Top rated heroic movies that are also punishing

Check out today’s highest ranked heroic and punishing movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are heroic and punishing, 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 6.951
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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 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
    Aerial Combat

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The Outpost trailer
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3 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

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2019-08-08 | War / Action

Cast

Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey

Rating

rating icon 6.821
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    heroic acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    true representation

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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan trailer
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4 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
    sugar-coated
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most devastating
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unvarnished

Trailer

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5 Sisu (2023)

Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold but after he stumbles upon Nazi patrol, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.

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2023-01-27 | Action / War

Cast

Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie

Rating

rating icon 7.494
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indefatigable character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #2 for
    aced

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Sisu trailer
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6 Greyhound (2020)

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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2020-07-09 | War / Action

Cast

Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.409
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    shocking moment
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tense and exciting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    lean

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Greyhound trailer
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7 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
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    disturbingly realistic

Trailer

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8 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
    most riveting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    most creative
  3. Ranked #1 for
    gifted actor

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Holy Spider trailer
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9 Harriet (2019)

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

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2019-11-01 | Drama / History

Cast

Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.

Rating

rating icon 7.331
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    like a history lesson
  2. Ranked #2 for
    ingenuine directing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    characters existing in real life

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Harriet trailer
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10 VFW (2019)

A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.

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2019-09-21 | Action / Horror

Cast

Stephen Lang, Martin Kove

Rating

rating icon 5.899
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wild-eyed character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    drugged up character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    retro-style directing

Trailer

VFW trailer
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