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

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    great performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beautifully staged
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stark

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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

rating icon 8.154
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    great acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    evil genius
  3. Ranked #1 for
    mentally unstable

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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

rating icon 7.427
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely first-rate
  2. Ranked #2 for
    reluctant hero
  3. Ranked #3 for
    intrepid

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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

rating icon 7.648
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    leaving theater thinking
  2. Ranked #1 for
    true representation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cosmopolitan

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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

rating icon 7.61
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bone chilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #4 for
    absolutely terrifying

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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

rating icon 6.922
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pathological
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pretty messed up
  3. Ranked #1 for
    psychopath

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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

rating icon 6.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    top-notch
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wacko
  3. Ranked #1 for
    control freak

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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

rating icon 5.227
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    totally believable acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    amateur hour
  3. Ranked #1 for
    completely believable

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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

rating icon 5.361
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    top-tier
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stinging lines
  3. Ranked #7 for
    capturing the feels

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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

rating icon 6.753
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ultimate downfall
  3. Ranked #2 for
    evil tyrant

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