Top rated defensive movies with powerful imagery

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

1 BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

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2022-10-27 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indelible imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    quick pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    fancy camera work

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2 Queen & Slim (2019)

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.143
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    embattled character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    defensive
  3. Ranked #4 for
    hurried

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3 Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

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2022-10-21 | Documentary / Drama

Cast

Nina Menkes, Rosanna Arquette

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    skewed view
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wallowing in self pity
  3. Ranked #1 for
    desirable cast

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4 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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2022-10-07 | Drama / War

Cast

Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.735
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visceral
  2. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    remarkable

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5 The Eight Hundred (2020)

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

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2020-08-14 | War / History

Cast

Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    patriotic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    jingoistic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    herky-jerky camera work

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6 Men (2022)

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

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2022-05-20 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear

Rating

rating icon 6.147
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visual metaphor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    figurative concept
  3. Ranked #1 for
    symbolic imagery

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7 Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

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2022-07-14 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.547
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    unblemished
  2. Ranked #2 for
    Oscar worthy
  3. Ranked #3 for
    faithful to book

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8 Stars at Noon (2022)

In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.

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2022-10-14 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn

Rating

rating icon 5.918
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    vixen
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Multigenre
  3. Ranked #1 for
    engaging enough

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9 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

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2019-09-07 | Drama / History

Cast

Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks

Rating

rating icon 6.969
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cynical view
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humble
  3. Ranked #2 for
    cynical

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10 Close (2022)

Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi have always been close, but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates.

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2022-11-01 | Drama

Cast

Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele

Rating

rating icon 7.783
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unlikely friendship
  2. Ranked #1 for
    manhood
  3. Ranked #1 for
    elaborate

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