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383 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.

Assassination (2015)

7.2

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

The Mauritanian (2021)

7.5

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

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

In the House (2012)

7.3

A teacher becomes obsessed with his student’s writing in this tense, dark comedy drama

Mississippi Burning (1988)

7.8

Casualties of War (1989)

7.1

A different, brutal perspective of innocence lost in the Vietnam War

Memoir of a Murderer (2017)

7.2

A serial killer fights against memory in this mindbending mystery thriller

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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8.0

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

Hell (2010)

7.7

An immigrant returns to a life of crime in this darkly humorous neo-Western satire

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

Red Cliff (2008)

7.3

John Woo returns to China with a triumphant, spectacular historical epic

The Substance (2024)

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8.3

Demi Moore swaps bodies in this standout chaotic body dysmorphia horror

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