Top rated slow and steady movies that are also punishing

Check out today’s highest ranked slow and steady and punishing movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are slow and steady and punishing, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 A White, White Day (2019)

In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

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2019-07-25 | Drama

Cast

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ably portrayed
  2. Ranked #1 for
    consoling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deceptively simple

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2 Limbo (2021)

Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...

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2021-11-18 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Gordon Lam, Liu Yase

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gritty
  2. Ranked #1 for
    seedy underbelly
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nihilistic

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3 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 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

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4 The Stranger (2022)

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

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2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris

Rating

rating icon 6.168
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark mood
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lugubrious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    attention grabbing

Trailer

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5 Final Voyage (2021)

Adem and Novak, two very different young men, escape from a desolate planet in a small, old spaceship in search of a new home in space.

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2021-08-05 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Torben Föllmer, Milan Pešl

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    maverick director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    octave voice
  3. Ranked #1 for
    darkening

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6 Coming Home in the Dark (2021)

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

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2021-08-12 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson

Rating

rating icon 5.696
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    interesting dynamic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    creating tension
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unjustifiable character

Trailer

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7 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
    unearthly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ominous tone
  3. Ranked #1 for
    big boost to director

Trailer

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8 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    epic battle sequence

Trailer

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9 Let Him Go (2020)

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

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2020-11-05 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Diane Lane, Kevin Costner

Rating

rating icon 6.824
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    question authority
  2. Ranked #1 for
    control freak
  3. Ranked #1 for
    wacko

Trailer

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10 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 6.7
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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

Trailer

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