Top rated movies with competent acting that have a serious undertone

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

1 Summerland (2020)

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

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2020-07-24 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    prettiest actress
  2. Ranked #1 for
    serious undertone
  3. Ranked #1 for
    wholesome

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2 An American Pickle (2020)

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

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2020-07-26 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook

Rating

rating icon 5.67
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    quite amusing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with light-hearted moments
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with humorous moments

Trailer

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3 Cicada Song (2019)

Karen is a tough, corn fed, outspoken, farm manager who cares about the people she works for and the migrant people who work for her. When one of her farmhands approaches her about a little girl that has recently disappeared, she becomes closer to her employees than she ever thought possible. But, when her lover, Annabelle, disappears, the bubble Karen lives in bursts and she begins an investigation only to uncover something dark in the little town she grew up in.

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2019-09-27 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Lyndsey Lantz, Jenny Mesa

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    contemporary issue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    completely absorbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    socially relevant

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4 Stockholm (2019)

Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

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2019-04-12 | Crime / Comedy

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace

Rating

rating icon 5.857
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with dramatic moments
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humorous
  3. Ranked #1 for
    surprisingly sympathetic

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5 Jojo Rabbit (2019)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

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2019-10-18 | Comedy / War

Cast

Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie

Rating

rating icon 8.026
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    comical
  2. Ranked #1 for
    serious drama
  3. Ranked #1 for
    semi-serious

Trailer

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6 Another Round (2020)

Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.

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2020-09-24 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen

Rating

rating icon 7.644
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    binge worthy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    mopey
  3. Ranked #2 for
    euphoric character

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7 Tune in for Love (2019)

During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.

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2019-08-28 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kim Go-eun, Jung Hae-in

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    strange twist
  2. Ranked #2 for
    bit lacking
  3. Ranked #3 for
    competent acting

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8 Two Ways Home (2020)

Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.

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2020-12-29 | Drama

Cast

Tanna Frederick, Tom Bower

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    awkward conversation
  2. Ranked #2 for
    most poignant
  3. Ranked #4 for
    most affecting

Trailer

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9 Maysville (2021)

In 1929 Appalachia, where people play by their own rules, 13-year-old Teddy Rogers is forced to pay a penance for a terrible accident. He is soon hunted and haunted by his past.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Kevin R. James, Brian Sutherland

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gorgeous cinematography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    impelling and reinforcing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    perfectly crafted

Trailer

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10 12 Hour Shift (2020)

It's 1999 and over the course of one 12-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their collective demise.

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2020-10-02 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Angela Bettis, David Arquette

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    comic tone
  2. Ranked #1 for
    darkly funny
  3. Ranked #1 for
    little serious atmosphere

Trailer

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