The Burning Bed (1984), Straw Dogs (1971), Wild at Heart (1990), Moonrise (1948), Blackmail (1929), Sweet Country (2017), The Accused (1948), The Art of Self-Defense (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Self-defense movies.
Storyline: An abused woman discovers that the dream man she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him.
Plot Keywords: wife, waitress, friend, husband, daughter, henchman, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Homeless veteran Bob 'Drillbit' Taylor manages to enjoy life anyhow and even saves some cash for his dream, an 'all-paid' move to Alaska, even if that may take many years. His dream comes within reach when clever nerd Wade, has fat friend Ryan 'T-dog' and cocky shrimp Jim, all new to high-school, are bullied so badly by emancipated Filkins and his buddies that they advertise for a bodyguard. Only Drillbit seems affordable and not crazy, so he's hired and drains their pocket-money and home content. He's clueless how to protect them but gives them (bogus) self-defense classes.
Plot Keywords: bully, geek, best friend, bodyguard, high-school student, teacher, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their Police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Plot Keywords: veteran, lawyer, wife, crime boss, thug, police detective, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.
Plot Keywords: man, wife, criminal, child, intruder, dark, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by the office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal make-over and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity. He's determined to show everyone in his life that he is not a nobody, but a force to be reckoned with.—Anna <dimenxia@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: office worker, co-worker, boss, daughter, bully, martial arts master, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Keeble is a nice, quiet teenager, whose idea of 'superhero-requiring' danger is braving Evil Ice Cream Man who blames him for a health complaint from ma Lily. She spent six years on just the right interior and now hears from dad Don Keeble, a wimp whose 'career' in commercial publicity still only got him wearing sly costumes, a promotion requires the family to move to Chicago. Initially Max just hates giving up his high-school friends, a fatso and a music-maniac, but when their former friend Troy McGinty picks on them with his new image as bully realizes leaving means he can't be punished after Friday, and plans an orgy of revenge. Max's targets include the arrogant new principal, Elliot T. Jindraike, who spends the school budget on a new sports stadium to flatter the inspector, Superintendant Bobby 'Crazy Legs' Knebworth, and even plants to tear down the animal shelter. When it's all in motion, dad suddenly announces he has taken Max's first advice and turned down the promotion!—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: student, love interest, best friend, bully, principal, ice cream man, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has since then become the janitor of the school that Ken, Julie and Tom go to. When Ken gets beaten up by Tom for talking to Julie again, Billy helps Ken by teaching him how to defend himself, which eventually leads to a battle between student vs. student, and sensei vs. sensei.—<JoshForman@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: ex-policeman, martial arts master, martial arts student, janitor, uplifting, inspiring, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Behind closed doors, widely respected firefighter Lyle Wilder (Charles Sheen) is an abusive husband and father. When his family leaves him, Lyle goes off the rails and accuses his neighbors of driving his wife and son away. He begins tormenting them and, as his murderous rampage escalates, he violently kills a repairman. But, because of Lyle's do-gooder reputation, the police refuse to believe his neighbors' accusations, which forces them to take matters into their own hands.
Plot Keywords: firefighter, murderer, father, mother, repairman, neighbor, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kate attends her estranged sister's bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.
Plot Keywords: sister, father, bellhop, killer, dark, bleak, thrilling ...
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