Top rated heroic movies that are also controversial
Check out today’s highest ranked heroic and controversial movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are heroic and controversial, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Amira (2021)
Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His absence in her life is overcompensated with love and affection from those surrounding her. But when a failed attempt to conceive another child reveals Nawar's infertility, Amira's world turns upside down.
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- 2021-10-19 | Drama
Cast
- Tara Abboud, Saba Mubarak
Rating
- 6.265
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
- 7.701
3 The Report (2019)
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
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- 2019-09-12 | Drama
Cast
- Adam Driver, Annette Bening
Rating
- 7.0
4 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
- 7.142
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5 Wasp Network (2020)
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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- 2020-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez
Rating
- 6.1
6 Fauci (2021)
Exclusive access into the career and life of the public servant who has advised seven U.S. presidents beginning with the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and through SARS, Ebola and COVID-19.
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- 2021-09-10 | Documentary
Cast
- Anthony Fauci, Christine Grady
Rating
- 3.229
7 The Hunt (2020)
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
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- 2020-03-11 | Action / Thriller
Cast
- Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank
Rating
- 6.645
8 The East (2021)
A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
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- 2021-08-13 | War / Drama
Cast
- Martijn Lakemeier, Marwan Kenzari
Rating
- 6.115
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
- 7.313
10 Unplanned (2019)
As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices. Her passion surrounding a woman's right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.
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- 2019-03-21 | Drama / Horror
Cast
- Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan
Rating
- 7.076