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 Apr 12 2021
1 2046 (2004)
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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- 2004-05-20 | Fantasy / Drama
Cast
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li
Rating
7.2
2 Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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- 2012-10-12 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell
Rating
6.8
3 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
7.0
4 Sideways (2004)
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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- 2004-10-22 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
Rating
7.1
5 The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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- 2005-10-05 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney
Rating
7.0
6 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
8.1
7 The Village (2004)
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
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- 2004-07-30 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
6.4
8 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
8.1
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 The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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- 2008-07-16 | Drama / Action
Cast
- Christian Bale, Heath Ledger
Rating
8.5