Films about torture

2006 film by Martin Campbell

1992 film by Quentin Tarantino

2015 film by Sam Mendes

2004 film directed by James Wan

2003 film directed by Park Chan-wook

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.

2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

2005 film by Darren Lynn Bousman

1985 dystopian film by Terry Gilliam

2008 film by Ben Stiller

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

2006 film by Darren Lynn Bousman

2012 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

2007 film by Darren Lynn Bousman

2008 film by David Hackl

2010 film by Kevin Greutert

1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2005 film by Eli Roth

Hellraiser is a 1987 British supernatural horror film written and directed by Clive Barker in his directorial debut. Based on Barker's 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, the film's plot concerns a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure. It stars Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, and Doug Bradley as the leader of the Cenobites.

2009 film directed by Kevin Greutert

2005 film directed by Andrew Douglas

Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. A co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

2005 film directed by David Slade

2017 film directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig

2009 Dutch body horror film directed by Tom Six

1976 film by John Schlesinger

1972 film directed by Wes Craven

1999 film directed by Joel Schumacher

2021 film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman

1999 film by Takashi Miike

1997 film by Michael Haneke

2023 film directed by Kevin Greutert

Untraceable is a 2008 American psychological thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, and Joseph Cross. It was distributed by Screen Gems. The film was released in the United States on January 25, 2008 to negative reviews and was a box-office bomb.

2003 film by Rob Zombie

2008 film by James Watkins

2007 film directed by Eli Roth

2025 film directed by Jafar Panahi

2008 film by Pascal Laugier

2011 film by Scott Spiegel

2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

1961 film by Roger Corman

2015 film by Jeremy Saulnier

2010 film by Steven R. Monroe

2013 film directed by Danny Boyle

1995 film by Marc Rocco

1992 film by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde

2018 film directed by Gareth Evans

1985 film directed by Lewis Teague

2007 film by Michael Haneke

1988 Hong Kong–Chinese historical horror film directed by Mou Tun-fei

FeardotCom is a 2002 supernatural horror film directed by William Malone, and starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, and Stephen Rea. The plot details a New York City detective investigating a series of mysterious deaths connected to a disturbing website. Udo Kier, Jeffrey Combs, Nigel Terry, and Michael Sarrazin also appear in the film in supporting roles.

2007 film by Tommy O'Haver

2008 film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

Unthinkable is a 2010 American thriller film directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, and Carrie-Anne Moss. It was released direct-to-video on June 14, 2010. The film focuses on the sanctioned torture of a man who has threatened to detonate three nuclear bombs, planted in three large U.S. cities.

1983 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg

1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard

2009 film directed by Marcus Dunstan

WΔZ (pronounced double-u delta zed), is a 2007 British crime horror thriller film directed by Tom Shankland, written by Clive Bradley, and starring Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, and Tom Hardy. The film was released in the United States with the title The Killing Gene.

2019 film directed by Scott Z. Burns

1935 film by Lew Landers