Top rated most defining movies with a gripping ending

Check out today’s highest ranked most defining movies with a gripping ending! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best most defining movies with a gripping ending, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Fanny: The Right to Rock (2021)

The untold story of a Filipina American founded, California garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, the first all female band to release an LP with a major label. Adored by David Bowie, the band's groundbreaking impact in music has been lost in the mists of time... until now. Fifty years later, bandmates reunite with a new record deal and a second chance to right the wrongs of history.

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2021-04-29 | Documentary / Music

Cast

June Millington, Jean Millington

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    most defining
  2. Ranked #5 for
    perfect antidote
  3. Ranked #6 for
    showy acting

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2 Working Man (2019)

When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can't reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Iola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter Brewer in order to revive the defunct factory.

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2019-02-02 | Drama

Cast

Peter Gerety, Billy Brown

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    personal experience
  2. Ranked #3 for
    blue-collar
  3. Ranked #3 for
    disproportionate

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3 The Velvet Underground (2021)

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

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2021-10-15 | Documentary / Music

Cast

Lou Reed, John Cale

Rating

rating icon 6.852
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    painting vivid picture
  2. Ranked #2 for
    cast with unique characteristics
  3. Ranked #3 for
    cross-cut editing

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4 David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019)

You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, Crosby shares his often challenging journey.

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2019-07-19 | Documentary / Music

Cast

David Crosby, Jan Dance

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    Rockumentary
  2. Ranked #2 for
    beautifully illustrated
  3. Ranked #2 for
    still resonating

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5 Rocketman (2019)

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

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2019-05-17 | Music / Drama

Cast

Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell

Rating

rating icon 7.324
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    flamboyant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with the best music
  3. Ranked #1 for
    musically talented actor

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6 Argentina, 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

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2022-09-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani

Rating

rating icon 7.918
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for historical research
  2. Ranked #1 for
    practically flawless
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nearly perfect

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7 Joker (2019)

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

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2019-10-01 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro

Rating

rating icon 8.163
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mentally unstable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    great acting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    evil genius

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8 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 6.82
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    honest portrayal
  3. Ranked #2 for
    chivalry

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9 The Forgotten Battle (2021)

November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from Zeeland connected to the resistance against her will, are forced to make crucial choices that impact both their own freedom and the freedom of others.

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2021-06-05 | War / History

Cast

Gijs Blom, Jamie Flatters

Rating

rating icon 7.109
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    epic battle sequence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    high-quality directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    very well executed

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10 Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2020)

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

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2020-02-21 | History / Music

Cast

Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with anecdotal evidence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    untarnished character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    lost innocence

Trailer

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