Most Intense Movies Ever Made

The Top Ten
1 Cannibal Holocaust

Yikes! Some celebrate this film as an unflinchingly truthful portrait of human savagery, others think it's a work as noxious as anything produced by Leni Riefenstahl. But anyone who has seen Ruggero Deodato's 1980 film will agree about its intensity.

2 Shoot 'Em Up
3 The Tournament

Great and very intense non-stop action movie with countless fight scenes

4 Alien

I would say the part in Alien where the first alien comes out of the guy's stomach is very intense. The whole movie is very intense

5 The Deer Hunter

Amazing story... Contains the infamous Russian Roulette scene...

6 Copycat

Every single killing was intense... And creepy

7 Jacob's Ladder

The movie runs like an acid trip. Things don't happen chronologically and you never know what's real. Brilliantly filmed, terrifying to watch.

A somber atmospheric movie that makes you feel for confusion of the character with a plot that keeps you on your toes.

8 Freaks
9 The Dark Knight
10 A Clockwork Orange

An ultimate classic, so weird and thought provoking it gives our nightmares days after.

The Contenders
11 Requiem for a Dream

Both this movie and Black Swan were inspired by "Perfect Blue". Seriously, Darren Aronofsky wouldn't have been this well-known if "Perfect Blue" hadn't existed.

Did you guys know this movie was inspired by another movie named "Perfect Blue"?

12 A Serbian Film (2010)
13 Whiplash
14 Gangs of Wasseypur
15 Saving Private Ryan

This movie deserves it's own countdown for disturbing moments.

16 Trainspotting

Danny Boyle's 1996 kinetic adaptation of Irvine Welsh's book about Scottish drug addicts is filled with intense moments, starting with the joyous anarchy of its opening sequence in which junkies flee the filth to Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life. " But the bit that's close to unwatchable has anti-hero Renton withdrawing from heroin and hallucinating the reanimation of his dead mate's baby. Drugs?

17 The Silence of the Lambs

One of if not the best horror/crime thrillers of all time!

I love this movie so much!

18 Duel
19 The Dark Knight Rises
20 Interstellar

This movie kept me on the edge of my seat, even the second time around.

21 The Shining
22 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
23 Titanic

This is the only movie on this list I have seen!

24 Perfect Blue
25 Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Now that was intense...

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