Top rated perfunctory movies that are also crucial
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and crucial movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and crucial, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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- 2021-03-31 | Music / Drama
Cast
- Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes
Rating
6.605
2 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.
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- 2020-02-14 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck
Rating
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4.912
3 The Weekend Away (2022)
When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.
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- 2022-03-03 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe
Rating
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6.0
4 Antebellum (2020)
Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
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- 2020-09-02 | Horror
Cast
- Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange
Rating
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6.281
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5 Respect (2021)
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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- 2021-08-12 | Drama / Music
Cast
- Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker
Rating
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6.833
6 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.
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- 2022-06-24 | Animation / Comedy
Cast
- Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer Camp
Rating
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7.739
7 Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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- 2019-09-06 | Drama / History
Cast
- Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp
Rating
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5.998
8 Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
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- 2019-10-04 | Drama
Cast
- Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood
Rating
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7.365
9 Queen & Slim (2019)
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith
Rating
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7.143
10 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
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- 2021-10-21 | Drama / History
Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy
Rating
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7.0
