We all have connections with people: colleagues, friends, partners and relatives. And every single relationship is unique, and some of them are really really special

But what happens between a parent and his own child – that is truly inexplicable

Films showed us how far parents can go when they are deprived of their beloved babies – it always ends up in a bloodshed – especially when it’s about their defenseless daughters

Here are 7 Don’t Touch My Daughter Revenge Films

Don’t Touch My Daughter Revenge Films | 7

The Limey

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, Amelia Heinle, Melissa George, Nicky Katt, Joe Dallesandro, Nancy Lenehan, William Lucking, Matthew Kimbrough, Wayne Pére, John Cothran Jr.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama
Year: 1999

British outlaw Wilson has been released from prison and he discovered that his daughter Jenny died in a car accident. Wilson comes from the criminal world too and he clearly understands that there is something wrong with what he was told. He takes the first flight to Los Angeles and step by step gets involved in a dense network of drug dealers and thugs

How far is Jenny’s partner and record-producer Terry involved? Wilson will make new friends and team up with the DEA, but he will also do everything he can to take the revenge on his own. What makes this movie so special is Steven Soderbergh‘s exceptional disordered flash-back narration, a gem

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Don’t Touch My Daughter Revenge Films | 6

Edge of Darkness

Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn Roberts, Caterina Scorsone, Gabrielle Popa, Jay O. Sanders, David Aaron Baker, Denis O’Hare, Christy Scott Cashman, Molly Schreiber, Frank Grillo
Studio: Warner Bros. Entertainment
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama
Year: 2010

Mel Gibson‘s comeback to a leading role is very dramatic and moving. Gibson is detective Thomas Craven, who sees his activist daughter Emma shot dead in his arms. Police and media try to bury the story claiming that the killer missed the father and accidentally hit Emma, but Thomas starts to understand that there’s something wrong and suspicious behind all this

With Edge of Darkness director Martin Campbell put together a slow-paced thriller with unforgettable dialogues (and we shall all thank the amazing Ray Winstone for that), corporate conspiracies and political intrigues. Craven is a father determined to avenge his daughter – and that’s just what he’s going do

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Don’t Touch My Daughter Revenge Films | 5

Death Wish

Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Wallace, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Kya-Hill, Kathleen Tolan, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Helen Martin, Olympia Dukakis, Marcia Jean Kurtz
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama
Year: 1974

Paul Kersey is a middle-class architect, an average man with an average life. One day a group of thugs subverts his daily grind by breaking into his home while he’s away. The thugs kill his wife and rape his beloved daughter, making Paul discover his most violent instincts. It is the police’s failure to find the criminals that let out the assassin hidden within Charles Bronson

The transformation from architect to vigilante is now full on and it’s going to be hard to prevent Kersey from doing himself justice. Death Wish is a true classic, the mother of all vengeance movies