Hunting the Most Dangerous Game in Live-Action Films.
- Avenging Force: The bad guys have a "hunting club" for this purpose. The main character is forced to participate in it as the prey after his sister is kidnapped.
- Bacurau is about a remote village whose inhabitants start being hunted by rich and sadistic foreigners.
- Battle Royale: This is the main premise of the film and the book it's based on: a totalitarian Japanese government dumps a bunch of Japanese high schoolers on a deserted island and forces them to kill each other for sport.
- Betrayed: Cathy is taken on a hunting trip by Gary. To her horror, she learns they're hunting a black man (he's given a gun with six bullets as a "sporting chance" presumably, while they all have automatic weapons). This makes her certain Gary's behind the murder in Chicago she's investigating.
- Bet Your Life: This 2004 made-for-TV movie.
- Blood & Chocolate (2007): Werewolves set humans free on an island and proceed to hunt them as a pack tradition.
- Blooded: An Animal Wrongs Group kidnaps a group of hunters, strips them to their underwear, and releases them in the moors to be hunted by members of the group.
- Bloodlust!: This MST3K-featured ripoff.
- Bloodthirsty: Vaughn hunts down a female hitchhiker his housekeeper Vera procured while in wolf shape, then kills and eats her.
- The Conspiracy: The ritual hunting and slaying of the bull at the secret Tarsus Club meetings is revealed to be the way they murder outside infiltrators after forcing them into a bull mask and loosing them in the woods.
- Deadly Prey (1987): A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the "students" at the camp can learn how to track down and kill their prey.
- Big Game: This is Hazar's mindset: he's hunting the "big game", the US president. Moore, however, the man in question, is hardly "the most dangerous".
- Confessions of a Psycho Cat: A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.
- Death Ring (1992): Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year he holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill a human being. This time, Collins is to be the hunted. Vachs uses Lauren as motivation for Collins to really fight to survive and thus provide the buyers with a truly exceptional hunt. Collins is turned loose on an uncharted island and four killers set out to find and kill him.
- Dominion 1995: In this 1995 movie, members of an expedition are hunted by a deranged man.
- The Eliminator: In this 2004 film, a hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.
- Fair Game: The Evil Poachers stalk the protagonist, "skin" her by ripping off her clothes, rape her, then tie her to the hood of their truck like an animal carcass. The roles are then reversed when Jessica constructs traps to immobilize and kill her tormentors.
- The Frozen Ground is based on the story of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who hunted down women in the Alaskan forest.
- Fugitive X: The premise behind this film. A casino even takes bets on how long the "game" will survive.
- A Game Of Death The Most Dangerous Game was remade in 1945 into this film, with Zaroff recast as a Nazi named Erich Kreiger.
- Gymkata: Somehow combines this trope with gymnastics!
- Hard Target: In this film directed by John Woo and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, the Big Bad is the head of a hunting business which allows rich men to hunt homeless or down-on-their-luck war veterans.
- The Hunt (2020), in which wealthy elites who look down their noses at everybody else kidnap a group of poor people to participate in some human-hunting. The twist here is that the villains are specifically "blue state" liberal elites who picked their targets for their politics, while said targets are themselves caricatures of "red state" right-wingers, save for the protagonist Crystal, who got dragged into it due to Mistaken Identity. (The Working Title was even Red State vs. Blue State.)
- The villagers in Hunting Scenes from Bavaria regard their vigilante mob pursuit of Abram as a kind of "hunt," hence the film's title.
- Jumanji: This movie has a nineteenth-century big game hunter come out of the game and try to hunt one of the main characters, and only him, because "He rolled the dice". It's heavily implied that Van Pelt (the hunter) had already been pursuing Alan over the years that they were inside the game, based on Alan's reaction when he read Van Pelt's description after rolling. He is also a representation of Alan's fear towards his father (both characters are played by Jonathan Hyde), aware that he's part of a game, and not above trading his old elephant rifle for a more modern weapon.
- The King and the Clown: The lords see the mock hunt held in honour of Gong-gil's entitlement as the perfect opportunity to get rid of him. They only actually end up killing Six-Dix as they are disrupted by Jaeng-sang and then the King.
- Kristy: A gang of masked teens who are part of an internet cult hunt a girl on her deserted university campus while she's staying over Thanksgiving weekend.
- Lethal Woman (Also titled The Most Dangerous Woman Alive): In this 1989 film, a group of men are told that they have won an "erotic vacation" at a fantasy island. In reality, they are being lured to the island by women they have wronged, and once there, they are captured and set loose on the island to be hunted down.
- Maverick: As part of Maverick's scheme to get the money he needs to enter a poker game, a visiting Russian Grand Duke is swindled by offering him a "genuine Indian hunt", with Maverick playing the role of a sick old man that nobody will miss. When he "kills" Maverick, they blackmail him with the threat of exposure.
- Mean Guns: Not to mention somewhat reversed by this knock-off Battle Royale-esque film. The Busey-who-is-not-Busey knew it was a trap but pretty much went there with this intention in mind, and to settle an old score with the John Wayne-meets-Mick Jagger lead 'cowboy-style' gunfighter. The reversal is that the majority of the crooks led there by the syndicate do various mafioso-style versions of this in their daily lives, but the Syndicate simply doesn't want them anymore for various reasons. So it stages a false contest to make them hunt each other. At the end, Ice-T lets the winners know this and intends to kill the 'winners,' but cowboy gets them both. And hoists the Busey-clone by his own petard while at it.
- Mindhunters: This is the sole motivation for the villain in this Renny Harlin movie as he considers FBI Profilers to be a good match for his intellect.
- The Most Dangerous Game: This is the movie version
of the Trope Namer. - Naked Fear: Where a serial killer hunts women he abducts from a nearby town, but he first strips them completely naked and offers them no tools, rendering them as close to wild animals as possible.
- The Naked Prey (1966): Cornel Wilde gets hunted by warriors of a native African tribe.
- In New Town Killers, Sean is contacted by two men, Alistair Raskolnikov and Jamie Stewart, who offer him twelve thousand pounds to him to play hide and seek for twelve hours with them. If their hunting fails, Sean would earn the amount on the next morning. Sean accepts but finds that Alistair is a sadistic paranoid killer and he needs to escape not only for the money, but to survive.
- Octopussy: In this James Bond movie, Kamal Khan uses a tiger hunt from elephant back to hunt down the escaped spy.
- Open Season (1974): A trio of Vietnam veterans have an annual camping trip, where they choose a couple and torture them, then hunt them through the woods. This year, they are stalked and killed by the father of a girl they raped during their college years.
- The Pest: Spoofed with a rich man hunting the main character, a slick-talking obnoxious grifter he selected by accident but then choose to hunt anyway due to "Pestario" being too obnoxious for him to bear, together with his effeminate son.
- Predator:
- This is the premise of this franchise, except the hunters are aliens and the game is specifically armed humans. They have a code of honor and, among other things, do not hunt/kill unarmed targets, children, or pregnant women. They also respect Worthy Opponents, and at the end of the second film, when the protagonist kills a predator, the others give him an 18th-century flintlock pistol, implied to be a trophy from a previous hunt.
- AVP: Alien vs. Predator: The predators take it even further by hunting the Aliens. While they're animals (and therefore technically not this trope), the Aliens are even more dangerous than humans, and throughout the Alien franchise they clearly show intelligence. The last surviving Predator gives the last surviving human an honor mark (apparently) for killing an Alien with a spear. When the other Predators come to pick up the hunt team, they appear to respect the human survivor because of the mark.
- Predators takes this to the extremes, taking place on what is essentially a Predator game preserve and featuring choice human soldiers, criminals, etc. as the game. The lead character is a mercenary implied to be/have been an assassin of some sort, and he directly uses the Hemingway quote on the subject (see this trope's quote page).
- The video game Predator: Hunting Grounds reveals that, as a result of Dutch and other humans fighting off Predators successfully, other Predators have come to see humanity as the most dangerous game. Dutch's efforts to fight off the Predators isn't deterring them from coming back to Earth, but encouraging them!
- Prey (2022) plays around with this by showing the Feral Predator hunting wolves and bears in pre-colonial America. It's only when it encounters Naru, the Comanche warriors and the French trapper party that it begins hunting humans exclusively.
- Preservation: An anesthesiologist must awaken her animal instincts when she, her husband and her brother-in-law become the quarry of unseen hunters who want to turn them all into trophies.
- The Purge: Anarchy: In the midst of the annual 12-hour "all crime is legal" period, the protagonists are kidnapped and sold to a group of rich people, and then set loose on "hunting grounds" to be stalked and killed.
- Ready or Not (2019): The wealthy and eccentric Le Domas family has a tradition of playing a randomly-selected game whenever someone new joins the family. If the new member selects the "Hide and Seek" card, as newly-married bride Grace does, the family believes the target has to be killed before sunrise to satisfy a legendary curse. That said, the Le Domases are a group of Upper-Class Twits with only the barest idea what they're doing. Even armed to the teeth, they're not effective killers. Even the more competent ones are either out of practice or using weapons they're unfamiliar with.
- The Retreat (2021): Renee and Val initially seek to escape on foot, as they're hunted down by masked attackers. Later they turn the tables, hunting down their tormentors instead, whom they kill.
- Revolution (1985): A group of British soldiers come to a rope factory and explain that they want to hunt foxes but there are none to be found. So Tom and a big man are chosen to be the foxes they'll hunt. Tom barely survives this with his life.
- Rovdyr (Translated as Predator and marketed as Manhunt): This 2008 Norwegian film features this trope. It can be a little too easy to confuse this with a different movie or with a video game.
- Run for the Sun: The Most Dangerous Game was remade again in 1956 in this film, with the villain still a Nazi.
- The Running Man: Here, the Most Dangerous Game is also the Most Popular Gameshow, and convicts are given their chance to fight for their freedom in a somewhat one-sided battle arena (or in the populace at large in the original book). A lot of carnage ensues.
- Run Sweetheart Run: After Cherie learns Ethan's true colors, Ethan gives Cherie a chance to escape from him if she survives the night, but Ethan can smell her blood to track her.
Ethan: I'm gonna hunt you... and if you make it through the night... and then I'm gonna let you live.
- Slashers: Inverted Trope in this Japanese game show in which contestants enter a closed-course of Axe-Crazy murderers to survive for cash and prizes. The production's stable of variously villainous killers have their own stage personae and fandoms, and many contestants are excited to be hunted by them.
- Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity: This is a 1987 direct-to-video film that transports “The Most Dangerous Game” to an alien world and populates it with bikini-clad space prison escapees and weird space monsters.
- The Suckers (1972): A big-game hunter invites employees from a modeling agency to his estate, where he hunts them.
- Summer of '84: At the end, the Cape May Slayer has captured Davey and Woody after they revealed his identity and drops them at his dumping ground with the intent to hunt them down and kill them.
- Surviving the Game: This forms the plot of the Ice-T/Rutger Hauer/Gary Busey movie.
- TAG The Assassination Game, starring Linda Hamilton, involves a game played on a college campus where the students playing the game are each assigned a target whom they then hunt down and "kill" with guns that shoot rubber darts. (The targets are free to defend themselves, naturally, and the winner of the game is the last "assassin" standing.) It's all fun and games until the game's obsessive current champion — who has gone undefeated over the last five rounds of the game — goes on a homicidal rampage and starts hunting his competitors for real when his target — a clumsy, timid oaf who came in dead last over the same number of rounds — accidentally "kills" the champion when he drops his dart gun while panicked.
- Tender Flesh: A stripper and her boyfriend are hunted on an island.
- Turkey Shoot:
- This 1982 Ozploitation movie, also known as Escape 2000 or Blood Camp Thatcher. 20 Minutes into the Future delinquents and political dissidents are herded into prison camps where they are hunted for sport by VIP's.
- The 2014 version turns it into a TV show where convicted killers are hunted instead.
- Utu: The Evil Brit Colonel Kilgore treats his pursuit of the rebel Maori like a fox hunt.
- Without Warning (1980): Released seven years before Predator, this film also features an alien antagonist played by Kevin Peter Hall who hunts humans for sport, but does not share the same code of honor as the extraterrestrials in the later franchise (hunting both armed and unarmed people with equal ruthlessness).
