Top rated perfunctory movies that are also for intellectual exercise
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and for intellectual exercise movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and for intellectual exercise, 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 Nov 24 2020
1 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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- 2001-12-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Russell Crowe, Ed Harris
Rating
7.9
2 The Bling Ring (2013)
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use use the Internet to track the whereabouts of famous celebrities, then rob their homes of riches.
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- 2013-06-12 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Katie Chang, Taissa Farmiga
Rating
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5.4
3 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
4 The Circle (2017)
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
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- 2017-04-27 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Emma Watson, Tom Hanks
Rating
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5.5
5 Never on Sunday (1960)
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
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- 1960-05-24 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin
Rating
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7.1
6 The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
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- 2008-12-10 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly
Rating
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5.5
7 War and Peace (1956)
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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- 1956-08-21 | Drama / War
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda
Rating
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6.6
8 Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
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- 1999-07-16 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
Rating
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7.4
9 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
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- 2001-06-29 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor
Rating
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7.0
10 Parasite (2019)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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- 2019-05-30 | Comedy / Thriller
Cast
- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun
Rating
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8.5
