Top rated violent movies that are also sobering

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

1 Night in Paradise (2020)

An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.

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2020-09-03 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Um Tae-goo, Jeon Yeo-been

Rating

rating icon 6.918
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    violent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    academy award deserving
  3. Ranked #1 for
    violent acting

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Night in Paradise trailer
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2 Limbo (2021)

Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...

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2021-11-18 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Gordon Lam, Liu Yase

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    hyper realistic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    saturated imagery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nihilistic

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Limbo trailer
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3 Escape from Mogadishu (2021)

Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.

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2021-07-28 | War / Action

Cast

Kim Yoon-seok, Jo In-sung

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    close call
  2. Ranked #2 for
    top form
  3. Ranked #2 for
    symmetrical directing

Trailer

Escape from Mogadishu trailer
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4 Sisu (2022)

Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold but after he stumbles upon Nazi patrol, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.

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2022-09-09 | Action / War

Cast

Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie

Rating

rating icon 7.479
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indefatigable character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    aced
  3. Ranked #2 for
    defying

Trailer

Sisu trailer
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5 The Eight Hundred (2020)

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

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2020-08-14 | War / History

Cast

Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi

Rating

rating icon 6.968
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    jingoistic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    patriotic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    herky-jerky camera work

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The Eight Hundred trailer
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6 The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)

After barely surviving a violent attack by an elusive serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su finds himself forming an unlikely partnership with local detective Jung Tae-seok to catch the sadistic killer simply known as K.

Info

2019-05-15 | Crime / Action

Cast

Ma Dong-seok, Kim Moo-yul

Rating

rating icon 7.798
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sticky ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    seamy subject
  3. Ranked #1 for
    gritty atmosphere

Trailer

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil trailer
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7 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.876
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    realistic portrayal

Trailer

The Outpost trailer
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8 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

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2019-08-08 | War / Action

Cast

Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey

Rating

rating icon 6.82
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    heroic acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    honest portrayal

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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan trailer
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9 Dog Bite Dog (2006)

A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is also on the force and who was told by his dad not to become a police officer.

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2006-08-17 | Action / Crime

Cast

Edison Chen, Sam Lee

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    implacable
  2. Ranked #49 for
    violent
  3. Ranked #143 for
    mad dog

Trailer

Dog Bite Dog trailer
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10 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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2022-10-07 | Drama / War

Cast

Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.733
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visceral
  2. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    remarkable

Trailer

All Quiet on the Western Front trailer
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