Top rated movies with award-worthy performance that have an upstanding character

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with award-worthy performance featuring an upstanding character! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with award-worthy performance featuring an upstanding character, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Help (2021)

Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.

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2021-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.088
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    second to none
  2. Ranked #1 for
    faultless
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bit hard

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2 News of the World (2020)

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

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2020-12-25 | Drama / Western

Cast

Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel

Rating

rating icon 6.966
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    westernized
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ham
  3. Ranked #2 for
    perilous journey

Trailer

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3 The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

From the 1960's to the 1980's, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.

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2021-09-17 | Drama / History

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield

Rating

rating icon 6.513
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sympathetic portrayal
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rise and fall
  3. Ranked #2 for
    falling from grace

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4 Blue Bayou (2021)

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

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2021-09-10 | Drama

Cast

Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander

Rating

rating icon 7.483
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    vivid depiction
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gut-punch
  3. Ranked #1 for
    heady

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5 Passing (2021)

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

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2021-10-27 | Drama

Cast

Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    MTV style editing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    toned
  3. Ranked #1 for
    silky voice

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6 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
    crazy plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    stagey acting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    crafty

Trailer

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7 The Boys in the Band (2020)

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

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2020-09-30 | Drama

Cast

Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    inflecting voice
  2. Ranked #2 for
    masochistic character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    weak link in cast

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8 Judy (2019)

Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.

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2019-09-27 | Drama / History

Cast

Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock

Rating

rating icon 6.717
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    iconic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    career-defining performance
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chilling portrayal

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9 Luce (2019)

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

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2019-08-02 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    layered
  2. Ranked #1 for
    many unanswered questions
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ambiguous

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10 Just Mercy (2019)

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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2019-12-25 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    innocent man
  2. Ranked #1 for
    miscarriage of justice
  3. Ranked #2 for
    impactful

Trailer

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