Top movies with an intimate portrayal that have an old-fashioned story

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an intimate portrayal and an old-fashioned story! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an intimate portrayal and an old-fashioned story, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Farha (2021)

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

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2021-09-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Ashraf Barhom, Karam Taher

Rating

rating icon 7.343
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    masterstroke
  2. Ranked #1 for
    realistic portrayal
  3. Ranked #1 for
    gut-wrenching

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2 Proxima (2019)

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

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2019-11-27 | Drama

Cast

Eva Green, Matt Dillon

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    realist
  2. Ranked #1 for
    masterfully executed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sensitively handled

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3 Flee (2021)

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

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2021-06-17 | Documentary / Animation

Cast

Amin Nawabi, Daniel Karimyar

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    intermixed plot
  2. Ranked #2 for
    great cinematic achievement
  3. Ranked #3 for
    never faltering

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4 The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

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2019-01-24 | Documentary

Cast

Elizabeth Holmes, Alex Gibney

Rating

rating icon 7.097
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    petty
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely fascinating
  3. Ranked #1 for
    strangely compelling

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5 Val (2021)

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

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2021-07-23 | Documentary

Cast

Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer

Rating

rating icon 7.088
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rare glimpse
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hubristic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    refreshingly honest

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6 The Hand of God (2021)

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo

Rating

rating icon 7.568
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slice of life
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stylistic flourish
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stylish camera work

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7 Aftersun (2022)

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

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2022-10-21 | Drama

Cast

Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio

Rating

rating icon 7.675
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    vacation vibes
  2. Ranked #1 for
    melancholic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    for St. Patrick's Day

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8 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

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2022-08-24 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba

Rating

rating icon 6.881
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    out of world
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fantastical
  3. Ranked #1 for
    old-fashioned story

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9 Varda by Agnès (2019)

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.

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2019-03-28 | Documentary

Cast

Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire

Rating

rating icon 7.913
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    iconic visual
  2. Ranked #1 for
    magnanimous character
  3. Ranked #3 for
    method acting

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10 I'm No Longer Here (2019)

In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

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2019-10-21 | Drama

Cast

Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Bianca Coral Puernte Valenzuela

Rating

rating icon 7.852
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    minimal character development
  2. Ranked #1 for
    stunning photography
  3. Ranked #1 for
    principled

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