Top rated movies with appropriate casting that have ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with appropriate casting and ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with appropriate casting and ratcheting up tension, 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
    riveting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely outstanding
  3. Ranked #1 for
    lugubrious

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2 The Outfit (2022)

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

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2022-02-25 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch

Rating

rating icon 7.092
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    plenty of twist
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crafty
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stagey acting

Trailer

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3 The Hole in the Ground (2019)

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

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2019-03-01 | Horror

Cast

Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey

Rating

rating icon 5.638
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    left unexplained
  2. Ranked #2 for
    payoff at ending
  3. Ranked #2 for
    genuinely eerie

Trailer

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4 Werewolves Within (2021)

When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.

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2021-06-25 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub

Rating

rating icon 6.012
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    entertaining romp
  2. Ranked #3 for
    like Knives Out
  3. Ranked #4 for
    fun romp

Trailer

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5 Boiling Point (2021)

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.

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2021-07-05 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson

Rating

rating icon 7.233
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    seamless
  2. Ranked #1 for
    right on target
  3. Ranked #1 for
    pleasing ensemble

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6 The Black Phone (2022)

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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2022-06-22 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke

Rating

rating icon 7.61
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bone chilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #4 for
    hair-raising

Trailer

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7 Influencer (2023)

While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living. But CW's interest in her takes a darker turn.

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2023-05-18 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant

Rating

rating icon 6.17
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    maintaining tension
  2. Ranked #1 for
    stunningly beautiful
  3. Ranked #3 for
    statuesque

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8 Villains (2019)

When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.

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2019-09-20 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scenery-chewing performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    thin
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sympathetic

Trailer

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9 X (2022)

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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2022-03-17 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega

Rating

rating icon 6.749
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like The Final Girls
  2. Ranked #2 for
    throwback movie
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hardcore

Trailer

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10 Blood Quantum (2019)

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

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2019-09-05 | Horror

Cast

Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Rating

rating icon 5.741
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heartbreaker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Apocalypse Film
  3. Ranked #1 for
    engulfing

Trailer

Blood Quantum trailer
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