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From psychological drama to brutal action, the best female revenge films showcase the complexities and nuances of women exacting revenge in various ways. The range and depth of female revenge movies cannot be overstated, as they encompass a spectrum of protagonists, motives, and methods.
Cast your vote for the best female-focused revenge movies. Movies about revenge often conjure images of Keanu Reeves and Liam Neeson smashing through windows in search of lost dogs and daughters, but it's not just men who love getting their hands bloody after they've been wronged .
We're showcasing films that have skillfully woven tales of captives and kidnappings, orchestrating a rollercoaster of suspense, emotion, and thrills. Moreover, many of these films are based on true stories, offering a gripping view of real-life hostage situations and abductions.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Wild Tales ( Spanish: Relatos salvajes) is a 2014 Spanish-language black comedy anthology film that was written and directed by the Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron. The film, which is a Spanish-Argentinian co-production, is composed of six standalone shorts with a common theme of catharsis, violence and vengeance.
The historian Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti recorded in his history, The Marvelous Compositions of Biographies and Events (‘Aja’ib al-athar fi’l-tarajim wa’l-akhbar), that Ottoman forces in the Ottoman-Saudi War took Wahhabi Saudi women and girls as slaves, despite them being Muslim and enslavement of Muslims being illegal.
In the director’s Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx plays Django Freeman — a slave who trains with a German dentist turned bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) with the hope of reuniting with his wife.
