Best award winning movies with ratcheting up tension from 2011
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with ratcheting up tension from 2011! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with ratcheting up tension from 2011, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Take Shelter (2011)
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
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- 2011-09-30 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain
Rating
- 7.051
2 Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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- 2011-06-10 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott
Rating
- 6.624
3 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
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- 2011-09-16 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Rating
- 6.617
4 Drive (2011)
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
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- 2011-09-15 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan
Rating
- 7.6
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5 No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
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- 2011-09-16 | Thriller
Cast
- Jose Coronado, Helena Miquel
Rating
- 5.9
6 Snowtown (2011)
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
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- 2011-05-19 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall
Rating
- 6.3
7 We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
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- 2011-09-28 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
Rating
- 7.559
8 Too Big to Fail (2011)
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
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- 2011-05-22 | Drama / TV Movie
Cast
- William Hurt, Paul Giamatti
Rating
- 7.0
9 Super 8 (2011)
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
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- 2011-06-08 | Thriller / Science Fiction
Cast
- Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning
Rating
- 6.765
10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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- 2011-12-14 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
Rating
- 7.4