Barefoot Women in Movies
My labor of love to those who share my fondness for female feet. Listed here are movies I've seen that tickle this particular fancy, either through an actress that spends the majority of a given film barefoot or through more brief but memorable barefoot scenes. Feel free to comment with suggestions for titles you think deserve to be here, and I'll add them as I watch them. Enjoy!
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- DirectorNeil JordanStarsIsabelle HuppertChloë Grace MoretzMaika MonroeA young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.Chloe Grace Moretz is barefoot through much of this, both in her own apartment and in that of the titular character. Maika Monroe is also barefoot in several of her scenes, though she has significantly less screen time overall. Isabella Huppert is also shown dancing around in pantyhose.
- DirectorSuzi EwingStarsKelly ReillyLuke EvansJill WinternitzA man abducts a flower shop owner and holds her captive in a small, soundproof room in an effort to extract a dark secret from her past.Kelly Reilly is kidnapped in the opening moments of this and spends the entire running time barefoot in the home of her captor.
- DirectorFederico D'AlessandroStarsMaika MonroeEd SkreinGary OldmanA woman is held captive by a scientist in a futuristic smart house, and hopes to escape by reasoning with the Artificial Intelligence that controls the house.Maika Monroe is barefoot throughout starting with her capture during the first few minutes. Even after her captor exchanges her futuristic prison jumpsuit for regular clothes, her feet remain bare.
- DirectorDan TrachtenbergStarsJohn GoodmanMary Elizabeth WinsteadJohn Gallagher Jr.A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.Mary Elizabeth Winstead is barefoot in jeans right up to the climax. There are a few great close ups and mildly dirty sole shots as she crawls through the ventilation system.
- DirectorRob GrantStarsMunro ChambersChris GrayEmily TyraRivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.The movie takes place on a yacht, and as such all of the characters are barefoot for the duration including the lovely Emily Tyra.
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world invaded by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.All of the characters go barefoot as a plot point, and we get some good views of Emily Blunt's feet throughout.
- DirectorTony ElliottStarsRobbie AmellRachael TaylorShaun BensonTrapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.This movie is shown as a repeating time loop that always begins as our main protagonists are roused from their bed, so they're always in their pajamas. Plenty of views of Rachel Taylor's bare feet, including close ups of them bound to a chair.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPatricia ArquetteU Aung KoFrances McDormandLaura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, during which time she falls in with students fighting for democracy. She and their leader, U Aung Ko, travel through Burma, whilst witnessing many bloody acts of repression by the dictatorship, in an attempt to escape to Thailand. Based on a true story.Patricia Arquette's feet go through hell in this - she's barefoot for most of the movie - over rough terrain, jungle, unimproved roads, and even gravel.
- DirectorCraig BrewerStarsChristina RicciSamuel L. JacksonJustin TimberlakeA God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.Christina Ricci is barefoot throughout, and even wanders around outside barefoot. The one scene she does wear shoes into a supermarket, and she loses them before the scene ends and is once again barefoot by the time she leaves.
- DirectorDavid NerlichAndrew TrauckiStarsDiana GlennMaeve DermodyAndy RodoredaA boat tour of a mangrove swamp turns into a fight for survival when a group of people are attacked by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.Most of this takes place in a tree that two women have climbed to escape a killer Crocodile. Both are barefoot from the time they leave the boat for the tree through the end of the movie. There are a handful of close-ups and clear shots.
- DirectorGeoffrey OrthweinAndrew SullivanStarsMaika MonroeMatt O'LearyArnar JónssonOn a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared.Maika Monroe's third entry on this list. She absent-mindedly kicks her shoes off while riding around in a car, and isn't seen with footwear again. Great close-ups in the car scene when she first loses her slip-ons.
- DirectorDave SchwepStarsLio TiptonTyler LabineLauren BowlesAbandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.Analeigh Tipton is barefoot for the duration of this. Good thing, because there's not much to see in this movie otherwise.
- DirectorHy AverbackStarsPeter SellersJo Van FleetLeigh Taylor-YoungA thirty-something square falls in love with a hippie and decides to "drop out" himself.Leigh Taylor-Young plays the stereotypical barefoot hippie in this, and does so adorably. She's barefoot everywhere - in the street, working at a clothing shop, even in attendance at a funeral. Precious few focus shots but worth a watch anyway.
- DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsKaya ScodelarioBarry PepperMorfydd ClarkGigantic alligators swarm around a young woman and her father as floodwaters engulf their home.Kaya Scodelario wears thin flip-flops for the start of this and loses them within the first 15 minutes or so. She spends the rest of the movie barefoot as she alternates between swimming, climbing, and crawling around her father's destroyed house.
- DirectorPollyanna McIntoshStarsCooper AndrewsLauryn CannyKristina ArntzA direct sequel to 2011's The Woman.Polyanna McIntosh is barefoot in scenes before she is 'domesticated' by the convent, and shown barefoot in several flashback-type scenes after that.
- DirectorZack SnyderStarsSarah PolleyVing RhamesMekhi PhiferA nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.Classic barefoot scene featuring Sarah Polley, who is forced to escape her house dressed in her pajamas and barefoot. She finds a change of clothes and, sadly, a pair of tennis shoes later when the survivors meet up in the shopping mall.
- DirectorJoe SwanbergStarsJake JohnsonRosemarie DeWittOrlando BloomThe discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend.Almost every character in this movie is depicted barefoot at one point or another. Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, and Rosemarie DeWitt all have scenes.
- DirectorFede AlvarezStarsStephen LangJane LevyDylan MinnetteThree delinquents break into the house of a war veteran who is blind to steal his money. However, they discover that the man is not as defenseless as he seems.There is a brief barefoot scene featuring a minor character bound in a basement, but adding to this list for Jane Levy's scenes. Though she's not barefoot, she instructs her companions to remove their shoes when breaking into a house to avoid making noise, and spends the rest of the movie running around in black socks. She even escapes the house and runs down the street like this in two separate scenes.
- DirectorJon KeeyesStarsJohanna StantonNicholas BallDebbie RochonA woman wakes up locked in a small room with no memory of how she arrived there. Unable to escape, and tormented by a series of paranormal entities, she must uncover the riddle of who she is and how she got here.Johanna Stanton is barefoot throughout this trippy movie about a young woman confined in a room of horrors.
- DirectorMalek AkkadStarsD.B. SweeneySarah ButlerMalcolm McDowellAn employee, working for Gault Capital in L.A, gets targeted by a ruthless assassin and locked in the elevator after she uncovers a chilling secret.Fairly unimaginative thriller about a woman trapped in an elevator while being pursued by her would-be killer. Thankfully for those of us who hold certain interests, she ditches her heels during her initial escape and spends the better part of this barefoot in the elevator.
- DirectorRichard StanleyStarsDylan McDermottStacey TravisJohn LynchThe head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.Stacey Travis is barefoot in all but a few scenes, even when she's cutting and welding on a metal sculpture. A nice surprise given the post-apocalyptic setting.
- DirectorBen YoungStarsEmma BoothAshleigh CummingsStephen CurryVicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.This was full of bare feet, both for Emma Booth and Ashleigh Cummings. Ashleigh's character is asked to remove her shoes when entering the house she winds up being kept in, and neither of our lead actresses wear shoes again.
- DirectorThomas SiebenStarsMax von der GroebenJella HaaseClemens SchickSnatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully-laid plans.Vastly inferior shot-for-shot remake of "The Disappearance of Alice Creed." Jella Hasse is barefoot for most of her kidnapping, but dons footwear for the climax once out of the room she's held in.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl HannahAfter waking from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.A personal favorite of mine, and not just for the foot content which, given it's a Tarantino flick, is gratuitous. Uma Thurman has several scenes and several close-ups, and there are a few more shots at Lucy Liu's club.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.From a standpoint of barefoot content, I actually prefer this one to the first. Uma Thurman is buried alive barefoot in jeans, and remains that way once she digs herself out and takes her revenge on those who have wronged her. A classic.
