Top Provocation Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland

Maggie Q

Kal Penn

Adan Canto

Designated Survivor (2016) TV Show

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 53

Audience: TV-14

Story: Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

Style: philosophical, irreverent, intimate, provocative, suspenseful, ...

Plot: usa president, affectation, politics, president, conspiracy, terrorism, biting, mourning, ...

Cast

David Dastmalchian

Laura Gordon

Ian Bliss

Fayssal Bazzi

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, talk show, supernatural, halloween, possession, hallucination, hypnosis, gore, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Jodie Foster

Kelly McGillis

Bernie Coulson

Leo Rossi

The Accused (1988)

7.1 686 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.

Style: shocking, provocative

Plot: rape, alcohol, boston, massachusetts, clothing, based on true story, rape victim, gang rape, ...

Cast

Garance Marillier

Ella Rumpf

Rabah Nait Oufella

Laurent Lucas

Raw (2017)

7.0 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

Style: provocative

Plot: vegetarian, meat, hazing, university, cannibal, lgbt, peer pressure, woman director, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Amanda Seyfried

Cedric the Entertainer

Victoria Hill

First Reformed (2018)

7.0 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Style: provocative

Plot: suicide, funeral, explosive, faith, christianity, widow, despair, pregnancy, ...

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Sebastian Stan

Jojo T. Gibbs

Charlotte Le Bon

Fresh (2022)

7.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.

Style: shocking, philosophical, provocative, suspenseful, tense

Plot: date, kidnapping, female friendship, meat, love, dating, cannibal, body mutilation, ...

Cast

Channing Tatum

Jenna Dewan

Damaine Radcliff

Rachel Griffiths

Step Up (2006)

6.9 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

Style: provocative, romantic

Plot: dancing, dance, new love, baltimore, usa, art school, woman director

DTF St. Louis (2026) TV Show

6.9 103 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise leads to one of them ending up dead.

Style: provocative

Plot: love triangle, dark comedy, miniseries, serious, depressing, empathetic, tragic, middle-aged, ...

Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) TV Show

6.8 139 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Story: It's her business doing pleasure with you. A witty and provocative series based on the real-life adventures of a high-class escort. Juggling her own reality with her clients' fantasies can be difficult, but this savvy sweetheart knows every trick in the book, and she's doing it in style.

Style: provocative, witty

Plot: london, england, escort girl, sex worker, bold, vibrant

Cast

Imogen Poots

Thora Birch

Jim Belushi

Tom Sturridge

The Chronology of Water (2025)

6.8 71 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.

Style: provocative, intense

Plot: sexual abuse, suicide attempt, heroin, abusive father, swimmer, writer, based on memoir or autobiography, divorce, ...

Cast

Rachel Sennott

Ayo Edebiri

Ruby Cruz

Havana Rose Liu

Bottoms (2023)

6.8 878 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.

Style: provocative, witty

Plot: high school, cheerleader, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, teenage girl, school assembly, high school student, ...

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

6.8 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.

Style: provocative, absurd

Plot: slavery, satire, surrealism, oakland, california, poverty, telemarketer, telemarketing, ...

Cast

Brit Marling

William Mapother

Matthew-Lee Erlbach

Meggan Lennon

Another Earth (2011)

6.7 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.

Style: provocative

Plot: affectation, earth, tragedy, janitor, planet, cosmology, ego, solar system, ...

Cast

Ben Stiller

Robert Downey Jr.

Jack Black

Jay Baruchel

Tropic Thunder (2008)

6.7 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Style: provocative

Plot: movie business, satire, parody, jungle, movie star, land mine, shackles, taunting, ...

Place: vietnam, southeast asia

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Justin Timberlake

Alicia Silverstone

Michael Pitt

Reptile (2023)

6.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.

Style: provocative, suspenseful

Plot: infidelity, puzzle, murder, task force, real estate agent, police psychologist, questioning, police drama, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Brad Davis

Franco Nero

Jeanne Moreau

Laurent Malet

Querelle (1982)

6.6 208 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose.

Style: shocking, provocative

Plot: based on novel or book, murder, male homosexuality, sailor, lgbt, gay theme, brest

May December (2023)

6.6 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Style: provocative, tense

Plot: infidelity, sexual abuse, dark comedy, based on true story, statutory rape, pedophile, boundary violations, older woman younger man relationship, ...

Cast

Virginie Efira

Charlotte Rampling

Daphnu00e9 Patakia

Lambert Wilson

Benedetta (2021)

6.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Style: provocative

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, nun, based on true story, trial, lesbian relationship, torture, mother superior, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: italy

Cast

Armie Hammer

Costas Mandylor

Du00e9siru00e9e Giorgetti

Steffen Mennekes

Citizen Vigilante (2026)

6.5 244 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Germany, Croatia

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man takes justice into his own hands, hunting down criminals. His vigilante crusade makes him a social media star but puts him at odds with the local police chief.

Style: provocative

Plot: rape, corruption, police, immigration, rape victim, murder, vigilante, justice, ...