Top rated perfunctory movies on Criterion Channel
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory movies on Criterion Channel! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best perfunctory movies on Criterion Channel, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Vitalina Varela (2019)
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
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- 2019-10-07 | Drama
Cast
- Vitalina Varela, Ventura
Rating
- 6.8
2 The Chambermaid (2019)
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
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- 2019-03-25 | Drama
Cast
- Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sánchez
Rating
- 6.4
3 Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
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- 1987-10-07 | Drama / War
Cast
- Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö
Rating
- 7.515
4 Certain Women (2016)
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
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- 2016-09-25 | Drama
Cast
- Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart
Rating
- 5.998
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5 After Yang (2022)
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
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- 2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith
Rating
- 6.4
6 2046 (2004)
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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- 2004-10-29 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li
Rating
- 7.225
7 Joyland (2022)
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
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- 2022-11-18 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq
Rating
- 7.65
8 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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- 2021-04-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima
Rating
- 7.1
9 Election (2005)
After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's authority.
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- 2005-10-20 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka-fai
Rating
- 7.092
10 Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)
Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain - he does not appear at their rendezvous. Márta starts to search for him desperately, but when she finally finds him, the love of her life claims that they have never met before.
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- 2020-09-24 | Drama
Cast
- Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó
Rating
- 6.4