Top rated imaginative and creative movies with ratcheting up tension

Check out today’s highest ranked imaginative and creative movies with ratcheting up tension! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best imaginative and creative movies with ratcheting up tension, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Vast of Night (2019)

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

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2019-06-01 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 6.556
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cranky
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  3. Ranked #2 for
    lot of talking

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2 The Prototype (2022)

A government agent stumbles upon an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. Using a blue liquid created by the aliens to make soldiers stronger, he becomes The Prototype-the only hope for mankind.

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2022-02-25 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Victoria De Mare, Theresa Tilly

Rating

rating icon 4.706
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    moment of brilliance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    entrancing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    drawn in

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3 The Lodge (2020)

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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2020-01-16 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell

Rating

rating icon 6.12
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    mentally unstable
  2. Ranked #6 for
    paranoid
  3. Ranked #6 for
    dark and disturbing

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4 The Invisible Man (2020)

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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2020-02-26 | Thriller / Science Fiction

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge

Rating

rating icon 7.117
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    futuristic society
  2. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically thrilling
  3. Ranked #3 for
    with WTF moments

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5 Block Z (2020)

A pre-med student and her friends encounter the death of a patient that exhibited symptoms of rabies. They are soon faced with an even bigger problem as their patient comes back from the dead and infects the people on campus, causing a lockdown and trapping the students inside.

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2020-01-29 | Action / Horror

Cast

Julia Barretto, Joshua Garcia

Rating

rating icon 7.667
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    copy and paste
  2. Ranked #1 for
    worth money
  3. Ranked #2 for
    great improvement

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6 Playhouse (2020)

Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?

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2020-11-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

William Holstead, Grace Courtney

Rating

rating icon 5.041
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    nubile actor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    different camera angle
  3. Ranked #1 for
    naughty boy

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7 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.056
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deathly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending
  3. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up

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8 7500 (2019)

When terrorists try to seize control of a Berlin-Paris flight, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot struggles to save the lives of the passengers and crew while forging a surprising connection with one of the hijackers.

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2019-12-26 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Omid Memar

Rating

rating icon 6.142
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brutally realistic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    extremely realistic acting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    most realistic

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9 Nightride (2022)

In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.

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2022-03-04 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    brilliant pace
  2. Ranked #3 for
    tense and suspenseful
  3. Ranked #4 for
    snoozing

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10 The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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2019-10-18 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    iconography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #1 for
    crazy

Trailer

The Lighthouse trailer
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