Top rated heroic movies that are also socially relevant

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

1 Richard Jewell (2019)

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

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2019-12-13 | Drama

Cast

Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm

Rating

rating icon 7.427
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely first-rate
  2. Ranked #2 for
    reluctant hero
  3. Ranked #3 for
    innocent man

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2 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

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3 Navalny (2022)

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

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2022-04-08 | Documentary

Cast

Alexey Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tyrant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rotten to the core
  3. Ranked #1 for
    evil dictator

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4 Official Secrets (2019)

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

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2019-08-30 | Thriller / History

Cast

Keira Knightley, Matt Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shaking head in disbelief
  2. Ranked #1 for
    moral
  3. Ranked #2 for
    moral issue

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5 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
    ultimate downfall
  3. Ranked #2 for
    biblical proportion

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6 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
    reconstituting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    idealized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    national hero

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7 How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

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2023-04-07 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth

Rating

rating icon 6.486
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely exciting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    well-executed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cast of unknown actors

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8 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
    directing with visual trickery

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9 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

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10 MLK/FBI (2020)

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Info

2020-09-15 | Documentary

Cast

Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    whole shebang
  2. Ranked #1 for
    estimable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stylistic touch

Trailer

MLK/FBI trailer
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