You can find plenty of tame action movies on Netflix, but only a handful of films that could truly be called violent movies.
There is a limit to the violence that some fans want to see on-screen, and it tends to fall between PG-13 and R.
For those who prefer the latter, the Watch With Us team has picked out the most violent Netflix movies you have to watch right now.
You can find the rest of our picks below, which includes one of the best films from a Hollywood legend.
Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino‘s one and only World War II movie, and he didn’t feel the need to stick to history’s script. Brad Pitt stars as Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of Basterds, a group of American soldiers who are behind enemy lines and making life Hell for the Nazi regime.
As much as the film follows the Basterds, it’s also the story of Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), a young Jewish woman who has a burning hatred for the Nazis who murdered her family. Shosanna and the Basterds have a mutual enemy in Standartenführer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), and their stories will intersect in a symphony of violence.
Inglourious Basterds is streaming on Netflix.
It’s unfortunate that there was never a Kick-Ass spinoff movie, because Chloë Grace Moretz was the real star as the hilariously profane and violent Hit-Girl. Kick-Ass 2 features the return of Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the title character, Dave Lizewski. But just as Hit-Girl starts whipping Kick-Ass into shape, she’s forced to retire from the hero game by her guardian and has to try living a normal life as Mindy Macready.
As for Kick-Ass, he’s got a new “super” team including Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). However, Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl’s nemesis, Chris D’Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), is back with a new alter ego and vicious plans to make all of the so-called heroes pay.
Kick-Ass 2 is streaming on Netflix.
The late Chadwick Boseman starred in the Netflix original revenge thriller Message from the King, and let’s just say that the king in question uses his hands to send that message and everything that comes after. Jacob King (Boseman) flew halfway around the world when his sister, Bianca (Sibongile Mlambo), called him for help.
Upon Jacob’s arrival in Los Angeles, few people admit that they even knew Bianca. And he’s not taking their lies at face value. Once Jacob discovers what’s been done to his sister, no force on Earth is going to stand between him and the violent payback he dishes out.
Message from the King is streaming on Netflix.
If you think modern horror movies are gruesome, watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. For a film that’s over five decades old, this one still manages to have a shocking amount of violence.
Gunnar Hansen stars as Leatherface, a serial killer living among a family of murderers and cannibals. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her friends unintentionally find themselves in Leatherface’s crosshairs. Once that happens, there’s no going back.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is streaming on Netflix.
Putting a sentient A.I. in your head is never going to be a good idea, and it certainly isn’t in Upgrade. Grey Trace (And Just Like That‘s Logan Marshall-Green) just didn’t have much of a choice after he was left a paraplegic by the men who murdered his wife, Asha (Melanie Vallejo).
Getting STEM (Simon Maiden) implanted in his mind restores Grey’s mobility and lets him go on a bone-crunching search for revenge. Grey may not be much of a fighter, but STEM is absolutely brutal. And once STEM takes control of Grey’s body, it may not be eager to give it up again.
Upgrade is streaming on Netflix.
The thing to remember about Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) in The Equalizer is that he’ll almost always give the bad guys a chance to back down. They never take it, but that’s his invitation to dispatch them in increasingly violent ways.
As a former intelligence operative, McCall tried to leave that violence in his past. After befriending a teenage prostitute, Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), McCall won’t tolerate her pimp harming her. The problem is that McCall’s lethal solution only invites an escalation from the Russian mafia.
The Equalizer is streaming on Netflix.
