Movies by Lists - Most Disturbing Films (72 [77]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Altered StatesA psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories. | 1980 | Ken Russell (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (34.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| AntichristA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. | 2009 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (126.7K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| AuditionA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. | 1999 | Takashi Miike (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.2 (78.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| August UndergroundTwo serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome from behind a video camera. | 2001 | Fred Vogel | Horror | 3.6 (3K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| August Underground's MordumTwo friends bring along a newcomer to go on a killing spree. | 2003 | Jerami Cruise, Killjoy, Michael Todd Schneider, Fred Vogel, Cristie Whiles | Horror | 3.0 (3.8K votes) | 77 | 20231001 |
| August Underground's PenanceThe third film in the series. This time a couple go on a killing spree in their local area. | 2007 | Fred Vogel | Horror | 3.5 (1.6K votes) | 84 | 20231001 |
| Babadook, TheA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home. | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (212.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Bad LieutenantWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption. | 1992 | Abel Ferrara | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (42K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Baise MoiTwo young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. | 2000 | Virginie Despentes, Coralie | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.5 (17.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| BegottenPresented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is. | 1989 | E. Elias Merhige | Fantasy, Horror | 5.8 (10.6K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Black Devil Doll from HellA woman buys a doll at a magic shop. Unbeknownst to her, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, and it proceeds to take her over. | 1984 | Chester Novell Turner | Comedy, Horror | 3.5 (728 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| CalvaireMarc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants. | 2004 | Fabrice du Welz | Horror | 6.2 (12.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Cannibal FeroxThree friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe. | 1981 | Umberto Lenzi | Adventure, Horror | 5.2 (9.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Cannibal HolocaustDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew. | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | Adventure, Horror | 5.8 (55.5K votes) | 95 | 20220806 |
| CarneAfter a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him. | 1991 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Short, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (7K votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| Come and See [Idi i smotri]After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. | 1985 | Elem Klimov (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.3 (71.6K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Cutting MomentsWith her quaint suburban existence on the slow road to ruin, Sarah mutilates herself in the bathroom mirror while her husband sits downstairs watching TV. | 1996 | Douglas Buck | Short, Drama, Horror | 5.9 (1.6K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
| Dead RingersTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. | 1988 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (45.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Ebola Syndrome [Yi boh lai beng duk]A Chinese restaurant worker wanted for murder in Hong Kong contracts Ebola in South Africa, becomes immune to it, and unknowingly spreads the virus there, then comes back to Hong Kong and continues to infect people with it. | 1996 | Herman Yau | Crime, Horror | 6.5 (4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| ExcisionA disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. | 2012 | Richard Bates Jr. | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 6.1 (22.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her. | 1973 | William Friedkin (*) | Horror | 8.0 (384.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| FeedA cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death. | 2005 | Brett Leonard | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (5.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Female TroubleA spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. | 1974 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (9.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| FreaksA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. | 1932 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.9 (45.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Funny GamesTwo violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. | 1997 | Michael Haneke (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (70.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Grandmother, TheA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother. | 1970 | David Lynch (*) | Animation, Short, Horror | 7.2 (6.7K votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and BloodLate 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. | 1985 | Hideshi Hino | Short, Horror | 4.9 (4K votes) | 42 | 20211228 |
| Guinea Pig 3: He Never DiesAfter being dumped by his girlfriend for a friend, he attempts suicide - which turns up pain-free - and decides to scare the guy by literally throwing his own guts at him. | 1986 | Masayuki Kusumi | Short, Comedy, Horror | 4.7 (1.6K votes) | 39 | 20211228 |
| Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the ManholeAn artist rescues a mermaid in a sewer who develops bleeding sores all over her body, paints a portrait with her oozes and eventually disjoints her. | 1988 | Hideshi Hino | Horror | 5.4 (2.2K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Guinea Pig: Devil's ExperimentA duo of guys capture and brutally torture a young girl to the point of piercing her retina. | 1985 | Satoru Ogura | Short, Horror | 3.9 (3.7K votes) | 43 | 20211228 |
| Henry, Portrait of a Serial KillerArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer. | 1986 | John McNaughton (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.0 (35K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| High TensionBest friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | Horror | 6.8 (70.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Home MovieIn the remote woods of Upstate New York, David and Clare Poe are attempting to live an idyllic life. However, their twin children's bizarre behavior might just tear the family apart. | 2008 | Christopher Denham | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (4.4K votes) | 1 | 20220912 |
| House Is Black, The [Khaneh siah ast]Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | Documentary, Short | 7.9 (4.6K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Human Centipede, TheA mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums. | 2009 | Tom Six | Horror | 4.4 (77.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| I Stand AloneA horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. | 1998 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (22.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Ichi The KillerAs sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving. | 2001 | Takashi Miike (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror | 7.0 (55K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Ilsa She Wolf Of The SSIlsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines. | 1975 | Don Edmonds | Drama, Horror, Thriller, War | 5.1 (7.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| In My Skin [Dans Ma Peau]A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident. | 2002 | Marina de Van | Drama, Horror | 6.3 (5.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| InsideFour months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby. | 2007 | Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Horror | 6.7 (39.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| IrreversibleEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. | 2002 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (129.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Jacob's LadderMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of de | 1990 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 (104.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| JamA surreal, ambient mix of bleak comedy sketches. | 2000 | Christopher Morris | Comedy | 8.4 (2.6K votes) | 0 | 20240323 |
| Johnny Got His GunDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life. | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | Drama, War | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Last Circus, The [Balada triste de trompeta]A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed. | 2010 | Álex de la Iglesia | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 6.5 (14K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Last House on The Left, TheTwo teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts. | 1972 | Wes Craven (*) | Crime, Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (36.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| MartyrsA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | Horror | 7.1 (90.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| MelancholiaTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. | 2011 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (177.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Men Behind the Sun - Camp 731 [Hei tai yang 731]Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons. | 1988 | Tun-Fei Mou | Drama, History, Horror, War | 6.1 (6.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| NekromantikA street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him. | 1987 | Jörg Buttgereit | Horror | 5.0 (9.2K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Night And FogThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside. | 1956 | Alain Resnais (*) | Documentary, Short, History, War | 8.6 (18.8K votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
| OldboyAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. | 2003 | Park Chan-wook (*) | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (553.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Pink FlamingosNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive". | 1972 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 (23.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| PontypoolA radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in. | 2008 | Bruce McDonald | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (31.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| PossessionA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Drama, Horror | 7.4 (29.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| RepulsionA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. | 1965 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (52.5K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Requiem for a DreamThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama | 8.3 (809.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini (*) | Drama, Horror | 5.9 (58.1K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Serbian Film, AAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film. | 2010 | Srdjan Spasojevic | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.0 (62.7K votes) | 104 | 20220414 |
| SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. | 1995 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.6 (1.6M votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Sinful Dwarf, The [Dværgen]Olaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep the addict girls happy so they do not try and escape. A young couple move into the house and the evil landlords take a liking to t... | 1973 | Eduardo Fuller | Adult, Crime, Horror | 4.9 (1.6K votes) | 95 | 20231001 |
| Skin I Live In [La piel que habito], TheA brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (147.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Straw DogsA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (59K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| TaxidermiaThree generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer. | 2006 | György Pálfi | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 6.9 (17.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Tenant, TheA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. | 1976 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (42.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TheFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. | 1974 | Tobe Hooper (*) | Horror | 7.5 (151K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| ThemLucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night. | 2006 | David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (30.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| ThreadsThe effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization. | 1984 | Mick Jackson | Drama, Sci-Fi, War | 8.0 (13.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Trouble Every DayTwo American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them. | 2001 | Claire Denis (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (7.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| Wedding Trough [Vase de noces]An allegoric male character falls in love with his pig. | 1974 | Thierry Zéno | Drama, Horror, Romance | 4.4 (1.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Gore, TheA TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending. | 1970 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | Horror | 5.3 (3.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Nine Inch Nails: Broken | 1993 | Jon Reiss, Peter Christopherson, Serge Becker, Eric Goode | Short, Horror, Music | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes | 1971 | Stan Brakhage | Documentary, Short, Horror | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Catfish | 2010 | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Documentary, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Zoo | 2007 | Robinson Devor | Documentary | 5.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Otmar Bauer Zeigt | 1969 | Otmar Bauer | Short | 2.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |