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 Breakbeat hardcore, related to raves and hip-hop Digital hardcore, a fusion of hardcore punk and electronic dance music Gabber, a style of electronic dance music 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

See also Hard Corps (disambiguation)