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TV Shows & Series: Best "torture" TV Shows/Series


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The Handmaid's Tale(2017-)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 1,271 votes)

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

Tokyo Ghoul(2014-2018)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation
4.2/5 (with 1,057 votes)

Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul – a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ – "the red child" – is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.

Directed by Shuhei Morita

Goblin Slayer(2018-2023)

4.1/5 (with 223 votes)

"I'm not saving the world. I just kill goblins." Rumor has it that, in a certain guild in the middle of nowhere, there is an extraordinary man who has climbed all the way to the Silver rank just by killing goblins. At the same guild, a priestess who's just become a new adventurer has formed her first party... and the man who ends up rescuing that party when they get into trouble is none other than the Goblin Slayer.

Psycho-Pass(2012-2019)

3.9/5 (with 175 votes)

Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.

Dead Silent(2016-)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Crime, Documentary, Reality-TV
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A snap of a twig. A rustling leaf. In the woods, myth, urban legend, and horror collide with real-life killers. Transporting viewers into a vortex of dark mystery and psychological terror, each episode tells the true story of a crime set in a desolate location.

Dororo(2019)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 523 votes)

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Higurashi: When They Cry(2006-2007)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 94 votes)

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem. Based on the amateur mystery game by 07th Expansion, the story is told in a series of different scenarios.

Directed by Chiaki Kon

Berserk(1997-1998)

4.3/5 (with 263 votes)

Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman", looks back upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries. Led by an ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent man named Griffith, together they battle their way into the royal court, and are forced into a fate that changes their lives.

Sacred Games(2018-2019)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 93 votes)

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Hozuki's Coolheadedness(2014-2018)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Hōzuki is the aide to the great king of Hell, King Enma. Calm and super-sadistic, Hōzuki tries to resolve the various problems in Hell, including a rampaging Momotarō and his companions. However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising "Goldfish Flowers."

The Bastard Executioner(2015)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama
2.9/5 (with 34 votes)

A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set in northern Wales during a time rife with rebellion and political upheaval, Wilkin must walk a tight rope between protecting his true identity while also serving a mysterious destiny. Guided by Annora, a mystical healer whose seeming omniscience keeps Wilkin under her sway; manipulated by Milus Corbett, a devious Chamberlain with grand political aspirations; and driven by a deepening connection with the Baroness Lady Love, Wilkin struggles to navigate political, emotional and supernal pitfalls in his quest to understand his greater purpose.

Directed by Kurt Sutter - With Stephen Moyer, Matthieu Charneau, Katey Sagal, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Kurt Sutter

Splash and Bubbles(2016-)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

When a yellow fusilier fish settles down in a cozy coral reef town, he introduces the town's sheltered residents, including a Mandarin dragonet fish who quickly becomes his friend, to the amazing places and creatures beyond the town's walls.

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Strangers from Hell(2019)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Mystery, Drama
4.1/5 (with 42 votes)

Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

The Blue Whisper(2022)

45min per episode | Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

An Oriental fairytale follows the romance between a demon master and a merman. Their relationship started from that of control and being controlled. After a series of conspiracies and misunderstandings, they break free of the barriers between their worlds to become each other's salvation. There are only four remaining places in existence where the use of the ability to control monsters is allowed by imperial rule. In a certain region in the South lives a woman named Ji Yunhe. She is the most powerful demon master with the ability to tame any demon. However, she falls in love with merman Chang Yi and sets him free even at the expense of deceiving him while she becomes imprisoned in endless darkness.

The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez(2020)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Documentary, Crime
3.7/5 (with 200 votes)

A boy’s brutal murder and the public trials of his guardians and social workers prompt questions about the system’s protection of vulnerable children.

With Rodrigo Alfonso

SCAMS(2019)

24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.

The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great Revenge(2018)

55min per episode | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate maneuvers and various clever entrapments fulfills his passionate revenge against those who stripped away all his glories. He seeks for the light that he had been striving for.

Smoking(2018)

24min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.