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

Hardcore punk and Heavy hardcore
- harDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
- hardcore dancing, a style of dance related to moshing, sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
Digital hardcore, a fusion between hardcore punk and electronic dance music
Hardcore hip hop

Albums

Video games

Hardcore gamer, a strongly-dedicated gamer.
Hardcore mode, also permadeth, a video game style which doesn't allow a killed character to be restored
Hardcore (video game), original name of the 1994 game Ultracore

Other uses in media

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

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