Top rated perfunctory movies that are also true gem
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and true gem movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and true gem, 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 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
2 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
3 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
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7.9
4 Bliss (2021)
A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.
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- 2021-02-05 | Science Fiction / Romance
Cast
- Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek
Rating
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5.4
5 The Truman Show (1998)
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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- 1998-06-04 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jim Carrey, Laura Linney
Rating
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8.1
6 Hugo (2011)
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
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- 2011-11-22 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
Rating
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7.2
7 Sideways (2004)
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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- 2004-10-22 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
Rating
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7.1
8 Rudderless (2014)
A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
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- 2014-10-17 | Music / Drama
Cast
- Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin
Rating
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7.3
9 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
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6.8
10 The Impossible (2012)
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
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- 2012-09-09 | Thriller / Drama
Cast
- Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor
Rating
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7.3
