Top rated slightly underwhelming movies with a downbeat tone

Check out today’s highest ranked slightly underwhelming movies with a downbeat tone! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best slightly underwhelming movies with a downbeat tone, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Watcher (2022)

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

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2022-06-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman

Rating

rating icon 6.483
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    feeling of isolation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sense of isolation
  3. Ranked #2 for
    increasing tension

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Watcher trailer
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2 Vesper (2022)

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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2022-08-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan

Rating

rating icon 6.396
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slimy cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    post-apocalyptic future
  3. Ranked #2 for
    orwellian

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3 I'm No Longer Here (2019)

In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

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2019-10-21 | Drama

Cast

Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Bianca Coral Puernte Valenzuela

Rating

rating icon 7.865
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tough and gritty
  2. Ranked #1 for
    youth culture
  3. Ranked #1 for
    disaffected youth

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4 The World to Come (2021)

In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

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2021-02-12 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    elegiac
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ponderous
  3. Ranked #1 for
    harsh

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5 Aniara (2019)

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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2019-05-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian

Rating

rating icon 6.002
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brightly lit imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sad and depressing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    vast story

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Aniara trailer
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6 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
    nightmares for a week
  2. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely unsettling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for horror movie day

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7 Nightmare Alley (2021)

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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2021-12-02 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fluke
  2. Ranked #1 for
    femme fatale
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hothead

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8 Fatman (2020)

A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.

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2020-10-19 | Action / Comedy

Cast

Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    spoiled brat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ridiculous premise
  3. Ranked #1 for
    one of the greatest

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Fatman trailer
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9 The Vanishing (2019)

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

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2019-01-04 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan

Rating

rating icon 5.73
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    barely intelligible
  2. Ranked #2 for
    begging the question
  3. Ranked #2 for
    psychological mystery

Trailer

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10 Z (2019)

A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

Info

2019-09-19 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Keegan Connor Tracy, Jett Klyne

Rating

rating icon 6.638
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    giving willies
  2. Ranked #1 for
    internal logic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    downright creepy

Trailer

Z trailer
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