Rape Scenes in Movies

Living and Dying (2007)
Directed by Jon Keeyes
Starring Edward Furlong, Arnold Vosloo and Michael Madsen

This terrible movie is about a hostage situation inside a bank after a robbery goes wrong.

In this scene, arrogant yet attractive female journalist Oyku Rahsanhas has convinced the police to let her inside the bank with a video camera to interview the robbers. Unfortunately for her, the robbers have no intention of playing ball and once she’s inside the gang leader attacks her, ripping open her dress, exposing her breasts and roughly raping her up against a wall as she screams. To add to the reporter’s humiliation, the hostages in the main room can hear the assault and the police are watching it with dismay on monitors nearby.

Perdita Durango (1997)
Directed by Alex de la Iglesia
Starring Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem and Aimee Graham

A young couple are kidnapped by criminal lovers Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem in this movie also known as ‘Dance with the Devil’.

Bardem takes a liking to (legal) teenager Aimee Graham and one day enters the room in which she is handcuffed on a bed. He strokes the terrified girl’s face and rips off her shirt, exposing her small, firm breasts which he kisses and sucks. Then he pulls down her pants and underwear before giving her oral sex. Finally, her boyfriend is made to watch the sexual assault while he ruthlessly fucks her.

I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
Directed by Meir Zarchi
Starring Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor and Richard Pace

Banned for a long time because of the graphic rape scenes that were explicit and taboo for the time, I Spit on Your Grave has now become a cult classic in the rape revenge genre.

Camille Keaton plays a city woman vacationing in a sleepy backwater town who attracts the unwanted attentions of some horny local boys. One day they chase and surround her before the leader rips off her bikini and pins her to the ground. The others hold her down for the virgin of the group to pop his cherry, but he doesn’t want to and the leader ends up climbing on top of her struggling body and fucking her, ignoring her angry cries for him to stop.

The movie was updated and remade in 2010 with Sarah Butler in the starring role. You can see the rape scenes from that movie here.

The Shaming (1979)
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Starring Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence and Robert Vaughn

Anne Heywood stars in this controversial drama (also released as ‘Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff’) about a middle-aged school teacher and her relationship with the black school janitor.

In this scene the English actress is cornered in her classroom after hours by the menacing janitor, who has stripped naked and advances upon her as she cowers in the corner. He throws her onto her desk, rips off her shirt exposing her breasts and tears down her panties before fucking her hard. All the while she repeats “No!” over and over and struggles to fight him off but the janitor ignores her pleas and rapes her, leaving her lying broken and nude on her back on the desk.

The Howling (1981)
Directed by Joe Dante
Starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee and Dennis Dugan

At the beginning of ‘The Howling’ the female lead is in a cinema watching a film which contains a rape scene. We only see a couple of seconds of this scene before the shot cuts away, but the director actually filmed three minutes of the rape and the rest ended up on the cutting room floor.

This footage has since been rescued and is available to watch below. There is no sound because the director didn’t bother to record any, knowing they’d just use a few seconds in the cinema scene.

Anyway, here’s the scene in full as two guys tie a girl to a bed, pull off her clothes and rape her.