Top rated movies with atmospheric cinematography that have a straightforward narrative

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

1 La Llorona (2019)

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    haunting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly slow
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ominous tone

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La Llorona trailer
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2 Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.

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2021-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Mayra Batalla, Norma Pablo

Rating

rating icon 7.716
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    childhood innocence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    extending beyond
  3. Ranked #1 for
    innocence of youth

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3 Sawah (2019)

On his way to a DJ Championship in Brussels, a young Egyptian is mistaken for an illegal immigrant and detained in a country he's never heard of before.

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2019-03-20 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Karim Kassem, Eric Kabongo

Rating

rating icon 8.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    snappy one-liner
  2. Ranked #2 for
    colorful cinematography
  3. Ranked #2 for
    juicy atmosphere

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Sawah trailer
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4 The Night House (2021)

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

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2021-07-15 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    gotcha
  2. Ranked #2 for
    psychologically horrifying
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Marrowbone

Trailer

The Night House trailer
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5 The Wonder (2022)

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

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2022-11-02 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy

Rating

rating icon 6.617
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    awfully slow
  2. Ranked #3 for
    minx
  3. Ranked #3 for
    rationalism

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6 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.

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2019-03-22 | Drama

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia

Rating

rating icon 7.403
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bold colors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for rumination
  3. Ranked #1 for
    master filmmaker

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Pain and Glory trailer
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7 Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)

Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.

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2020-02-28 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    original
  2. Ranked #1 for
    peripheral role
  3. Ranked #1 for
    promising start

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8 Olga (2021)

2013. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. But the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kyiv, and suddenly her loved ones are involved. While the girl is adapting to her new country and preparing for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution makes its way into her life, and nothing will ever be the same again.

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2021-11-17 | Drama

Cast

Anastasiia Budiashkina, Thea Brogli

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    atmospheric cinematography
  2. Ranked #3 for
    handsome photography
  3. Ranked #3 for
    smooth ride

Trailer

Olga trailer
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9 The Mortuary Collection (2020)

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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2020-10-08 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wrapped-around story
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unpunished character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    macabre

Trailer

The Mortuary Collection trailer
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10 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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2019-08-08 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris

Rating

rating icon 6.501
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scared to death
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with creep factors
  3. Ranked #2 for
    visual representation

Trailer

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