Top rated melodramatic movies that are also more sophisticated

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

1 Parallel Mothers (2021)

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Info

2021-10-08 | Drama

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit

Rating

rating icon 6.831
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    parallel story
  2. Ranked #1 for
    melodramatic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sensational

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2 Rebecca (2020)

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

Info

2020-10-16 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Lily James, Armie Hammer

Rating

rating icon 6.31
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gothic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dashing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    lavish production

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3 Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.

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2022-07-14 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith

Rating

rating icon 7.549
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    unblemished
  2. Ranked #2 for
    Oscar worthy
  3. Ranked #3 for
    faithful to book

Trailer

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4 Meander (2021)

After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

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2021-07-01 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén

Rating

rating icon 5.993
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    purgatory
  2. Ranked #2 for
    crawling along
  3. Ranked #2 for
    claustrophobic atmosphere

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5 Spencer (2021)

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

Info

2021-11-04 | Drama / History

Cast

Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing

Rating

rating icon 6.821
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    clipped voice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    vocal inflection
  3. Ranked #2 for
    sympathetic portrayal

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6 Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Info

2020-11-09 | Drama

Cast

Gabriel Basso, Amy Adams

Rating

rating icon 6.72
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    white trash
  2. Ranked #2 for
    hillbilly
  3. Ranked #3 for
    Oscar bait

Trailer

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7 Proxima (2019)

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

Info

2019-11-27 | Drama

Cast

Eva Green, Matt Dillon

Rating

rating icon 6.31
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    masterfully executed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    realist
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sensitively handled

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8 Sylvie's Love (2020)

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

Info

2020-01-27 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha

Rating

rating icon 6.319
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    vintage
  2. Ranked #1 for
    golden oldie
  3. Ranked #1 for
    demanding

Trailer

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9 Pain and Glory (2019)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Info

2019-03-22 | Drama

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    master filmmaker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bold colors
  3. Ranked #1 for
    famed director

Trailer

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10 The Whale (2022)

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Info

2022-12-09 | Drama

Cast

Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink

Rating

rating icon 7.851
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unhealthy character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    regretful character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    tour de force

Trailer

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