Top rated perfunctory movies that are also thoughtful
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and thoughtful movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and thoughtful, 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 Oct 21 2020
1 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (1999)
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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- 1999-10-28 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart
Rating
5.9
2 The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
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- 2008-12-10 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly
Rating
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5.5
3 12 Angry Men (1957)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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- 1957-04-10 | Drama
Cast
- Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Rating
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8.5
4 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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- 2001-12-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Russell Crowe, Ed Harris
Rating
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7.9
5 Loving Annabelle (2007)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
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- 2007-05-24 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Erin Kelly, Diane Gaidry
Rating
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6.3
6 Lincoln (2012)
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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- 2012-11-09 | History / Drama
Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field
Rating
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6.8
7 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
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- 2001-06-29 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor
Rating
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7.0
8 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
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8.5
9 Untraceable (2008)
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.
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- 2008-01-22 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Diane Lane, Billy Burke
Rating
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6.1
10 The Village (2004)
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
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- 2004-07-30 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody
Rating
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6.4
