Top rated academic movies with a riveting finish
Check out today’s highest ranked academic movies with a riveting finish! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best academic movies with a riveting finish, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Velvet Underground (2021)
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
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- 2021-10-15 | Documentary / Music
Cast
- Lou Reed, John Cale
Rating
- 6.9
2 Better Days (2019)
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
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- 2019-10-25 | Drama
Cast
- Zhou Dongyu, Jackson Yee
Rating
- 8.177
3 Luce (2019)
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
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- 2019-08-02 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts
Rating
- 6.3
4 Hunt (2022)
After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
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- 2022-08-10 | Action / Mystery
Cast
- Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung
Rating
- 6.7
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5 The Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
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- 2019-10-31 | Drama / History
Cast
- Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta
Rating
- 6.9
6 Emily the Criminal (2022)
Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
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- 2022-08-12 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi
Rating
- 6.738
7 Who You Think I Am (2019)
Claire, a romantically spurned 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to spy on her on-and-off lover.
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- 2019-02-27 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia
Rating
- 6.6
8 Happening (2021)
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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- 2021-11-24 | Drama
Cast
- Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein
Rating
- 7.229
9 Collective (2019)
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
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- 2019-02-13 | Documentary
Cast
- Cătălin Tolontan, Mirela Neag
Rating
- 7.6
10 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
- 6.749