Top rated mean movies with a historical significance

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

1 Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

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2021-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso

Rating

rating icon 7.624
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    idealized
  2. Ranked #1 for
    national hero
  3. Ranked #1 for
    reconstituting

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2 Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

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2019-09-06 | Drama / History

Cast

Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp

Rating

rating icon 5.942
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    barbaric
  2. Ranked #1 for
    snail pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    disciplinarian

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

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4 Radium Girls (2020)

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

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2020-10-23 | Drama / History

Cast

Joey King, Abby Quinn

Rating

rating icon 6.757
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bitterly disappointing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    museum piece
  3. Ranked #1 for
    distracted

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Radium Girls trailer
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5 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

Trailer

The East trailer
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6 The Last Duel (2021)

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

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2021-10-13 | History / Drama

Cast

Jodie Comer, Matt Damon

Rating

rating icon 7.441
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    new perspective
  2. Ranked #1 for
    different point of angle
  3. Ranked #1 for
    distorted view

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7 The Legend of Tomiris (2019)

This is the story of the life of the great queen of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.

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2019-10-01 | History / War

Cast

Almira Tursyn, Erkebulan Dairov

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    phony
  2. Ranked #1 for
    overlord
  3. Ranked #1 for
    historical

Trailer

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8 Benedetta (2021)

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

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2021-07-09 | History / Drama

Cast

Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling

Rating

rating icon 6.625
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    holy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lurid
  3. Ranked #1 for
    exhibitionist

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9 Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

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2021-02-26 | War / Drama

Cast

Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović

Rating

rating icon 7.648
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    leaving theater thinking
  2. Ranked #1 for
    true representation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cosmopolitan

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10 BlackBerry (2023)

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

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2023-02-13 | Comedy

Cast

Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton

Rating

rating icon 7.191
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    nerdy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    socially awkward
  3. Ranked #1 for
    modern technology

Trailer

BlackBerry trailer
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