Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "physical-torture"

1. Unthinkable (2010)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Follows a black-ops interrogator and an F.B.I. agent who try to press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.

Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root

Votes: 94,009

2. American Sniper (2014)

R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis

Votes: 529,173 | Gross: $350.13M

3. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi

Votes: 61,132

4. Martyrs (2008)

R | 99 min | Horror

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.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin

Votes: 106,398

5. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney

Votes: 319,828 | Gross: $73.34M

6. Samurai Cop (1991)

Unrated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.

Director: Amir Shervan | Stars: Robert Z'Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley, Mark Frazer

Votes: 10,084

7. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Votes: 170,471 | Gross: $13.76M

8. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.

Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger

Votes: 24,705

9. Megan Is Missing (2011)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.

Director: Michael Goi | Stars: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite, Jael Elizabeth Steinmeyer

Votes: 15,459

10. Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

R | 119 min | Action, Thriller

Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett

Votes: 292,314 | Gross: $98.93M

11. The Foreigner (I) (2017)

R | 113 min | Action, Thriller

A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones, Mark Tandy

Votes: 123,283 | Gross: $34.39M

12. Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Rambo must confront his past and unearth his ruthless combat skills to exact revenge in a final mission.

Director: Adrian Grunberg | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza

Votes: 109,493 | Gross: $44.82M

13. Rolling Thunder (1977)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best

Votes: 11,209

14. Death Wish (2018)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone

Votes: 76,452 | Gross: $34.02M

15. Ichi the Killer (2001)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun

Votes: 60,039 | Gross: $0.02M

16. Taken 2 (2012)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

Director: Olivier Megaton | Stars: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser

Votes: 322,625 | Gross: $139.85M

17. Redo of Healer (2021)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Keyaru is a healing magician who is sexually abused repeatedly by others. Using his healing magic, he goes back four years into the past to get revenge on the ones who abused him.

Stars: Yuya Hozumi, Ayano Shibuya, Shizuka Ishigami, Natsuki Aikawa

Votes: 5,032

18. Walking Tall (2004)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Crime

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Michael Bowen

Votes: 109,975 | Gross: $46.44M

19. The Bunny Game (2011)

Not Rated | 76 min | Horror

A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.

Director: Adam Rehmeier | Stars: Rodleen Getsic, Jeff F. Renfro, Drettie Page, Coriander Womack

Votes: 2,833

20. I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely.

Director: Chris Sivertson | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Bonnie Aarons

Votes: 30,884 | Gross: $7.50M

21. Blue Thunder (1983)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern

Votes: 23,342 | Gross: $42.31M

22. Everly (2014)

R | 92 min | Action, Thriller

A kidnapped woman faces down hitmen sent by a mob boss/her captor while trying to protect her family from his wrath.

Director: Joe Lynch | Stars: Salma Hayek, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Laura Cepeda, Togo Igawa

Votes: 19,430

23. Martyrs (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.

Directors: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz | Stars: Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble, Kate Burton, Caitlin Carmichael

Votes: 6,913

24. The Railway Man (2013)

R | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine

Votes: 42,649 | Gross: $4.44M

25. 13th (2016)

TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales

Votes: 37,671

26. Rome, Open City (1945)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico

Votes: 28,968

27. The Killing Gene (2007)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.

Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, Tom Hardy

Votes: 9,336

28. Snuff 102 (2007)

Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Thriller

A young reporter fascinated by the urban legend of snuff movies gets more than she bargained for when her deep research begins.

Director: Mariano Peralta | Stars: Andrea Alfonso, Julián Alfonzo, Rodrigo Bianco, Nicolás Blanco

Votes: 1,166

29. Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)

R | 105 min | Horror

A fashion photographer exposes his demented childhood and zooms his evil lens on the oldest profession under the moon, in quite possibly the most notorious serial killer film ever made.

Director: Nick Palumbo | Stars: Sven Garrett, Cerina Vincent, Tony Todd, Gunnar Hansen

Votes: 4,502

30. Female Agents (2008)

TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War

London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain

Votes: 7,953

31. The Bamboo House of Dolls (1973)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Birte Tove, Lieh Lo, Hsieh Wang, Terry Liu

Votes: 613

32. Voyage to Agatis (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Mystery

A wealthy couple of perverts lures a prostitute to a seemingly innocent yachting cruise under the sun; however, by the end of the day, she will end up humiliated, and, above all, violated. But, is this the end of her nightmarish ordeal?

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Thomas Goersch, Tatjana Lommel, Janna Lisa Dombrowsky

Votes: 387

33. I Am Soldier (2014)

Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Thriller, War

I Am Soldier follows Mickey Tomlinson (Tom Hughes), a military chef, who attempts the most dangerous military selection known to man: The Special Air Service (S.A.S.) selection. The S.A.S. ... See full summary »

Director: David Beton | Stars: Tom Hughes, Noel Clarke, Alex Reid, George Russo

Votes: 2,081

34. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary

A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.

Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov

Votes: 3,138

35. Eve Dönüs (2006)

101 min | Drama

Mustafa and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, ... See full summary »

Director: Ömer Ugur | Stars: Memet Ali Alabora, Sibel Kekilli, Altan Erkekli, Civan Canova

Votes: 1,954

36. Higurashi: When They Cry - SOTSU (2021)

Animation, Drama, Horror

Sequel and answer arcs to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou.

Stars: Yukari Tamura, Mika Kanai, Sôichirô Hoshi, Mai Nakahara

Votes: 441

37. Yakuza Law (1969)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Bunta Sugawara, Minoru Ôki, Hiroshi Miyauchi

Votes: 411

38. [Cargo] (2018)

80 min | Crime, Thriller

A man wakes trapped inside a cargo container with only a cell phone and is given 24 hours by his kidnappers to raise ten million dollars in ransom or die.

Director: James Dylan | Stars: Eliot, Danika Fields, J.C. Maçek III, Jose Rosete

Votes: 429

39. When Hell Was in Session (1979 TV Movie)

98 min | Biography, Drama, War

In 1965, Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's jet is shot down over North Vietnam and he is captured by the enemy who holds him in various brutal POW camps for more than seven years.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Eva Marie Saint, Mako, Ronny Cox

Votes: 148

40. House with 100 Eyes (2013)

Not Rated | 75 min | Horror

The House with 100 Eyes is both shocking and satirical, a grisly horror-comedy about an average American suburban couple who happen to also be serial killers creating snuff videos of their crimes. All is well, until their victims rebel!

Directors: Jay Lee, Jim Roof | Stars: Jim Roof, Shannon Malone, Larissa Lynch, Liz Burghdorf

Votes: 395

41. Voices (2007)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

This creepy, supernatural thriller revolves around the paranoid belief that those dearest to you may want you dead.

Director: Ki-hwan Oh | Stars: Jin-Seo Yoon, Park Gi-woong, Lee Ki-woo, Yu-seon Ham

Votes: 1,416

42. Iki-jigoku (2000)

R | 104 min | Horror

Yasu is a teenage wheelchair user. His grandmother and her granddaughter are truly cruel sadists, intent on subjecting trapped Yasu to the most violent treatment imaginable while the rest of his family is not around.

Director: Shugo Fujii | Stars: Hirohito Honda, Yoshiko Shiraishi, Rumi, Kazuo Yashiro

Votes: 531

43. Eskapo (1995)

TV-PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Serge Osmeña and Geny Lopez are wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos.

Director: Chito S. Roño | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Richard Gomez, Dina Bonnevie, Ricky Davao

Votes: 52

44. Man Hunting: Resurrection (2012 Video)

77 min | Horror

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Director: Yasushi Koshizaka | Stars: Ruby Aiba, Kei Akamatsu, Shin'yû Fujiwara, Yô Kamiyoshihara

Votes: 11

45. Bio-Dead (2009 TV Movie)

R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

After a devastating biological disaster kills twelve million people, a hazmat team searches the contaminated waste land for survivors, but find a vicious predator with a hunger for human flesh.

Director: Stephen J. Hadden | Stars: Matthew Norton, Derek Long, Tony Williams, Jacob Gentry

Votes: 120

46. An Ordinary Execution (2010)

105 min | Drama, History

Moscow, 1952. Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles.

Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer, Denis Podalydès

Votes: 585

47. Vapauden varjot (2010 TV Movie)

54 min | Documentary

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Director: Ari Lehikoinen | Stars: Martin Scheinin, Muhammad Saad Igbal Madni, Omar Deghayes, Amina Janjua

48. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 2: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m. (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack is captured by a group of men working for an oil magnate named Peter Kingsley who's looking to capitalize on the coming war. Lynne Kresge discovers that Vice-President Prescott is ... See full summary »

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 1,486

49. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 2: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m. (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack tries to escape from the Kingsley's men after being tortured. Lynn Kresge tries to warn President Palmer about VP Prescott. Regional Director Ryan Chappelle returns to CTU and exerts his authority. Kate tries to retrieve the stolen computer chip. President Palmer begins to suspect something is wrong when Prescott won't return his phone calls.

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 1,490

50. 24 (2001–2010)
Episode: Day 2: 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The plane carrying Jack and Nina is shot down and together they must fight off a group of soldiers. Mason plays Bob Warner against Reza to find out which one working with the terrorists. ... See full summary »

Director: Rodney Charters | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley

Votes: 1,549