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 Hardcore punk (also known as simply hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk ...

and beatdown hardcore ** harDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C. ** Hardcore dancing, a style of dance related to

moshing Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other, typically performed to "aggressive" live music such as heavy metal and punk rock. Moshing usually happen ...

, sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows *

Hardcore (electronic dance music genre) Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno or hardcore house) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorte ...

Digital hardcore Digital hardcore is a fusion genre that combines hardcore punk with electronic dance music genres such as breakbeat, techno, and drum and bass while also drawing on heavy metal and noise music. It typically features fast tempos and aggressive ...

, a fusion between hardcore punk and electronic dance music *

Hardcore hip hop Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Run-DMC, Schoolly D, Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy, it is generally cha ...

List of hardcore genres This is a list of hardcore punk musical genres. *Bandana thrash *Christian hardcore *Crossover thrash *Crunkcore *Crust punk * D-beat *Deathcore *Digital hardcore *Easycore *Emo *Electronicore *Grindcore *Heavy hardcore *Jazzcore * Krishnacore ...

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

Video games

Hardcore gamer A gamer is a proactive hobbyist who Player (game), plays interactive games, especially video games, tabletop role-playing games, and skill-based card games, and who plays for usually long periods of time. Some gamers are competitive, meaning ...

, a strongly-dedicated gamer. * 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''

Other uses in media

* Hardcore (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Multiverse *

Hardcore pornography Hardcore pornography, or hardcore porn, is pornography that features detailed depictions of sexual organs or sexual acts such as vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, fingering, anilingus, ejaculation, and fetish play. The term is in contrast wi ...

, 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 Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates ...

, often referred to as "hardcore" * Hard core, a type of

semiconductor intellectual property core In electronic design, a semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core), IP core, or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or integrated circuit layout design that is the intellectual property of one party. IP cores can be licensed to ...

Hard-core predicate In cryptography, a hard-core predicate of a one-way function ''f'' is a predicate ''b'' (i.e., a function whose output is a single bit) which is easy to compute (as a function of ''x'') but is hard to compute given ''f(x)''. In formal terms, there ...

, a concept in cryptography