Top rated perfunctory movies that are also suspenseful
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and suspenseful movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and suspenseful, 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 19 2021
1 The Ghost Writer (2010)
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
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- 2010-02-12 | Thriller / Mystery
Cast
- Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan
Rating
6.8
2 K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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- 2002-07-19 | Drama / History
Cast
- Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson
Rating
6.4
3 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
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- 2009-02-27 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Rating
7.6
4 Parasite (2019)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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- 2019-05-30 | Comedy / Thriller
Cast
- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun
Rating
8.5
5 Super 8 (2011)
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
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- 2011-06-08 | Thriller / Science Fiction
Cast
- Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning
Rating
6.7
6 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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- 1955-08-26 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Rating
7.9
7 Romancing the Stone (1984)
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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- 1984-03-30 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner
Rating
6.7
8 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
9 Attack the Block (2011)
A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
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- 2011-05-12 | Action / Comedy
Cast
- Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Rating
6.4
10 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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- 2006-09-13 | Crime / Fantasy
Cast
- Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman
Rating
7.3