Movies and TvShows featuring "death-game" theme.

Squid Game (2021) is a thrilling and suspenseful TV show that follows a group of contestants who are forced to participate in a dangerous game with a large cash prize at stake. As the game progresses, the players face brutal challenges and must navigate a web of secrets and intrigue. With their lives on the line, they must do whatever it takes to survive.

Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] follows a young man named Shirou Emiya who becomes a Master in the Holy Grail War after accidentally becoming involved in a battle between Servants, ancient heroes summoned to fight for the Holy Grail. As the war intensifies, Shirou discovers the dark secrets behind the Holy Grail War and must confront his own ideals and beliefs.

Alice in Borderland is a Japanese drama TV show based on the manga series of the same name. It follows a group of young people who find themselves transported to an empty city where they must participate in dangerous and deadly games in order to stay alive. As they navigate through various challenges and conflicts, they unravel the mysteries of the city and discover the truth behind their circumstances. With elements of action, adventure, drama, mystery, and sci-fi, Alice in Borderland combines thrilling gameplay with psychological suspense.

In 'Most Dangerous Game,' a man named Dodge agrees to be hunted by a group of rich individuals in exchange for a large sum of money. With a terminal illness and desperate to provide for his family, Dodge must use his survival skills and wit to outsmart his pursuers and stay alive.

John, a terminally ill cancer patient, journeys to Mexico for an experimental treatment. However, he soon realizes that the procedure is a fraudulent scheme. Determined for revenge, John abducts the con artists and subjects them to deadly games, orchestrated by his apprentice Amanda. As the tests unfold, secrets and betrayals are revealed, leading to a final confrontation and a surprising twist.

In a bid to restore his family's prosperity, Coriolanus Snow becomes a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games. He is assigned the District 12 female tribute, Lucy Gray Baird, and aims to win the viewers' hearts. As he bonds with Lucy Gray, a rebel bomb explodes, leading to chaos and death. Coriolanus realizes that genetically modified snakes will be unleashed, and cleverly uses Lucy Gray's scent to save her. However, he is punished for cheating and forced to join the Peacekeepers. In District 12, he reencounters Lucy Gray and discovers a rebellion plot. Coriolanus's actions result in the death of rebels and his desire to escape with Lucy Gray.

Fate/Apocrypha is set in a parallel world to Fate/stay night, where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, at the turning point of the millennium, the Greater Grail mysteriously resurfaced in Romania. The Yggdmillennia, a Romanian Mage Clan, forcefully took over the relic. The Association sends fifty magi to retrieve it, and all but one are instantly slaughtered by a mysterious Servant. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total. This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, featuring two factions battling each other for the control of the wish-granting relic.

In 'Saw' (2004), two strangers, Adam and Dr. Gordon, wake up in a dirty bathroom chained to the walls. They find out that they are pawns in a game set up by a notorious serial killer known as Jigsaw. The killer gives them instructions through audio tapes, forcing them to make life-or-death decisions. As they try to escape, they uncover the killer's motive and the truth behind their abduction. With time running out, they must find a way to survive and outsmart the sadistic killer.

A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game. Young brothers Alex (Mark O'Brien) and Daniel Le Domas (Adam Brody) witness the killing of a man on the night of his wedding to their Aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni). Thirty years later, Alex has returned home to marry his fiance, Grace (Samara Weaving), a former foster child eager to finally have a family. On their wedding night, he tells her that, as tradition, every outside addition to the family must play a game...

The Future Diary follows a high school student, Yukiteru Amano, who discovers a diary that can predict the future. He is forced to participate in a deadly game against other diary owners, where the last one standing will become the new God of Time and Space. As Yukiteru navigates the game, he encounters serial killers, terrorists, and supernatural beings, all while trying to protect himself and his friends.

Eight individuals trapped in a mysterious 8-story building participate in a tempting but dangerous show where they earn money as time passes.

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt. In a group text, Athena Stone anticipates an upcoming hunt of 'deplorables' at a manor. Later, on her private jet, she kills a man who staggers out from the cargo hold. Eleven captives wake up gagged, in a forest, for the hunt. In a clearing, they find a cache of weapons and keys to their gags, but upon retrieving them, five are killed by an unseen enemy. Three captives escape over a barbed-wire fence to a service station. The station's owners, an elderly couple consisting of Miranda 'Ma' and Julius 'Pop', identify their location as a point on Route 31 near Elaine, Arkansas. The three escapees, each kidnapped from a different part of the United States, realize their situation's similarity to the 'Manorgate' conspiracy theory. One of the three eats a poisoned donut and collapses, while Ma and Pop (who are among the captors' ranks) kill the rest with poison gas. They then clean up the station for the next person to come in. A fourth captive, Crystal Creasey, arrives. Asking for cigarettes and their location, she makes conversation with Ma and Pop, and the latter get nervous. Crystal then attacks and kills the couple with a sawed-off shotgun the couple had under the counter; she reveals that the cigarettes were too expensive for Arkansas. Inspecting the pickup truck outside, she finds a Croatian license plate underneath a fake Arkansas plate, and a booby-trap wired to the driver's door...

Spiral: From the Book of Saw is a crime horror movie that follows a detective and his rookie partner as they become entangled in a twisted game orchestrated by a sadistic serial killer. As the body count rises, they must uncover the killer's identity and put an end to the horrifying game before it's too late.

In a post-industrial dystopia, ex-con Jensen Ames is coerced by a prison warden to assume the persona of a legendary racer in a deadly car race against inmates. As he navigates the race filled with deadly traps and rival racers, Ames seeks revenge against the man who framed him for his wife's murder. With the ultimate reward of freedom at stake, Ames must survive the brutal race and protect his daughter at all costs.

Lieutenant Rigg is forced to participate in a dangerous game to save the lives of his colleagues. Despite Jigsaw's death, a new game begins, testing Rigg's limits.

In the movie '13 (2010)', an electrician down on his luck gets caught up in a deadly game of chance and revenge, after being forced to participate in a high-stakes underground gambling tournament. With his life on the line, he must navigate through a web of deceit and greed to survive. The movie explores themes of desperation, mental illness, and the dark nature of humanity.

Yuuichi Katagiri knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip. However, after the class' money is all collected; it's stolen. Suspicion falls on two of Yuuichi's friends. Yuuichi Katagiri has battled financial hardships his whole life but has learned to stay content and positive thanks to his close circle of friends. To keep a promise he made to them, Yuuichi saves up enough money to join them on the school trip. But when the gathered money mysteriously goes missing, suspicion falls on two of Yuuichi's friends: Shiho Sawaragi and Makoto Shibe, who were in charge of collecting the payments. Although innocent, Shiho and Makoto take responsibility for the failure to protect the money when no one else comes forward. A few days later, Yuuichi and his friends receive mysterious letters which trick each of them into meeting up. Upon arrival, they are ambushed and knocked unconscious. They wake up in a mysterious room in the presence of 'Manabu-kun,' a character from a controversial children's show that stopped airing due to its malicious content. He informs the group that one of them indirectly gathered them together in order to settle a large debt. They are to play a 'friendship game': a series of games that will test the strength of their bond and trust in each other. As the group's faith wavers due to the growing number of secrets and betrayals, Yuuichi must figure out who of his 'friends' he can actually trust and ultimately discover the identity of the traitor.

A detective and his team race against time to rescue 8 people trapped in a factory by Jigsaw, a twisted serial killer. As they try to find a way out, they discover that they are all criminals framed by the detective, who will stop at nothing to save his son from danger. With nerve gas leaking into the house and a deadly game of survival, they must solve puzzles and uncover their connections to each other to survive.

Yotsuya Yuusuke is a loner who likes to spend his time playing video games. One day, he and his classmates Shindou Iu and Hakozaki Kusue are transported to a fantasy world where they are given a mission to save human civilization. In order to return home, they must complete various quests and face dangerous creatures along the way. Yotsuya, Iu, and Kusue must rely on their wits and skills to survive and fulfill their destiny.

Six strangers find themselves in a deadly maze of mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive. A man tries to escape a collapsing room by solving a puzzle. Zoey, Ben, and Jason receive puzzle boxes and are invited to the Minos Escape Room for a chance at $10,000. They are joined by Amanda, Mike, and Danny. In the rooms, they face deadly challenges and discover that the game is connected to their past traumas. As they progress, they learn the true purpose of the game and fight to escape and expose the secrets. Zoey and Ben manage to survive and defeat the Gamemaster. Six months later, they are lured into another game by the game's architect.