Top rated 20 overarching theme movies with distinctive directing

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

1 Waves (2019)

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

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2019-11-15 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell

Rating

rating icon 7.403
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    imaginative directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sob story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    propulsive

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2 Riotsville, USA (2022)

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

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2022-09-16 | Documentary / History

Cast

Charlene Modeste

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    elaborately staged
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lynching
  3. Ranked #3 for
    intermixed plot

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3 Aniara (2019)

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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2019-05-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian

Rating

rating icon 6.027
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pessimistic view
  2. Ranked #1 for
    vast story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    despaired

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4 French Exit (2021)

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

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2021-02-12 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sarcastic dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    harmless enough
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sophisticated

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5 Sniper: Assassin's End (2020)

Special Ops sniper Brandon Beckett is set up as the primary suspect for the murder of a foreign dignitary on the eve of signing a high-profile trade agreement with the United States. Narrowly escaping death, Beckett realizes that there may be a dark operative working within the government, and partners with the only person whom he can trust: his father, legendary sniper Sgt. Thomas Beckett. Both Becketts are on the run from the CIA, Russian mercenaries, and a yakuza-trained assassin with sniper skills that rival both legendary sharpshooters.

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2020-06-15 | Action

Cast

Chad Michael Collins, Sayaka Akimoto

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    smart-ass
  2. Ranked #1 for
    largely forgettable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cliche dialogue

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6 Hinterland (2021)

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.

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2021-10-07 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    homesick
  2. Ranked #1 for
    chilling thrills
  3. Ranked #2 for
    taut and thrilling

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7 Monos (2019)

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

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2019-08-15 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sumptuous cinematography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    visually pleasing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    uncomfortable

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8 Boys State (2020)

This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage boys from across Texas coming together to build a representative government from the ground up.

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2020-01-24 | Documentary

Cast

Ben Feinstein, Steven Garza

Rating

rating icon 7.094
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    testosterone-driving
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most developed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    gung-ho

Trailer

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9 Never Grow Old (2019)

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

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2019-03-15 | Western

Cast

Emile Hirsch, John Cusack

Rating

rating icon 6.024
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bleak
  2. Ranked #1 for
    grim and gritty
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dark

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10 Hammamet (2020)

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

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2020-01-09 | Drama / History

Cast

Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudia Gerini

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    historical interest
  2. Ranked #1 for
    trifling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    fluff

Trailer

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