Top rated movies with an educated character that have a reluctant hero

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an educated character featuring a reluctant hero! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an educated character featuring a reluctant hero, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Harriet (2019)

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

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2019-11-01 | Drama / History

Cast

Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.

Rating

rating icon 7.343
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    characters existing in real life
  2. Ranked #2 for
    accurate
  3. Ranked #2 for
    ingenuine directing

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2 Fukushima 50 (2020)

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

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2020-03-06 | History / Drama

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Koichi Sato

Rating

rating icon 6.39
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    emote acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    overacting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    white knight

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3 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
    playing to perfection

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4 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 7.624
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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5 The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.

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2020-03-06 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki

Rating

rating icon 5.57
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tough-minded
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gaslighting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    overemphasizing

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6 The Banker (2020)

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

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2020-03-06 | Drama

Cast

Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson

Rating

rating icon 7.644
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    experienced actor
  2. Ranked #2 for
    well put together
  3. Ranked #2 for
    very well constructed

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7 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 6.753
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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
    idealism

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8 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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2019-02-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Rating

rating icon 7.914
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ingenuine directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    truer
  3. Ranked #2 for
    humbling

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9 A Call to Spy (2020)

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.

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2020-10-02 | History / Crime

Cast

Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic

Rating

rating icon 6.845
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ballsy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly brave
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with crowning moments

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10 Wasp Network (2020)

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

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2020-01-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez

Rating

rating icon 6.049
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    crammed plot
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slightly confusing
  3. Ranked #3 for
    historical point of view

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