Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also more challenging
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and more challenging movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and more challenging, 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 Captain Fantastic (2016)
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
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- 2016-07-02 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Viggo Mortensen, Samantha Isler
Rating
8.0
2 Into the Wild (2007)
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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- 2007-09-11 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden
Rating
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7.8
3 Signs (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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- 2002-08-02 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
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6.6
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4 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
5 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
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7.9
6 8MM (1999)
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
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- 1999-02-26 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
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6.3
7 Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
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- 1988-12-23 | Horror
Cast
- Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins
Rating
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6.4
8 The Village (2004)
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
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- 2004-07-30 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
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6.4
9 Spanglish (2004)
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
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- 2004-12-17 | Comedy
Cast
- Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni
Rating
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5.9
10 Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called 'Underland,' she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason – to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.
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- 2010-03-03 | Family / Fantasy
Cast
- Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway
Rating
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6.6
