Top rated perfunctory movies that are also like a history lesson
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and like a history lesson movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and like a history lesson, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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- 2021-03-31 | Music / Drama
Cast
- Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes
Rating
6.605
2 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
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7.0
3 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
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6.786
4 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
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7.377
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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
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6.117
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
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5.998
7 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
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6.833
8 Radioactive (2020)
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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- 2020-03-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley
Rating
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6.59
9 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
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7.583
10 Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2021)
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?
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- 2021-07-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Maxine Peake, Charles Dance
Rating
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6.531
