Top rated heroic movies that are also harsh

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

1 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 8.248
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sitting front-row
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sugar-coated
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unvarnished

Trailer

For Sama trailer
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2 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
    brave character

Trailer

The Outpost trailer
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3 A Hidden Life (2019)

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

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2019-12-11 | Drama / War

Cast

August Diehl, Valerie Pachner

Rating

rating icon 7.131
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ultimate sacrifice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lush green scenery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    transcendent

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A Hidden Life trailer
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4 Never Grow Old (2019)

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

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2019-03-15 | Western

Cast

Emile Hirsch, John Cusack

Rating

rating icon 6.025
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bleak
  3. Ranked #1 for
    grim and gritty

Trailer

Never Grow Old trailer
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5 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 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    visceral
  2. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    remarkable

Trailer

All Quiet on the Western Front trailer
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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 6.737
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    sharply contrasting imagery
  3. Ranked #2 for
    idealism

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Mr. Jones trailer
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7 Against the Ice (2022)

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

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2022-02-10 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole

Rating

rating icon 6.758
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unfriendly character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hostile
  3. Ranked #1 for
    glacial pace

Trailer

Against the Ice trailer
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8 True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

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2019-11-23 | Crime / Drama

Cast

George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult

Rating

rating icon 5.938
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    beaten
  2. Ranked #1 for
    well-groomed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    clean-shaven

Trailer

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9 The Rising Hawk (2019)

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders.

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2019-10-10 | Action / History

Cast

Alex MacNicoll, Poppy Drayton

Rating

rating icon 5.946
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    tactful
  2. Ranked #2 for
    what the heck
  3. Ranked #2 for
    overactive

Trailer

The Rising Hawk trailer
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10 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
    upstanding character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    honorable character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    martyred character

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