| Goodfellas (1990) | 8.7 | |
| Blue Ruin (2013) | 7.1 | |
| Scarface (1983) | 8.3 | |
| A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 7.9 | |
| Lady Vengeance (2005) | 7.5 |
Violence movies and TV shows – page 3
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, violence, murder, revenge, kung fu classic, vengeance, vigilante, fight scenes, kung fu, kung fu master, hand to hand combat, wuxia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, 1910s, 70s
Place:
japan, bolivia, asia, china, shanghai ...
Is relevant?
496K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, cult classic, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, monster, survival, jungle, creature, military, chase, deadly creature, alien invasion, hunting, gory, special forces ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987, future
Place:
latin america, south america, central america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, danger, violence, police investigation, death, society, abduction, folk horror, murderer, brutality, life philosophy, blood ...
Place:
germany, alps, austria, central europe, europe
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style:
suspense, cult classic, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place:
pittsburgh
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, drug dealing, gay rape, orgy, gang, anal rape, psychopath, police corruption, drug dealer, corrupt law enforcer, suicide, nightclub ...
Time:
90s, year 2012, 20th century
Place:
iceland, scandinavia, europe, reykjavik iceland
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, violence, isolation, loneliness, psychopath, murderer, mental disorder, social realism, crime investigation, mental illness, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
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21K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The boredom of small town life is eating Bill Williamson alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of everyday life and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. His ...
Style:
psychological, brutal, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence spree, killing spree, bad guy wins, violence, violent, chase, vengeance, murder, mass murder, serial killer, breaking point, massacre ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
Is relevant?
64K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting ...
Style:
gothic, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
comic book, death, bounty hunter, gunslinger, superhero, revenge, american civil war, violence, civil war, one against many, brutality, supernatural ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1870s
Place:
usa, virginia, south carolina, arizona, charleston south carolina ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, splatter, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, rape, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sex, macabre, sexual abuse, cruelty, violence, sexualized violence, female vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, england, europe, germany, new england ...
Is relevant?
259K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK, Qatar
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, visually stunning, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
competition, abusive mother, ice skater, figure skating, female protagonist, strong female lead, violence, mother daughter relationship, winter olympics, skating, emotional abuse, domestic violence ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 2017, year 1992, 80s ...
Place:
oregon, detroit, portland oregon, minneapolis minnesota
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
father son relationship, violence, cia agent, tough cop, car chase, terrorist, terrorism, 007, american abroad, car accident, traffic jam, uranium ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly ...
Style:
sexy, biting, black comedy, satirical, medical horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, violence, coming of age, dysfunctional family, sex scene, teenager, revenge, body horror, chastity belt, dark humor, sex, rape and revenge ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, depressing, bloody, surprise ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, violence, vengeance, torture, loss of loved one, suicide, brutality, tragedy, murder, gory, organ donation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, vigilante, martial arts, vigilantism, machismo, gun fu, one man army, cold war, spy, gunfight, shootout, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
miami, florida, usa, everglades, atlanta georgia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, ghost, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, sibling relationship, haunted house, split personality, violence, schizophrenic ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 2017
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, emotional, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, killing, high school, death, father daughter relationship, mass murder, bullying, social misfits, heroes, true crime, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in ...
Style:
bloody, disturbing, sexual, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence, vampire, sex, gory, cannibal, cannibalism, murder, wanting to die, chambermaid, bloodbath, flesh eating, masturbation ...
Time:
year 2001, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, ghana
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Style:
clever, suspense, visually stunning, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
vietnam war, military, war, soldier, anti war, suicide, basic training, boot camp, violence, sniper, military life, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, year 1968, year 1987, 60s ...
Place:
vietnam, persia, america, asia, south carolina ...
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style:
cerebral, tense, surreal, scary, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female serial killer, body horror, serial killer, violence, psycho killer, party, car accident, cutting one's own hair, pretending to be someone else, childbirth, father son relationship, delusional man ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego ...
Style:
entertaining, saga, suspense, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
superhero, technology, teenager, teenage life, costumed hero, violence, high school, supernatural power, mentor, tony stark character, school, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, washington d.c., north america, maryland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets Kato (Jay Chou), a resourceful company ...
Style:
funny, satirical, buddy comedy, entertaining, action thriller ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
violence, revenge, vigilante, superhero, inheritance, buddy, martial arts, gunfight, chase, fight scenes, justice, good versus evil ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, killer, professional killer, hitman, wilderness, chase, assassin, fbi, assassination, murder, skinny dipping, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2006, future
Place:
san francisco
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a dhampir (half-human, half-vampire), prone to fits of blind blood rage but saddled with a compunction for humans, strives to avenge her mother's rape by her father, Kagan, King of Vampires. Two vampire ...
Style:
gothic, bloody, scary, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
vampire, violence, vampirism, female fighter, destiny, sexy female vampire, vampire human love, vengeance, vampire hunter, medieval, female warrior, human sacrifice ...
Time:
medieval times, 18th century
Place:
romania, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, revenge, anal rape, male nudity, vengeance, murder, male rape, rape victim, gay rape, suicide, dark hero, sexual assault ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, realistic, poignant, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, rape, injustice, sexual assault, rape victim, violence, gang rape, sexual abuse, violence against women, legal action, fraternity, legal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
massachusetts, boston, usa, washington d.c., washington state ...
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Style:
road movie, dark, cult classic, gothic, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, femme fatale, violence, hitchhiker, farm, bloodsucker, truck, goth, motel, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, immortality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, nebraska, austin texas, usa ...
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