(#2) Schindler's List
- Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Embeth Davidtz, Norbert Weisser, Emilie Schindler, Andrzej Seweryn, Caroline Goodall, Anna Mucha, Ludger Pistor, Mark Ivanir, Elina Löwensohn, Jerzy Nowak, Jonathan Sagall, Branko Lustig, Olaf Lubaszenko, Maria Peszek, Götz Otto, Joachim Paul Assböck, Gerald Alexander Held, Agnieszka Krukówna, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Maja Ostaszewska, Rami Heuberger, Friedrich von Thun, Erwin Leder, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, August Schmölzer, Paweł Deląg, Henryk Bista, Vili Matula, Shabtai Konorti, Maciej Kozłowski, Małgorzata Gebel, Marian Glinka, Tadeusz Bradecki, Jochen Nickel, Poldek Pfefferberg, Maciej Kowalewski, Radosław Krzyżowski, Grzegorz Damiecki, Leo Rosner, Alexander Strobele, Miri Fabian, Uri Avrahami, Hubert Kramar, Béatrice Macola, Martin Semmelrogge, Geno Lechner, Piotr Cyrwus, Piotr Polk, Thomas Morris, Razia Israeli, Aldona Grochal, Haymon Maria Buttinger, Krzysztof Luft, Tomasz Dedek, Agnieszka Wagner, Wojciech Klata, Leopold Kozłowski, Etl Szyc, Dominika Bednarczyk, Beata Rybotycka, Grzegorz Kwas, Osman Ragheb, Peter Flechtner, Ryszard Horowitz, Ezra Dagan, Adam Siemion, Jerzy Sagan, Beata Nowak, Harry Nehring, Albert Misak, Adi Nitzan, Shmulik Levy, Ewa Kolasinska, Maciej Orłoś, Stanislaw Koczanowicz, Jacek Wójcicki, Stanislaw Brejdygant, Georges Kern, Sebastian Konrad, Jan Jurewicz, Magdalena Komornicka, Magdalena Dandourian, Zbigniew Kozlowski, Michelle Csitos, Slawomir Holland, Wilhelm Manske, Jacek Lenczowski, Wieslaw Komasa, Marcin Grzymowicz, Michael Schiller, Marek Wrona, Bettina Kupfer, Dirk Bender, Anemona Knut, Michael Z. Hoffmann, Wolfgang Seidenberg, Tadeusz Huk, Agnieszka Korzeniowska, Oliwia Dabrowska, Andrzej Welminski, Artus Maria Matthiessen, Katarzyna Tlalka, Marta Bizon, Michael Schneider, Michael Gordon, Lidia Wyrobiec-Bank, Katarzyna Śmiechowicz, Ruth Farhi, Ben Talar, Dieter Witting, Maciej Winkler, Sebastian Skalski, Hanna Kossowska, Jeremy Flynn, Sigurd Bemme, Ravit Ferera, Zuzanna Lipiec, Danny Marcu, Alexander Buczolich, Alicja Kubaszewska, Daniel Del-Ponte, Lucyna Zabawa, Piotr Kadlcik, Lech Niebielski, Jacek Pulanecki, Dorit Seadia, Kamil Krawiec, Hans-Jörg Assmann, Dariusz Szymaniak, Ryszard Radwanski, Peter Appiano, Esti Yerushalmi, Martin Bergmann, Hans Rosner
Steven Spielberg's Academy Award winning 1993 drama takes the spectator back to one of the darkest times in world history. Shown in black and white, Schindler's List has an almost documentary feel, delivering many of the most dreadful horrors of the Holocaust via handheld cameras.
In a movie filled with scenes that will forever remind us how easily humanity can be erased by evil, one sequence in particular stands out. Due to the arrival of more Jews to the Plaszow Camp, Amon Goeth must weed the sick from the healthy in order to make room. Every prisoner is stripped naked and forced to run around to determine whether they will live or die. Some prisoners even cut themselves, using the blood to create a rosier picture of good health.
Schindler's List is one of the most important films of the past 100 years, but, despite its artistic excellence, it's not a picture that many people can watch more than once. It's only more heartbreaking to realize that these events actually happened and people were actually this cruel.
(#9) 12 Years a Slave
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard
12 Years a Slave tells the story of a Black man who is born free in New York but is kidnapped and forced into slavery for over a decade. Director Steve McQueen depicts the protagonist's struggle with an unapologetic eye. This is a true story adapted from Solomon Northup's memoir, and McQueen made sure that he told Solomon's story, no matter how hard it is to watch.
One scene in particular is especially excruciating, a sequence in which Solomon is forced to whip his own friend. It's simply heartbreaking to watch, as it pulls at every ounce of human emotion that exists within a person. How many scary monsters can do that?
(#3) Buried
- Ryan Reynolds, Samantha Mathis, Stephen Tobolowsky, Anne Lockhart, Kali Rocha, Erik Palladino, Chris William Martin, Robert Clotworthy, Kirk Baily, José Luis García Pérez, Heath Centazzo, Warner Loughlin, Ivana Miño, Joe Guarneri, Robert Paterson, Cade Dundish, Abdelilah Ben Massou, Juan Hidalgo, Michalla Petersen
Buried tells the story of Paul Conroy, a US contractor working in Iraq who is kidnapped and buried alive. With nothing to save him other than a lighter and a cell phone, Buried is a horrifying movie that make its audience feel as though they are choking for air alongside the protagonist.
If a spectator was not claustrophobic heading into the cinema, they definitely were after watching Paul struggle helplessly in his confined space for an hour and a half.
(#10) Happiness
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Molly Shannon, Jon Lovitz, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jared Harris, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser, Dylan Baker, Camryn Manheim, Jane Adams, Cynthia Stevenson, Elizabeth Ashley, Gerry Becker, Douglas McGrath, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ann Harada, Allison Furman, Rufus Read, Lila Glantzman-Leib, Justin Elvin
Writer/director Todd Solondz portrays the middle-class suburban life of three sisters and their families in the 1998 dramedy Happiness. Almost every character is a vile human being in their own way, and the scary part is each of them reeks of familiarity.
In the film, Dylan Baker plays Bill, a loving father and husband – a standup suburban dad. That is... until the audience discovers he is a pedophile. The most disturbing part of Happiness is Solondz's constant challenge to the viewer, attempting to make Bill sympathetic. The spectator is almost rooting for him not get caught.
Happiness was an extremely controversial film that was denied entry into the Sundance Film Festival. Roger Ebert wrote about the film's combination of tragic irony:
Happiness is about its unhappy characters, in a way that helps us see them a little more clearly, to feel sorry for them, and at the same time to see how closely tragedy and farce come together in the messiness of sexuality. Does "Happiness" exploit its controversial subjects? Finally, no: It sees them as symptoms of desperation and sadness. It is more exploitative to create a child molester as a convenient villain, as many movies do; by disregarding his humanity and seeing him as an object, such movies do the same thing that a molester does.
(#8) American History X
- Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly DAngelo, Elliott Gould, Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee, Christopher Masterson, Jennifer Lien, Guy Torry, William Russ, Joseph Cortese
Tony Kaye's extremely controversial 1998 drama, American History X, reminds audiences just how hateful and violent people can be. Kaye pulls no punches, showing the spectator what it's like to be a Neo-Nazi in Venice Beach, California. These mostly young, white men wear their hate on their sleeves and are willing to do anything to anyone who threatens their dangerous dogmatic ideologies.
At its core, AHX is a family drama, centered around two brothers. The older sibling Derek (expertly played by Ed Norton, who earned an Oscar nod) goes to jail for the crimes showcased in the film's notorious curb-stomping scene. It's a violent, highly graphic scene juxtaposed with brilliant black and white and poetic slow-motion.
It is difficult to look away from but equally hard to watch. There is no redemption in a film like American History X. Just when we think that Derek has earned it, Kaye makes the film's protagonist pay double for every one of his past sins.
(#7) Irréversible
- Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Gaspar Noé, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon, Eric Moreau, Jean-Louis Costes, Jo Prestia, Stéphane Drouot, Michel Gondoin, Stéphane Derdérian, Mourad Khima, Hellal, Fesche, Nato
Irréversible was specifically designed to make audiences panic. Gaspar Noé's 2002 graphic revenge drama literally made viewers sick. The director used a 27 hertz bass frequency during the first 30 minutes of the movie, a frequency that cannot be heard by the human ear, but has the ability to induce panic, anxiety, extreme sorrow, and heart palpitations.
Several audience members reportedly left the theater during the film's opening scenes because they felt sick and disoriented. And the film already features a beyond-disturbing, nine-minute rape scene that is nauseating enough without the low-frequency bass designed to induce panic.
Film critic Roger Ebert described the feature as, "a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable."
New Random Displays Display All By Ranking
About This Tool
Over the decades, most people just like to be scared and experience some stories of strange and unknown. From the mental illness to the weird and cruel ghosts, horror movies have always been popular with audiences in a long history. However, horror movies are not the only ones that are scary. Some horrifying movies can even be documentaries or cartoons, their content is too scary.
We collected 14 items of the most horrifying non-horror movies ever made, with the random tool, you could find soma available videos, please refresh the collection to get more movies and try to choose the number of items that you want to display.
Our data comes from Ranker, If you want to participate in the ranking of items displayed on this page, please click here.