Top rated incredibly brave movies that are also brilliantly understated

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

1 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 7.242
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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
    moderately entertaining

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2 She Said (2022)

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

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2022-11-17 | Drama / History

Cast

Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan

Rating

rating icon 7.253
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heartfelt drama
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crusading
  3. Ranked #1 for
    intrepid

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3 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

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2022-06-16 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack

Rating

rating icon 6.938
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    intimate
  2. Ranked #1 for
    studly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    orgasmic

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4 Thirteen Lives (2022)

Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.

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2022-07-18 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    stellar
  2. Ranked #1 for
    on tenterhooks
  3. Ranked #2 for
    dramatized

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5 Honey Boy (2019)

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

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2019-09-28 | Drama

Cast

Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wonderfully constructed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cathartic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    Oscar worthy

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6 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 6.819
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    heroic acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gung-ho

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7 There Is No Evil (2020)

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.

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2020-10-22 | Drama

Cast

Mahtab Servati, Shaghayegh Shourian

Rating

rating icon 7.484
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    true work of art
  2. Ranked #2 for
    loosely connected plot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    huge compliment

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8 Elisa & Marcela (2019)

In 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga adopts a male identity in order to marry the woman she loves, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.

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2019-05-24 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández

Rating

rating icon 7.32
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    madly in love
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cinematic art
  3. Ranked #1 for
    total package

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9 The Woman King (2022)

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

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2022-09-16 | Action / Drama

Cast

Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu

Rating

rating icon 7.674
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    accurate
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fierce
  3. Ranked #2 for
    historically accurate

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10 The Shadow in My Eye (2021)

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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2021-10-28 | War / Drama

Cast

Bertram Bisgaard Enevoldsen, Ester Birch

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    extraordinarily well-done
  2. Ranked #1 for
    undeniably talented cast
  3. Ranked #1 for
    tragic

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