228 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.
The Novice (2021)
7.4
An occasionally overwhelming sensory experience about obsession, led by a ferocious lead actress
Damsel (2024)
7.0
Millie Bobby Brown turns from titular lady to survivor in this fairly entertaining, though safe, fantasy flick
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (2023)
7.5
A dying criminal kills to be the most wanted in this Taiwanese Western-esque gangster drama
The Tragedy of Man (2011)
8.0
An ambitious, illustrated adaptation of the classic Hungarian play, chronologizing the folly of the Western world
My Name Is Loh Kiwan (2024)
7.0
Love enables survival in this moving drama about the refugee experience
Sankofa (1993)
7.4
Haile Gerima returns to source in his groundbreaking historical drama
Leave the World Behind (2023)
8.2
Shyamalan meets Black Mirror in this hugely entertaining, visually inventive apocalyptic thriller with a killer ending
The Zone of Interest (2023)
9.5
A chilling and masterful display of the banality of evil
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
8.0
A phenomenal documentary about a phenomenal sexologist studying female pleasure
Babylon (2022)
8.0
An intoxicating and lavishly designed experience of Hollywood hedonism
Society of the Snow (2023)
8.2
J.A. Bayona remembers the humanity, not the sensationalism, of the Andes miracle
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
8.2
Martin Scorsese grapples with harrowing history and the limits of storytelling in this monumental masterpiece