Top rated analytical movies with historical interest
Check out today’s highest ranked analytical movies with historical interest! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best analytical movies with historical interest, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
7.499
2 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
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6.5
3 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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- 2021-02-12 | Drama / History
Cast
- Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya
Rating
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7.346
4 Mank (2020)
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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- 2020-11-13 | Drama / History
Cast
- Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried
Rating
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6.699
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5 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
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7.1
6 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
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- James Norton, Vanessa Kirby
Rating
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6.753
7 Radioactive (2020)
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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- 2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley
Rating
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6.612
8 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
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- 2021-07-02 | Music / Documentary
Cast
- Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rating
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7.659
9 Benediction (2021)
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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- 2021-12-23 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi
Rating
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6.0
10 A Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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- 2019-08-27 | History / Drama
Cast
- August Diehl, Valerie Pachner
Rating
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7.2
