Top rated heart-pounding movies with a different take

Check out today’s highest ranked heart-pounding movies with a different take! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best heart-pounding movies with a different take, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Invisible Man (2020)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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2020-02-26 | Thriller / Science Fiction

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge

Rating

rating icon 7.117
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    futuristic society
  2. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically thrilling
  3. Ranked #3 for
    domineering character

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2 His House (2020)

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

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2020-01-27 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku

Rating

rating icon 6.42
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fresh spin
  2. Ranked #1 for
    effectively scary
  3. Ranked #2 for
    few jump scares

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3 #Alive (2020)

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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2020-06-24 | Horror / Action

Cast

Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hye

Rating

rating icon 7.269
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    fairly easy
  2. Ranked #3 for
    saturated imagery
  3. Ranked #4 for
    Apocalypse Film

Trailer

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4 Nope (2022)

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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2022-07-20 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer

Rating

rating icon 6.877
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    cinematic spectacle
  2. Ranked #5 for
    tangential
  3. Ranked #5 for
    helium voice

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5 Bad Hair (2021)

In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.

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2021-05-05 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah

Rating

rating icon 5.848
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    textured
  2. Ranked #1 for
    commanding attention
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ingenue

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6 100 Days to Live (2019)

When a serial killer abducts a young woman’s fiancé, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer, and more importantly – his motive.

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2019-10-17 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Colin Egglesfield, Gideon Emery

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    snappy pace
  2. Ranked #1 for
    kind of dumb
  3. Ranked #2 for
    plenty of twist

Trailer

100 Days to Live trailer
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7 The Birdcatcher (2019)

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

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2019-03-08 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Arthur Hakalahti

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unique spin
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fresh idea
  3. Ranked #1 for
    wholly unbelievable

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8 Fresh (2022)

Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.

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2022-03-03 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan

Rating

rating icon 7.001
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fresh
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dated
  3. Ranked #2 for
    feeling queasy

Trailer

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9 The Old Ways (2020)

Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.

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2020-10-16 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés

Rating

rating icon 6.825
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ending on positive note
  2. Ranked #2 for
    skipping a beat
  3. Ranked #3 for
    entry in genre

Trailer

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10 Spiral (2019)

A same-sex couple move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighbourhood. And when Malik sees the folks next door throwing a very strange party, something very shocking has got to give.

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2019-07-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slick
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bit hokey
  3. Ranked #1 for
    late in game

Trailer

Spiral trailer
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