Top rated 40 personal growth movies with directorial touch

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

1 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
    sob story
  2. Ranked #1 for
    propulsive
  3. Ranked #1 for
    imaginative directing

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2 And Then We Danced (2019)

Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.

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2019-09-13 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    manly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clean-cut
  3. Ranked #1 for
    traditional

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3 Ema (2019)

Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to give up on their adopted child Polo. She sets out on a mission to get him back, not caring who she’ll need to fight, seduce or destroy to make it happen.

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2019-09-26 | Drama

Cast

Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cinematic magic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    brainteaser
  3. Ranked #1 for
    visually exciting

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4 Move Me No Mountain (2023)

When realtor Jenna can no longer deal with the crushing guilt of her daughters death, she walks out of society to sleep rough on the streets of Vegas.

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2023-02-21 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Cat Lellie, Nicholas Roylance

Rating

rating icon 2.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    triumphant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beautifully composed
  3. Ranked #1 for
    showing seedy side

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5 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
    neo-realism

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6 The Green Knight (2021)

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

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2021-07-29 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander

Rating

rating icon 6.593
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #1 for
    epic story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chivalry

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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
    master filmmaker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    bold colors
  3. Ranked #1 for
    famed director

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8 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
    absolutely magnificent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for Catholic contemplation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    splendid

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9 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
    shortlisted
  3. Ranked #2 for
    overrated

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10 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
    state of art special effect
  2. Ranked #1 for
    painstaking detail
  3. Ranked #1 for
    well put together

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