with women in front of children. The two protagonists (male teenagers) go to a man's house to have paid sex with his mentally disabled young sister (off-screen). An elderly man puts his hand up a young girl's skirt, but her sisters defend her and drive the man away.
Hex (1973) (Movie)
The relevant scene occurs from the 28:00-32: 00-minute mark.
Highlander (Movie)
The movie villain acts threateningly to a woman while fighting another character, and after killing the character he grabs her. The scene cuts, but later in the film the villain boasts about having raped her. This antagonist also has violent sex with a woman and it is commented that she was traumatised by it. He also goes on to repeat his threatening comments and kidnap other female characters. Overall the film contains extensive themes of rape and sexual assault.
Hollywood Cop (Movie)
Human Traffic (Movie)
This film contains a fully clothed simulated rape between boss and employee. A boss sexually harasses an employee.
The entire premise of the movie is that an experiment backfires, resulting in a group of monsters that goes on a rampant rape spree.
The Jezebels (Movie)
Krysar (Movie)
A woman is harassed by a man who is infatuated with her and who keeps showing up at her house with jewelry to impress her. She continually rejects his advances, and he keeps, literally coming up to her in an aggressive fashion. Later, this same woman is gang raped and murdered by a group of drunk men off-screen, including the guy who harassed her earlier.
Note: the story revolves around prehistoric humans who do not possess modern language or culture, making boundaries and sexual consent muddled and uncertain. A male neanderthal sneakily follows a small group of females, then begins having sex with one as she is bent over to drink water. The female seems surprised, but does not appear to be in distress. The other females do not react. A man tries to initiate sex with a woman, who pushes him away. A different male then grabs her and has sex with her as she seems to scream and protest. The scene is not long, but is graphic. The woman does not appear traumatized afterward, but it does not seem like she wanted the contact either. The same man and woman begin having sex again, this time seemingly consensually. The woman protests at first, but only because she wants to change positions. A man is captured by another tribe, who then make him have sex with several of the tribe's women. The man does not seem distressed or bothered by this, and the women are clearly interested.
La Strada (Movie)
The movie is about a street performer who buys a young woman to be his wife and assistant. He constantly beats her throughout the film, and the first scenes implied (off-screen) that he also forces her to have sex with him (the woman also mentions it later).
A woman is attacked by three men, and it is implied that they will attempt to rape her, though she is quickly rescued. Worthy of note: In an intimate moment between a man and a woman, the man hits the woman. It is implied that a man is blackmailing a woman into remaining married to him.
A woman has a psychedelic vision which includes men raping women. Later, another woman has a similar vision of demons penetrating her with phallic weapons in a scene obviously meant to be reminiscent of a gang rape. These visions are over the top and gratuitous and seemingly meant to be humorous. An adult woman seduces a teenage boy. They do not have sex, but she wears revealing clothing and he exposes himself to her. A woman inspects another woman's hymen without her consent. A woman attempts to sexually assault another woman by penetrating her with a sharp phallic object, but is stopped.
Mad Max (Movie)
The villains engage in a car chase with a young couple and run them off the road. The woman is raped and it is implied that the man is as well.
This film contains a long attempted rape scene: the victim seems generally unbothered afterwards . There are two similar attacks during the rest of the movie, which involves revenge.
Man Bites Dog (Movie)
There is a graphic scene in which a film crew gang rapes a woman in front of her husband.
A character offers a drink to a young woman, aware that it has been spiked and alluding to it making her consent sexually. He is seen bragging about this fact to other characters, and follows her to the bathroom.
Metropolis (Movie)
Near the end, the inventor of a female robot character tries to force himself upon her.
Naked Killer (Movie)
There are constant rape threats throughout the film, as well as many instances of sexual assault and attempted rape.
Planet Terror (Movie)
One of the military guards forces a hostage to dance for him, then attempts to rape her before being stopped by another hostage.
Pulp Fiction (Movie)
A key male character is taken to a backroom and is raped as punishment.
Puppetmaster (Movie)
Raw Force (Movie)
The main character is first introduced to her lover by him molesting her. This same man later rapes another woman onscreen. The female protagonist sexually assaults a child, also onscreen and graphically, at one point. She also threatens to have her lover rape another woman.
A female character is raped and treated as the guilty party while her rapist is the sympathetic victim.
Several characters are 'handsy' and their advances may be interpreted as assault, which includes removing clothing of unwilling participants. A man is born and then immediately is groped and chased. He later sleeps with his creator. A protagonist is tricked into sexual contact by a figure under the guise of being her husband. and then is coerced into sex despite screaming and refusing. He continues to force himself on her until she gives in. This is played for laughs and occurs behind a curtain (49:30-50:52). A man kisses his sister’s neck. A protagonist is tricked into sexual contact by a figure under the guise of being his wife. He does not consent verbally and screams, but it is implied that after some persisting and convincing that he consents. This is played for laughs and occurs behind a curtain (52:35-54:16). A protagonist is chased and groped. She escapes after injuring the assailant. She later is groped again until she screams. Four characters are turned to stone, which removes their clothing.
The Sadness (Movie)
The film contains several gratuitous and violent rape scenes. 20:00: a man makes lewd gestures and threatens sexual assault against a man's girlfriend. 25:00: a man verbally harasses a woman on the train, makes unwanted comments. 31:00: a man is shown raping another man, another man forcibly licks a clearly underage girl's face and it is implied that she is raped, later shown with her clothing ripped off 37:00: the verbal harasser from train continues to make sexual remarks/lewd gestures while chasing women. 41:00: a man is shown after raping a presumably dead body. 45:30: a group of men genitally mutilate a man. 59:00: a woman is raped on-screen. 01:01:00: a man rapes a woman's eye socket on-screen (audio is graphic). 01:06:00: sex on screen, consent unclear but very gory. 01:10:00: the verbal harasser makes more comments for a few minutes. 01:25:00: very brief mention of child sex abuse. 01:28:00: more verbal sexual harassment.
Santa Sangre (Movie)
A church (not officially recognized by residing Christian authorities) is formed around the patron saint Santa Sangre, a little girl who was brutally gang-raped after rapists cut off her arms for resisting the rape, then leaving her to die. Her story is depicted by a series of large, amateurish paintings hung around the church, in the absence of stained glass. The church has a pool of diluted red paint in the center to represent the blood she died in on the spot the church was built. The father of the main character overpowers and hypnotizes the mother, who is initially threatening him with a knife. The father says "My little child" and the mother repeatedly pleads "No" and "Don't do that" before falling fully under the spell. Clowns and musicians do nothing but look on and play music as this happens, following them until another clown disperses the crowd and says to "leave them alone." This is followed by a poorly hidden act of public rape (portrayed as loud passionate sex), which is viewed by the main character, a child at this part of the movie. This film deals heavily with gender identity and how it is affected by child abuse. During a funeral procession, the biologically male child main character is given a dress-like gown to wear by his mother (the leader of a cult). During the procession, he cries while leaning on his father, who tells him to "stop crying like a little girl" and telling him that "I'll give you a charm that'll make you a man." After the procession, the father takes him to a room alone, cuts the gown off of him, ties him to a chair, and brutally tattoos a hawk across his entire chest with a knife. At the end, he shows his son to a mirror and affirms "now you're a man, just like me." This traumatic event is one of several that plague the main character as an adult, especially as he struggles with his identity. The friend of the main character, a little girl unsupervised by her guardian, witnesses the main character's father walk outside completely naked, covering his bloodied crotch (dissolving from an acid attack). The father walks directly in front of the little girl as he rounds the corner of a building (less than two feet away from her). He then commits suicide in full view of his son, another minor. A pimp drugs four people with down syndrome (possibly implied to be minors) and helps them purchase a prostitute. The guardian of the deaf-mute girl (possibly still a minor even after a time skip) pimps her to a soldier with gigantism while she is sleeping. He walks into her room and picks her up in his arms. She wakes up, panics, resists, and succeeds in escaping before he can go through with it. She spends the rest of the night sleeping outside on top of a fire truck, but not before also being touched and grabbed inappropriately by a man who terrorizes her with his fake ear. A burlesque show is performed titled "Jane the Virgin" in which the dancer dresses as a schoolgirl in a children's classroom and strips for an audience full of excited men, who are also allowed to grope her and strip her during the show. A man also dances from the door of the classroom, singing a love song. The killer lures to his home and kills a trans woman athlete. It is not explicitly because she is trans, but the scene is horrific either way.
Serpico (Movie)
The first day as a police officer, the main character encounters three men raping a woman and apprehends one of them. The scene is graphic.
Society (Movie)
A character hears an audio recording of their mother, father, and sister having sex. A character is forced into a body horror flesh orgy.
A female mouse character is locked in a bird cage only in her underwear by a much bigger male character and routinely sexually abused. photos of her in sexual and compromising abusive acts are plastered on the wall. She later manages to escape. The same male character chases the female protagonist in what appears to be a rape scene.
Tank Girl (Movie)
The sexual violence in this movie was always from non-heroic characters, and Tank Girl (Lori Petty) always either physically defends the victim or convinces the assaulter to leave, sometimes using their own homophobia against them. Attempted rape/child sexual abuse: occurs shortly after Tank's imprisonment at Water and Power and an attempted rape occurs at the Liquid Silver Club.
38 minutes into the movie, a male character attempts to rape a woman after smoking together. There is unconsentual groping and kissing. The scene lasts a couple of minutes until her boyfriend intervenes. There is a struggle over a firearm and the female character gets shot and killed. Her boyfriend gets knocked out and wakes up believing he shot her in a jealous rage.
TNT Jackson (Movie)
There are two attempted rape scenes (5:30-6:18 and 43:20-45:04), used as a vehicle to see breasts on screen and establish characters/environments as dangerous, immoral. There is violence against women and general misogyny throughout the film.
The Tribe (1999) (TV Show)
Rape is shown on screen as a flashback.
The male antagonist kidnaps, bounds, and attempts to rape a woman (about 76 minutes in).
Viridiana (Movie)
In the beginning of the movie, the protagonist (a young religious woman about to take her vows) visits her old uncle, who becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his deceased wife. She accepts to wear her wedding dress, but when she rejects his offer to marry him, he secretly drugs her. He brings her to her room and begins to sexually abuse her but stops before raping her. The next morning, he lies and tells her that he took her virginity. Later, she lives with her uncle's illegitimate son, who also lusts after her. That man also begins a relationship with his female servant: even if it is presented as consensual, the woman does not seem pleased with his first kiss. In the last part of the movie, during an orgy, several instances of sexual harassment are shown on-screen, and a rape is strongly implied on-screen (the feet of a man and a woman behind a couch are shown and we hear the woman asking him to stop). Eventually, the protagonist is sexually assaulted by two men who attempt to rape her. One is eventually killed and the other is stopped by the police. In the last scene of the movie, the protagonist is shown deeply affected by this experience and joining her "cousin" in his room to "play cards".
Viva Zapata! (Movie)
The Warriors (Movie)
A male character makes aggressive sexual comments towards a female character, and aggressively kisses and attempts to rape an undercover cop.
Xtro (Movie)
Imagery/violence is often strongly evocative of rape or sexual violence. An alien uses a woman as an incubator. In one scene, a woman is attacked by an alien and impregnated/used as a cocoon. Later, the alien takes on a human form and crawls out of her body in a graphic scene.