# Hardcore

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**Hardcore**, **hard core** or **hard-core** may refer to:

## Arts and media

### Film

- [*Hardcore* (1977 film)](/source/Hardcore_(1977_film)), a British comedy film
- [*Hardcore* (1979 film)](/source/Hardcore_(1979_film)), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott
- [*Hardcore* (2001 film)](/source/Hardcore_(2001_film)), a British documentary film directed by Stephen Walker
- [*Hardcore* (2004 film)](/source/Hardcore_(2004_film)), a Greek drama film directed by Dennis Iliadis
- *[Hardcore Henry](/source/Hardcore_Henry)*, a Russian first-person action adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ilya Naishuller of the band Biting Elbows

### Music

#### Genres

- [Breakbeat hardcore](/source/Breakbeat_hardcore)
- [Digital hardcore](/source/Digital_hardcore), a fusion of hardcore punk and electronic dance music
- [Gabber](/source/Gabber)
- Hardcore dancing, a style of dance related to [moshing](/source/Moshing), sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows
- [Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)](/source/Hardcore_(electronic_dance_music_genre)) - [Early hardcore](/source/Early_hardcore) - [Happy hardcore](/source/Happy_hardcore) - [Mainstream hardcore](/source/Mainstream_hardcore)
- [Hardcore hip hop](/source/Hardcore_hip_hop)
- [Hardcore punk](/source/Hardcore_punk) - [Beatdown hardcore](/source/Beatdown_hardcore) - **harDCore**, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C. - [List of hardcore punk subgenres](/source/List_of_hardcore_punk_subgenres)

#### Albums

- [*Hardcore* (Daddy Freddy album)](/source/Hardcore_(Daddy_Freddy_album)), 2004
- [*Hard Core* (Paul Dean album)](/source/Hard_Core_(Paul_Dean_album)), 1989
- [*Hard Core* (Lil' Kim album)](/source/Hard_Core_(Lil'_Kim_album)), 1996
- [*Hard Core* (Lil' Kim mixtape)](/source/Hard_Core_(Lil'_Kim_mixtape)), 2014
- *[Hardcore '81](/source/Hardcore_'81)*, a 1981 album by D.O.A.

#### Songs

- ["Hardcore" (song)](/source/Hardcore_(song)), a 2022 song by Tove Styrke
- "[This Is Hardcore](/source/This_Is_Hardcore)", a song by Pulp

### Video games

- [Hardcore mode](/source/Hardcore_mode), also permadeath, a video game mechanic which does not allow a dead character to be restored
- [*Hardcore* (video game)](/source/Hardcore_(video_game)), original name of the 1994 game *Ultracore*

### Visual media

- [Hardcore pornography](/source/Hardcore_pornography), a form of explicit pornography
- [Hardcore (comics)](/source/Hardcore_(comics)), a fictional character in the Marvel Multiverse

### Wrestling

- [Hardcore wrestling](/source/Hardcore_wrestling), a form of professional wrestling
- [Hardcore Holly](/source/Hardcore_Holly), the ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Howard (born 1963)

## Technology

- [Construction aggregate](/source/Construction_aggregate), often referred to as "hardcore"
- Hard core, a type of [semiconductor intellectual property core](/source/Semiconductor_intellectual_property_core#Hard_cores)
- [Hard-core predicate](/source/Hard-core_predicate), a concept in cryptography

## See also

- [Hard Corps (disambiguation)](/source/Hard_Corps_(disambiguation))

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