Top rated movies with technically superb directing that have an absurd premise

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with technically superb directing and an absurd premise! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with technically superb directing and an absurd premise, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Paradise Hills (2019)

A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

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2019-08-29 | Fantasy / Science Fiction

Cast

Emma Roberts, Eiza González

Rating

rating icon 5.96
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ornate imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    nice eye-candy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sumptuous

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2 Fortune Defies Death (2019)

The Woods family gathers at a cabin resort to hear the last will and testament of their wealthy patriarch George Woods ten years after his death. All vying for the much-anticipated Woods' fortune, the players include his greedy sister and her grandson, an eccentric niece and two ambitious nephews, his mistress, and his missing daughter's husband with their amnesiac granddaughter. Before the players can stake their claim to the family fortune, each must survive the family attorney's investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Woods' adopted daughter Mona. Why did Mona suddenly run away before the death of Woods? Will she show up to claim her fortune, or was her disappearance the result of a conspiracy? As the story unfolds, family members turn on each other and murder is the weapon of choice to reveal a dark secret.

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2019-03-26 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Julie R. Ølgaard, Justin Ray

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sarcastic lines
  2. Ranked #1 for
    very well constructed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    well-crafted

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3 Possessor (2020)

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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2020-10-02 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott

Rating

rating icon 6.356
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mind twists
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sexual imagery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    grisly image

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4 18½ (2022)

In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes.

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2022-05-27 | Thriller / Comedy

Cast

Willa Fitzgerald, John Magaro

Rating

rating icon 5.545
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    feel cheated
  2. Ranked #2 for
    draining
  3. Ranked #2 for
    non sequitur

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5 Little Joe (2019)

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

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2019-11-01 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw

Rating

rating icon 5.702
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    use of primary colors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ambient sound
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bright colors

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6 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

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2022-08-24 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba

Rating

rating icon 6.882
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    out of world
  2. Ranked #1 for
    enthralling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    totally absorbing

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7 Lamb (2021)

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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2021-08-12 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Rating

rating icon 6.471
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gorgeous landscape
  2. Ranked #2 for
    snail pace
  3. Ranked #2 for
    undefinable subject

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8 The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2019)

Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.

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2019-02-08 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    escapist fantasy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    with impressive taglines
  3. Ranked #3 for
    worth buying

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9 Reminiscence (2021)

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

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2021-08-18 | Mystery / Science Fiction

Cast

Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson

Rating

rating icon 6.614
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    futurism
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like Blade Runner
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dragging along

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10 The Wandering Earth (2019)

When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.

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2019-02-05 | Science Fiction / Action

Cast

Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie

Rating

rating icon 6.62
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    Space Opera
  2. Ranked #2 for
    rationalism
  3. Ranked #3 for
    game changer

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