Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "unprovoked-violence"

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 880,956 | Gross: $6.21M

2. The House That Jack Built (2018)

R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Votes: 91,896 | Gross: $0.09M

3. The Purge (I) (2013)

R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.

Director: James DeMonaco | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane

Votes: 239,903 | Gross: $64.47M

4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling, Lena Endre

Votes: 223,304 | Gross: $10.10M

5. Halloween Ends (2022)

R | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode comes to a spine-chilling climax in the final installment of this trilogy.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Rohan Campbell

Votes: 71,174

6. Titane (2021)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.

Director: Julia Ducournau | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh

Votes: 56,072

7. Halloween (I) (2018)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 169,027 | Gross: $159.34M

8. The Forever Purge (2021)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.

Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Leven Rambin

Votes: 43,410 | Gross: $44.54M

9. Elfen Lied (2004)

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

Two university students come across a seemingly harmless girl named Lucy, unaware that she's actually a mutant serial killer with a split personality.

Stars: Sanae Kobayashi, Chihiro Suzuki, Mamiko Noto, Sam Saletta

Votes: 36,887

10. The First Purge (2018)

R | 97 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

America's third political party, the New Founding Fathers of America, comes to power and conducts an experiment: no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one has to stay on the island, but $5,000 is given to anyone who does.

Director: Gerard McMurray | Stars: Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Steve Harris

Votes: 70,973 | Gross: $69.49M

11. Trick 'r Treat (2007)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror

Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his match with a demonic, supernatural trick-or-treater.

Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes

Votes: 104,602

12. Man Bites Dog (1992)

NC-17 | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.

Directors: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert

Votes: 43,712 | Gross: $0.21M

13. Romper Stomper (1992)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.

Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott

Votes: 41,605 | Gross: $0.18M

14. Harry Brown (2009)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Director: Daniel Barber | Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles

Votes: 91,352 | Gross: $1.82M

15. Inuyashiki (2017)

Not Rated | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

Stars: Nijirô Murakami, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kanata Hongô, Sumire Uesaka

Votes: 5,177

16. Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985 Video)

42 min | Short, Horror

Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Hiroshi Tamura, Kirara Yûgao, Anja Blagojevic

Votes: 4,483

17. The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (1993)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.

Directors: Danny Lee, Herman Yau | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Danny Lee, Emily Kwan, Julie Lee

Votes: 4,674

18. The Method (2015– )

TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov

Votes: 3,324

19. Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (2013)

TV-MA | 29 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

After performing a charm that would supposedly unite them as friends, a group of students are teleported to the mysterious Heavenly Host Elementary School where they are visited by the spirits of the school's murdered students.

Stars: Hiro Shimono, Rina Satô, Asami Imai, Hiromi Igarashi

Votes: 2,368

20. Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)

R | 96 min | Action

Fight matches, that end when a man is either unconscious or dead, are fought in Tijuana. 2 naive friends, hoping to make a quick buck, go there. One owes money to a loan shark - giving them plenty of practice in no rule fights.

Director: Patrick Alan | Stars: Bolo Yeung, Maryam d'Abo, William Zabka, Michael Bernardo

Votes: 1,471

21. Unhinged (II) (2017)

R | 93 min | Horror

Four American best friends decide to take the back roads travelling to a wedding in England, on their way a deadly secret forces the girls to be stranded in the woods, where they discover a house occupied by Miss Perkins.

Director: Dan Allen | Stars: Kate Lister, Lucy-Jane Quinlan, Becca Hirani, Lorena Andrea

Votes: 1,286

22. Full Contact (1992)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Two disreputable friends get tied in with a group of criminals who turn out to be excessively violent and deceptive.

Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Ann Bridgewater, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Votes: 4,831

23. Violent Cop (1989)

Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano

Votes: 12,988 | Gross: $0.00M

24. Unhinged (1982)

Unrated | 79 min | Horror

Three young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate.

Director: Don Gronquist | Stars: Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley, Virginia Settle

Votes: 1,975

25. The Searchers (1993)

108 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Convicts return to life of crime after release from prison.

Directors: Peter Cartriers, Daniel Fridell | Stars: Liam Leon, Ray Jones IV, Thorsten Flinck, Malou Bergman

Votes: 2,304

26. Murder in a Blue World (1973)

R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A nurse tries to bring her own style of relief to miserable people, or ones condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery, and she may not be quite what she seems.

Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramón Pons

Votes: 536

27. Tough Cop (1976)

92 min | Crime, Drama

When his former partner-in-crime kidnaps a critically-ill girl to blackmail her rich father, a shabby crook teams up with a hard-nosed cop to save her.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Claudio Cassinelli, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Henry Silva

Votes: 720

28. Hotsunlight (2021)

133 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows ... See full summary »

Directors: Maksim Brius, Mikhail Vasserbaum | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Aleksandr Bukharov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Maksim Dakhnenko

Votes: 638

29. The Summer of Massacre (2012)

98 min | Horror, Thriller

This anthology slasher film presents eight killers in five gory tales.

Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Brinke Stevens, Nick Principe, Cleve Hall, Lisa M. Garcia

Votes: 335

30. Cock & Bull Story (2002)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

Two friends are torn apart by passion and ambition in the violent world of amateur boxing.

Director: Billy Hayes | Stars: Brian Austin Green, Bret Roberts, Wendy Fowler, Greg Mullavey

Votes: 234

31. Leo (I) (2007)

78 min | Crime, Drama

Surrounded by his family and friends Leo celebrates his 30th birthday by toasting the future. But when the party ends and Leo and his girlfriend walk home something happens that will change their lives forever...

Director: Josef Fares | Stars: Leonard Terfelt, Josef Fares, Shahab Salehi, Sara Edberg

Votes: 787

32. Warrior of Justice (1995)

R | 89 min | Action

A karate expert enters a deadly underground tournament to avenge one of his students who was killed there and stop the disgraced marshal arts champion who organized this deadly competition.

Directors: Jorgo Ognenovski, Mike Tristano | Stars: Jorgo Ognenovski, Jorge Rivero, Richard Lynch, Shari Blum

Votes: 89

33. The Black Wolf

90 min | Action, Thriller | Announced

A Bosnian asylum seeker living on a council estate in England, operates in the shadows. Forced to step into the light when a new friend is threatened finds himself fighting for their survival.

Stars: Dragos Bucur, Jetinder Summan, Tommy O'Neill, Jolie Lennon

34. The Unreinable Compulsion (2013)

80 min | Crime, Drama

In a small town, a young man gives in to his irrational desire to recreationally murder a stranger.

Director: Jason LaRay Keener | Stars: Jarrod Cuthrell, Natalie Bonner, Mari Darley-Usmar, Jim Athon

Votes: 17

35. Possessed Woman Goes Berserk and Attacks a Random Guy on the Train (2014 Video)

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36. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: No Escape (1979)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Baron' is arrested as a vagrant but manages to escape along side a mental patient who thinks he's Ernest Hemmingway. Feeling guilty, David has to track the man down before he hurts himself or his loved ones.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, James Wainwright

Votes: 186

37. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Cloud Minders (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jeff Corey

Votes: 3,029

38. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Tholian Web (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.

Directors: Herb Wallerstein, Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 3,417

39. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: A Matter of Honor (1989)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Under an Officers Exchange Program, Riker serves aboard a Klingon ship, whose aging captain seeks an unwarranted bloody retaliation for suspected Enterprise treachery.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,973

40. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Loud as a Whisper (1989)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The crew ferries a deaf mediator to Solais V to negotiate an end to a civil war.

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,541

41. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Night Terrors (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Enterprise gets trapped in a Tyken's Rift, an energy-absorbing rupture in space, where all but Data, Troi and Guinan experience rising hallucinations and paranoia.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,217

42. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Power Play (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.

Director: David Livingston | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,031

43. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Skin of Evil (1988)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Counselor Troi is held captive on a deserted planet by a slick, black, oily, sentient and immortal puddle of evil.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 4,058

44. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Last Outpost (1987)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Enterprise makes a confrontational first contact with the piratical Ferengi race as their two ships are ensnared by a presumed dead planet ready to judge them.

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 4,160

45. A Current Affair (1971– )
Episode: Ugly Dispute (2020)

30 min | News

Public housing tenants claim they have been left prisoners in their home due to the "hellish and animalistic" actions of their New Zealand-born neighbour Robert Rakei and his teenage ... See full summary »

Stars: Leila McKinnon, Sam Cucchiara, Tim Smith

46. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Independence Day (2010)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Three teenage sidekicks decide to investigate a fire at a genetics laboratory... and discover a plot to create a clone of Superman.

Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Jesse McCartney, Khary Payton, Jason Spisak, Rene Auberjonois

Votes: 3,533

47. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Agendas (2012)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Superboy returns to Project Cadmus, where he learns the top-secret genetics lab may have created another Super-clone...

Director: Michael Chang | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Danica McKellar, Nolan North, Jason Spisak

Votes: 3,088

48. The Comfort Zone (2013– )
Episode: Possessed Woman on Subway!? (2014)

28 min | Talk-Show

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Director: Allen Atzbi | Stars: Ray Comfort, Mark Spence, Brad Snow

49. Gotham (2014–2019)
Episode: All Happy Families Are Alike (2015)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

All hell breaks loose on Gotham's streets as the crime families collide. Dr. Thompkins helps Barbara through therapy. Bruce and Alfred try to find out Thomas Wayne's secret.

Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara

Votes: 4,472

50. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Firestarters (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime

Crimes involving a terrible house fire, the stabbing of a football coach and gangs attacking a group of partygoers are solved using police cameras.

Stars: Nick Wallis, Shaun Carter, Dave Coss, David Greenhall

Votes: 8