Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "extreme-cruelty"

1. Schindler's List (1993)

R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall

Votes: 1,452,369 | Gross: $96.90M

2. Drive (I) (2011)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks

Votes: 705,166 | Gross: $35.06M

3. Come and See (1985)

Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

Votes: 97,471

4. Resident Evil (2002)

R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce

Votes: 288,677 | Gross: $40.12M

5. The Girl Next Door (2007)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.

Director: Gregory Wilson | Stars: William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Kevin Chamberlin

Votes: 29,417

6. Mad God (2021)

Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor

Votes: 14,773

7. Bronson (2008)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker

Votes: 140,981 | Gross: $0.10M

8. Dead Man Walking (1995)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry

Votes: 101,847 | Gross: $39.39M

9. Leatherface (2017)

R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse

Votes: 27,877

10. The Purge (2018–2019)

TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Drama, Horror

In an altered United States, several unrelated people discover how far they will go to survive a night during which all crime is legal for 12 hours.

Stars: Gabriel Chavarria, Derek Luke, Hannah Emily Anderson, Max Martini

Votes: 19,241

11. Hellsing Ultimate (2006–2012)

Not Rated | 50 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

The vampire Alucard, his master Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, and his newly sired ward Seras Victoria, try to protect England from a war-crazed SS-Major who seeks to start an eternal war with his vampire army.

Stars: Katie Gray, Crispin Freeman, Victoria Harwood, Ralph Lister

Votes: 26,781

12. Casualties of War (1989)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly

Votes: 48,162 | Gross: $18.67M

13. Girls to Buy (2021)

146 min | Drama

It follows a young woman who becomes an escort as a way of getting out of her small town, but she soon discovers she has no control over her situation.

Director: Maria Sadowska | Stars: Paulina Galazka, Katarzyna Figura, Katarzyna Sawczuk, Olga Kalicka

Votes: 3,202

14. Frontier(s) (2007)

Unrated | 108 min | Horror

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, Samuel Le Bihan

Votes: 28,817

15. Melancholie der Engel (2009)

Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Two friends meet again to share their last days in an old house where everything happened a long time ago. They gather a group of people, which results in a disastrous turn of events, during which reveals the deepest human depths.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Zenza Raggi, Carsten Frank, Frank Oliver, Janette Weller

Votes: 1,504

16. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (2020)

TV-MA | 55 min | Documentary, Crime

Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger investigates the tragic death of an 8-year-old California boy who endured horrific abuse by his mother and her boyfriend, along with the fractured and complex systems that failed to protect him.

Stars: William Guirola, Wyatt Hinz, Alfredo Tavares, Adam Saunders

Votes: 13,597

17. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

R | 114 min | Drama

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff

Votes: 28,472 | Gross: $4.89M

18. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

An ordinary man must embark on a search to find his missing wife that leads him to an abandoned house where a mysterious family lives who harbor an evil secret within the house and themselves.

Director: Koushi Nakanishi | Stars: Todd Soley, Katie O'Hagan, Jack Brand, Sara Coates

Votes: 10,348

19. Philosophy of a Knife (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 266 min | Drama, Horror

A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.

Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Tetsuro Sakagami, Tomoya Okamoto, Yukari Fujimoto, Manoush

Votes: 1,689

20. When They Cry (2006)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

The story of a group of young friends and the mysterious events that occur in the rural village of Hinamizawa.

Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Mai Nakahara, Satsuki Yukino, Yukari Tamura

Votes: 6,494

21. Red White & Blue (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his depressed mother.

Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Amanda Fuller, Marc Senter, Jon Michael Davis, Nick Holden

Votes: 6,148

22. Scrapbook (2000 Video)

Unrated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

A young woman is abducted by a serial killer and kept as his prisoner. She learns to manipulate her captor using his beloved scrapbook, which he forces his victims to write in.

Director: Eric Stanze | Stars: Emily Haack, Tommy Biondo, Todd Tevlin, Elizabeth Hammock

Votes: 1,364

23. Romero (1989)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez

Votes: 2,452 | Gross: $1.32M

24. Dirty Linen (2023)

TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama

Four houseworkers of a well-known aristocratic family mysteriously vanished one by one without a trace, meanwhile four people are out to get their hellish revenge against the prominent family itself.

Stars: Zanjoe Marudo, Francine Diaz, Janine Gutierrez, John Arcilla

Votes: 181

25. The Russian Bride (2018)

101 min | Horror, Thriller

A Russian woman meets an older man on a dating site. She travels to America with her daughter to marry the man, who is a reclusive billionaire. He turns out to be a psycho, who sends their lives spiraling into a living hell.

Director: Michael S. Ojeda | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan, Kristina Pimenova, Lisa Goodman

Votes: 4,180

26. Oro, Plata, Mata (1982)

TV-MA | 194 min | Drama, War

Two affluent families struggle and learn to survive during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.

Director: Peque Gallaga | Stars: Cherie Gil, Sandy Andolong, Liza Lorena, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio

Votes: 658

27. Beyond the Limits (2003)

111 min | Horror, Thriller

Vivian tracks down Frederick, a caretaker at an old cemetery, to hear a story of two people connected by a mysterious past.

Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Darren Shahlavi, Russell Friedenberg, David Creedon, Natacza Boon

Votes: 1,233

28. Block Z (2020)

TV-14 | 101 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

At a quarantined university, a disparate group of students must band together if they are going to survive during a deadly viral infection outbreak.

Director: Mikhail Red | Stars: Joshua Garcia, Julia Barretto, Ian Veneracion, Dimples Romana

Votes: 388

29. Silent Cries (1993 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, War

In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Annabeth Gish, Chloe Webb, Gail Strickland

Votes: 180

30. Orapronobis (1989)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco), murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel,... See full synopsis »

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Phillip Salvador, Dina Bonnevie, Gina Alajar, Bembol Roco

Votes: 169

31. A Day of Violence (2010)

91 min | Crime, Thriller

Mitchell Parker lies dead on a morgue slab. In life, 'Mitchell' served the low ranks of Debt Collectors, surrounded by all the filth and scum that the world had to offer. He thought his ... See full summary »

Director: Darren Ward | Stars: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Nick Rendell, Christopher Fosh, Victor D. Thorn

Votes: 391

32. Katips (2021)

142 min | Crime, Drama, History

A tale of the young, in their fight for their ideals, how big can one get against a force too much bigger than yourself?

Director: Vince Tañada | Stars: Afi Africa, OJ Arci, Joshua Bulot, Mon Confiado

Votes: 3,686

33. The Man with a Thousand Faces (2019 Podcast Series)

Crime

A true crime podcast series mainly about Jamie Osuna, who's an extremely violent murderer with tattoos on his face.

Stars: Olivia LaVoice, Jamie Osuna

34. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Appointment with Death (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Syria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death.

Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: David Suchet, Tim Curry, Jawad Elalami, Christina Cole

Votes: 2,529

35. Naruto: Shippuden (2007–2017)
Episode: Ore wa jigoku ni iru (2014)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Two White Zetsu helps Obito in his rehabilitation, while they explain more about Madara's plan and bring some news regarding Rin and Kakashi.

Director: Hayato Date | Stars: Mutsumi Tamura, Megumi Han, Haruhi Nanao, Naoya Uchida

Votes: 2,406