Gun held to head movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant gun held to head movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic, independent film and rough films and TV shows about / with gun held to head, murder, violence, gun, blood, shooting, bare chested male, female nudity, flashback and torture plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gun held to head: Bound (1996), Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002), Ma (2019), Dog Eat Dog (2016), Havoc (2005), The Green Inferno (2013), I, Tonya (2017), True Romance (1993), The Isle (2000), Pulp Fiction (1994).

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 7.3
 60K
Bound (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Style: sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbianism, ex convict, mafia, seduction, femme fatale, heist, lesbian sex, female criminal, sex ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: usa, idaho, indiana, chicago
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Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Kirsty Cotten is now all grown up and married. Her memory of the events that took place back at her parent's home and the mental institution have dimmed, but she is still traumatized. A fatal car crash kills Kirsty. Now, her husband finds ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, mindfuck, terrifying ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, amnesia, hellraiser, car accident, body horror, hallucination, monster, villain, androids and robots, creature, violence, cosmic horror ...
Time: 2000s
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 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.8
 10K
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
Style: rough, harsh, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: ex convict, murder, kidnapping, violence, police brutality, baby, impersonating a police officer, drug use, dead body, dark humor, criminal gang, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.5
 20K
Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Green Inferno (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, UK
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, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, survival, gory, decapitation, ant, sadistic horror, suicide, violence, sadistic violence ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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 7.5
 241K
I, Tonya (2017)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
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: dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, rough, twisted ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: competition, abusive mother, figure skating, ice skater, female protagonist, violence, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, abuse, winter olympics, sport competition, fbi investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 2017, year 1992, 80s ...
Place: oregon, detroit, portland oregon, minneapolis minnesota
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 7.9
 241K
True Romance (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Style: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, cocaine, gunfight, mafia, organized crime, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, hotel, pimp, love, mobster, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: los angeles, usa, detroit, california, michigan ...
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 6.9
 15K
The Isle (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, bleak, harsh, cult classic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexualized violence, prostitute, fishing, sex, male nudity, violence, insanity, murder, brutality, suicide attempt, mute, pleasure ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south korea
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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 7.5
 58K
Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 8.4
 95K
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, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, genocide, war crime, against humanity, brutality, holocaust, atrocity, occupation, anti war, nazi, war, military ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1985, near future
Place: germany, ussr, persia, europe, russia ...
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 7.5
 472K
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Style: realistic, emotional, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: iraq war, military, terrorism, sniper, war, soldier, army, bomb squad, marines, terrorist, gulf war, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, afghanistan, america ...
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
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 6.6
 37K
Cherry (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
Style: psychological, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: post traumatic stress disorder, heroin, drug use, american soldier, drug addiction, war veteran, group therapy, iraq war veteran, junkie, society, threat to kill, self pity ...
Time: year 2007, 2020s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Human Tornado (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose Nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized, witty ...
Plot: blaxploitation, superhero, martial arts, exploitation, fighting crime, rivalry, injustice, racism, heroes, lone wolves, gangster, racial prejudice ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: rescue mission, terrorist, terrorism, counter terrorism, airplane hijack, politics, airplane, hijacking, hijacker, death threat, hostage, israeli ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: israel, uganda, jerusalem, frankfurt germany, athens greece
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Deadtime Stories (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Gorge" hikers are trapped in a cave-in must make a gruesome choice. In "On Sabbath Hill," a woman is driven to suicide but remains to torment her lover. In ...
Style: anthology, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, deadly creature, danger, missing person, obsession, murder, mysterious death, vampire, zombie, small town life, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.4
 356K
The Rock (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, hostage, prison, alcatraz, twists and turns, military, mercenary, car chase, prison escape, gunfight, chemical weapon, swat team ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, bay area
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 4.6
 2K
Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, neo noir, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, brutality, murder, twists and turns, fighting crime, witnessing a crime, cons and scams, police officer, prostitute, police investigation, cop, christmas ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, investigation, journalism, police brutality, conspiracy, strangulation, brutality, justice, violence, journalist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2009, year 1974
Place: yorkshire, england, britain, northern england, europe
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The Raspberry Reich (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the Baader-Meinhof gang, a film about modern left Germans adopting the culture of extreme left-wing movements of the 1970s. East German dominatrix Gudrun leads a revolutionary gang of her own in Berlin. She has her men kidnap the son of ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, realistic, parody ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gays and lesbians, father son relationship, gay love, erection, male nudity, gay sex, sexual revolution, explicit sex, gay, rebellion, sex, gang ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, usa, hamburg germany ...
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The Proposition (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot: aborigine, brutality, rape, cowboy, psychopath, outlaw, wilderness, gory, modern western, violence, bounty hunter, savagery ...
Time: 19th century, year 2005, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: australia, oceania
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The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Genre: Thriller, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman (Kari Wuhrer). Now, she is being pursued by angels intent ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, clergy, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, good versus evil, serial killer, danger, destiny, apocalypse, rivalry ...
Place: romania, europe
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 6.6
 3K
Noise (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, policewoman, chaos and mayhem, chaos, suburban life, suburbs, vigilante, paranoia, secret, husband wife relationship ...
Place: australia, melbourne
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 5.4
 7K
Nemesis (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorist group, cyberpunk, terrorism, conspiracy, dystopian future, police detective, chaos, man versus machine, female warrior, microchip ...
Time: future, year 1992, near future, 2020s
Place: usa, los angeles, rio de janeiro, brazil, new mexico ...
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 4.7
 1K
Luckytown (2000)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Kirsten Dunst plays a young woman (Lidda), who is searching for her father (James Caan). She finds herself at odds with her boyfriend who wants nothing but a carefree lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, independent film
Plot: gambling, vengeance, criminal heroes, gangster, uninhibited rivalry, fall in love, betrayal, rivalry, parents and children, estrangement, on the road, strip club ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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 5.5
 77K
Mortdecai (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
Style: humorous, funny, exciting, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: art dealer, spy, art theft, treasure hunt, art, chase, escapades, stolen painting, eccentricity, cons and scams, british, justice ...
Time: year 2015, year 1945, year 1943
Place: england, london, los angeles, paris france, big ben london ...
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne ...
Style: exciting, intense, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: cia, conspiracy, espionage, spy, secret agent, corruption, secret service, escapades, hitman, fighting the system, danger, memory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: langley virginia, new york, paris france, tangier morocco, moscow russia ...
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The Boondock Saints (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Style: suspense, neo noir, entertaining, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, mafia, revenge, vengeance, violent, shooting, fbi, vigilante, gunfight, morality, hitman, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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