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Hardcore

Hardcore

6.7/ 10

TMDB Rating

310

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1979

Release Year

108 min

Runtime

Mystery
Drama
Crime

Overview

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Keywords

daughter
pornography
michigan
runaway
peep show
snuff
father
los angeles, california
porn industry
blunt
subculture
private detective
missing child
sex industry
search for daughter
snuff film
calvinist
calvinism
bold
harsh

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

April 22, 2019

7
7/10

Nobody makes it. Nobody shows it. Nobody sees it. It's like it doesn't even exist. Hardcore is written and directed by Paul Schrader and stars George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent and Leonard Gaines. Music is by Jack Nitzsche and cinematography by Michael Chapman. Plot has

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 9, 2026

7
7/10

George C. Scott makes good with his rather uncharacteristic performance, here. He’s the upstanding businessman “Van Dorn” who is shocked at the sudden disappearance of his teenage daughter. He hires “Mast” (Peter Boyle) to track her down and though he doesn’t find her, he does find some disturbing e

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