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

• Hardcore (Daddy Freddy album), 2004
• Hard Core (Paul Dean album), 1989
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim album), 1996
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim mixtape), 2014
• Hardcore '81, album by D.O.A.

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

See also

• List of hardcore genres in music
• Hard Corps (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Hardcore
• All pages with titles containing Hardcore
• All pages with titles containing Hard core