| Saw III (2006) | 6.2 | |
| Hostel (2005) | 5.9 | |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) | 5.8 | |
| Eden Lake (2008) | 6.7 | |
| Prisoners (2013) | 8.2 |
Torture movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant torture movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful and realistic films and TV shows about / with torture, murder, violence, gore, violent, brutality, gory, sadism, blood and danger plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as torture: Grotesque (2009), The Girl Next Door (2007), Hostel: Part II (2007), Martyrs (2008), Funny Games (2007), Hostel (2005), I Spit on Your Grave (2010), Vile (2011), The Experiment (2001), The Last House on the Left (2009).
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, sexy, horrifying, slasher ...
Plot:
torture, sadism, captivity, kidnapping, violence, sexual abuse, gory, psychopath, brutality, violent death, held captive, transgression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, frightening, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, violence, victim, physical abuse, cruelty, helplessness, abuse, childhood, unsettling ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style:
slasher, bloody, sexy, brutal, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, sadistic horror, tourist, travel, castration, violence, kidnapping, sadism, killed by a dog, brutality ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
rome italy, europe, slovakia, prague
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Sandy has stumbled onto a lair of torture and humiliation. She was abducted and brought to this pit of pain as the next intended victim. But Sandy overthrows her captor and kills him. Does she release the other prisoners? Does she call the police? ...
Style:
explicit, rough, sadistic, controversial, bloody ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, pervert, rape, perversion, torture, violence, kidnapped woman, sadistic woman, female nudity, revenge, violent, macabre ...
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110K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, murder, brutality, violence, torment ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
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203K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, violence, rape, revenge, rapist, sexual abuse, serial killer, danger, female vigilante, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of attractive young people (of course) awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with new accouterments--electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls--and a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
torture, trapped, sadism, brutality, psychopath, danger, survival, murder, mind game, captivity, isolation, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
prison, experiment, torture, abuse, social experiment, aggression, prison escape, disorder, degradation, warden, psychology, violence ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
germany, canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on true events
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, brutality, murder, sadism, maniac, torture, castration, wilderness, stalking, friendship, nudity, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 266 min.
Story:
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is ...
Style:
disturbing, extreme horror, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
tortured to death, torture, world war two, transgression, sadism, experiment, male victim, extreme, violent, found footage, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
japan, russia, asia, korea, china ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the ...
Style:
frightening, serious, brutal, sadistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, murder, held captive, husband wife relationship, psychopath, mutilation, kidnapping, woman in danger, strong violent content, moral dilemma, violent ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, gory, torture, violence, macabre, sadism, incest, perversion, controversy, insanity, murder ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
dark, sexy, disturbing, scary, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, plastic surgery, revenge, amputation, surgery, rape and revenge, stripper, medical student, police detective, rape, female nudity, female killer ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of college friends celebrate the end of term with a party to end all parties. During a drink and drug-fuelled evening, an innocent game of ‘Truth or Dare’ has a very sore loser, sparking a terrifying sequence of events and a whole new ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological, fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, truth or dare, brother brother relationship, psychopath, revenge, unrequited love, survival game, cheating on boyfriend, hidden camera, gory, confined, isolated house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
108K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, bad ending, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, torture, camping, chase, forest, youth, fear, gory, revenge, teenager, maniac, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, england, britain
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.
Style:
bloody, brutal, frightening, perverse, extreme horror ...
Plot:
violence, torture, murder, brutality, held captive, dismemberment, violence against women, sexualized violence, sexual cruelty, sexual torture, violent, escape ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
Is relevant?
114K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Chile, Israel, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
home invasion, female villain, sex scene, torture, rape, married man, violence, seductress, one night stand, seduction, infidelity, threesome ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, chile
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a night of partying, four friends are kidnapped by a mysterious man. The friends wake up in a basement, and realize they are part of something horrifying. A human breeding farm. They are to be milked, bred, and much, much worse.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
torture, rape, female nudity, life & death, trapped, violent, locked in a room, youth, vigilante, murder, characters in danger, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style:
disturbing, psychological horror, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
fear, torture, nightmare, cruelty, psychopath, manipulation, college student, childhood trauma, held captive, violence, mind game, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter ...
Style:
gloomy, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
police, vengeance, revenge, kidnapping, rape, rape and revenge, child killer, torture, vigilante, rape and murder, anger, male nudity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
canada, quebec
Is relevant?
720
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Few Indians are aware of the number of suicides that occur in Indian Hostels as a result of the phenomenon termed as 'Ragging'. This sadistic practice has become a ritual wherein students are beaten up, stripped, paraded naked, starved, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense
Plot:
abuse, torture, frustration, depression, social problems, school, social relations, social misfits, life is a bitch, society, high school life, violent ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Russia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Rainy summer evening... Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction. Or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is reconstructed to become a club. At first, the party sees ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tension ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
bomb shelter, fear, panic, survival, isolation, club, trapped, danger, torture, ghost, group of strangers, confined ...
Time:
year 2010
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Style:
controversial, brutal, disturbing, bloody, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibalism, jungle, gory, torture, cannibal, rape, found footage, amazon rainforest, revenge, animal cruelty, violence, filmmaking ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
south america, latin america, north america, new york state, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A Tale of Homo-cidal Mania! Gay sex buddies Nathan and Justin are united by their passion for slasher, vigilante, serial killer and zombie films. Bored and frustrated with their lives as students at an obscure college in impoverished New Haven, ...
Style:
slasher, semi serious, realistic, scary, humorous
Plot:
gay, murder, torture, rape, obsession, serial killer, friends, youth, buddies, gays and lesbians, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
dominatrix, sadism, sex worker, held captive, masochism, rape and revenge, rape victim, imprisonment, sexual abuse, sadomasochism, torture, murder ...
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