Deadly Games in Live-Action Films.
- In 13 Sins, contestants are charged with 13 tasks of increasing deadliness with increasing rewards. Quitting at any time forfeits all of the cash. Contestants are observed via the ubiquitous security cameras.
- 13 Tzameti (and the American remake 13) features competitive Russian Roulette. The protagonist takes the place of a contestant, but has no idea what's involved until it's too late to back out.
- In Rob Zombie's 31 contestants have to kill their opponents or survive within a period of twelve hours to 'win' the game.
- Are You Scared has six teenagers kidnapped and taken to a warehouse, where they're put on a game show with deadly challenges tailored around their greatest fears.
- The Belko Experiment starts when 80 white-collar Americans are locked in their office building located in Bogotá, Colombia. The doors and windows are sealed and armed guards patrol the outside, ensuring nobody gets in or out. A mysterious voice occasionally comes in over the intercom, giving them instructions about how many of their co-workers they need to murder in a set amount of time and how many will be killed if they don't comply. To make matters worse, there are small explosives planted in the backs of everyone's heads, which is how the masterminds can kill both failed players and anyone trying to break the rules.
- Black Rat: The Black Rat apparently prepared 'elimination games' for each of the six students, promising to let them live if they succeed in the challenge. Takashi has to block her shot on goal, and Kanako has to score 100 on a karaoke game. They both fail, and it is never revealed what the other four tests would have been.
- The prisoners in Breathing Room are told that they're in a Deadly Game and that one of them will earn their freedom. It's actually a rigged training exercise for deep cover operatives.
- The Condemned (2007) keeps the setting in the present day, and handwaves the legal issues of it by putting the proceedings on a deserted island, and broadcasting them via the Internet.
- Deathrow Gameshow: Prisoners on death-row compete in deadly games for a chance at a reprieve.
- Escape Room (2019): The titular Escape Room is a Saw-esque challenge, in which six people are trapped in a closed room littered with deadly traps. In contrast to most Saw traps (and similarly to the Fatal Five's Trial in Saw V), everyone must cooperate to proceed, but the unforgiving nature of the game always means that someone will die in a given challenge, eliminating the contestants one by one anyway. The end of the film reveals that the one shown in the film is merely the latest of many challenges that have been held for years, and they were created to please the rich. Also, nobody is supposed to win, because the last survivor will be summarily executed by the game master. Fortunately, it turns out that there is one other survivor, who then tag teams with the other survivor to rig the game so they can live.
- The 2011 film Freerunner is a Deadly Game run for the amusement of bored plutocrats around the world who bet on the survival of the Freerunners.
- The 2019 film Funhouse is about a fictional Big Brother-esque 24 hour livestream reality show, Furcas' House of Fun. Hosted by the titular CGI panda avatar, the contestants are forced to earn as many likes as possible from the general public, else they'll be forced to play in penalty games that, more often than not, results in gruesome deaths for those who fail.
- The 2009 movie Gamer starring Gerard Butler. Death row convicts can allow themselves to be implanted with Nanomachines that allow someone else to control their motor functions. If that someone else is good enough to make it through 30 battles with them, they are released. However, the true terrors are the others in the game, normal inmates who are stuck looping silly behaviors like sweeping up the battlefield or flashing their breasts to the audience. However, the movie focuses on something else after thirty minutes.
- The German TV movie "Das Millionenspiel" from 1970 is about a man who has to survive seven days while being hunted by a gang of killers. Prize if he survives: One million German marks. The population can help him or rat him out, as they like. Some people took the film for real and asked whether they could become either the candidate or the hunters. Unfortunately, for legal reasons the movie was forbidden to be broadcast for almost thirty years (had to do with being based on the Short Story "The Prize of Peril" by Robert Sheckley.)
- In Once Upon a Spy, Big Bad Marcus Valorium drops Paige Tannehill in The Maze under his headquarters and forces to her play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse (or 'Cat-and-Canary' as he keeps referring to it) against his henchmen Rudy and Greta, with the understanding that they will kill her if they catch her. He guides Rudy and Greta via radio, while Jack Chenault guides Paige. Sore Loser Valorium explains that he regards this as settling the score for Chenault beating him for a scientific award 12 years ago.
- In one of the last cities in the frozen, dying world of Quintet, the people occupy themselves with a tournament based on the eponymous board game, for lack of anything else to do while waiting for humanity to die out.
- Rollerball: The highest number of deaths during a game is nine, according to a Rollerball statistics fan. This is before the rule changes introduced during the film.
- The Running Man: See entry under Literature for details. It seemed the dystopian future setting had more televised games like the eponymous one; there was a commercial for another game called Climbing for Dollars, where a contestant is climbing a rope over a pit filled with angry Dobermans while he is pulling money off of the rope. Partway up, a pipe would blast the contestant with gas to try and make him fall.
- The Saw series is based entirely around "games" where people are forced to either mutilate themselves/harm others or die painfully.
- In Shredder Orpheus, Orpheus's second chance to save Eurydice is framed as a game show where one door leads to Eurydice, while the other leads to his death. Eurydice isn't behind either door, so he's doomed no matter what.
- Slashers, about a Japanese game show producing an All-American special episode. Contestants entered a maze-like paintball course, converted for ambiance, to try to outlive three Axe-Crazy, crowd-pleasing professional maniacs. The one and only camera was also a character, the game show's cameraman, provoking a lot of observations whenever the contestants became aware of him.
- Video games in the TRON universe are where hapless Programs (and displaced Users) get sent to get killed for the entertainment of other Programs (and, as implied in the first film, for arcade players in the analog world, who have no idea what they are actually doing)!
- Turkey Shoot:
- Football played with large jugs of gasoline. Which are chained to a prisoner.
- The 2014 film has the entire story revolve around one, with convicted murderers hunted for sport on a TV show.
- Would You Rather focuses on a woman named Iris who is lured into deadly games based on the 'would you rather' party game in order to secure her brother's leukemia treatment.
