Top rated tough-minded movies with an artistic approach

Check out today’s highest ranked tough-minded movies with an artistic approach! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best tough-minded movies with an artistic approach, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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 5.954
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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2 First Cow (2019)

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.

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2019-08-30 | Drama / Western

Cast

John Magaro, Orion Lee

Rating

rating icon 7.095
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    careful
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deliberately slow
  3. Ranked #1 for
    leisurely

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3 Josep (2020)

February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.

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2020-09-30 | Animation / Drama

Cast

Sergi López, Alba Pujol

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    somewhat limited acting
  2. Ranked #1 for
    precise directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dour subject

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4 Chess Story (2021)

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

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2021-09-23 | History / Drama

Cast

Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.086
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fruitful
  2. Ranked #2 for
    artistic approach
  3. Ranked #3 for
    most accomplished

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5 Money Fight (2021)

A group of friends decides to escape their mundane life by documenting their lives as they search for an underground fight club within in the dark web. They put everything on the line for money, respect, and friendship. But when is the point of no return? And will they find their silver lining?

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2021-02-27 | Thriller / Action

Cast

James Boss, Ryu Abel

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sprawling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    hooked
  3. Ranked #2 for
    never backing down

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6 Nomadland (2021)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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2021-01-29 | Drama

Cast

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Rating

rating icon 7.215
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rootless character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shortlisted
  3. Ranked #2 for
    overrated

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7 Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

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2019-09-06 | Drama / History

Cast

Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp

Rating

rating icon 5.928
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    inhumane character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    distinctive directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    disciplinarian

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8 Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

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2020-03-13 | Drama

Cast

Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder

Rating

rating icon 7.144
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    humane
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ample support
  3. Ranked #2 for
    truthful

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9 Radioactive (2020)

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

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2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley

Rating

rating icon 6.614
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scientific genius
  2. Ranked #1 for
    quick shot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    most profound

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10 The Truth (2019)

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

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2019-10-10 | Drama

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche

Rating

rating icon 6.015
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    true professional
  2. Ranked #1 for
    director with natural ability
  3. Ranked #1 for
    rhythmic continuity of character development

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