Hunting and Killing People for Sport
by Satantangoandcash | created - 02 May 2020 | updated - 7 months ago | PublicThese movies involve hunting humans for sport with the intention of killing them. They don't include law enforcement manhunts, war, hunting strictly for revenge or profit such as bounty hunting, hunting for cannibalism, psychopathic serial killers, etc.
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1. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
PG-13 | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 14,079 | Gross: $0.97M
A madman arranges for ships to be wrecked on his island so he can hunt down and kill the passengers for sport.
2. The 10th Victim (1965)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone
Votes: 5,016
In a future non-violent society, a club of bored thrill-seekers organize a game in which humans hunt and kill other humans for sport, which is shown on television. Club members are alternately the hunter and the victim in the games, until they die or survive their tenth hunt, after which they win fame and fortune.
3. The Naked Prey (1965)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt
Votes: 5,910
The last surviving member of a hunting party who offended an African tribe is given a chance to survive. He is let loose naked and without weapons, then hunted in the wilderness by the tribe's warriors who try to kill him.
4. Death Race 2000 (1975)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov
Votes: 31,054 | Gross: $8.00M
In a dystopian future, contestants in a cross-country car race hunt for innocent pedestrians to run over and kill in order to win points in the contest.
5. Logan's Run (1976)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 61,393 | Gross: $25.00M
In an idyllic future society inhabitants are killed when they reach the age of 30. Those who try to escape are hunted down and killed by professional killers. This isn't really hunting for exactly, but they do seem to enjoy it.
6. Octopussy (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn
Votes: 113,555 | Gross: $67.90M
James bond is hunted by men during a tiger hunt.
7. Angel of Vengeance (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
A young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she escapes and makes plans to take her vengeance on them.
Directors: Ted V. Mikels, Ray Dennis Steckler | Stars: Jannina Poynter, David O'Hara, Macka Foley, Carl Irwin
Votes: 307
A woman is given a two hour start before a group of survivalists begin to hunt her down to kill her.
8. The Running Man (1987)
R | 101 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown
Votes: 168,485 | Gross: $38.12M
A policeman framed for the mass killing of unarmed civilians escapes from prison but is captured and forced to participate in a government propaganda TV game show called The Running Man, the number one television show in the world. The rules are simple - the unarmed victims try to run away from the Stalkers, bulked-up hunters who try to kill them with chainsaws, flamethrowers, exploding hockey pucks, and other sadistic weapons.
9. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 456,848 | Gross: $59.74M
An extraterrestrial warrior has traveled to Earth's Central American jungle to hunt humans for sport and take trophies.
10. Hard Target (1993)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Chuck Pfarrer
Votes: 56,519 | Gross: $32.59M
An organization sells rich hunters the opportunity to hunt and kill people for sport.
11. Final Round (1994 Video)
R | 75 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After a recruiter sees him winning a bar fight, Tyler Verdiccio is kidnapped and thrown into an abandoned industrial complex which has been converted into the arena. Along with his lover, ... See full summary »
Director: George Erschbamer | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, Anthony De Longis, Clark Johnson
Votes: 299
Men are kidnapped and hunted by mercenaries for sport in a televised event.
12. Surviving the Game (1994)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey
Votes: 13,214 | Gross: $7.73M
A group of rich men bring homeless people into the wilderness to hunt and kill them for sport, saving their heads in jars as trophies.
13. Battle Royale (2000)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama
Votes: 195,345
Ninth-grade students at a Japanese high school are forced by law to compete in a contest in which they are released on an island where they must hunt each other down until only one student is left alive.
14. Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Thriller
A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.
Director: Daniel Minahan | Stars: Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck
Votes: 6,723 | Gross: $0.17M
Six contestants on a TV program are given weapons to hunt each other in a kill or be killed contest until only one survives.
15. Wolf Creek (2005)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Votes: 78,791 | Gross: $16.19M
Three travelers stranded in an isolated location encounter a sadistic madman who hunts and kills people for sport.
16. Apocalypto (2006)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood
Votes: 332,955 | Gross: $50.87M
Native American warriors hunt a white man for sport.
17. The Condemned (2007)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
Director: Scott Wiper | Stars: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Nathan Jones, Robert Mammone
Votes: 54,620 | Gross: $0.00M
A television producer buys a death row convict and takes him to a deserted island where he is forced to participate in a televised show where he is forced to hunt down and kill nine other armed condemned killers in order to gain his freedom, as each of the other killers tries to do the same.
18. Hydra (2009 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A former Marine has been kidnapped with three convicts, taken to a deserted island, and forced to participate in a deadly game. The super-rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But the island isn't deserted--it's home to Hydra the Beast.
Director: Andrew Prendergast | Stars: George Stults, Dawn Olivieri, Michael Shamus Wiles, Alex McArthur
Votes: 1,564
Rich men hunt human prey for sport on a deserted island, not knowing that a monster lives on the island.
19. The Hunger Games (2012)
PG-13 | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 1,009,049 | Gross: $408.01M
A nationally televised competition selects two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of the country and forces them to hunt and kill each other until only one survives.
20. Desierto (2015)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño
Votes: 10,831 | Gross: $1.83M
An American vigilante with a rifle and a dog that is trained to kill humans, hunts and kills illegal border crossers along the US Mexican border, just because he likes to do it.
21. Ready or Not (I) (2019)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny
Votes: 183,162 | Gross: $28.71M
A family of devil-worshipers plays a game of hide and seek with the bride of one of their sons on their wedding night. They hunt her with assorted weapons with the intent to capture her then kill her in a ritual sacrifice.
22. Quintet (1979)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson
Votes: 3,584
In the remains of a ruined post-apocalyptic ice-age city where the dead are left outside to be eaten by wild dogs, and nobody has children anymore or cares about anybody else, the remaining people play a board game called Quintet in which the players' board pieces are "killed" until only one player remains. At a casino, some of the regular players are chosen to play the game for real. They are given a list of names of the other players who they must hunt down kill in order to win the game. There is no prize. They play only for the thrill of it. The game's adjudicator calls Quintet the only expression left of art, philosophy, and all the elements of life, of anything of value.
23. Kicks (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a female university professor who has the same proclivities.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Anthony Geary, Shelley Hack, Tom Mason, Ian Abercrombie
Votes: 39
A rich and crazy game-loving man seduces a thrill-seeking woman with dangerous games that culminate in one last game in which he hunts her with a rifle, just for his own enjoyment, trying to kill her before she completes a task he has given her in the old prison on Alcatraz Island.
24. Turkey Shoot (1982)
R | 80 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a dystopian future where deviants are held in "re-education" camps, a freedom fighter and an innocent prisoner try to survive their decadent oppressors' game of kill-or-be-killed.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan
Votes: 4,278
Social deviants in a totalitarian society are sent to a re-education behavior modification camp to make them an asset to society. The guards torture the male and female prisoners, but the camp commander brings in his perverted friends who get their kicks by selecting, hunting, and killing prisoners, who are set free and given a head start but no weapons.
25. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 129,415 | Gross: $5.81M
A group of rich liberal elitists joke in a group text about hunting and killing "deplorables" for sport and the text goes viral, with conspiracy theorists and other online liberal-haters believing it and creating a scandal which gets all of them fired in order to protect the reputations of the progressive corporations they work for. So they decide to kidnap 12 of the people whose online attacks got them fired, and actually hunt and kill them for sport.
26. The Pest (1997)
PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy
A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter in order to collect $50,000 if he survives.
Director: Paul Miller | Stars: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy Rodríguez
Votes: 9,298 | Gross: $3.60M
A con man runs lets a neo-Nazi hunt him for sport in order to win 50 grand if he survives.
27. The Eliminator (2004)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An ex-Navy SEAL faces his riskiest mission yet when he's forced to compete for his life in a survival game. The last man standing will take home a 10 million dollar prize, those who fail will die a lonely death in the jungle.
Director: Ken Barbet | Stars: Michael Rooker, Bas Rutten, Dana Lee, G. Anthony Joseph
Votes: 576
An ex-Navy Seal is brought to an island where he and six others are forced to compete in a survival game in which heavily-armed men hunt them to the death, with the last survivor winning millions of dollars.
28. Man Hunting (2010 Video)
67 min | Horror
A teenage schoolgirl is kidnapped and taken to a cabin in the woods. Her unknown captor plays a sadistic game of cat-and-mouse with her, stalking her with a crossbow.
Director: Yasushi Koshizaka | Stars: Tôru Amemiya, Tomohiko Isomura, Yô Kamiyoshihara, Satomi Kaneko
Votes: 25
A teenage schoolgirl is kidnapped and hunted by someone with a crossbow.
29. Bloodlust! (1961)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Thriller
A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport.
Director: Ralph Brooke | Stars: Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Walter Brooke, Robert Reed
Votes: 2,615
Teenagers on vacation boat out to an island inhabited by a rich man who enjoys hunting and killing anyone who lands on his island.
30. Naked Fear (2007)
R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller
Diana arrives in a town to start a new job. She's threatened into working as an exotic dancer. She's later kidnapped and let loose naked in the wilderness as prey for the psycho hunter, like many women before her. Will she survive?
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Sonja Runar, Ronald Dunas, Arron Shiver, J.D. Garfield
Votes: 2,924
A woman forced to work in a strip club is kidnapped, drugged and released nude in the wilderness. She is given a fifteen minute start before she will be hunted to her death by a man who hunts and kills strippers and prostitutes.
31. 31 (2016)
R | 102 min | Horror, Thriller
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, hellish compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie
Votes: 23,069 | Gross: $0.78M
Each Halloween, several sick rich people send masked henchmen to abduct 5 innocent people, drug them, give them numbers and weapons, then leave them to wake up in a large building in which they are forced to try to stay alive for 12 hours in a game called "31." In the game they are hunted to the death by various hired killers who the contestants can try to kill. The rich people dress in fancy costumes as they are attended to by nude young women. They watch the action, calculate the odds of each contestant's survival, then make bets on the outcome. If they survive 12 hours the contestants are told they will be set free. But they are not told for how long...
32. Guns Akimbo (2019)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A guy relies on his newly-acquired gladiator skills to save his ex-girlfriend from kidnappers.
Director: Jason Howden | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo
Votes: 70,157
In Shrapnel City an internet gang called Skizm runs a game filmed by drones in which teams of violent criminals hunt each other and fight to the death to entertain millions of online viewers.
33. Bacurau (2019)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima
Votes: 30,838
An organized group of racist white tourists from the U.S.A. pay a Brazilian politician to cut off the water supply , close the roads, and let them hunt and kill everyone in a small rural Brazilian village, for sport. The hunters use a sophisticated communication system with drones to keep track of the points they earn for each kill they make using their own personal vintage weapons. But the villagers pull together and dig up a cache of their own vintage weapons and they become the hunters.
34. Gamer (2009)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Stars: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta
Votes: 140,411 | Gross: $20.49M
The brains of death row convicts are modified to allow gamers to control them in a real life first-person shooter game called Slayer that has them using real weapons to hunt and kill other living players who are trying to kill them, all of which is broadcast to a large pay-per-view audience.
35. Predator 2 (1990)
R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Rubén Blades
Votes: 183,419 | Gross: $30.67M
An extraterrestrial warrior has traveled to Los Angeles to hunt humans for sport and take trophies.
36. Hunt Club (2022)
87 min | Action, Thriller
Follows a group of male hunters who regularly lure women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only to discover that they are the hunted, but this time they mess with the wrong girls and must deal with the consequences.
Director: Elizabeth Blake-Thomas | Stars: Mena Suvari, Casper Van Dien, Will Peltz, Maya Stojan
Votes: 802
A group of male hunters lure young women to an island to be hunted for sport.
37. Death Hunt (2022)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Thriller
A land developer and his girlfriend are hunted on a remote island for sport by three deranged locals.
Director: Neil Mackay | Stars: Marlene Malcolm, Omar Tucci, Terry McDonald, Rick Amsbury
Votes: 537
Several men hunt a man and his girlfriend on a remote island for sport.
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