Top rated 40 personal growth movies with directorial flair

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

1 The Hand of God (2021)

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo

Rating

rating icon 7.58
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slice of life
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stylistic flourish
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stylish camera work

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2 Waves (2019)

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

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2019-11-15 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    picking up pace
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sob story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    imaginative directing

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3 The Prototype (2022)

A government agent stumbles upon an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. Using a blue liquid created by the aliens to make soldiers stronger, he becomes The Prototype-the only hope for mankind.

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2022-02-25 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Victoria De Mare, Theresa Tilly

Rating

rating icon 4.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    highly entertaining
  2. Ranked #1 for
    compelling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    top-quality

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4 Goodbye, Petrushka (2022)

Claire moves impulsively from NYC to Paris, where she nannies for the family from hell, battles wacky French bureaucrats, embarrasses herself in front of her Parisian crush and navigates a toxic relationship - among other faux pas.

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2022-06-12 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Lizzie Kehoe, Thomas Vieljeux

Rating

rating icon 5.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    accomplished director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    highly original
  3. Ranked #1 for
    versatile director

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5 The Two Popes (2019)

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

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2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins

Rating

rating icon 7.499
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    humanized
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely magnificent
  3. Ranked #1 for
    splendid

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6 Missing Link (2019)

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.

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2019-04-04 | Family / Animation

Cast

Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldaña

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fluidic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    globetrotting
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unpretentious character

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7 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
    for introspection
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bold colors
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for rumination

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8 Nomadland (2021)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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2021-01-29 | Drama

Cast

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rootless character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    overrated
  3. Ranked #2 for
    shortlisted

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9 The King of Staten Island (2020)

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

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2020-07-22 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    worth buying
  2. Ranked #2 for
    comic moments
  3. Ranked #2 for
    relatable character

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10 Polite Society (2023)

Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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2023-04-27 | Comedy / Action

Cast

Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya

Rating

rating icon 6.285
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sisterhood
  2. Ranked #2 for
    infectious
  3. Ranked #2 for
    different take

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