- The Naked Kiss (1964)
In the opening scene, when I saw an arm reach up out of nowhere to snatch the wig off a woman's shiny bald head as she was in the middle of purse-whipping the daylights out of her pimp, I knew this was going to be my kind of movie.
- The Skin I Live In (2011)
A mad doctor's experiments with facial skin transplants turn his captive lady into a bald and beautiful Elena Anaya, so of course the doc can't control himself.
- V for Vendetta (2005)
Natalie Portman looks great as a Baldielocks, but unfortunately she's bald in the movie because she was kidnapped, shaved, and thrown into prison. Head shaving has been a way to shame and disempower people throughout history.
- Splice (2009)
Delphine Chaneac is a gene-spliced animal/human hybrid who grows into some kind of winged kangaroo creature with a bald head, but she's still sexy enough to seduce her male creator. Then she turns into a male and attacks her female creator.
- THX 1138 (1971)
In a future dystopian underground city, people have given up their freedom for security, their emotions are suppressed by anti-depressant drugs, and they never look up from their touch-screen devices except to watch reality programming on their TV, or something like that... but LUH-3417, played by Maggie McOmie with a shaved head, breaks out of the dull conformity and tries to lead THX-1138 to freedom.
Most of the cast had their heads shaved for the film, and there is even a promo movie called Bald: The Making of THX 1138 where you can see them getting buzzed.
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Saint Joan gets a jailhouse cut that leaves her almost completely bald.
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
After WWII, some French women who had relationships with German soldiers during the occupation had their hair violently cut off, then they were beaten and dragged naked through jeering crowds.
In this film we see a flashback of Emmanuele Riva locked in a basement with her hair all cut off as punishment for having a German boyfriend.
- Minority Report (2002)
Samantha Morton is a bald-headed psychic who spends her days lying in a bathtub full of milky liquid wired up and dreaming about the future.
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Mr. Sulu, set a course for the planet of bald-headed women, and step on it!
Persis Khambatta's beautiful shiny dome head is probably the most memorable part of this voyage of the Starship V'Ger, the first Star Trek movie. The TV spinoff Babylon V had several baldies, too.
- Alien³ (1992)
After Ripley crash-lands on a prison planet she is told that she should shave her hair as all the men there did because there was a planet-wide lice infestation. After she does, a damaged android tells her he likes her new haircut. You can see someone shaving Sigourney Weaver's head in the making of Alien 3 video.
- Water (I) (2005)
In 1938 India, a young girl, around 8 years old, is married off to an old man who soon dies, so her parents dress her in white, shave her head, and dump her off at an ashram for poor widows, all of whom have their hair cropped short except for the young and beautiful one who is prostituted to pay the rent. (The head widow later cuts her hair very short when she threatens to leave and get married. Of course, since she's played by Bollywood Bombshell Lisa Ray, she still looks amazing.) A priest tells one of the widows that the scriptures say a widow has three choices - to throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, to live a life of deprivation, or to marry her husband's younger brother. A young Brahmin law student and follower of Ghandi later tells her that widows are sent away under the guise of religion, but the reality is that it is done simply so the family can save money by having one less person to feed and clothe. This traditional mistreatment of women is the main message of the film, creating much controversy which contributed to long delays in production and a negative response in India where such practices still occur in some areas. A message at the end of the film states that there are 34 million widows in India according to the 2001 census.
- Ten (2002)
Ten different segments of the movie are all filmed from a camera placed on the dashboard of a car, facing the driver and the passenger. The women in the car wear something to cover their hair, but not their face. Showing a woman's hair in Iranian films is not allowed. The driver picks up a friend who has been having relationship problems with her boyfriend. She removes her head covering and we see that she has shaved her head to get rid of the pain of her breakup. It comes as a real shock to suddenly see all of a woman's head in the movie, even if it is shaved. It's a nice trick by the director to let us see the woman without a head covering, without the scene being censored - he isn't breaking any rules by showing a woman's hair, because she doesn't have any.
- Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Ellen Page runs away and joins a German street-people cult. The leader shaves the left half of her head making her run around with a sideways mullet. Then when she is finally accepted into the group, he shaves the rest. Her mom comes and has her head shaved, too. IMDB says all the cast members really shaved their heads for this film, and you can believe everything you read on IMDB, right?
- The Holy Mountain (1973)
A man listed in the credits as the "Alchemist" dressed in black wearing a black hat with an enormous rounded crown, rubs a wet towel over two similar-looking blonde women to remove their makeup. Then he takes off their jewelry and fake nails, and tears their clothing off. Next he cuts their hair off with a scissors, and then cuts it very close with manual clippers, until finally they are completely bald. We see them briefly later in the film.
Towards the end of the film, when he and 9 other seekers have reached Lotus Island on their search for the Holy Mountain, he shaves everyone's head, including his and several women. We follow them around for the rest of the film.
- G.I. Jane (1997)
After one day of Navy Seal training with long hair, Lt. O'Neill (Demi Moore) goes into the base barber shop where we watch her take a pair of electric clippers and completely shave her head. For real.
- Empire Records (1995)
Robin Tunney uses an electric razor to buzz her head in the bathroom of the hip little independent record store where she works. Then she punches the time clock for another day of sneering at any customer who dares to look at a major-label record.
- Les Misérables (2012)
Anne Hathaway had most of her long hair hacked off for this movie. Pictures online show her with her head completely shaved after the movie - they may or may not be fake.
- Dune (1984)
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is the leader of a group of women with shaved heads. They are members of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, powerful telepathic women, called Witches by men, who can use a special voice to manipulate others into doing their will.
- Heaven (I) (2002)
Cate Blanchette shaves her head to disguise herself from the law when she's on the run. A dye job or a hat and sunglasses wouldn't work?
- Anna and the King (1999)
The king's concubine Bai Ling has her head shaved as punishment for loving another guy. I guess that's supposed to shame her and make her unattractive, but be careful your majesty, it seems to have the opposite effect.
- Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Turns out, the list everybody is running around looking for is tattooed on the back of Noemie Lenoir's bald head.
- 8 ½ Women (1999)
After a rich man's wife dies, he and his son fill the empty bedrooms of his mansion with women who are paid to be his lovers. Toni Collette plays a Scandinavian woman who becomes one of the kept women to pay off a large debt she owes. She is described as a retired nun and when she gets to the mansion we see someone shaving her hair off for reasons that are not explained. After that she walks around either with no clothes and no hair, or wearing a nun's habit over her shaved head.
- The Desire: A Journey of a Woman (2011)
Shilpa Shetty looks so good as a bald monk in this love story between an Indian classical dancer and a Chinese artist, that you'll want to run away and join a monastery (even if it's just a bald cap she's wearing.)
- My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Cameron Diaz wears a bald cap playing a mother who shaves her head in solidarity with her daughter who suffers from leukemia, but the daughter, Sofia Vassilieva, shaved her head for real.
- Insignificant Things (2008)
Barbara Mori shaves her head to support her son whose cancer treatment causes him to lose his hair.
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
A woman working in a depraved stock market boiler room is offered $10,000 at a wild party to have her head shaved. We see a guy using electric clippers on her then we see her with most of her hair gone as a woman hands her a stack of money. And this is not the worst thing by far that the greedy pigs in the company do to women, and to their customers.
- Nappily Ever After (2018)
Halle Berry shaved her head for this 2007 film that has not been released yet, so until it is, you'll have to be content to look at the photo shopped pictures of her bare head online.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Charlize Theron is "Imperator Furiosa," a bad-ass truck driver with a mechanical arm and a buzzed head who uses axle grease as part of her makeup routine.
- Green Snake (1993)
When he is meditating in a temple, a monk is distracted by several bald-headed monkey-women with long tails.
- The Devils (1971)
Some of the nuns who are possessed by the devil have shaved heads.
- Spy Kids (2001)
A woman has a mostly-shaved head with some chunks of hair that weren't shaved.
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Olivia Cooke shaved her head for her part as a teenage girl undergoing chemotherapy.
- Vera (2003)
Urara Kusanagi starved her body, shaved off her hair, and painted her skin blue for the role of a Vera, who is some kind of spirit guide or extra-terrestrial or android or something definitely not human.
- Caged (1950)
Eleanor Parker is a nineteen-year-old woman in prison who is put in solitary confinement for fighting with a prison matron. Before she's locked up, the matron, who believes in old-fashioned prison punishment, has Eleanor gagged and restrained while she shaves her head. Eleanor has a nervous breakdown after losing all her hair, so the warden tries to fire the matron.
- Miss You Already (2015)
Toni Collette shaved her head for real for her role as a women getting treatment for breast cancer.
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Jena Malone is seen at the beginning of the movie in a hospital with her head completely shaved, and at the end we see that it has grown back, but the baldness was fake - a combination of special effects, a bald wig, and a real bald-headed woman as a body double.
Natalie Dormer also has the left side of her head shaved and tattooed and very long hair brushed over the right side.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Karen Gillan shaved her head for her role as the villain Nebula.
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Alice Krige plays the Borg Queen who has a bald head with some wires sticking out of it. It's a good look for her.
- Deadpool (2016)
Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) is a teenage girl member of the X-Men, who has a buzz cut. Deadpool compares her to Sinead O'Connor and Ripley from Alien 3.
(In Deadpool 2, she has a Mohawk, but Deadpool calls her "Eleven" anyway, after the girl in "Stranger Things," though someone else refers to her as Justin Bieber.)
- Doctor Strange (2016)
Tilda Swinton plays "The Ancient One," the bald-headed mentor of Doctor Strange. (The Ancient One was a bald man in the Marvel Comics.)
- Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
When her husband puts her to bed and takes off her wig we see that Florence (Meryl Streep) has a completely bald head.
- The Wolverine (2013)
Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova plays Dr. Green aka Viper or Madame Viper, who peels the skin off her head like a shedding snake, including all of her long blonde hair, leaving her noggin bald as a doorknob and ready to continue the fight.
- Life in a Year (2020)
Cara Delevingne shaved her head for the movie.
- Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
A temple priestess in charge of a monastery for women removes her hood and we see that she has a completely shaven head. Then the hero of this male fantasy trash rapes her to force her to give him information and she likes it so much she begs him not to stop. I'm not making this up...
- Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
An Asian woman is let out of a bamboo cage and threatened with a whip until she dances for the customers of a San Francisco Chinatown slave auction of kidnapped women. An old Chinese man takes his cane and pulls off her wig showing that she is completely bald. The customers yell fraud saying that they are being cheated because the merchandise is damaged and argue with the slave pimp until the elderly leader of the auction is brought in to lower the price and quiet them down. We later discover that both the old man with the cane and the elderly leader are also wearing wigs and disguises.
- Black Panther (2018)
Wakandan General Okoye and her elite squad of women warriors shave their heads and wield explosive spears. Okoye's scalp is also covered with decorative tattoos.
- Beautifully Insecure (2017)
A young woman with Alopecia hides her baldness from the world until she falls in love and worries about revealing her condition to her boyfriend.
- The Zero Theorem (2013)
Tilda Swinton plays Dr. Shrink-Rom, a virtual psychiatrist who removes her ridiculous triangular wig to expose a bald head.
- Downsizing (2017)
There is a quick shot of Kristen Wiig in a bald wig with a hood over her head telling her husband that she changed her mind about getting small. To get small, or downsize, people need to have their entire bodies shaved and their fillings removed. Wiig said that after her hair and eyebrows were shaved, she realized she was making a mistake. Matt Damon was entirely shaved for the movie making him look a lot like a boiled potato.
- The Act (2019)
Joey King shaved her head for the show.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Goldshifteh Farahani is Shansa, a witch, who has a completely bald head with a long red tattoo written in Sanskrit swirling around her head and body.
- Anna (II) (2019)
Russian assassin, Anna takes off a long blonde wig that looks like her normal hair revealing a completely bald head that she then covers with a small hat, thereby disguising herself, and letting her walk away unnoticed.
- The Witches (1990)
We see a room full of witches at a convention take off their wigs, exposing their scab and wart-covered itchy bald heads, because as we were told earlier, all witches are bald. You can tell that a woman is a witch when you see her scratching her bald scalp under her wig. Some of the actors playing the witches are actually men in women's clothing.
- Better Days (2019)
A long-haired high school girl is bullied by a group of girls who cut off most of her hair, so her boyfriend uses his electric trimmers to buzz all her hair off, and then does the same to himself in solidarity.
- Dune (2021)
The Harkonnen are completely bald, including the few Harkonnen women we see.
- Ready to Wear (1994)
A runway fashion model has a shaved head and a head tattoo.
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Daisy Head is Sofina, an undead Red Wizard of Thay and the main antagonist of the film, who has a bald head covered with tattoos representing magic spells. But her human form is just a disguise; her actual appearance is that of a decayed skull with dead eyes.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (2023)
Like a lot of people in the sci-fi future, Recorder Vim (Miriam Shor) has a bald head with tech enhancements plugged directly into her skull.
- Mark of the Devil 2 (1973)
Sister Clementine is a bald nun who is accused of witchcraft and fornication with the devil during the Inquisition. She takes off her head covering in front of a little boy who asks her if all nuns have to shave their hair, then tells her that without any hair she won't get a husband. She tells him she's betrothed to the lord.