4. Goodbye, Bridget von Hammersmark - Inglourious Basterds (2009)
In Inglourious Basterds, the lovely Diane Kruger - who you may know as previously playing the woman whose face launched a thousand ships - now portrays Bridget von Hammersmark, an actress who moonlights as a double-agent against the Nazis. Through a series of unfortunate events - including the inappropriate gesturing of the number 3 - Bridget finds herself shot in the leg in the middle of a gunfight in a basement bar. When she shows up to the movie theater, the site of the planned Hitler assassination, she remains in a cast. Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter, has already deduced that Ms. von Hammersmark is working with the Allies as he found an autographed napkin with her name on it at the scene of the crime. Landa takes Bridget aside prior to the evening's festivities and pulls out her missing shoe from his bag. When it is slipped on her foot in a moment of Tarantino-esque fetishism, Bridget knows that she's been caught and the jig is up. What she doesn't expect is for Landa to jump over, pin her to the ground, and ferociously strangle the life from her. The audience reels in horror as the beautiful actress' face turns red and the vessels of her forehead swell in her last futile moments to free herself from Landa's grip. I think the lesson here is that if there's a movie theater screening a film for a few hundred Nazis, you might be better off just checking it out at home on-demand.