Top rated eerily effective movies on Criterion Channel

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

1 Neptune Frost (2022)

In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

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2022-06-03 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse

Rating

rating icon 6.522
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    ambient
  2. Ranked #3 for
    oneiric
  3. Ranked #4 for
    cinematic spectacle

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2 After Yang (2022)

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

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2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith

Rating

rating icon 6.424
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    peaceful
  2. Ranked #1 for
    posing questions
  3. Ranked #1 for
    mellow

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3 The Blair Witch Project (1999)

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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1999-07-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Rei Hance, Michael C. Williams

Rating

rating icon 6.332
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #76 for
    bloodcurdling
  3. Ranked #102 for
    jittery

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4 Waltz with Bashir (2008)

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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2008-06-12 | Drama / Animation

Cast

Ari Folman, Mickey Leon

Rating

rating icon 7.711
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #76 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #137 for
    Aerial Combat
  3. Ranked #169 for
    snarling character

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5 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

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2021-04-11 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima

Rating

rating icon 7.13
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    as a topic of discussion
  2. Ranked #1 for
    vignette narrative
  3. Ranked #2 for
    triangular plot

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6 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

In the 19th century, Dracula travels to London and meets Mina, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.

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1992-11-13 | Romance / Horror

Cast

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder

Rating

rating icon 7.456
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    like Pride & Prejudice
  2. Ranked #115 for
    with cockney accent
  3. Ranked #140 for
    lovecraftian

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7 Animal Kingdom (2010)

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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2010-06-03 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton

Rating

rating icon 6.782
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #79 for
    showing underbelly
  2. Ranked #114 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #124 for
    like Scarface

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8 Dark City (1998)

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

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1998-02-27 | Mystery / Science Fiction

Cast

Rufus Sewell, William Hurt

Rating

rating icon 7.325
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #109 for
    hardboiled style
  3. Ranked #118 for
    noir atmosphere

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9 Hunger (2008)

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

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2008-05-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.248
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #25 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #137 for
    characters existing in real life

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10 Zigeunerweisen (1980)

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

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1980-04-01 | Mystery / Drama

Cast

Toshiya Fujita, Naoko Ôtani

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #195 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #202 for
    sane character

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