Here we've displayed a list of the best Torture films : The Silence of the Lambs(1991), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang(1932), The Battle of Algiers(1966), Casino Royale(2006), The Princess Bride(1987), Papillon(1973), Apocalypto(2006), The Day of the Jackal(1973), The Killing Fields(1984), Black Book(2006), First Blood(1982), Kiss Me Deadly(1955) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1991
119 Minutes
Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn Ted Levine Anthony Heald Brooke Smith Diane Baker Kasi Lemmons Charles Napier Roger Corman George Romero
psychiatrist psychopath student agent serial killer police officer dark creepy suspenseful prison cave household washington, d.c. insanity kidnapping cannibalism torture fbi escape mystery
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Drama
USA
1932
93 Minutes
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Preston Foster Edward Ellis Allen Jenkins Noel Francis Berton Churchill
veteran prisoner guard landlady lawyer bleak brutal intense georgia diner prison chicago construction site prison injustice torture escape aspirations jealousy escape
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
War, Drama, History
Italy|Algeria
1966
125 Minutes
Jean Martin Yacef Saadi Brahim Haggiag Tommaso Neri Samia Kerbash Michele Kerbash Fusia El Kader Mohamed Ben Kassen
leader colonel captain terrorist guerrilla fighter bleak shocking algeria prison apartment street algerian war uprising military occupation patriotism violence torture wretched excess pursuit revenge
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
UK|Czech Republic|USA|Germany|Bahamas
2006
144 Minutes
Daniel Craig Eva Green Mads Mikkelsen Judi Dench Caterina Murino Simon Abkarian Jeffrey Wright Giancarlo Giannini Ivana Milicevic Isaach De Bankolé Claudio Santamaria
spy banker terrorist femme fatale agent thrilling suspenseful confident casino bahamas south africa italy airport love interest gambling murder torture surveillance bomb pursuit
After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.
Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy
USA
1987
98 Minutes
Cary Elwes Robin Wright Mandy Patinkin Chris Sarandon Christopher Guest Wallace Shawn Fred Savage Peter Falk Peter Cook Carol Kane Billy Crystal
beautiful woman prince princess pirate magician dreamy quirky witty forest castle marriage deception love torture evil redemption revenge rivalry rise unknown era
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
1973
150 Minutes
Steve McQueen Dustin Hoffman Victor Jory Don Gordon Anthony Zerbe Robert Deman Woodrow Parfrey Bill Mumy George Coulouris Ratna Assan William Smithers
convict forger prisoner doctor indian nun gritty brutal dark fiery tense emotional french guiana prison camp cell jungle colombia devil's island imprisonment escape
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Adventure, History, Drama, Action
USA|Mexico|UK
2006
137 Minutes
Rudy Youngblood Raoul Trujillo Dalia Hernandez Gerardo Taracena Jonathan Brewer Fernando Hernandez Rodolfo Palacios Morris Birdyellowhead Maria Isidra Hoil Antonio Monroi Carlos Emilio Baez
prisoner tribal leader wife child explorer hunter gritty suspenseful touching brutal central america waterfall village pyramid yucatan jungle violence rape prophecy torture
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|France
1973
141 Minutes
Edward Fox Michael Lonsdale Tony Britton Terence Alexander Cyril Cusack Alan Badel Michel Auclair Denis Carey Maurice Denham Adrien Cayla-Legrand Vernon Dobtcheff
hit man charles de gaulle police detective police officer suspenseful engaging paris apartment building assassination plot political intrigue investigation secret identity torture quest pursuit 1960s
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
Drama
UK
1984
141 Minutes
Sam Waterston Haing S. Ngor John Malkovich Julian Sands Craig T. Nelson Spalding Gray Bill Paterson Athol Fugard Graham Kennedy Katherine Krapum Chey
journalist interpreter photojournalist wife reporter chilling emotional inspiring cambodia new york city phnom penh journalism war torture friendship genocide khmer rouge escape sacrifice rescue
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama
Netherlands|Germany|UK|Belgium
2006
144 Minutes
Carice van Houten Sebastian Koch Thom Hoffman Halina Reijn Waldemar Kobus Derek de Lint Christian Berkel Dolf de Vries Peter Blok Michiel Huisman Ronald Armbrust
nazi spy femme fatale fugitive singer suspect suspenseful israel netherlands hideout secret smuggling torture death world war ii escape revenge rescue 1950s
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Action, Adventure
USA
1982
95 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna Brian Dennehy David Caruso Jack Starrett Michael Talbot David Crowley Chris Mulkey Don Mackay Alf Humphreys John McLiam
veteran sheriff commanding officer deputy rambo vietnam vet brutal gripping suspenseful intense washington state small town police station mountain abandoned mine forest vietnam war bigotry torture guerrilla warfare
A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
105 Minutes
Ralph Meeker Albert Van Dekker Paul Stewart Maxine Cooper Gaby Rodgers Juano Hernandez Wesley Addy Nick Dennis Cloris Leachman Marion Carr Jack Lambert
mike hammer stranger girlfriend police captain scientist roommate uneasy chilling brutal los angeles highway hospital office apartment beach house murder femme fatales atomic age deception impersonation
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama
France|USA
2004
134 Minutes
Audrey Tautou Gaspard Ulliel Jean-Pierre Becker Dominique Bettenfeld Clovis Cornillac Marion Cotillard Jodie Foster Jean-Claude Dreyfus Albert Dupontel André Dussollier Ticky Holgado
soldier sargeant lieutenant bureaucrat dreamy disturbing france world war i torture faith love mystery pursuit 1910s
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Mystery & Thriller
Austria
1997
108 Minutes
Susanne Lothar Ulrich Mühe Frank Giering Arno Frisch Stefan Clapczynski Doris Kunstmann Christoph Bantzer Wolfgang Glück Susanne Meneghel Monika Zallinger
father mother son prisoner thug accomplice bleak brutal chilling creepy austria lake cabin boat murder home invasion torture survival humiliation hostage situation
Two 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.
Drama
UK
2004
86 Minutes
Paddy Considine Gary Stretch Toby Kebbell Stuart Wolfenden Neil Bell Paul Sadot Jo Hartley Seamus O'Neil George Newton Paul Hurstfield Emily Aston
soldier thug brother brutal dark disturbing england small town vengeance murder punishment torture revenge rivalry 2000s
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
prison guard prisoner police officer girlfriend judge bleak gutsy shocking istanbul prison airport prison life prison break drug trafficking foreign relations torture escape transformation wretched excess 1970s
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
83 Minutes
Marilyn Burns Gunnar Hansen Allen Danziger Paul A. Partain William Vail Teri McMinn Edwin Neal Jim Siedow John Dugan Perry Lorenz
sister paraplegic friend psychopath leatherface patriarch shocking frightening gory gritty texas country house country road isolation violence murder torture grave robbing escape pursuit
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1949
98 Minutes
Robert Newton Sally Gray Naunton Wayne Phil Brown Olga Lindo Ronald Adam James Harcourt Allan Jeayes Russell Waters
psychiatrist wife lover scotland yard detective butler american chilling tense london office household hideout scotland yard infidelity attempted murder investigation torture psychiatry schemes revenge
Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
Adventure
South Africa|USA
1966
96 Minutes
Cornel Wilde Gert van den Bergh Ken Gampu Patrick Mynhardt Bella Randels Jose Sithole Richard Mashiya Eric Sabela Morrison Gampu
guide hunter native girl brutal gripping africa colony chase torture hunting race relations pursuit underdog 19th century
During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.
Drama
UK|Germany|USA
2000
123 Minutes
Geoffrey Rush Kate Winslet Joaquin Phoenix Michael Caine Billie Whitelaw Patrick Malahide Amelia Warner Jane Menelaus Stephen Moyer
love interest doctor worker government official priest marquis de sade dark witty passionate france insane asylum imprisonment torture writing seduction sex murder temptation fall 18th century
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2000
107 Minutes
Bruce Willis Samuel L. Jackson Robin Wright Charlayne Woodard Spencer Treat Clark James Handy Eamonn Walker Elizabeth Lawrence Leslie Stefanson
security guard wife sick person janitor son suspenseful offbeat philadelphia new york city stadium train station extrasensory perception insanity torture murder supernatural quest transformation discovery 2000s
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
War, Drama, History
USA|Luxembourg
2006
125 Minutes
Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies Galen Yuen Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul Chaiyan "Lek" Chunsuttiwat Teerawat "Ka-Ge" Mulvilai Yuttana Muenwaja Kriangsak Ming-Olo Pat Healy Toby Huss
pilot prisoner survivor military officer prisoner of war thrilling gritty laos prison camp jungle escape bombing mental illness hope violence torture escape quest 1960s
A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
War
UK|New Zealand|Japan
1983
124 Minutes
David Bowie Tom Conti Ryuichi Sakamoto "Beat" Takeshi Kitano Jack Thompson Johnny Ohkura Alistair Browning James Malcolm Chris Broun Grant Bridger Colin Francis
soldier prisoner of war translator military officer sergeant homosexual cool disturbing gutsy pow camp japan world war ii cultural differences torture homosexuality imprisonment honor underdog discovery 1940s
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1986
97 Minutes
Rutger Hauer C. Thomas Howell Jennifer Jason Leigh Jeffrey DeMunn John M. Jackson Billy Green Bush Jack Thibeau Armin Shimerman
young man hitchhiker waitress police officer serial killer chilling dark thrilling desert highway car diner police station road trip serial murders mistaken identity stalking torture escape pursuit
A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.
Horror
Japan
1969
90 Minutes
Eiji Funakoshi Mako Midori Noriko Sengoku
sculptor mother model hedonistic shocking disturbing dreamy warehouse art studio japan kidnapping sadomasochism mind games rape decadence torture wretched excess transformation temptation 1960s
A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
Horror
Canada|USA
1983
90 Minutes
James Woods Deborah Harry Sonja Smits Peter Dvorsky Leslie Carlson Jack Creley Lynne Gorman Julie Khaner
television producer girlfriend analyst daughter technician victim unrestrained shocking disturbing creepy television studio chamber toronto television hallucinations torture conspiracy government secrets violence discovery
A programmer at a TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1994
93 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Frank Whaley Michelle Forbes Benicio Del Toro Jerry Levine T.E. Russell Roy Dotrice Patrick Fischler
filmmaker producer boss girlfriend assistant engaging shocking unrestrained hollywood, calif. office manipulation abuse torture ambition film industry hostage situation underdog transformation revenge 1990s
A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.
War, Drama, History
USA
2006
132 Minutes
Ryan Phillippe Jesse Bradford Adam Beach John Benjamin Hickey John Slattery Barry Pepper Jamie Bell Paul Walker David Patrick Kelly Robert Patrick Neal McDonough
soldier hero military officer marines dark emotional tokyo island mountain photography battle torture world war ii violence suicide rise sacrifice 1940s
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
Comedy, War, Drama
USA
1999
115 Minutes
George Clooney Mark Wahlberg Ice Cube Spike Jonze Nora Dunn Jamie Kennedy Mykelti Williamson Cliff Curtis Saïd Taghmaoui Judy Greer Liz Stauber
sergeant private major reporter iraqi prisoner quirky raw outlandish iraq gulf war torture gold military rebellion sacrifice 1990s
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
Horror
UK
1971
93 Minutes
Vincent Price Joseph Cotten Terry-Thomas Hugh Griffith Virginia North Aubrey Woods Susan Travers Alex Scott Peter Gilmore Edward Burnham Peter Jeffrey
organist assistant surgeon nurse creepy shocking england mansion scotland yard hospital murder disfigurement plagues incompetency torture vengeance revenge wretched excess 1920s
A doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, Anton Phibes, seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife's death.