Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also fully engaging
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1 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
2 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
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 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

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5 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
6 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
7 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
8 Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.
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- 2020-02-19 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung
Rating
7.169
9 Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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- 2019-06-19 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori
Rating
8.015
10 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