Top rated movies with wonderful acting that have ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with wonderful acting and ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with wonderful acting and ratcheting up tension, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 His House (2020)

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

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2020-01-27 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fresh spin
  2. Ranked #1 for
    effectively scary
  3. Ranked #2 for
    haunting imagery

Trailer

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2 Cohabitation (2020)

While former paramedic Emily tries to live a low-key life to cope with her PTSD, her new roommate has other plans, and a long-held vendetta against medical personnel.

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2020-10-22 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Tiffany Streng, Stephanie Rose Quinnell

Rating

rating icon 10.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    well-acted
  2. Ranked #1 for
    worth renting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    striking a chord

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3 Run (2020)

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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2020-11-20 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen

Rating

rating icon 7.261
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bang for buck
  2. Ranked #1 for
    heart-pounding
  3. Ranked #1 for
    anxious

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4 Hosts (2020)

On Christmas Eve, an innocent couple become hosts to a malicious entity. Throughout the night they terrorise a family of five in unimaginably violent and disturbing ways.

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2020-10-02 | Horror

Cast

Neal Ward, Samantha Loxley

Rating

rating icon 4.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    decently budgeted
  2. Ranked #2 for
    meh
  3. Ranked #2 for
    personification of evil

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5 The Night (2021)

An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.

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2021-04-29 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor

Rating

rating icon 5.641
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    intense role
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fascinating character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    professional

Trailer

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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
    plenty of twist
  2. Ranked #1 for
    full of twists and turns
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chamber piece

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7 The Vast of Night (2019)

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

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2019-06-01 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 6.55
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cranky
  3. Ranked #2 for
    visual gimmick

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8 Sea Fever (2020)

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

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2020-03-06 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Hermione Corfield, Ardalan Esmaili

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    good pace
  2. Ranked #2 for
    well-acted
  3. Ranked #2 for
    decently written

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9 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
    better-paced
  3. Ranked #2 for
    absorbing

Trailer

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10 The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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2020-10-29 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr.

Rating

rating icon 6.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely frightening
  2. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely unsettling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    frightening

Trailer

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