Top rated gradually developed movies with an emotional climax

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

1 Onward (2020)

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

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2020-02-29 | Family / Animation

Cast

Tom Holland, Chris Pratt

Rating

rating icon 7.699
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with magic moments
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wizardry directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Harry Potter

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Onward trailer
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2 The Killing of Two Lovers (2021)

David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.

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2021-02-23 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi

Rating

rating icon 6.396
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    steadyhanded directing
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shocking ending
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stretched to breaking point

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3 Tell It to the Bees (2018)

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

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2018-09-09 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bittersweet ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    happy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    close-minded

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Tell It to the Bees trailer
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4 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.059
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deathly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending

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Relic trailer
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5 Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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2021-11-18 | Fantasy / Comedy

Cast

Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard

Rating

rating icon 7.399
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for Valentine's Day
  2. Ranked #2 for
    reinvention
  3. Ranked #3 for
    throwback movie

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer
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6 The Song of Names (2019)

A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

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2019-12-25 | Drama / Music

Cast

Tim Roth, Clive Owen

Rating

rating icon 6.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    disappearing acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    prodigy
  3. Ranked #2 for
    leaving theater thinking

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The Song of Names trailer
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7 Minari (2021)

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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2021-02-12 | Drama

Cast

Steven Yeun, Han Yeri

Rating

rating icon 7.356
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    good art directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    good visual
  3. Ranked #1 for
    masterfully crafted

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8 Bones and All (2022)

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

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2022-11-18 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet

Rating

rating icon 7.076
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    pretty thin
  2. Ranked #3 for
    corporeal theme
  3. Ranked #3 for
    misshapen

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Bones and All trailer
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9 Drive My Car (2021)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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2021-08-18 | Drama

Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura

Rating

rating icon 7.42
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    patient
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #3 for
    with epiphany moments

Trailer

Drive My Car trailer
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10 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

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2021-03-08 | Animation / Action

Cast

Megumi Ogata, Yuko Miyamura

Rating

rating icon 8.249
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Mecha
  2. Ranked #2 for
    satisfying ending
  3. Ranked #2 for
    extremely satisfying

Trailer

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time trailer
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