Top rated despaired movies with ratcheting up tension

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

1 The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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2020-10-29 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr.

Rating

rating icon 6.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely unsettling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unnerving
  3. Ranked #1 for
    creepy

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2 The Lodge (2020)

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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2020-01-16 | Horror

Cast

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell

Rating

rating icon 6.119
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5 for
    mentally unstable
  2. Ranked #6 for
    spine-tingling
  3. Ranked #7 for
    extremely slow pace

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The Lodge trailer
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3 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.606
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fanatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unsettling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    psychological character

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4 Speak No Evil (2022)

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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2022-03-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch

Rating

rating icon 6.617
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly uncomfortable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unpleasant
  3. Ranked #1 for
    discomforting

Trailer

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5 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
    hard-pressed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    attention grabbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    riveting

Trailer

The Stranger trailer
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6 The Good Nurse (2022)

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

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2022-10-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Rating

rating icon 6.901
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high caliber
  2. Ranked #2 for
    better-paced
  3. Ranked #2 for
    absorbing

Trailer

The Good Nurse trailer
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7 The Vanishing (2019)

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

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2019-01-04 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan

Rating

rating icon 5.73
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    barely intelligible
  2. Ranked #2 for
    begging the question
  3. Ranked #2 for
    psychological mystery

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The Vanishing trailer
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8 His House (2020)

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

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2020-01-27 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    effectively scary
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fresh spin
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Marrowbone

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His House trailer
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9 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.086
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  2. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deathly

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Relic trailer
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10 Never Grow Old (2019)

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

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2019-03-15 | Western

Cast

Emile Hirsch, John Cusack

Rating

rating icon 6.024
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    grim
  2. Ranked #1 for
    undesirable character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    God-fearing

Trailer

Never Grow Old trailer
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