Top rated movies with compelling directing that have a nail biting moments

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with compelling directing and a nail biting moments! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with compelling directing and a nail biting moments, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Eye for an Eye (2019)

Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.

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2019-08-30 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Luis Tosar, María Vázquez

Rating

rating icon 6.686
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    implacable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    act of revenge
  3. Ranked #2 for
    suffering wife

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2 The Black Phone (2022)

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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2022-06-22 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bone chilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #3 for
    absolutely terrifying

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3 The Operative (2019)

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

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2019-07-24 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    inconclusive ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pat ending
  3. Ranked #2 for
    with tense moments

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4 Master (2022)

At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.

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2022-03-18 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Regina Hall, Zoe Renee

Rating

rating icon 5.338
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    enormously talented
  2. Ranked #1 for
    less than satisfying
  3. Ranked #1 for
    firm

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5 Breaking (2022)

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

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2022-08-25 | Crime / Drama

Cast

John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams

Rating

rating icon 6.63
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    gasping for breath
  2. Ranked #2 for
    hitting on all cylinders
  3. Ranked #2 for
    outstanding performance

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6 Nope (2022)

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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2022-07-20 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer

Rating

rating icon 6.877
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    cinematic spectacle
  2. Ranked #5 for
    otherworldly
  3. Ranked #5 for
    tangential

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7 Werewolves Within (2021)

When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.

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2021-06-25 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub

Rating

rating icon 6.035
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    entertaining romp
  2. Ranked #4 for
    fun romp
  3. Ranked #4 for
    kind of suck

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8 Son (2021)

When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.

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2021-03-18 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch

Rating

rating icon 6.002
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unspeakable act
  2. Ranked #2 for
    kind of suck
  3. Ranked #2 for
    undemanding mood

Trailer

Son trailer
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9 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 7.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    on tenterhooks
  2. Ranked #2 for
    gripping start
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stellar

Trailer

Thirteen Lives trailer
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10 Night in Paradise (2020)

An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.

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2020-09-03 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Um Tae-goo, Jeon Yeo-been

Rating

rating icon 6.921
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    violent acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    academy award deserving
  3. Ranked #1 for
    violent

Trailer

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