Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also absolutely captivating
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and absolutely captivating movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and absolutely captivating, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Freaks (2019)
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
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- 2019-09-13 | Science Fiction / Thriller
Cast
- Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern
Rating
6.787
2 The Dig (2021)
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
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- 2021-01-14 | Drama / History
Cast
- Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes
Rating
6.904
3 Cruella (2021)
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
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- 2021-05-26 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Emma Stone, Emma Thompson
Rating
8.082
4 The Outfit (2022)
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.
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- 2022-03-03 | Crime
Cast
- Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch
Rating
7.131

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5 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 / War
Cast
- Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Rating
7.6
6 Captive (2020)
A teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.
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- 2020-10-30 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- William Kircher, Tori kostic
Rating
6.9
7 Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.
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- 2020-02-19 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung
Rating
7.169
8 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
5.0
9 Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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- 2019-06-19 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori
Rating
8.02
10 Nightmare Alley (2021)
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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- 2021-12-02 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara
Rating
7.02