Top movies with an overarching theme that have a linear narrative
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an overarching theme and a linear narrative! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an overarching theme and a linear narrative, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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- 2019-06-19 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori
Rating
- 8.004
2 Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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- 2020-11-09 | Drama
Cast
- Gabriel Basso, Amy Adams
Rating
- 6.735
3 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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- 2021-04-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima
Rating
- 7.134
4 The Wandering Earth II (2023)
Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
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- 2023-01-22 | Science Fiction
Cast
- Andy Lau, Wu Jing
Rating
- 7.246
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5 White Noise (2022)
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
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- 2022-11-25 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig
Rating
- 5.579
6 Come True (2020)
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
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- 2020-09-24 | Science Fiction / Horror
Cast
- Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron
Rating
- 5.956
7 Drive My Car (2021)
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
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- 2021-08-18 | Drama
Cast
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura
Rating
- 7.42
8 The Worst Person in the World (2021)
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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- 2021-10-13 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie
Rating
- 7.525
9 Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2022)
After inheriting a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality shift around them.
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- 2022-06-24 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Anna Platen, Jeff Wilbusch
Rating
- 6.1
10 Belle (2021)
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
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- 2021-07-16 | Animation / Science Fiction
Cast
- Kaho Nakamura, Ryo Narita
Rating
- 7.721