Top rated movies with low-key performance that have a psychotic villain

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with low-key performance featuring a psychotic villain! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with low-key performance featuring a psychotic villain, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Cruella (2021)

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

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2021-05-26 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

Emma Stone, Emma Thompson

Rating

rating icon 8.011
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fantastic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    icing on cake
  3. Ranked #1 for
    simply amazing

Trailer

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2 The Stylist (2020)

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

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2020-09-26 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant

Rating

rating icon 5.09
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    swift pace
  2. Ranked #2 for
    becoming obsessed
  3. Ranked #2 for
    tight editing

Trailer

The Stylist trailer
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3 The Good Nurse (2022)

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

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2022-10-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Rating

rating icon 6.901
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high caliber
  2. Ranked #2 for
    consistently engaged
  3. Ranked #2 for
    better-paced

Trailer

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4 Old Henry (2021)

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

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2021-10-01 | Western

Cast

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze

Rating

rating icon 7.273
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    hit out of park
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with final twist
  3. Ranked #1 for
    big revealing ending

Trailer

Old Henry trailer
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5 The Lost King (2022)

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

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2022-10-07 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan

Rating

rating icon 6.525
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    becoming fascinated
  2. Ranked #1 for
    excellent supporting cast
  3. Ranked #1 for
    analytic

Trailer

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6 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
    emo character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    glorious technicolor

Trailer

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7 Dead for a Dollar (2022)

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

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2022-09-30 | Western / Thriller

Cast

Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 5.874
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    washed out look
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gun-for-hire
  3. Ranked #1 for
    purer

Trailer

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8 Let Him Go (2020)

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

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2020-11-05 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Diane Lane, Kevin Costner

Rating

rating icon 6.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wacko
  2. Ranked #1 for
    top-notch
  3. Ranked #1 for
    control freak

Trailer

Let Him Go trailer
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9 Joker (2019)

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Info

2019-10-01 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro

Rating

rating icon 8.154
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    evil genius
  3. Ranked #1 for
    mentally unstable

Trailer

Joker trailer
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10 The Batman (2022)

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Info

2022-03-01 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brooding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gritty
  3. Ranked #2 for
    darkest

Trailer

The Batman trailer
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