Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also academy award deserving
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and academy award deserving movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and academy award deserving, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Feb 22 2021
1 Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflict
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- 2005-09-10 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
Rating
7.8
2 Capote (2005)
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
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- 2005-09-30 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener
Rating
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7.0
3 Gone Girl (2014)
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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- 2014-10-01 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck
Rating
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7.9
4 Sideways (2004)
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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- 2004-10-22 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
Rating
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7.1
5 Lost in Translation (2003)
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
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- 2003-09-18 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson
Rating
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7.4
6 Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
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- 2007-12-21 | Drama
Cast
- Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan
Rating
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8.0
7 The Reader (2008)
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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- 2008-01-02 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
Rating
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7.4
8 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
9 House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
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- 2003-12-19 | Drama
Cast
- Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley
Rating
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7.1
10 Moonlight (2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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- 2016-10-21 | Drama
Cast
- Trevante Rhodes, André Holland
Rating
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7.4
