Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also spell-binding
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and spell-binding movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and spell-binding, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
2 Cruella (2021)
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
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- 2021-05-26 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Emma Stone, Emma Thompson
Rating
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8.083
3 Summerland (2020)
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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- 2020-07-24 | Drama / War
Cast
- Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Rating
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7.6
4 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
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7.1
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5 Lapwing (2021)
Mute young woman Patience, from an isolated community in rural England in 1555, struggles with her controlling brother-in-law and leader, David, who is gradually unraveling after the failure of his idyllic community. The Egyptian Act has been passed, stipulating that all ‘gypsies’ must vacate England immediately and anyone found aiding them could be executed. In exchange for a fee, David agrees to help an Egyptian family who must stay a month on their land until a ship comes to take them away. But when Patience pursues an affair with one of the outsiders, she is thrust into a violent and vicious psychological battle with David.
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- 2021-11-26 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Hannah Douglas, Emmett Scanlan
Rating
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6.5
6 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
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8.015
7 Archive (2020)
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
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- 2020-08-13 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Theo James, Stacy Martin
Rating
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6.2
8 Nightmare Alley (2021)
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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- 2021-12-02 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara
Rating
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7.02
9 Old Henry (2021)
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
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- 2021-10-01 | Action / Western
Cast
- Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze
Rating
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7.3
10 Five Feet Apart (2019)
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.
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- 2019-03-14 | Romance / Drama
Cast
- Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse
Rating
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8.3
