Top rated taking hat off to director movies with ratcheting up tension

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

1 Spiral (2019)

A same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.

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2019-07-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen

Rating

rating icon 5.83
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slick
  2. Ranked #1 for
    late in game
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bit hokey

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2 Cryptid (2022)

A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.

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2022-10-07 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Nicholas Baroudi, Ellen Adair

Rating

rating icon 3.667
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mindless gore
  2. Ranked #1 for
    building tension
  3. Ranked #1 for
    feeling a little rushed

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3 Shiva Baby (2021)

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

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2021-03-26 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon

Rating

rating icon 7.217
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tight
  2. Ranked #1 for
    tightly wound
  3. Ranked #1 for
    claustrophobic atmosphere

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4 Sputnik (2020)

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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2020-09-08 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov

Rating

rating icon 6.517
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    creditable directing
  2. Ranked #4 for
    competent
  3. Ranked #5 for
    cyberpunk

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5 Nightride (2022)

In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.

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2022-03-04 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    tense and suspenseful
  2. Ranked #3 for
    brilliant pace
  3. Ranked #4 for
    snoozing

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6 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
    worth renting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    well-acted
  3. Ranked #1 for
    striking a chord

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7 Captive (2020)

A teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.

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2020-10-30 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

William Kircher, Tori kostic

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    one of rare gems
  2. Ranked #2 for
    real gem
  3. Ranked #2 for
    top grade

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8 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
    cranky
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  3. Ranked #2 for
    innovative camera angle

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9 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
    for Stephen King's fans

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10 Greyhound (2020)

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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2020-07-09 | War / Action

Cast

Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.412
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    shocking moment
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lean
  3. Ranked #2 for
    tense and exciting

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