Top rated slightly underwhelming movies with a pessimistic view

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

1 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
    vast story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dark and depressing

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Aniara trailer
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2 Athena (2022)

Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.

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2022-09-09 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Dali Benssalah, Anthony Bajon

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    inventive camera work
  2. Ranked #2 for
    chaotic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    lasting forever

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3 The Hummingbird Project (2019)

A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

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2019-03-15 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård

Rating

rating icon 6.147
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    brainy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lingering in memory
  3. Ranked #3 for
    pessimistic view

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4 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
    post-apocalyptic future
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slimy cast
  3. Ranked #2 for
    orwellian

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5 Living (2022)

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

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2022-11-04 | Drama

Cast

Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood

Rating

rating icon 7.021
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    able supporting actor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    telling
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gentlemanly

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6 Vortex (2022)

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

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2022-01-27 | Drama

Cast

Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun

Rating

rating icon 7.188
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    innovative technique
  2. Ranked #2 for
    unmistakable acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    cross-cut editing

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7 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.606
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bated breath
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unsettling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    fanaticism

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8 Class Action Park (2020)

Class Action Park explores the legend, legacy, and truth behind the 1980s water park in Vernon, New Jersey that long ago entered the realm of myth. Known for its dangerous, unsupervised rides and lack of regulation, guests of Action Park expected to walk away with injuries and were lucky if they made it out alive. Shirking the trappings of nostalgia, the film uses investigative journalism, original animations, recordings, and interviews with the people who lived it to reveal the true story of Action Park.

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2020-08-22 | Documentary

Cast

Chris Gethard, Jason Scott Sadofsky

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dangerous subject
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rowdy character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    felliniesque

Trailer

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9 Vivarium (2019)

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

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2019-09-07 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg

Rating

rating icon 6.065
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cuckoo
  2. Ranked #1 for
    meaningless
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like The Twilight Zone

Trailer

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10 Soul (2020)

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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2020-12-25 | Animation / Family

Cast

Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey

Rating

rating icon 8.126
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    profound
  2. Ranked #1 for
    existential theme
  3. Ranked #1 for
    capturing imagination

Trailer

Soul trailer
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