Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also realistic
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and realistic movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and realistic, 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 Blue Ruin (2013)
When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
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- 2013-09-09 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Macon Blair, Devin Ratray
Rating
6.8
2 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
6.3
3 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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- 1999-07-14 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams
Rating
6.3
4 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
5 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
7.8
6 28 Weeks Later (2007)
The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
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- 2007-04-26 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne
Rating
6.6
7 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
8 Super 8 (2011)
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
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- 2011-06-08 | Thriller / Science Fiction
Cast
- Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning
Rating
6.7
9 Apollo 18 (2011)
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
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- 2011-07-20 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Ryan Robbins, Warren Christie
Rating
5.2
10 Calibre (2018)
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
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- 2018-06-22 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Jack Lowden, Martin McCann
Rating
6.5