Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also aimed for adults
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and aimed for adults movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and aimed for adults, 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 Mar 01 2021
1 Knocked Up (2007)
For fun loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant.
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- 2007-06-01 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl
Rating
6.2
2 Atonement (2007)
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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- 2007-09-07 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Keira Knightley, James McAvoy
Rating
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7.6
3 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
4 Frailty (2001)
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed 'demons'.
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- 2001-11-17 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey
Rating
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7.0
5 Election (1999)
Jim McAllister, a well-liked high school government teacher, can't help but notice that successful student Tracy Flick uses less than ethical tactics to get what she wants. When Tracy runs for school president, Jim feels that she will be a poor influence on the student body and convinces Paul, a dim-witted but popular student athlete, to run against Tracy. When she becomes aware of Jim's secret involvement in the race, a bitter feud is sparked.
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- 1999-04-23 | Comedy
Cast
- Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon
Rating
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6.8
6 Young Adult (2011)
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
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- 2011-12-09 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt
Rating
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5.7
7 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
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- 2006-08-25 | Fantasy / Drama
Cast
- Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verdú
Rating
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7.7
8 8MM (1999)
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
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- 1999-02-26 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
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6.3
9 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
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- 2008-05-12 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla
Rating
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7.7
10 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
