Best Intense Movies & TV Shows

Den of Thieves

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Run time: 140m Tagline: Cops without limits. Thieves without fear. Release: 2018-01-18

Stars: 50 Cent Brian Van Holt Evan Jones Gerard Butler Kaiwi Lyman Maurice Compte Meadow Williams Mo McRae O'Shea Jackson Jr. Pablo Schreiber

Mad Max: Fury Road

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Run time: 121m Tagline: The future belongs to the mad. Release: 2015-05-13

Stars: Abbey Lee Charlize Theron Hugh Keays-Byrne Josh Helman Nathan Jones Nicholas Hoult Riley Keough Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Tom Hardy Zoë Kravitz

Paddington

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

Run time: 95m Tagline: Please look after this bear. Thank you. Release: 2014-11-24

Stars: Ben Whishaw Hugh Bonneville Imelda Staunton Julie Walters Madeleine Harris Michael Gambon Nicole Kidman Peter Capaldi Sally Hawkins Samuel Joslin

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Run time: 130m Tagline: The future is worth fighting for. Release: 2014-07-08

Stars: Andy Serkis Doc Shaw Gary Oldman Jason Clarke Karin Konoval Keri Russell Kodi Smit-McPhee Nick Thurston Terry Notary Toby Kebbell

Predator: Badlands

Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

Run time: 107m Tagline: First hunt. Last chance. Release: 2025-11-05

Stars: Alison Wright Cameron Brown Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi Elle Fanning Matt Duffer Michael Homick Ravi Narayan Reuben De Jong Ross Duffer Stefan Grube

The Karate Kid

12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

Run time: 140m Tagline: A challenge he never imagined. A teacher he never expected. Release: 2010-06-10

Stars: Jackie Chan Jaden Smith Taraji P. Henson Tess Liu Wang Ji Wenwen Han Wu Zhensu Xu Ming Yu Rongguang Zac Wang

Bloodhounds

Two young boxers band together with a benevolent moneylender to take down a ruthless loan shark who preys on the financially desperate.

Stars: Lee Sang-yi Rain Woo Do-hwan

Mercy

In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.

Run time: 99m Tagline: Prove your innocence to an AI judge or face execution. Release: 2026-01-20

Stars: Annabelle Wallis Chris Pratt Chris Sullivan Jamie McBride Jeff Pierre Kali Reis Kenneth Choi Kylie Rogers Rafi Gavron Rebecca Ferguson

The Suicide Squad

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Run time: 132m Tagline: They’re dying to save the world. Release: 2021-07-28

Stars: Daniela Melchior David Dastmalchian Idris Elba Jai Courtney Joel Kinnaman John Cena Margot Robbie Michael Rooker Sylvester Stallone Viola Davis

Surrogates

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Run time: 89m Tagline: How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you? Release: 2009-09-24

Stars: Boris Kodjoe Bruce Willis Devin Ratray Helena Mattsson Ian Novick Jack Noseworthy James Cromwell Radha Mitchell Rosamund Pike Ving Rhames

Daredevil

A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.

Run time: 103m Tagline: When the streets have gone to Hell, have faith in the devil. Release: 2003-02-14

Stars: Ben Affleck Colin Farrell Ellen Pompeo Jennifer Garner Joe Pantoliano Jon Favreau Leland Orser Lennie Loftin Michael Clarke Duncan Scott Terra

Captain Marvel

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Run time: 124m Tagline: Higher. Further. Faster. Release: 2019-03-06

Stars: Annette Bening Ben Mendelsohn Brie Larson Clark Gregg Djimon Hounsou Gemma Chan Jude Law Lashana Lynch Lee Pace Samuel L. Jackson

Siren’s Kiss

Ace insurance investigator Cha Woo-seok hunts a fraud ring tied to mysterious deaths and becomes dangerously entangled with Han Seol-ah, a flawless art auctioneer whose lovers all seem to die. As attraction and suspicion blur, he must uncover whether she’s a killer or a victim, before the truth costs him his life.

Stars: Ha Seok-jin Han Jun-woo Hong Gi-jun Kim Dong-jun Kim Jung-hyun Kim Keum-soon Kong Seong-ha Park Min-young Wi Ha-jun Yoon Jong-hoon