Top rated adaptive movies that are also tough and gritty
Check out today’s highest ranked adaptive and tough and gritty movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are adaptive and tough and gritty, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Les Misérables (2019)
Inspired by the 2005 riots in Paris, Stéphane, a recent transplant to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, joins the local anti-crime squad. Working alongside his unscrupulous colleagues Chris and Gwada, Stéphane struggles to maintain order amidst the mounting tensions between local gangs. When an arrest turns unexpectedly violent, the three officers must reckon with the aftermath and keep the neighborhood from spiraling out of control.
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- 2019-11-14 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti
Rating
7.598
2 Lost Girls (2020)
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
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- 2020-01-28 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie
Rating
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6.077
3 A Thousand and One (2023)
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
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- 2023-03-31 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Teyana Taylor, William Catlett
Rating
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6.9
4 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
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6.739
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5 The Stranger (2022)
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
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- 2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris
Rating
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6.133
6 Cherry (2021)
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
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- 2021-02-26 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo
Rating
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7.352
7 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
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6.735
8 After We Leave (2019)
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
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- 2019-05-20 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Brian Silverman, Clay Wilcox
Rating
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5.5
9 Law of Tehran (2019)
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
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- 2019-03-17 | Action / Crime
Cast
- Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzade
Rating
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7.167
10 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
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7.7
