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)

• Early hardcore

• Happy hardcore

• Mainstream hardcore

• 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

• 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, a 1981 album by D.O.A.

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

See also

• Hard Corps (disambiguation)