Top rated 40 personal growth movies with respected director

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

1 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
    versatile director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    grounded
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sweet and endearing

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2 The Half of It (2020)

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

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2020-05-01 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    lot of talking
  2. Ranked #2 for
    wallflower
  3. Ranked #2 for
    ballsy

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3 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
    famed director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for rumination
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for introspection

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4 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
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #2 for
    stylistic flourish

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5 Drive My Car (2021)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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2021-08-18 | Drama

Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura

Rating

rating icon 7.423
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    patient
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #3 for
    deft directing

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6 Close (2022)

Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi have always been close, but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates.

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2022-11-01 | Drama

Cast

Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele

Rating

rating icon 7.784
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    elaborate
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unlikely friendship
  3. Ranked #1 for
    manhood

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7 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
    imaginative directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    picking up pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    propulsive

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8 Bruised (2020)

Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out

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2020-09-12 | Drama

Cast

Halle Berry, Adan Canto

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    never backing down
  2. Ranked #3 for
    substantial role
  3. Ranked #4 for
    cliche

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9 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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10 Cry Macho (2021)

Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

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2021-09-16 | Drama / Western

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Eduardo Minett

Rating

rating icon 5.975
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    macho man
  2. Ranked #1 for
    riding off into sunset
  3. Ranked #1 for
    cringe inducing

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