Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also academic
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and academic movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and academic, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
2 Emily the Criminal (2022)
Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
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- 2022-08-12 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi
Rating
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6.84
3 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
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- 2022-08-24 | Fantasy
Cast
- Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba
Rating
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7.0
4 A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
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- 2019-07-26 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning
Rating
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6.5
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5 Rust Creek (2019)
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
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- 2019-01-04 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson
Rating
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6.4
6 The Tender Bar (2021)
J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
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- 2021-12-17 | Drama
Cast
- Tye Sheridan, Ben Affleck
Rating
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6.6
7 Riders of Justice (2020)
Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
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- 2020-11-19 | Action / Comedy
Cast
- Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Rating
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7.282
8 I'm Your Man (2021)
Alma is a scientist at Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in human form, created to make her happy.
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- 2021-07-01 | Science Fiction / Comedy
Cast
- Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens
Rating
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6.895
9 Parasite (2019)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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- 2019-05-30 | Comedy / Thriller
Cast
- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun
Rating
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8.5
10 Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
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- 2020-10-15 | Thriller
Cast
- Judi Dench, James D'Arcy
Rating
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6.4
