Hardcore

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

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

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