Top rated perfunctory movies that are also more balanced
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and more balanced movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and more balanced, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Desert Victory (1943)
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.
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- 1943-04-12 | War / Documentary
Cast
- Harold Alexander, Winston Churchill
Rating
5.8
2 13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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- 2016-10-07 | Documentary
Cast
- Jelani Cobb, Angela Davis
Rating
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8.0
3 Zaytoun (2012)
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
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- 2012-10-14 | Drama / War
Cast
- Stephen Dorff, Ashraf Barhom
Rating
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6.6
4 Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000)
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.
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- 2000-12-07 | Thriller
Cast
- Nick Moran, Kate Ashfield
Rating
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4.8
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5 Catch a Fire (2006)
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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- 2006-10-27 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Tim Robbins, Derek Luke
Rating
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6.2
6 Game Change (2012)
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
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- 2012-03-09 | Drama / History
Cast
- Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson
Rating
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6.9
7 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
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- 2000-01-22 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart
Rating
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5.7
8 West of Memphis (2012)
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the Unitedstatian South.
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- 2012-12-25 | Documentary
Cast
- Jason Baldwin, Julie Ann Doan
Rating
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7.4
9 Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)
In one of the most tragic face-offs in the history of law enforcement, the deadly debacle at Waco pitted the Branch Davidian sect against the FBI in an all-out war. This documentary makes the most of footage and recordings to examine how the events that led to the tragedy of April 19, 1993, unfolded, and how the FBI's unrelenting approach made what was already a bad situation much worse.
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- 1997-09-19 | Documentary
Cast
- Joe Biden, Dan Gifford
Rating
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7.5
10 Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
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- 1990-10-05 | Drama
Cast
- Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons
Rating
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6.7
