Top rated perfunctory movies that are also brilliantly understated
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and brilliantly understated movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and brilliantly understated, 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 Jun 07 2021
1 Unbreakable (2000)
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
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- 2000-11-22 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
Rating
7.1
2 The Truman Show (1998)
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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- 1998-06-04 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jim Carrey, Laura Linney
Rating
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8.1
3 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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- 2006-09-13 | Crime / Fantasy
Cast
- Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman
Rating
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7.3
4 The Age of Adaline (2015)
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
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- 2015-04-16 | Fantasy / Drama
Cast
- Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman
Rating
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7.4
5 Batman Begins (2005)
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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- 2005-06-10 | Action / Crime
Cast
- Christian Bale, Michael Caine
Rating
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7.7
6 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
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7.2
7 Molly's Game (2017)
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
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- 2017-01-01 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba
Rating
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7.1
8 Mystic River (2003)
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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- 2003-01-01 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Rating
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7.7
9 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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- 1955-08-26 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Rating
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7.9
10 There Will Be Blood (2007)
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
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- 2007-12-28 | Drama
Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
Rating
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8.1
