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.
1 Vita & Virginia (2019)
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
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- 2019-05-02 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton
Rating
6.8
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
4.921
3 TÁR (2022)
Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
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- 2022-10-07 | Drama / Music
Cast
- Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss
Rating
7.6
4 I Am Mother (2019)
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
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- 2019-06-07 | Science Fiction / Thriller
Cast
- Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne
Rating
6.67

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5 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
6.0
6 American Insurrection (2021)
Set in a dystopian America where all people who aren't straight, white, Christian and cis gender are kept track of by the government with bar codes.
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- 2021-10-04 | Thriller
Cast
- Nadine Malouf, Nick Westrate
Rating
5.5
7 The Oxford Murders (2008)
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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- 2008-01-18 | Crime / Mystery
Cast
- Elijah Wood, John Hurt
Rating
5.922
8 The Menu (2022)
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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- 2022-11-18 | Comedy / Horror
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy
Rating
7.303
9 Vengeance (2022)
A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
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- 2022-07-29 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- B. J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook
Rating
6.682
10 Aniara (2019)
A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
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- 2019-02-01 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian
Rating
6.086