Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also worthwhile
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and worthwhile movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and worthwhile, 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 Freaks (2019)
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
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- 2019-09-13 | Science Fiction / Thriller
Cast
- Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern
Rating
6.787
3 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
7.3
4 Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
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- 2020-10-15 | Thriller
Cast
- Judi Dench, James D'Arcy
Rating
6.4

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5 Last Christmas (2019)
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
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- 2019-11-07 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding
Rating
7.234
6 The Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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- 2019-07-12 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen
Rating
7.45
7 I See You (2019)
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
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- 2019-09-11 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney
Rating
7.046
8 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
Cast
- Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch
Rating
7.131
9 Head Count (2019)
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.
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- 2019-06-14 | Horror / Mystery
Cast
- Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan
Rating
5.48
10 The Owners (2020)
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
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- 2020-08-27 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy
Rating
5.753