Brutal movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant brutal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out brutal, suspense, disturbing, bloody, weird and psychological films and TV shows about / with violence, brutality, murder, blood, violent, gore, death, torture, extreme and kidnapping plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brutal: August Underground (2001), A Serbian Film (2010), Grotesque (2009), The Raid (2011), Ready or Not (2019), Oldboy (2003), The Last House on the Left (2009), I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013), Eden Lake (2008), I Spit on Your Grave (2010).

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August Underground (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity peaked, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, controversial ...
Plot: torture, degradation, found footage, serial killer, extreme, murder, violent, gory, identical twins, rape, exploitation, basement ...
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 5.0
 71K
A Serbian Film (2010)
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, controversial, rough, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, gory, violence, psychopath, incest, macabre, torture, sexual perversion, insanity, perversion, murder ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: serbia, europe
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 4.7
 7K
Grotesque (2009)
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, controversial, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: torture, sexual abuse, psychopath, sadism, kidnapping, gory, captivity, brutality, violent death, pain, perversion, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.6
 216K
The Raid (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under ...
Style: brutal, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, fight, swat, survival, trapped, kung fu, gunfight, death, fistfight, warrior, gang, swat team ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: middle east, east asia, indonesia
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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: brutal, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannibalism, torture, jungle, rape, gory, cannibal, found footage, amazon rainforest, animal cruelty, sadism, violence, african tribe ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century
Place: south america, latin america, north america, usa, new york
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 6.9
 180K
Ready or Not (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style: suspense, horror comedy, scary, brutal, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, game, rite, satanic cult, pursuit, murder, woman kills a man, hide and seek, wedding, ritual, family curse, fiancee ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1989, 80s
Place: illinois
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 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 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: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, ...
Style: brutal, bloody, disturbing, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, sexual abuse, torture, rapist, gory, nudity, rape victim, gang rape, revenge, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, bulgaria
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
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: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bloody, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: kidnapping, mad scientist, insanity, violence, body horror, victim, experiment gone awry, surgery, confined, evil doctor, psychopath, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
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: brutal, disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, torture, rape, violence, sexual abuse, serial killer, revenge, rapist, woman in danger, strong violent content, murder ...
Time: year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
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, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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 7.8
 49K
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style: bleak, depressing, sad, harsh, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: europe, denmark, russia, soviet union, eastern europe ...
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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 3.4
 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: disturbing, brutal, bloody, extreme horror, tense ...
Plot: torture, murder, violence, physical torture, held captive, brutality, violence against women, sexual cruelty, extreme, mockery, sexual torture, rape ...
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 7.4
 320K
Nobody (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark ...
Style: brutal, suspense, action thriller, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: one man army, tough guy, martial arts, retribution, secret identity, home invasion, revenge, one against many, twists and turns, secret organization, vigilante, vengeance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: america, usa, pentagon
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 145K
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 117K
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. One of the villagers takes care of him in prison. One day they both disappear – only the spear of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the ...
Style: scary, suspense, brutal, bleak, dark ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: wilderness, violent, cannibalism, rescue, brutality, native american, survival, blood, murder, cannibal, macabre, violence ...
Time: year 2015, 19th century, 2010s, year 2016
Place: america
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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 7.1
 298K
Don't Breathe (2016)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, kidnapping, trapped, blind man, murder, psychopath, thief, twists and turns, breaking and entering, survival, trap, violence ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, california, detroit
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 86K
Centurion (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, ...
Style: brutal, intense, epic, stylized, factual ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: roman empire, ancient rome, roman, ancient history, roman soldier, legion, medieval, survival, sword fight, soldier, betrayal, fight ...
Time: year 2010, middle ages, ancient times
Place: rome italy, britain, scotland, england, greece ...
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 83K
Felon (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: prison, fighting the system, prison life, prison riot, life is a bitch, prison escape, prison gang, organized crime, life turned upside down, rivalry, murder, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 707K
American Psycho (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
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, psychological thriller, surreal, brutal, stylized ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, dark humor, violence, materialism, psycho killer, mental illness, murder, yuppie ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, y2k, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, america, seattle, yale university, manhattan new york city ...
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 5.9
 6K
Mum & Dad (2008)
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: serious, brutal, disturbing, sadistic, twisted ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: torture, serial killer, murder, kidnapping, held captive, husband wife relationship, psychopath, woman in danger, moral dilemma, strangulation, mutilation, discipline ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: britain, europe, london
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 105K
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, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 44K
The Loved Ones (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style: scary, bleak, intense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, torture, prom, kidnapping, female psychopath, psychopath, femme fatale, survival, teenage girl, obsessive love, gory, captivity ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne, united kingdom
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