Top rated superbly crafted movies with oppressive atmosphere

Check out today’s highest ranked superbly crafted movies with oppressive atmosphere! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best superbly crafted movies with oppressive atmosphere, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 God's Crooked Lines (2022)

Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

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2022-10-06 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández

Rating

rating icon 7.344
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    messing with head
  2. Ranked #1 for
    mentally disturbed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sane character

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2 Watcher (2022)

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

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2022-06-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman

Rating

rating icon 6.483
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sense of isolation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    feeling of isolation
  3. Ranked #2 for
    fearing the dark

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3 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 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    attention grabbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    utterly absorbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    credible performance

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4 The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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2019-10-18 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.509
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely insane
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #1 for
    crazy

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5 The Lodge (2020)

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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2020-01-16 | Horror

Cast

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell

Rating

rating icon 6.119
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5 for
    mentally unstable
  2. Ranked #6 for
    spine-tingling
  3. Ranked #7 for
    very slow moving

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6 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.606
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bated breath
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fanaticism
  3. Ranked #1 for
    paranoid

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7 The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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2020-10-29 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr.

Rating

rating icon 6.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    oppressive atmosphere
  2. Ranked #1 for
    skin crawling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nightmares for a week

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8 Run (2020)

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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2020-11-20 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen

Rating

rating icon 7.261
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incredibly tense atmosphere
  2. Ranked #1 for
    nail-biting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    suspenseful

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9 The Vast of Night (2019)

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

Info

2019-06-01 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 6.55
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cranky
  3. Ranked #2 for
    deeply focused

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10 The Night (2021)

An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.

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2021-04-29 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor

Rating

rating icon 5.641
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    intense role
  2. Ranked #1 for
    professional
  3. Ranked #1 for
    fascinating character

Trailer

The Night trailer
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