Top rated careful movies that are also brilliantly understated

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

1 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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2019-09-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sight for sore eyes
  2. Ranked #1 for
    painterly director
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cinematic triumph

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2 Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

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2019-09-06 | Drama / History

Cast

Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    disciplinarian
  2. Ranked #1 for
    snail pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    barbaric

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3 The Stylist (2020)

Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

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2020-09-26 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant

Rating

rating icon 5.133
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    swift pace
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tight editing
  3. Ranked #3 for
    slickly made

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4 The Other Lamb (2020)

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

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2020-04-03 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    lush cinematography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    great cinematography
  3. Ranked #1 for
    worth trying

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5 Just Mercy (2019)

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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2019-12-25 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson

Rating

rating icon 7.887
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    miscarriage of justice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #2 for
    depicting social justice

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6 On the Count of Three (2022)

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double suicide plan. But before they go, they have some unfinished business to attend to.

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2022-05-13 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brutally honest
  2. Ranked #1 for
    serious topic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dark subject

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7 Farha (2021)

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.

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2021-09-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Ashraf Barhom, Karam Taher

Rating

rating icon 7.663
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heart-wrenching
  2. Ranked #1 for
    masterstroke
  3. Ranked #1 for
    harrowing

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8 Hope Gap (2019)

Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger -- and with support from her son -- Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it's never too late to be happy.

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2019-10-03 | Drama

Cast

Annette Bening, Bill Nighy

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    confrontational
  2. Ranked #1 for
    loveless character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for case study

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9 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
    stagey acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    classy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    plenty of twist

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10 Ammonite (2020)

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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2020-11-13 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    acting with subtle gesture
  2. Ranked #1 for
    glum
  3. Ranked #1 for
    veteran actress

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