Top rated perfunctory movies on The Roku Channel
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory movies on The Roku Channel! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best perfunctory movies on The Roku Channel, 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 Oct 21 2020
1 The Master (2012)
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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- 2012-09-07 | Drama
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rating
7.2
2 Let the Right One In (2008)
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
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- 2008-01-26 | Horror / Drama
Cast
- Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson
Rating
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7.5
3 The Impossible (2012)
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
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- 2012-09-09 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor
Rating
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7.3
4 Ghost World (2001)
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.
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- 2001-07-20 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson
Rating
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7.2
5 How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father
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- 2010-03-10 | Fantasy / Adventure
Cast
- Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler
Rating
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7.8
6 I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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- 2017-02-03 | Documentary
Cast
- James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson
Rating
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8.0
7 Thelma & Louise (1991)
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
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- 1991-05-24 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon
Rating
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7.5
8 Force Majeure (2014)
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
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- 2014-08-15 | Drama
Cast
- Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli
Rating
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6.8
9 Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
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- 1995-10-27 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue
Rating
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7.2
10 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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- 2004-03-04 | Drama / History
Cast
- Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
Rating
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7.7
