Top rated 25 personal growth movies with directorial genius

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a personal growth and directorial genius! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a personal growth and directorial genius, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Pain and Glory (2019)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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2019-03-22 | Drama

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia

Rating

rating icon 7.403
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    master filmmaker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for introspection
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bold colors

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2 My Salinger Year (2020)

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

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2020-02-20 | Drama

Cast

Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bit flat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    retorting lines
  3. Ranked #3 for
    voluminous plot

Trailer

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3 Riders of Justice (2020)

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

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2020-11-19 | Action / Comedy

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Rating

rating icon 7.279
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    full of surprises
  2. Ranked #1 for
    superb writing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stylized violence

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4 BlackBerry (2023)

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

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2023-02-13 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton

Rating

rating icon 7.196
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    technical innovation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    socially awkward
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brisk

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5 General Magic (2019)

A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Silicon Valley", changed the lives of billions.

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2019-05-09 | Documentary

Cast

Megan Smith, Tony Fadell

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    grand vision
  2. Ranked #1 for
    innovative
  3. Ranked #1 for
    eerie music

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6 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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2019-02-14 | Drama / History

Cast

Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Rating

rating icon 7.917
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    humbling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    truer
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ingenuine directing

Trailer

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7 Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.

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2022-11-25 | Family / Comedy

Cast

Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson

Rating

rating icon 6.78
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    naughty boy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    blast finish
  3. Ranked #2 for
    suitable for children

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8 Val (2021)

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

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2021-07-23 | Documentary

Cast

Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer

Rating

rating icon 7.027
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brief glimpse
  2. Ranked #1 for
    truthful
  3. Ranked #1 for
    detailed look

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9 Pig (2021)

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

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2021-07-16 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff

Rating

rating icon 6.668
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    low-key performance
  2. Ranked #4 for
    beloved
  3. Ranked #5 for
    for treatise

Trailer

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10 Jojo Rabbit (2019)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

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2019-10-18 | Comedy / War

Cast

Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie

Rating

rating icon 8.026
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tragicomic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    serious drama
  3. Ranked #1 for
    semi-serious

Trailer

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