Top rated perfunctory movies that are also faithful to source material
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and faithful to source material movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and faithful to source material, 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 Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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- 2015-11-10 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe
Rating
5.9
2 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
3 Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called 'Underland,' she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason – to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.
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- 2010-03-03 | Family / Fantasy
Cast
- Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
Rating
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6.6
4 Fantastic Four (2015)
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
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- 2015-08-05 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan
Rating
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4.4
5 The Last Airbender (2010)
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
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- 2010-06-30 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Noah Ringer, Dev Patel
Rating
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4.7
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6 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
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- 2005-12-07 | Adventure / Family
Cast
- Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes
Rating
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7.1
7 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
8 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
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- 2007-01-25 | Drama / Horror
Cast
- Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Rating
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7.2
9 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
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- 2009-02-27 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Rating
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7.6
10 The Da Vinci Code (2006)
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
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- 2006-05-17 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou
Rating
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6.7
