Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also high-powered
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and high-powered movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and high-powered, 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 Gone Girl (2014)
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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- 2014-10-01 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck
Rating
7.9
2 The Gift (2015)
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
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- 2015-07-30 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall
Rating
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6.7
3 Arbitrage (2012)
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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- 2012-09-14 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon
Rating
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6.3
4 The Town (2010)
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
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- 2010-09-15 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall
Rating
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7.2
5 Chef (2014)
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.
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- 2014-05-08 | Comedy
Cast
- Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara
Rating
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7.1
6 The Edukators (2004)
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
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- 2004-10-25 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch
Rating
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7.2
7 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
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- 2014-03-20 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson
Rating
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7.7
8 The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
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- 1999-11-17 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau
Rating
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6.2
9 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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- 2015-12-15 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill
Rating
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7.4
10 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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- 2006-07-06 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom
Rating
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7.3
