Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also competent
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and competent movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and competent, 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 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
3 Old Henry (2021)
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
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- 2021-10-01 | Action / Western
Cast
- Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze
Rating
7.3
4 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
6.4

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5 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
6 Embattled (2020)
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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- 2020-11-20 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Stephen Dorff, Elizabeth Reaser
Rating
6.9
7 Alone (2020)
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
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- 2020-09-10 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca
Rating
6.3
8 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
9 Head Count (2019)
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.
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- 2019-06-14 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan
Rating
5.48
10 The Wretched (2020)
A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.
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- 2020-03-09 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda
Rating
6.0