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Ovarian cancer is the most lethal malignancy of the female reproductive system worldwide. Chemoresistance, particularly platinum resistance, is a major factor limiting improvement in prognosis, and its underlying mechanisms involve complex regulation of and escape from multiple programmed cell death pathways in cancer cells. Disulfidptosis is triggered by high expression of solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11) under glucose starvation and shares upstream regulatory nodes with ferroptosis. Necrosis by sodium overload is driven by sodium ion overload mediated by transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 4 (TRPM4), but its role remains to be further investigated. Other programmed cell death pathways are interwoven into a dynamic regulatory network through key regulatory molecules such as tumor protein p53, the caspase family, cysteine-aspartic proteases, and glutathione. Autophagy can inhibit pyroptosis; ferroptosis and pyroptosis can synergistically amplify cell-killing effects through the reactive oxygen species/NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain-associated protein 3 axis; ferroptosis and cuproptosis share the glutathione metabolic axis; and the interaction between ferroptosis and disulfidptosis can shift from antagonism to synergy under specific metabolic stress. Ferroptosis and necrosis by sodium overload mutually promote each other through cascades involving adenosine triphosphate depletion, reactive oxygen species accumulation, and mitochondrial damage. PANoptosis can overcome cancer-cell resistance to a single mode of cell death through the simultaneous activation of multiple cell death pathways. A comprehensive review of the roles and interactive networks of various programmed cell death modalities, including disulfidptosis, necrosis by sodium overload, apoptosis, autophagy, necroptosis, pyroptosis, ferroptosis, cuproptosis, and PANoptosis, in platinum resistance in ovarian cancer is expected to provide a solid theoretical basis and potential translational directions for reversing platinum resistance and optimizing clinical treatment strategies.