Top rated suitably menacing movies that are also sobering
Check out today’s highest ranked suitably menacing and sobering movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are suitably menacing and sobering, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Lapwing (2021)
Mute young woman Patience, from an isolated community in rural England in 1555, struggles with her controlling brother-in-law and leader, David, who is gradually unraveling after the failure of his idyllic community. The Egyptian Act has been passed, stipulating that all ‘gypsies’ must vacate England immediately and anyone found aiding them could be executed. In exchange for a fee, David agrees to help an Egyptian family who must stay a month on their land until a ship comes to take them away. But when Patience pursues an affair with one of the outsiders, she is thrust into a violent and vicious psychological battle with David.
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- 2021-11-26 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Hannah Douglas, Emmett Scanlan
Rating
- 6.4
2 Joker (2019)
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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- 2019-10-01 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro
Rating
- 8.154
3 Richard Jewell (2019)
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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- 2019-12-13 | Drama
Cast
- Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm
Rating
- 7.427
4 Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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- 2021-02-26 | War / Drama
Cast
- Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović
Rating
- 7.648
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5 The Black Phone (2022)
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
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- 2022-06-22 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke
Rating
- 7.61
6 The Hater (2020)
A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.
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- 2020-03-06 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Maciej Musiałowski, Vanessa Aleksander
Rating
- 6.922
7 Let Him Go (2020)
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
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- 2020-11-05 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Diane Lane, Kevin Costner
Rating
- 6.799
8 Selling Isobel (2019)
Based on a true story ~ Isobel goes for a job interview, gets locked in and sex trafficked for 3 consecutive days.
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- 2019-10-26 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Frida Farrell, Gabriel Olds
Rating
- 5.227
9 A Soldier's Revenge (2021)
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother, Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
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- 2021-03-25 | Western
Cast
- Neal Bledsoe, Rob Mayes
Rating
- 5.361
10 Mr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
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- 2019-10-03 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- James Norton, Vanessa Kirby
Rating
- 6.753