200 Most Disturbing Movies

A couple get abducted by a sadistic guy that subjects the woman to sexual torture. Good luck trying to find this one, if you care to.

Undoubtedly one of the most famous rape scenes in film history. The female lead gets gang raped in a public bar.

A French horror movie about a serial killer that travels with two ladies. So, violence is a given.

Psychologically disturbing, centralizing on mental illness. Feels too real and confronting.

The puppets starring in the movie are strange-looking and vulgar.

Based on the anti-war novel, the film displays the horrors of war. Like many of the other films featured on the list, it is astonishing depressing.

A mainstream flick that may seem a little soft compared to the rest. Sometimes the acting performances are just so great that it raises a films ability to disturb, The stomping scene is pretty rough too.

Serial (or spree) killer film. Lots of violence, death and gore.

Director of Nekromantik. Is there any wonder that this film is about a rapist and murderer?

A nazi-exploitation movie, bordering on torture porn.

People getting their rocks off to car crashes. Yep, that’s a thing. Watch the film dedicated to it. It’s freaky all right, in the bad way.

Main character Ezra is a murderer, necrophiliac, kidnapper and grave robber. Based on the Ed Gein case.

A rarity. A remake that surpasses the original and a classic in the horror genre.

Rape and subsequent vengeance of the rape.

A live-action retelling of an 19th century Czech folktale. Funny yet wholly bizarre.

Dark, grim and realistic. Small town mentality and revenge.

Rat-monkey bites woman, turns her into a flesh eating zombie. Over-the-top gore.

Cold, dark, meaningless violence and psychopathy.

Revenge, revenge, revenge. Torture and killing of a man who raped his daughter.

The POV of a serial killer released from prison and getting the itch to re-offend. We get to hear his internal monologue, which is unsurprisingly macabre.

Gives you that snuff feel (like what does that even mean?) It’s hardcore torture, peeps.

Depressing and dysfunctional characters.

Middle-aged guy becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old girl. Pedophile or hebephile. It’s giving heebie-jeebies.

Silly, campy and friggin’ weird, man.

The original Hunger Games. Kill or be killed. Disturbing in premise but a fantastic ride, through and through.

School violence like you’ve never seen before.

About a teenage Russian sex slave. A relentlessly grim and emotionally draining tale.

A doomed relationship flick that deals with sexual obsessions.

Survivalist horror film. Unsettling because of the odd behavior exhibited by the torturers.

Bizarre and haunting. Largely perceived as a social commentary on the effects of entertainment. No lack of graphic and gory imagery.

Based on a true story on a young female-to-male transgender. Sexual humiliation scene is gut wrenching.

Based on a Stephen King novel. A classic horror gem.

Nazis and child abuse. A two-hit combo.

The 70’s was an experimental decade of film-making. The film is more accurately defined as: ‘The Story of Sexual Perversion’.

Sex and violence. Shocking climax (mind the pun) in the end.

Gone fishing? Lots of violent and sexual imagery. Fishhooks, disengage.

Based on a true-life event. Contains: torture, rape, sodomy and murder.

Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan. Some have labelled it pornography dressed as art and vice versa.

Deals with the topic of young adolescents and the hebephiles that surround them.

Feeling good today. Have faith in your fellow man? Lose faith by watching ‘Come and See’.

Set in a prep school. Slow panning camera and close-ups. It’s more atmosphere than content.

Aviva is a 13 year old girl obsessed with becoming pregnant, so she runs away from home. Themes include: underage pregnancy, abortion and sexual assault.

Has the claustrophobia of Safdie Borthers’ Good Time.

The bullying is hard to watch

David Lynch’s take on a Hollywood starlet’s dream is haunting.

An unsettling, horrifying and surreal watch.

A torture-porn film. A young fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) is abducted and psychologically tortured by unknown assailants.

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist film includes graphic violence and shocking scenes.

Another great David Lynch film. More eerie than anything.

This spawned a of less than fantastic (and utterly insane) sequels. Forced to fight for their lives in a dodgy dirty room, two men wake up held hostage and forced to undertake a series of tasks to get the hell out of dodge.

A cash-poor ex-hitman is approached with a job offer that pays handsomely. He ends up paying for it too.

Low-budget horrors seem more realistic, therefore more perturbing to viewers. A young prostitute is kidnapped by a truck driver and receives countless acts of humiliation and violence.

The kidnapped tourists sold to the highest bidder thing is revisited in this sequel. This time, the initial shock of Hostel has worn off. So they’ve heightened the gore factor, including a literal bloodbath in hopes that it’ll do the trick.

It’s been banned and unbanned in Ireland, with a some issues of censorship in other countries. This movie inspired real life copy cats, and has been accused of encouraging these crimes.

Based on the play Equus, tells a story of a psychologically and sexually tormented 17 year-old obsessed with the physical torture of horses.

Men’s magazine Penthouse produced the movie, which is the only feature film released by the company. Both screenwriter and director disavowed the film due to the conflict arising from the unsimulated sex scenes.

The scathing reviews only work to endorse this film as deserving a place on the list. Referred to as vile, devoid of moralty, perverse and depraved, that’s all you really need to know.

Financed by former French Minister Bernard Kouchner, Caged centers on the big money business of organ trafficking

The first Indonesian film to be banned in Malaysia, which was done so due to scenes of extreme violence.

Also known as Womb, the setup of this story is abundantly strange. A women gets impregnated with a clone of her dead husband and raises him as her son..

A classic example of a mondo film, or the more widely accepted shock-umentary has been banned in only 5 of the 40+ countries its claimed. The film has scenes of fake and real death scenes.

A corrupt cop who uses his power over others to remain tied to his addictions.

The second installment of the Death Tube series, the film centers on the live-streaming murders of competitors who aim to survive a series of tasks.

In Japan, suicides are on the rise. The opening scene is a extremely graphic mass suicide by a large group of school girls.

Director Kevin Smith was probably under the influence of potent marijuana to conjure up and then proceed to put this film into production. The story of a lunatics infatuation with a walrus. Akin to Human Centipede.

An introduction to the theme of body horror. Taxidermia is a metaphor of Hungary’s history. Do not eat while watching this. You’ll thank me.

A woman on the run takes refuge in a small Colorado town. As the film goes on, the townspeople take advantage of her subordinate social position. Visceral viewing on how group mentality can corrupt and justify abuses of power.

William Friedkin’s Southern gothic crime drama starring Matthew McConaughey is a twisted tale — you’ll never look at fried chicken the same way again,

A sexual exploitation horror film where two teenage boys discover a naked female zombie.

Larry Clark and Edward Lachman’s erotic drama film was banned in Australia due to its graphic sexual content and portrayals of underage sexual activity.

Gregg Araki’s coming-of-age drama follows two pre-adolescent boys who both experienced sexual abuse as children and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood.

Pauline is a peculiar girl. She is preoccupied with blood-filled fantasies and anti-social behavior. This movie is made for people who wanna see a stylized, albeit realistic depiction someone with a severe mental illness.

What happens when the only thing you know about the ‘outside world’ are lies and are told to keep you fearful and isolated? This question is asked and answered by Dogtooth.

First it feels like a revenge flick, then midway through it surprises you with a twist that makes everything appear much more sinister and self-serving.

Starts off as a romantic getaway for two, which is interrupted by the abrasive presence of a gang of hooligans. Stuff goes from bad to worse, one of those diddies.

A porn star gets an offer to make ‘artistic’ porn films, to cut a huge paycheck and finally be done with the biz. After signing the contract, he must do the worst and most disgusting things imaginable. Each scene more immoral than the last. Snuff films for the wealthy.

A traumatic and violent night is shown in reverse-chronological order. A brutal rape is shown at great length, nearly 11 minutes long.

Two buddies recruit another buddy to take part in a killing spree. It’s a film that revels in its own vulgarity, with a clear motive to disgust and disturb viewers.

A sadistic serial killer’s personal tapes have been found to assist in his capture. Set in the style of a documentary, the killer’s actions and resulting impact on victims makes this film deserve second spot.

Based on Marquis De Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom, a filthy filthy book. A truly perverse film where 4 fascist libertines round up unwilling adolescents and subject them to 120 days of physical, sexual and mental torture.