Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also fair and balanced
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and fair and balanced movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and fair and balanced, 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 United 93 (2006)
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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- 2006-04-28 | Drama / History
Cast
- J.J. Johnson, Polly Adams
Rating
7.1
2 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
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7.8
3 The Da Vinci Code (2006)
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
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- 2006-05-17 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou
Rating
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6.7
4 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
5 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
6 Super Size Me (2004)
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
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- 2004-01-17 | Documentary / Comedy
Cast
- Morgan Spurlock, Daryl Isaacs
Rating
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6.7
7 The Man from Earth (2007)
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
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- 2007-06-10 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- David Lee Smith, Tony Todd
Rating
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7.7
8 Food, Inc. (2008)
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.
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- 2008-09-07 | Documentary
Cast
- Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser
Rating
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7.3
9 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
10 The Departed (2006)
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
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- 2006-10-05 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio
Rating
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8.2
