Top rated movies with mesmerizing performance that have an upstanding character

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

1 Happening (2021)

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

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2021-11-04 | Drama

Cast

Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein

Rating

rating icon 7.236
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    controversial topic
  2. Ranked #2 for
    unglamorous
  3. Ranked #4 for
    gore factor

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2 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.

Info

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
    toned
  2. Ranked #1 for
    airy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    rapid fire editing

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Passing trailer
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3 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
    miscarriage of justice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #2 for
    forceful

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4 Devotion (2022)

The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

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2022-11-23 | War / Drama

Cast

Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell

Rating

rating icon 7.13
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    aerial photography
  2. Ranked #2 for
    gallant
  3. Ranked #2 for
    camaraderie

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5 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.

Info

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
    loose thread
  3. Ranked #1 for
    many unanswered questions

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6 To Leslie (2022)

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Info

2022-10-07 | Drama

Cast

Andrea Riseborough, Andre Royo

Rating

rating icon 7.014
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deserving nods from Oscars
  2. Ranked #1 for
    good editing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    award-deserving

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7 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
    rise and fall
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sympathetic portrayal
  3. Ranked #2 for
    nothing short of remarkable

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8 Parallel Mothers (2021)

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Info

2021-10-08 | Drama

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit

Rating

rating icon 6.831
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    melodramatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    parallel story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    masterly

Trailer

Parallel Mothers trailer
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9 Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.

Info

2019-12-19 | Action / Drama

Cast

Donnie Yen, Wu Yue

Rating

rating icon 7.272
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rousing climax
  2. Ranked #1 for
    realistic fight scenes
  3. Ranked #1 for
    rousing finale

Trailer

Ip Man 4: The Finale trailer
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10 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.

Info

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

News of the World trailer
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