Hardcore

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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)
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

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