Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also tough and gritty
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and tough and gritty movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and tough and gritty, 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 Mar 08 2021
1 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
2 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
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6.8
3 The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her extraordinary odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter (John Cusack). A brilliant, moving tapestry, woven of courage and perseverance.
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- 1985-09-25 | Adventure
Cast
- Meredith Salenger, John Cusack
Rating
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7.1
4 Buffalo '66 (1998)
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
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- 1998-01-20 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci
Rating
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7.2
5 Rag Doll (2020)
Nora is that girl: the one who works overtime, helps out her family by all means, and leaves little for herself. She can’t even fathom a love interest. With her one free hour a day, she takes out life’s hardships at the local mixed martial arts gym, but what happens when that comfort in violence extends outside of the gym?
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- 2020-02-25 | Drama
Cast
- Shannon Murray, Stephanie Erb
Rating
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6.5
6 Warrior (2011)
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
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- 2011-09-09 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy
Rating
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7.8
7 Mud (2013)
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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- 2013-04-26 | Drama
Cast
- Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan
Rating
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7.0
8 Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
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- 2005-09-03 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson
Rating
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7.2
9 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
10 Igby Goes Down (2002)
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
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- 2002-09-13 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes
Rating
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6.6
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