Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also engaging
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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 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
3 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 / Drama
Cast
- Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch
Rating
7.1
4 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

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5 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
6 Skipping Stones (2021)
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
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- 2021-11-02 | Drama
Cast
- Nathaniel Ansbach, Gabrielle Kalomiris
Rating
7.2
7 Kajillionaire (2020)
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
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- 2020-09-25 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger
Rating
6.327
8 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
9 The Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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- 2019-07-12 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen
Rating
7.453
10 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