Top rated 18 historical significance movies with Thriller

Check out today’s highest ranked historical significance Thriller movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best historical significance Thriller movies, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Mr. Jones (2019)

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

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2019-10-03 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

James Norton, Vanessa Kirby

Rating

rating icon 6.753
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    idealism
  3. Ranked #2 for
    biblical proportion

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2 The East (2021)

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

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2021-08-13 | War / Drama

Cast

Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    room for improvement
  2. Ranked #2 for
    historical
  3. Ranked #3 for
    accurate

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3 Mat Kilau (2022)

The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to reap the treasures of Pahang and disrupted the Islamic way in Pahang has caused dissatisfaction among the rulers and the Malays. The patriotic spirit of Mat Kilau and his friends who rose up against British violence had caused Captain Syers to launch an attack on Mat Kilau. Witness the heroic spirit of Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah and Mat Kilau's best friends use their wisdom to fight in the jungle against the British soldiers. Did Mat Kilau and his friends succeed in driving out the barbaric and greedy British army to reap gold and tin in Pahang?

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2022-06-23 | Action / History

Cast

Adi Putra, Fattah Amin

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unique camera angle
  2. Ranked #1 for
    atmospheric lighting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    directorial touch

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4 Wasp Network (2020)

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

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2020-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez

Rating

rating icon 6.049
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly confusing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crammed plot
  3. Ranked #3 for
    unwieldy

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5 Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)

On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?

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2019-10-10 | Drama / History

Cast

Maxine Peake, Charles Dance

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fully-formed cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    commanding attention
  3. Ranked #1 for
    two thumbs up

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6 Official Secrets (2019)

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

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2019-08-30 | Thriller / History

Cast

Keira Knightley, Matt Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.242
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shaking head in disbelief
  2. Ranked #1 for
    moral
  3. Ranked #2 for
    moderately entertaining

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7 The Endless Trench (2019)

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

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2019-10-31 | Drama / History

Cast

Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta

Rating

rating icon 6.86
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    never-ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pacifism
  3. Ranked #2 for
    endless

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8 Chess Story (2021)

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

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2021-09-23 | History / Drama

Cast

Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fruitful
  2. Ranked #2 for
    artistic approach
  3. Ranked #2 for
    underacting

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9 The Spy (2019)

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.

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2019-10-18 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård

Rating

rating icon 6.473
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    uncertain
  2. Ranked #5 for
    cast with impressive resume
  3. Ranked #6 for
    defensive

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10 Lost Girls (2020)

When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.

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2020-01-28 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    left unsolved
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unexciting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    properly developed

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