Agony movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant agony movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, realistic, psychological, weird and disturbing films and TV shows about / with agony, blood, death, murder, photograph, gun, pain, corpse, brutality and danger plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
agony movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as agony: The Countess (2009), Martyrs (2008), The Death of Louis XIV (2016), Warfare (2025), Possessor (2020), TORMENT (2017), 3 from Hell (2019), The Tenant (1976), Snuff 102 (2007), The Thin Red Line (1998).

List of agony movies

Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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 ...
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 6.2
 9K
The Countess (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
Style: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, costume drama, stylized ...
Plot: countess, female protagonist, bloodbath, impossible love, murder, death, love, blood, death of husband, witchcraft, virgin, agony ...
Time: middle ages, 17th century, 16th century, victorian era
Place: hungary, europe, slovakia
Is relevant?
 7.0
 119K
Martyrs (2008)
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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The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story: August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, touching, exciting, tense ...
Plot: old man, king of france, dying, french history, agony, pain, death of king, medicine, disability, death, royalty, king ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: france
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 7.2
 104K
Warfare (2025)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A platoon of Navy SEALs embarks on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq, with the chaos and brotherhood of war retold through their memories of the event.
Style: tension, independent film, suspense, period piece, epic war ...
Plot: iraq war, survival, based on real people, sniper, chaos, war zone, blood, war violence, brutality, realism, military, soldier ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: iraq
Is relevant?
 6.5
 53K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological horror, tech noir, psychological, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, murder, brutality, mind control, transgression, assassin, assassination attempt, sociopath, serial killer, assassination, food, blood ...
Time: near future, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada
Is relevant?
 4.2
 176
TORMENT (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Freely inspired to the GACY's torture insane world, this film promise to tell what in other movies no one had the courage to push the limits!
Style: disturbing, suspense, underground film, depressing, psychotronic ...
Plot: sadism, graphic violence, killer clown, gay, sexual torture, murder, serial killer, insane, torture, hallucination, bondage, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
Is relevant?
 5.4
 20K
3 from Hell (2019)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Wilson, the demented Firefly clan escape to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: violence, clown, panic, massacre, serial murder, female nudity, insanity, murderer, psychopath, lethal injection, halloween, sociopath ...
Time: year 2019, year 1988, 80s
Place: mexico, texas
Is relevant?
 7.5
 51K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, creepy ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, nightmare, satire, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, apartment building, loner, dream, landlord tenant relationship, mental illness ...
Time: year 1976, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
 3.5
 1K
Snuff 102 (2007)
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 ...
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style: philosophical, visually stunning, visually appealing, visual, epic ...
Plot: war, world war two, sergeant, jungle, infantry, soldier, pacific war, anti war, u.s. army, pacific island, survival, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place: asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style: breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: manly, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, combat, army, machine gun ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, year 2013 ...
Place: normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, sad, hispanic, philosophical, social ...
Plot: spanish civil war, politics, revolution, anarchist, working class, civil war, communist, trench warfare, anarchy, socialist, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1937 ...
Place: spain, catalonia, barcelona, europe, basque country ...
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Schindler's List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place: poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
Is relevant?
 8.3
 121K
Come and See (1985)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On ...
Style: bleak, harsh, thought provoking, rough, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, nazi, atrocity, occupation, children in wartime, massacre, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future ...
Place: germany, persia, europe, soviet union, russia ...
Is relevant?
 8.4
 764K
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style: bleak, psychological, cult classic, surreal, sexy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, secret mission, violence, mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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The Battle on the River Neretva (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany, USA, France, Croatia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for the Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, battles, military, war, holocaust, freedom, world war, machine gun, tank, revolutionary war, judaism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, year 1939, year 1944, year 1945 ...
Place: former yugoslavia, croatia, bosnia, europe, germany
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Marriage Hunting Beauty (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Takako (Mei Kurokawa) is a beautiful woman in her 30's and she works as a designer. Takako has only had relationships with married men. She decides to change herself with the help of her manga artist friend Keiko (Asami Usuda). Takako signs up ...
Style: crying
Plot: japanese wife, aeroplane, slutty woman, telephone call, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, argument, betrayal, surprise, mother in law daughter in law relationship, office, premarital sex, whore ...
Place: tokyo
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 4.2
 425
Hell (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Story: While traveling, a crew of documentary makers meet a horrible fate when their van falls off a cliff. Though only one of them really dies, the rest are 'accidentally' dragged into hell where each are tortured according to their sins.
Plot: limbo, hell, purgatory, temptation, gay slur, suicide, torture, death, remorse, mother daughter relationship, blood, self sacrifice ...
Is relevant?
 6.8
 68K
Inland Empire (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style: surreal, psychological, avant garde, confusing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, nightmare, macabre, curse, danger, couples, violence, alternate reality, abusive husband, insanity, doppelganger, mysticism ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, los angeles, europe, california, usa ...
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Moonlit Winter (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, first love, lesbian, railway, winter, lesbian love, love interest, secret, forbidden love, mother, teenager, women ...
Place: south korea, japan, hokkaido, korea
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style: cult classic, controversial, art film, heartbreaking, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art, biopic, artist, painter, lgbt, naked man, subculture, gay bar, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, doomed love ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 60s
Place: new york, east end london, paris france, london
Is relevant?
Daughter of Darkness (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture ...
Style: gothic, creepy, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: vampire, fiend, father, silly humor, child in peril, secret agent, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, gory, afterlife, destiny, supernatural romance ...
Time: middle ages, 90s, year 1989
Place: romania, hungary, bucharest, europe
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Family Portrait (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) has died. Enrico recalls their long ...
Style: non-linear, serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, voice over narration, brother brother relationship, death, illness, unemployment, grandmother, estrangement, unfulfillment, humble, siblings relations, social differences ...
Time: year 1962, 1930s, 1940s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, florence
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The Officers' Ward (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-GrĂ¢ce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Style: touching, serious, disturbing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: world war one, hopes, anti war, military, wartime, soldier, starting over, life turned upside down, wartime life, human spirit, war, bravery ...
Time: year 2001, year 1918, 1910s, year 1914, post world war one
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
Is relevant?
 3.8
 3K
Breeders (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, impregnation, raped by monster, space and aliens, alien, supernatural, woman in danger, body horror, transformation, parasite, exploitation, evil alien ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 4.0
 3K
Arachnid (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spider, giant spider, creature feature, cocoon, jungle adventure, mutation, survival, island, pilot, expedition, jungle, entomologist ...
Time: 2000s
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.
Style: sexy, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, sexuality, relationships, sex, desire, adultery, love affair, self discovery, romantic relationship, sexual relations, starting over, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2001, post world war two, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, hong kong, new jersey
Is relevant?
 6.7
 48K
Inside (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style: disturbing, slasher, dark, brutal, christmas horror ...
Plot: home invasion, female killer, female psychopath, blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, violent, sadism, danger, insanity, extreme ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, turn of the century
Place: france
Is relevant?
 5.8
 2K
Midnight Son (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, fall in love, nightshift, isolation, murder, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, couples, violence spree, dracula ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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