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Doom-core Films

Doom-core: A subgenre of film that describes films that display the darkest parts of the human experience, highlighting them and exploring them. (Usually pessimistic in theme and tone.) These are films that go out of their way to make their audience uncomfortable and/or embody the term "doom".

This is a genre of film that I kind of came up with but it's a genre that I'm also very interested in exploring. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm always looking for more films to add so just comment them below.

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  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Eraserhead
  • Good Time
  • Julien Donkey-Boy
  • The Fire Within
  • Enemy
  • Gummo
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Peppermint Candy
  • Hard to Be a God
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • My Winnipeg
  • Naked
  • First Reformed
  • Sonatine
  • Bullet Ballet
  • Lost Highway
  • Come and See
  • I Saw the Devil
  • In the Company of Men
  • Funny Games
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • Taxi Driver
  • Irreversible
  • Dogville
  • Inland Empire
  • Oldboy
  • Martyrs
  • The Girl Next Door
  • The White Ribbon
  • Nightcrawler
  • Eastern Promises
  • Inside
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Caché
  • Damnation
  • Bringing Out the Dead
  • Kontroll
  • After Hours
  • La Haine
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • Repulsion
  • The Plague Dogs
  • Cries and Whispers
  • Green Room
  • Amores Perros
  • Threads
  • Lilya 4-ever
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin
  • Winter Light
  • Melancholia
  • Light Sleeper
  • The Man Who Sleeps
  • Wake in Fright
  • Donnie Darko
  • I Stand Alone
  • Buffalo '66
  • Oslo, August 31st
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • The Sword of Doom
  • Taste of Cherry
  • La Notte
  • Blue Velvet
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Miracle Mile
  • Control
  • The Thing
  • Prince of Darkness
  • Shin Godzilla
  • Suspiria
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • A Boy and His Dog
  • Hunger
  • Climax
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  • Calvary
  • Cure
  • The Hedgehog
  • Until the Light Takes Us
  • Santa Sangre
  • The Turin Horse
  • Lessons of Darkness
  • A Short Film About Killing
  • The Invitation
  • Himizu
  • Under the Skin
  • Lean on Pete
  • Burning
  • Possession
  • Paths of Glory
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Man Bites Dog
  • Dying at Grace
  • Serial Experiments Lain
  • Trash Humpers
  • Angel's Egg
  • Into the Abyss