Top rated heroic movies that are also brutally honest

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

1 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 6.968
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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2 Marighella (2021)

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

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2021-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso

Rating

rating icon 7.642
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    national hero
  2. Ranked #1 for
    idealized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    reconstituting

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Marighella trailer
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3 For Sama (2019)

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

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2019-07-26 | Documentary / War

Cast

Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab

Rating

rating icon 8.258
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    most devastating
  2. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly difficult
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sitting front-row

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For Sama trailer
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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 7.733
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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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All Quiet on the Western Front trailer
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5 Fire (2020)

Fires are raging in the Moscow region, and the forest protection airbase is on a rotation. However, experienced firefighters are in short supply and team leader Andrey Pavlovich has to take on a new recruit, Roman.

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2020-12-24 | Action / Drama

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy, Andrey Smolyakov

Rating

rating icon 8.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heroic acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gallant
  3. Ranked #2 for
    leaving imprint

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6 Mr. Jones (2019)

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

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2019-10-03 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

James Norton, Vanessa Kirby

Rating

rating icon 6.755
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ultimate downfall
  3. Ranked #2 for
    biblical proportion

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Mr. Jones trailer
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7 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 7.138
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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Queen & Slim trailer
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8 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.876
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    realistic portrayal

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The Outpost trailer
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9 Holy Spider (2022)

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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2022-07-13 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani

Rating

rating icon 7.296
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    most thought-provoking
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gifted actor
  3. Ranked #1 for
    morally dubious

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Holy Spider trailer
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10 She Said (2022)

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

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2022-11-17 | Drama / History

Cast

Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan

Rating

rating icon 7.265
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    crusading
  2. Ranked #1 for
    intrepid
  3. Ranked #1 for
    heartfelt drama

Trailer

She Said trailer
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