Top rated perfunctory movies that are also unexpected
Check out today’s highest ranked perfunctory and unexpected movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and unexpected, 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 12 2021
1 Electrick Children (2012)
Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.
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- 2012-07-11 | Drama
Cast
- Julia Garner, Rory Culkin
Rating
6.4
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 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
6 Hancock (2008)
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
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- 2008-07-01 | Fantasy / Action
Cast
- Will Smith, Charlize Theron
Rating
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6.3
7 Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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- 2012-10-12 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell
Rating
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6.8
8 Identity (2003)
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
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- 2003-04-25 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- John Cusack, Ray Liotta
Rating
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7.2
9 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
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6.7
10 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
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7.6
