10 Brutal Movies With The Biggest Body Counts

10. Saving Private Ryan

Estimated Body Count: 255

Steven Spielberg's Best Picture-winning masterpiece is not only one of the greatest war films of all time - it's also one of the most unapologetically bloody.

Far away from the director's penchant for sugar-sweet, family-friendly entertainment, Saving Private Ryan is a confrontationally brutal, matter-of-fact rendition of war's human cost - and then some.

Documenting World War II's Normandy beach landings and their grim fallout, Spielberg's film ultimately racks up 255 deaths over its near-three-hour runtime, though more than half that number occurs during the unforgettable, almost unbearably grisly opening Normandy landings sequence.

Despite how utterly overflowing with bloody violence it is, Saving Private Ryan never feels exploitative or over-the-top.

It is a fiercely honest examination of what war does to regular people, aptly conveyed with the legendary filmmaker's typical hand for humanism.