Top rated perfunctory movies that are also historically important
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and historically important movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and historically important, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.0
2 Radium Girls (2020)
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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- 2020-10-23 | Drama / History
Cast
- Joey King, Abby Quinn
Rating
7.2
3 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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- 2021-02-12 | Drama / History
Cast
- Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya
Rating
7.4
4 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
6.9

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5 Wasp Network (2020)
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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- 2020-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez
Rating
6.134
6 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
5.962
7 Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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- 2021-02-26 | War / Drama
Cast
- Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović
Rating
7.6
8 The Dig (2021)
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
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- 2021-01-14 | Drama / History
Cast
- Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes
Rating
6.911
9 Ask for Jane (2019)
A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
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- 2019-05-17 | Drama / History
Cast
- Cody Horn, Cait Cortelyou
Rating
9.7
10 Official Secrets (2019)
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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- 2019-08-30 | Thriller / History
Cast
- Keira Knightley, Matt Smith
Rating
7.229