Top rated perfunctory movies that are also bang for buck
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and bang for buck movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and bang for buck, 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 Apr 19 2021
1 Romancing the Stone (1984)
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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- 1984-03-30 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner
Rating
6.7
2 Attack the Block (2011)
A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
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- 2011-05-12 | Action / Comedy
Cast
- Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Rating
6.4
3 Hugo (2011)
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
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- 2011-11-22 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
Rating
7.2
4 Super 8 (2011)
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
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- 2011-06-08 | Thriller / Science Fiction
Cast
- Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning
Rating
6.7
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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- 2006-07-06 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom
Rating
7.3
6 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.
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- 2007-05-19 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom
Rating
7.2
7 Avatar (2009)
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
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- 2009-12-10 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Rating
7.5
8 The Ghost Writer (2010)
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
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- 2010-02-12 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan
Rating
6.8
9 Signs (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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- 2002-08-02 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
6.6
10 Star Trek Beyond (2016)
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
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- 2016-07-07 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Chris Pine, Karl Urban
Rating
6.8