Highest-Rated Movies about 'Torture'

Paragraph 175 (2000), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), Haxan (1922), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Conqueror Worm (1968), Savaged (2013), The Interrogation (1982), The Road to Guantanamo (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Torture movies.

#17. Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012)

Storyline: Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: documentary, concentration camp, human rights, survivor, interview, true story, dictatorship ...

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#18. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

Storyline: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.

Plot Keywords: drama, romance, homosexual, prison, political, drama film, novel adaptation ...

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#19. Rescue Dawn (2006)

Storyline: In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally deranged prisoners and guards. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal splits the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.

Plot Keywords: war, survival, vietnam war, escape, true story, adventure, jungle ...

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#20. Death and the Maiden (1994)

Storyline: Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina is torn between her psychological repressions and somber memory, Gerardo is torn between his wife and the law, and Dr. Miranda is forced to endure captivity while husband and wife seek out the uncertain truth about the clouded past.

Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, mystery, psychological, revenge, justice, political ...

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#23. Audition (1999)

Storyline: In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his intention. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami?

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, torture, dark, disturbing, surreal, violence ...

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#24. Unthinkable (2010)

Storyline: A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant," known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, crime, action, drama, terrorism, interrogation ...

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#25. Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Storyline: Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive! Strange things then start to happen in the Medina castle.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, gothic, medieval, castle, torture, psychological horror ...

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#26. Martyrs (2008)

Storyline: Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, Lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, Anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions. Anna, left on her own begins to re-experience what Lucie did when she was only twelve years old.

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, violence, torture, revenge, cult ...

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#27. To End All Wars (2001)

Storyline: A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately they find true freedom by forgiving their enemies. Based on the true story of Ernest Gordon.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, survival, humanity, faith, courage, sacrifice ...

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#28. Hellraiser (1987)

Storyline: When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before the family's arrival, Larry's disreputable brother, Frank, used a supernatural puzzle box to summon a gang of other-dimensional demon sadists. Now, Frank requires a series of blood sacrifices to escape the clutches of Pinhead and the cenobites.

Plot Keywords: horror, gore, supernatural, cult, torture, demons, hell ...

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#29. Dante's Inferno (2007)

Storyline: In this paper-puppet satire, a modern-day Dante Alighieri (Dermot Mulroney) awakens, completely lost, with an epic hangover. As he makes his way through a dangerous neighborhood, Alighieri meets the poet Virgil (James Cromwell), who offers to lead him home. Instead, Virgil treats Alighieri to a chilling tour of the Underworld, where he witnesses sins of all kinds and passes through the gaping mouth of hell -- which bears a surprising resemblance to the concrete jungle he already knows so well.

Plot Keywords: animation, horror, fantasy, adventure, hell, dark, violence ...

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#30. The Rack (1956)

Storyline: Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: war, korean war, psychological warfare, brainwashing, torture, interrogation, loyalty ...

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