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

rating icon 6.265
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly fake
  2. Ranked #1 for
    upstanding character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dishonest

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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 7.701
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People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

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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

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    unaccountable
  2. Ranked #2 for
    traditional method directing
  3. Ranked #3 for
    principled

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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

rating icon 7.142
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People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

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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

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    crammed plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slightly confusing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    historical point of view

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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

rating icon 3.229
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incomplete
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humanitarian
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sympathetic light

Trailer

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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

rating icon 6.645
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Black Comedy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    supremely entertaining
  3. Ranked #2 for
    with political satire

Trailer

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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

rating icon 6.115
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    room for improvement
  2. Ranked #2 for
    historical
  3. Ranked #3 for
    accurate

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 7.313
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brutal murder
  2. Ranked #1 for
    morally dubious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    most thought-provoking

Trailer

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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

rating icon 7.076
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unplanned
  2. Ranked #3 for
    unbiased view
  3. Ranked #3 for
    rated r for a reason

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