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340 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.

7 Prisoners (2021)

7.1

A boy comes of age in a modern day cage in this hard-hitting, heartbreaking drama

Violent Cop (1989)

7.1

Violence becomes mundane in this brutally bleak police drama

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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8.0

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

Silenced (2011)

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9.0

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

The Substance (2024)

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8.3

Demi Moore swaps bodies in this standout chaotic body dysmorphia horror

His Three Daughters (2024)

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8.2

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

The Forgotten Battle (2021)

7.0

The battle to win a supply port brings three lives to intertwine in this intense war drama

The Man from Nowhere (2010)

7.6

A quiet stranger saves a child in this emotional revenge thriller

Sugarcane (2024)

7.3

This documentary about the horrors of an Indian residential school is beautifully shot and powerfully told

Kneecap (2024)

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8.7

The titular hip hop group breaks new ground in this energetic and irreverent music biopic

Emilia Pérez (2024)

7.5

Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez return to their roots in this multinational crime musical drama

The Tracker (2002)

7.6

A unique, haunting Outback Western that reckons with the historical violence waged on the Aboriginal people

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