Top rated movies with evocative cinematography that have a compelling narrative

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

1 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 7.406
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    famed director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    master filmmaker
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for rumination

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2 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 6.458
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    big boost to director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    amalgamate
  3. Ranked #1 for
    haunting

Trailer

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3 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 6.747
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    neat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    nice
  3. Ranked #1 for
    Slasher Film

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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 6.618
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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5 True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

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2019-11-23 | Crime / Drama

Cast

George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    beaten
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clean-shaven
  3. Ranked #1 for
    well-groomed

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6 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 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    catching attention
  2. Ranked #1 for
    childhood innocence
  3. Ranked #1 for
    extending beyond

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7 The Medium (2021)

A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

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2021-07-14 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    raving lunatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hooked start
  3. Ranked #1 for
    thrilling climax

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8 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 6.61
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    awfully slow
  2. Ranked #3 for
    innocent girl
  3. Ranked #3 for
    minx

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9 Gretel & Hansel (2020)

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

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2020-01-30 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey

Rating

rating icon 5.976
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    visually rich
  2. Ranked #2 for
    grim atmosphere
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Alice in Wonderland

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10 V/H/S/94 (2021)

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

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2021-09-26 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Anna Hopkins, Kyal Legend

Rating

rating icon 6.221
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    great shakes
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wrapped-around story
  3. Ranked #2 for
    pretty cool

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