Top rated most intense movies on Popcornflix

Check out today’s highest ranked most intense movies on Popcornflix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best most intense movies on Popcornflix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Meander (2021)

After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

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2021-07-01 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén

Rating

rating icon 6.029
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    purgatory
  2. Ranked #2 for
    crawling along
  3. Ranked #2 for
    mind twists

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2 The Guilty (2018)

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

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2018-02-22 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage

Rating

rating icon 7.329
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #100 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #199 for
    story unfolds
  3. Ranked #258 for
    extremely tense

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3 We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

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2011-09-28 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller

Rating

rating icon 7.559
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #118 for
    like Cape Fear
  2. Ranked #138 for
    sociopath
  3. Ranked #168 for
    flashback sequence

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4 Train to Busan (2016)

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

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2016-07-20 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Gong Yoo, Kim Su-an

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #86 for
    Apocalypse Film
  2. Ranked #161 for
    wall to wall
  3. Ranked #170 for
    white-knuckled

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5 Freaks (2019)

Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.

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2019-09-12 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow start
  2. Ranked #2 for
    thickened plot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    logical conclusion

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6 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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2009-02-27 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #85 for
    like Knives Out
  3. Ranked #96 for
    emo character

Trailer

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7 I Saw the Devil (2010)

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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2010-08-12 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik

Rating

rating icon 7.801
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #21 for
    bludgeoned to death
  3. Ranked #38 for
    implacable

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8 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

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2007-09-26 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke

Rating

rating icon 7.11
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #19 for
    haywire
  2. Ranked #57 for
    Multiple POV
  3. Ranked #103 for
    downward spiral

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9 Dead Ringers (1988)

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

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1988-09-23 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold

Rating

rating icon 7.112
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    downward spiral
  2. Ranked #79 for
    wallflower
  3. Ranked #128 for
    socially awkward

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10 Tell No One (2006)

A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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2006-11-01 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze

Rating

rating icon 7.257
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #45 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #61 for
    bludgeoned to death
  3. Ranked #140 for
    puzzled

Trailer

Tell No One trailer
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