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387 Best Intense Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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When it comes to great entertainment, it's all about the scenes that grip both your attentiion and emotions with full force. Whether you're into suspenseful thrillers or emotional dramas, we've rounded up the best intense movies and shows to stream.

Rough Cut (2008)

7.0

An actor and a gangster team up to save a movie in this meta action drama

Broken Embraces (2009)

7.4

A blind man remembers his love in this melancholic, noirish romance thriller

The Conversation (1974)

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8.5

Francis Ford Coppola’s taut crime thriller is a timely tale about the dissolution of privacy

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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8.0

A Maori family survives in an alienating Auckland in this raw, tragic drama

The Mauritanian (2021)

7.5

A straightforward legal drama depicting the eye-opening, brutal memoir

The Substance (2024)

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8.3

Demi Moore swaps bodies in this standout chaotic body dysmorphia horror

Remy & Arletta (2023)

7.4

Two girls try to figure out their future in this personal, coming-of-age indie

Assassination (2015)

7.2

Double agents and resistance fighters wage a web of lies and betrayal in this historical spy thriller

Silenced (2011)

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9.0

A brutal and harrowing exposé of the schoolwide abuse case that sparked outrage in Korea

His Three Daughters (2024)

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8.2

Three sisters deal with life and death in this moving family portrait

The Negotiator (1998)

7.6

Samuel L. Jackson is explosive as a framed cop who does everything in his power to prove his innocence

House (1977)

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8.0

The totally bizarre psychedelic ghost story that’s considered one of the greatest horror films of all time

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