Are there any great movies about women exploiting men? One example would be Lights in the Dusk(2006), for reference. I know there are tons of Hollywood films about how evil men are, but rarely are women ever portrayed that way. So, I am curious.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2024-12-17T01:23:05+00:00

It's questionable how malicious she really was, but Jenny from Forrest Gump used Forrest pretty badly. And I don't know if film adaptations of musicals based on real people count, but... Evita.

friendlyfernando · 2024-12-17T00:46:52+00:00

Gone girl has one of the most evil female characters in all of fiction

Net_Flux · 2024-12-17T01:08:58+00:00

Gone Girl (2014) features a female rapist-cum-murderer, and more recently, we have Strange Darling (2023).

Just be warned that these films offer no catharsis or justice for the male characters since they mirror the harsh realities of life a little too closely.

edbegley1 · 2024-12-17T00:55:18+00:00

Disclosure

WeEatBabies · 2024-12-17T05:23:25+00:00

Forest Gump

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

nashkeats · 2024-12-17T05:21:36+00:00

Why do you need a movie when reality is like that? 🤣

peeknic · 2024-12-17T10:44:26+00:00

Misery

MisterBowTies · 2024-12-17T03:35:53+00:00

To kill a mocking bird. Everyone talks about the racism, no one talks about the false rape accusation. And the book the movie is based on is written by a woman so no one gets to say it was MeN wRiTiNg WoMeN!!!

Smooth-Purchase1175 · 2024-12-17T00:57:50+00:00

Derailed from 2005.

Imoldok · 2024-12-17T01:20:10+00:00

I hope the count is higher than these? Hope someone in Hollywood stumbles upon this sub and sees a nitch to fill if this is all there is. Unless the movies will give the females to many awful ideas. I remembered these from the Detective Mr. Poirot.

Murder on the Links (1996): Lady Emily Inglehop is suspected of murdering her husband, but Poirot discovers that the true culprit is actually a woman named Yvette, who was having an affair with the victim. Appointment with Death (2008): Lady Boynton, an abusive and overbearing woman, is found stabbed to death by her husband’s archaeological team in Syria. Poirot investigates and reveals that Lady Boynton’s own daughter, Linda Arden, is the murderer.

ipwr85 · 2024-12-17T01:41:01+00:00

Fatal Attraction.

Bengal_Chad · 2024-12-17T01:49:14+00:00

Disclosure

DaJosuave · 2024-12-17T00:37:05+00:00

Juno?

There's one where a kid goes all out for this chick, but in thr end she just drops him like the last version of the iPhone for her next upgrade.

Both have Michael Serra as the guy.

CarHungry · 2024-12-17T07:41:46+00:00

I was going to say gone girl but like 10 other people said it lmao, so I'll just bring up kramer vs kramer.

Meryl streep intentionally tried to make her character more sympathetic, but if a father did what she did in that movie they'd be seen as a complete monster.

TechnicianLegal1120 · 2024-12-17T03:09:41+00:00

Misery

Vegetable_Ad1732 · 2024-12-17T03:50:39+00:00

Basic Instinct - Sharon Stone

Cruel Intentions - Sarah Michelle Geller

Swoopert · 2024-12-17T05:55:09+00:00

Monster (2003) - Based on true story, female serial killer.

don_Mugurel · 2024-12-17T09:13:00+00:00

“The last seduction”. Nothing comes close to it.

Great movie though

beleidigtewurst · 2024-12-17T09:28:26+00:00

Perhaps Kramer vs Kramer

patxiku93 · 2024-12-17T10:44:13+00:00

Misery

Mysterious-Citron875 · 2024-12-17T15:01:47+00:00

The Titanic.

Educational_Copy_140 · 2024-12-17T01:34:51+00:00

The Last American Virgin

eXDax · 2024-12-17T03:36:23+00:00

Since no-one else has mentioned this one, Heartbreakers. Mother & daughter duo marrying rich and divorcing straight after

Da_Famous_Anus · 2024-12-17T02:14:46+00:00

Body Heat 1981

The Last Seduction 1994

upbeat2679 · 2024-12-17T04:30:35+00:00

Gone girl---the scariest horror movie

yipy2001 · 2024-12-17T02:08:05+00:00

Kung Fu Panda 4

are_you_for_scuba · 2024-12-17T02:52:42+00:00

Ex Machina but the woman was a robot so i guess it doesn’t count

generisuser037 · 2024-12-17T04:25:46+00:00

Can I say the Act? It's about gypsy a d deedee blancharde, where the daughter famously killed her mother who has been abusing her and exploiting her for years.

randomthoughts1050 · 2024-12-17T07:40:49+00:00

Cruel Intentions (1999)

She's the definition of manipulative bitch.

Spoiler. IIRC, towards the end of the movie, the step-sister falsely accuses the step-brother of rape. A guy fights him, and the step-brother dies. (Short version.) Nothing happens to her, even though she instigated the events that ultimately resulted in the step-brother's death.

griii2 · 2024-12-17T09:48:58+00:00

Not the Brian Banks movie, that's for sure

Just watched the Brian Banks movie on Netflix and I hated it : r/MensRights

Icehonesty · 2024-12-17T10:22:54+00:00

From the movies I’ve seen:

Gone Girl

Wild Things

One Night at McCool’s

The Last Seduction

Basic Instinct

Cruel Intentions

Disclosure

There are loads. Just google “femme fatale”.

spletharg2 · 2024-12-17T10:27:24+00:00

The Shipping News. The book it comes from is also good. Annie Proulx has an interesting and novel perspective on the masculine experience.

the_gay_bogan_wanabe · 2024-12-17T11:33:00+00:00

The reader

born_to_be_naked · 2024-12-17T12:18:38+00:00

The Shape of things (2003) ... A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation

kitterkatty · 2024-12-17T17:09:58+00:00

Idk if it technically qualifies but I like Natalie Portman’s character in Closer. Esp the twist. It’s about playing the game. She’s kind of evil I love it lol.

flipsidetroll · 2024-12-17T19:46:56+00:00

There are loads of movies that show women exploiting men. The one that stayed in my mind was “Gone Girl”.

Illustrious-Aside-46 · 2024-12-18T05:40:30+00:00

Black widow. With Debra Winger. 1987.

The hand that rocks the cradle. 1992.

Fatal attraction. 1987.

Gone girl. 2014.

Just a few on top of my mind. Good movies.

Svenl7 · 2024-12-18T08:57:12+00:00

Gone girl. Masterpiece. Tripped me tf out.

RevolutionaryCry7230 · 2024-12-18T09:36:58+00:00

Here is the night

Dark_Prince_of_Chaos · 2024-12-18T13:58:21+00:00

There's an old french movie (1967) named Alexandre le Bienheureux, but i don't know if it's translated. I highly recommand it.

Brognar72 · 2024-12-17T01:38:11+00:00

Strange Darling 2024

UnconfirmedRooster · 2024-12-17T08:55:15+00:00

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