Top rated genuinely unsettling movies with a joyous character

Check out today’s highest ranked genuinely unsettling movies featuring a joyous character! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best genuinely unsettling movies featuring a joyous character, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Beanpole (2019)

1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

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2019-06-20 | Drama / War

Cast

Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pastel colors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    confusing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chromatic

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2 Midsommar (2019)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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2019-07-03 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor

Rating

rating icon 7.165
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    disturbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slightly disturbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    horrifying

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3 Nitram (2021)

Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.

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2021-09-30 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis

Rating

rating icon 6.955
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gratuitous violence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deeply disturbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    heinous crime

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4 Pearl (2022)

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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2022-09-16 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Mia Goth, Tandi Wright

Rating

rating icon 7.289
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deranged
  2. Ranked #1 for
    glorious technicolor
  3. Ranked #1 for
    emo character

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5 Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

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2022-06-17 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson

Rating

rating icon 7.169
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    jumping for joy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    cringy factor
  3. Ranked #2 for
    silky voice

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6 The Mortuary Collection (2020)

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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2020-09-25 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    morbid
  2. Ranked #1 for
    special nod
  3. Ranked #1 for
    entertaining ride

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7 Lamb (2021)

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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2021-08-12 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Rating

rating icon 6.472
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gorgeous landscape
  2. Ranked #2 for
    undefinable subject
  3. Ranked #2 for
    snail pace

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8 Surge (2020)

A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.

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2020-06-17 | Thriller

Cast

Ben Whishaw, Ellie Haddington

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dizzy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    jittery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    feeling queasy

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9 You Won't Be Alone (2022)

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

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2022-04-01 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Sara Klimoska, Anamaria Marinca

Rating

rating icon 6.608
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    stretch of imagination
  2. Ranked #1 for
    scintillating
  3. Ranked #1 for
    allusive

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10 Monos (2019)

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

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2019-08-15 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson

Rating

rating icon 6.671
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sumptuous cinematography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    uncomfortable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hallucinatory

Trailer

Monos trailer
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