Top rated Thriller movies with slice of history

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

1 Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis (2022)

Versions of Meriwether Lewis's 1809 death at a remote wilderness inn are imagined by his friend Alexander Wilson during a tense encounter with the only witness to the famed explorer's final night alive.

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2022-09-09 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

John Schneider, Sonny Marinelli

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    top antic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    accurate representation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    slice of history

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2 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
    idealism
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sharply contrasting imagery

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3 The King's Man (2021)

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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2021-12-22 | Action / Comedy

Cast

Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson

Rating

rating icon 6.754
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    serious
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  3. Ranked #2 for
    pacifism

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4 The East (2021)

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.

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2021-08-13 | War / Drama

Cast

Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    room for improvement
  2. Ranked #2 for
    historical
  3. Ranked #3 for
    act of cruelty

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5 True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

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2019-11-23 | Crime / Drama

Cast

George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult

Rating

rating icon 5.934
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    well-groomed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beaten
  3. Ranked #1 for
    edgy

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6 Official Secrets (2019)

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

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2019-08-30 | Thriller / History

Cast

Keira Knightley, Matt Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.242
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shaking head in disbelief
  2. Ranked #1 for
    moral
  3. Ranked #2 for
    intrepid

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7 Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

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2020-10-15 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Judi Dench, James D'Arcy

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    followable
  2. Ranked #2 for
    odd casting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    creditable directing

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8 Mat Kilau (2022)

The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to reap the treasures of Pahang and disrupted the Islamic way in Pahang has caused dissatisfaction among the rulers and the Malays. The patriotic spirit of Mat Kilau and his friends who rose up against British violence had caused Captain Syers to launch an attack on Mat Kilau. Witness the heroic spirit of Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah and Mat Kilau's best friends use their wisdom to fight in the jungle against the British soldiers. Did Mat Kilau and his friends succeed in driving out the barbaric and greedy British army to reap gold and tin in Pahang?

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2022-06-23 | Action / History

Cast

Adi Putra, Fattah Amin

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fluid camera movement
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unique camera angle
  3. Ranked #1 for
    directorial touch

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9 Detention (2019)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 6.714
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    natural light
  2. Ranked #2 for
    fragmented narrative
  3. Ranked #2 for
    precious

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10 Wasp Network (2020)

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

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2020-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez

Rating

rating icon 6.049
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly confusing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crammed plot
  3. Ranked #3 for
    historical point of view

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Wasp Network trailer
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