Highest-Rated Movies about 'Violent Scenes'

Throne of Blood (1957), Carlos (2010), Battleship Potemkin (1925), American Satan (2017), Nil by Mouth (1997), Equus (1977), The Godless Girl (1929), Metallica Through the Never (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Violent Scenes movies.

#2. Carlos (2010)

Storyline: Young Venezuelan Marxist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Edgar Ramírez) is recruited by the leader of a Palestinian terrorist organization (Ahmad Kaabour) to perform several jobs in Europe in the early 1970s, culminating in the audacious kidnapping of several OPEC oil ministers. From that small-scale beginning, he becomes an infamous international terrorist for hire, known in the media as Carlos the Jackal, who performs violent acts across the globe for a wide variety of nations and organizations.

Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical drama, crime film, terrorism, based on true events, international conspiracy, espionage ...

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#3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Storyline: Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.

Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, historical drama, classic film, expressionism, navy, oppression ...

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#5. Nil by Mouth (1997)

Storyline: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.—Gustaf Molin <gustaf.molin@usa.net>

Plot Keywords: domestic violence, underclass, alcoholism, drug abuse, working class, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...

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#6. Equus (1977)

Storyline: Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang (Peter Firth), the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.—Serenleono <verax@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, play adaptation, psychoanalysis, human nature exploration, criminal psychology, ethical dilemma, british film ...

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#7. The Godless Girl (1929)

Storyline: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime film, moral dilemma, religious conflict, american film, 1920s ...

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#8. Metallica Through the Never (2013)

Storyline: A young Metallica roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) embarks on an apocalyptic journey through a decimated urban landscape as the band plays to a sold-out arena crowd in this high-concept concert film from director Nimrod Antal (Predators). As the band takes the stage before thousands of screaming fans, Trip is informed that a driver tasked with delivering a crucial item has gotten stranded on the other side of the city. It's his job to recover it, but getting there won't be easy because as the elaborate concert gets underway, rioters and police begin clashing in the streets. The city is burning, and a mysterious, masked figure on horseback is thriving on the chaos. When Trip incurs the wrath of the ruthless, hammer-wielding psycho and his marauding gang, he realizes that he may not live long enough to complete his mission. Meanwhile, the show must go on, and Metallica thrills the crowd with a thunderous collection of classics that include "Creeping Death", "Ride the Lightning", "Master ...

Plot Keywords: music, concert, 3d, rock, live performance, band, fantasy ...

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#10. Sid and Nancy (1986)

Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.

Plot Keywords: rock music, love story, drug abuse, self-destruction, london setting, musician's life, underground culture ...

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#11. A Most Violent Year (2014)

Storyline: A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, new york, 1980s, gangster, violence ...

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#12. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Storyline: Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn. During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves: an unhappily married union strike leader discovers he is gay; a jaded prostitute falls in love with one of her clients, a naive young sailor; a union negotiator attempts to peacefully resolve the strike while desperately hiding the fact that he's a communist ; the family of a striking factory worker cannot cope with the fact that their teenage daughter is illegitimately pregnant.—Serdar Yegulalp <syegul@ix.netcom.com>

Plot Keywords: crime, drama, usa, gangster, violence, social issues, poverty ...

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#13. À l'intérieur (2007)

Storyline: Four months before Christmas, Sarah and Matthieu Scarangelo were in a car crash, of which Sarah and her unborn baby were the only survivors. On Christmas Eve, Sarah stays home alone, where she grieves her husband and prepares to go to the hospital the next morning for the delivery. As night falls, a woman knocks on Sarah's door asking to use the phone. When she refuses, the woman reveals that she knows Sarah and tries to force her way in. Sarah calls the police; they inspect the home and determine the woman has left, but promise to keep watch over Sarah through the night. The woman returns and tries to take Sarah's unborn child, but Sarah locks herself in the bathroom. The strange woman torments Sarah through the night and kills all who try help her.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, french film, violence, gore, psychological horror, home invasion ...

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#14. 22 July (2018)

Storyline: In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. A three-part story. About the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Plot Keywords: political thriller, based on true events, norway, courtroom drama, psychological trauma, national security, authoritarianism ...

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#15. Lady in the Lake (1946)

Storyline: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: film noir, detective story, murder mystery, novel adaptation, 1940s, crime thriller, complex plot ...

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