Top rated movies with a self-sacrificing character and a dramatic turn

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a self-sacrificing character and a dramatic turn! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a self-sacrificing character and a dramatic turn, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Honor Society (2022)

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

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2022-07-23 | Comedy

Cast

Angourie Rice, Gaten Matarazzo

Rating

rating icon 7.557
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bubbly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sharp turn
  3. Ranked #1 for
    witty topic

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2 Alice and the Mayor (2019)

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.

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2019-05-18 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier

Rating

rating icon 6.23
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    philosophical insight
  2. Ranked #1 for
    intellectual directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    disapproving character

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3 Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

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2022-09-23 | Adventure / Comedy

Cast

Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rambunctious
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sassy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    pleasant experience

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4 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
    eagerly awaited
  2. Ranked #1 for
    socially relevant
  3. Ranked #1 for
    greatly anticipated

Trailer

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5 Klaus (2019)

When Jesper distinguishes himself as the Postal Academy's worst student, he is sent to Smeerensburg, a small village located on an icy island above the Arctic Circle, where grumpy inhabitants barely exchange words, let alone letters. Jesper is about to give up and abandon his duty as a postman when he meets local teacher Alva and Klaus, a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a cabin full of handmade toys.

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2019-11-08 | Animation / Family

Cast

Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons

Rating

rating icon 8.237
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bringing smile
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unselfish
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unmissable

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6 Fukushima 50 (2020)

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

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2020-03-06 | History / Drama

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Koichi Sato

Rating

rating icon 6.39
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    overacting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    emote acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    ham actor

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7 Summerland (2020)

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

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2020-07-24 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    prettiest actress
  2. Ranked #1 for
    girl next door
  3. Ranked #1 for
    wholesome

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8 Game Changer (2022)

Fun for the whole family, hilarity ensues as the best athlete in pro football has to learn how to teach a motley group of kids how to win on the baseball field while they teach him how to win in life.

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2022-06-01 | Comedy / Family

Cast

Joel DeVisser, Corbin Bernsen

Rating

rating icon 2.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    plangent sound
  2. Ranked #6 for
    minor role
  3. Ranked #8 for
    loosened up plot

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9 Living (2022)

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

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2022-11-04 | Drama

Cast

Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood

Rating

rating icon 7.021
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    telling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    able supporting actor
  3. Ranked #2 for
    low-key performance

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10 The Unforgivable (2021)

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

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2021-11-24 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis

Rating

rating icon 7.446
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unforgivable
  2. Ranked #2 for
    straight dramatic acting
  3. Ranked #3 for
    believable

Trailer

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