Films and TV shows that feel like Man Down by Rihanna
A sunny, lilting riddim carries a dark confession of impulsive revenge, where guilt, panic and fatalism hide beneath the breezy beat.
- Promising Young Woman (2020): Candy-coloured surface over a woman's methodical, tragic response to sexual violence.
- Day of the Woman (1978): The archetypal rape-revenge story, where retribution is brutal and morally unresolved.
- Monster (2003): A woman's violence born from abuse, laced with desperation and remorse.
- Thelma & Louise (1991): A shooting in self-defence sends two women fleeing, with no way back.
- I May Destroy You (2020): Confronts the aftermath of assault with dark humour, anger and music-driven nightlife.
- Orange Is the New Black (2013): Women's trauma, guilt and consequences, with Caribbean-diaspora characters and gallows humour.
- Dancehall Queen (1997): Kingston dancehall culture and a woman fighting for survival and power.
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): Stylised female vengeance against the man who wronged her, with a cool, hypnotic soundtrack.
