Top rated dark and gritty movies with fair representation

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

1 The Stranger (2022)

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

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2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    utterly absorbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    attention grabbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    renegade

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2 Blue Story (2019)

Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war. Blue Story depicts elements of Rapman's own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood.

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2019-11-22 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward

Rating

rating icon 7.293
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    glorifying
  2. Ranked #1 for
    too quick
  3. Ranked #1 for
    perfectly executed

Trailer

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3 Beats (2019)

Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

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2019-05-17 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald

Rating

rating icon 6.715
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    average
  2. Ranked #1 for
    liberating
  3. Ranked #1 for
    funnier

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4 Help (2021)

Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.

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2021-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.088
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    top-notch acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for pandemic era
  3. Ranked #1 for
    flawless performance

Trailer

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5 Cicada Song (2019)

Karen is a tough, corn fed, outspoken, farm manager who cares about the people she works for and the migrant people who work for her. When one of her farmhands approaches her about a little girl that has recently disappeared, she becomes closer to her employees than she ever thought possible. But, when her lover, Annabelle, disappears, the bubble Karen lives in bursts and she begins an investigation only to uncover something dark in the little town she grew up in.

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2019-09-27 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Lyndsey Lantz, Jenny Mesa

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    good script
  2. Ranked #1 for
    completely absorbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    good pace

Trailer

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6 Savage (2019)

Inspired by the true stories of New Zealand's street gangs across 30 years, we follow Danny at three defining moments in his life as he grows from a boy into the violent enforcer of a gang.

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2019-10-11 | Crime

Cast

John Tui, Jake Ryan

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    positive start
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ringing true
  3. Ranked #2 for
    accurate depiction

Trailer

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7 Cuck (2019)

Ronnie is a young white male, struggling with the pressures of life. He’s unemployed, rejected from the military for being mentally unstable, and lives at home with his ailing and nagging mother. Ronnie finds an outlet for his frustration online. The alt-right community gives him a place to belong and absolves his personal responsibility.

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2019-10-04 | Drama

Cast

Zachary Ray Sherman, Sally Kirkland

Rating

rating icon 4.214
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    nationalistic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    accurate depiction
  3. Ranked #1 for
    caricature-like acting

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8 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.897
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    epic battle sequence

Trailer

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9 FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

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2019-12-19 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis

Rating

rating icon 7.077
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    faithful rendition
  2. Ranked #1 for
    darkest
  3. Ranked #1 for
    timeless

Trailer

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10 Old Henry (2021)

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

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2021-10-01 | Western

Cast

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze

Rating

rating icon 7.273
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    big revealing ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hit out of park
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with final twist

Trailer

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