Played straight in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist when the titular characters are arguing and Norah gets so upset that she hits Nick in the throat.
Jerry Maguire is punched out by his girlfriend when he breaks up with her. The scene is played for comedy and is never mentioned as abuse.
Subverted in Kung Fu Hustle, the domineering landlady beats up her lecherous doormat of a husband with comedic, slapstick violence. It later turns out that his kung-fu ability is to absorb and redirect force.
In Tokyo Zombie a man buries his mother in a giant mountain of trash and corpses when his girlfriend threatens sex deprivation. The girl kicks her head into orbit while belittling her boyfriend.
In the original The Parent Trap, Maggie socks her ex-husband Mitch in the eye. His dialogue implies previous abuse: "Why do you have to get so physical? Can't even talk to you about anything, you're always trying to belt me with something."
The Parent Trap (1998) acknowledges the abuse when Elizabeth asks, "Did I hurt you when I threw that...what was it?" and Nick wryly says, "It was a hair dryer." Later on Meredith throws a ring at him and he jokes "at least it's smaller than a hair dryer".
Played straight in Birthday Girl. Sophia participates in the beating, robbery, torture, and kidnapping of her husband John. There are disturbing intimations that John deserves to be victimized because he is a fan of bondage porn.
Played straight in Baby Boy. Yvette punches her boyfriend Jody in the eye. She blocks his path when Jody tries to leave before it gets worse than it already was. Invoked when Yvette tells Jody not to put his hands on her while she's attacking him.
Discussed in In Bruges when Ray mentions he Would Not Hit a Girl, and notes that he would only hit a woman in self-defense or if she was armed.
Parodied in the song "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago when inmates of the jail give flimsy justifications for murdering their husbands, singing "He had it coming."
Mary Poppins: In the Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious sequence, one woman plays a percussion instrument by slamming it on her husband's head.
Husband: For example... Mary Poppins: Yes? Husband: Once I said it to me girl, and now me girl's me wife. Wife slams instrument on Husband's head. Husband: And a lovely thing she is, too.
Played straight in the romantic comedy Serious Moonlight when Louise hits her husband with a potted plant and tapes him to a chair until he loves her again.
In Thursday Dallas ties Casey to a chair. Then she rapes and taunts him, saying she won't kill him until he achieves an orgasm. She also says she hopes he'll get her pregnant.
In Think Like a Man, it's implied that Cedric's wife is abusive to him when he has a black eye that he tries to play off as a sports injury. His friends constantly tease him about it instead of taking it seriously.
The Gamers: Natural One: Monica gets two masked men to kidnap Ryan, making him take part in a trial to see if he is worthy to marry her. Ryan forgives her when she agrees to make "reparations" of a "kinky" nature.
In Captain America: The First Avenger Peggy Carter punches a man to the ground and shoots at Captain America without letting him explain that he didn't initiate the kiss with the Sexy Secretary.
In Intermission Sam leaves his wife, Noeleen, for a younger woman. She confronts him outside the bank where he works and assaults him. Played for Laughs in The Stinger, where they're back together, and she assaults him.
In Hot Tub Time Machine, Jenny stabs Adam in the eye for breaking up with her. Despite knowing what she did. Adam and his friends still think he shouldn't have broken up with her.
Played Straight in Dinner for Schmucks. Darla is a psychotic Yandere who stalks Tim, forces herself on him and destroys both his apartment and car.
Played for Laughs in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) when Gaby slaps Illya twice after convincing him to dance with her and then tackles him to the ground when he protests.
In Blockers Hunter confesses that he cheated on his ex-wife after she had cheated on him and beat him up in a restaurant. It's revealed the other characters in the scene weren't paying attention and Hunter has to say Not Listening to Me, Are You?.
In Phantom ThreadAlma deliberately feeds Ryan poison mushrooms so he will be too weak to stop her from doing what she wants, later playing this off as a form of sadomasochistic romance.
In Overboard (2018), a woman abducts a man who owes her money and tricks him into becoming her husband.
In Something to Talk About, Emma Rae knees her philandering brother-in-law Eddie in the groin. The scene is played for laughs.
Batman Begins: Bruce Wayne tells Rachel Dawes that he's planning to shoot the man that murdered his parents. She responds by slapping him.
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Gillian slaps her boss for releasing the whales without giving her a chance to say goodbye.
In Gone with the Wind Scarlett slaps Ashley when he says he's marrying Melanie instead of her, and Rhett when he leaves her to drive Melanie, Prissy and the baby back to Tara.
In Any Given Sunday, after the injured veteran quarterback of the Sharks, Cap Rooney, thinks about quitting football and letting Willie Beaman have the starting position without contesting it before the playoffs, his wife gets angry and violently slaps him, telling him to man up and get his job back. He listen to her, only to get seriously hurt again during the game. Played with, however, as his wife is shown in the stands with a My God, What Have I Done? expression as he is carried off the field. Luckily, he is okay enough to help Beaman win the playoff game during the climax from the sidelines.
Thorthe Dark World: Jane slaps Loki across the face upon their first meeting, to which he simply responds with “I like her”.
The Book of Revelation: Daniel reports to the police how a friend of his was kidnapped, which makes the officers laugh. He starts laughing hysterically with them. This, however, only applies to them, as the film narrative treats everything which Daniel suffered as rightly horrific and mentally scarring.
