Hardcore

Hardcore, hard core or hard-core may refer to:

Arts and media

Film

• Hardcore (1977 film), a British comedy film
• Hardcore (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C. Scott
• Hardcore (2001 film), a British documentary film directed by Stephen Walker
• Hardcore (2004 film), a Greek drama film directed by Dennis Iliadis
• Hardcore Henry, a Russian first-person action adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ilya Naishuller of the band Biting Elbows

Music

Genres

• Breakbeat hardcore
• Digital hardcore, a fusion of hardcore punk and electronic dance music
• Gabber
• Hardcore dancing, a style of dance related to moshing, sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows
• Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
  • Early hardcore
  • Happy hardcore
  • Mainstream hardcore
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hardcore punk
  • Beatdown hardcore
  • harDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
  • List of hardcore punk subgenres

Albums

• Hardcore (Daddy Freddy album), 2004
• Hard Core (Paul Dean album), 1989
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim album), 1996
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim mixtape), 2014
• Hardcore '81, a 1981 album by D.O.A.

Songs

• "Hardcore" (song), a 2022 song by Tove Styrke
• "This Is Hardcore", a song by Pulp

Video games

• Hardcore mode, also permadeath, a video game mechanic which does not allow a dead character to be restored
• Hardcore (video game), original name of the 1994 game Ultracore

Visual media

• Hardcore pornography, a form of explicit pornography
• Hardcore (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Multiverse

Wrestling

• Hardcore wrestling, a form of professional wrestling
• Hardcore Holly, the ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Howard (born 1963)

Technology

• Construction aggregate, often referred to as "hardcore"
• Hard core, a type of semiconductor intellectual property core
• Hard-core predicate, a concept in cryptography

See also

• Hard Corps (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Hardcore
• All pages with titles containing Hardcore
• All pages with titles containing Hard core