Top rated adaptive movies that are also brilliantly understated

Check out today’s highest ranked adaptive and brilliantly understated movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are adaptive and brilliantly understated, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Outfit (2022)

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

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2022-02-25 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch

Rating

rating icon 7.108
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    plenty of twist
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crafty
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stagey acting

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2 The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

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2020-09-25 | Drama / History

Cast

Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen

Rating

rating icon 7.708
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    depicting social justice
  2. Ranked #2 for
    dynamite
  3. Ranked #2 for
    slice of history

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3 The Dry (2021)

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

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2021-01-01 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    world-class
  2. Ranked #1 for
    brilliantly put together
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Knives Out

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4 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 7.233
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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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5 The Dig (2021)

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.

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2021-01-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    historically important
  2. Ranked #1 for
    first-rate cinematography
  3. Ranked #1 for
    tangential

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6 The Gentlemen (2020)

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

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2020-01-01 | Action / Crime

Cast

Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam

Rating

rating icon 7.68
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    clever and witty dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sharp dialogue
  3. Ranked #1 for
    top form

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7 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

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2021-02-12 | Drama / History

Cast

Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya

Rating

rating icon 7.348
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ably played
  2. Ranked #1 for
    real deal
  3. Ranked #1 for
    electrifying

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8 The Report (2019)

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

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2019-09-12 | Drama

Cast

Adam Driver, Annette Bening

Rating

rating icon 7.041
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    unaccountable
  2. Ranked #2 for
    traditional method directing
  3. Ranked #3 for
    righteous character

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The Report trailer
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9 The Two Popes (2019)

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins

Rating

rating icon 7.499
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely magnificent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for Catholic contemplation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    humanized

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10 Saint Omer (2022)

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

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2022-11-23 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda

Rating

rating icon 6.305
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    providing answers
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fresh look
  3. Ranked #1 for
    empathetic character

Trailer

Saint Omer trailer
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