Top rated 40 personal growth movies with creative directing

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

1 Soul (2020)

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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2020-12-25 | Animation / Family

Cast

Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey

Rating

rating icon 8.134
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    existential theme
  2. Ranked #1 for
    capturing imagination
  3. Ranked #2 for
    meaningful

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2 Onward (2020)

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

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2020-02-29 | Family / Animation

Cast

Tom Holland, Chris Pratt

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wizardry directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with magic moments
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Harry Potter

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3 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
    purely delightful character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    irresistible character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    utterly charming

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4 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
    master filmmaker

Trailer

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5 Yes, God, Yes (2020)

Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.

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2020-07-24 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    never missing a beat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    religious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hypocritical

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6 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

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2019-09-07 | Drama / History

Cast

Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks

Rating

rating icon 6.968
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    humble
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cynical view
  3. Ranked #2 for
    cynical

Trailer

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7 Feel the Beat (2020)

After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

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2020-06-19 | Comedy / Music

Cast

Sofia Carson, Wolfgang Novogratz

Rating

rating icon 7.59
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    thankless role
  2. Ranked #1 for
    thankless
  3. Ranked #1 for
    paint-by-number

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8 The Midas Touch (2020)

Felix, a young advertiser, is down on his luck. Ridiculed by his boss and suffering from unrequited love he knows that something has to change, when the chance of a lifetime appears completely out of the blue. He acquires "The Midas Touch" - the ability to conquer every woman with a mere touch. Enjoying life to the fullest for a brief period of time, Felix quickly notices that evil forces are after his new "talent" and "The Midas Touch" soon gets completely out of hand.

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2020-11-20 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Clayton Nemrow, Tilman Borck

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    irresistible cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    creative writing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    raunchy

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9 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

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2022-12-07 | Animation / Adventure

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek

Rating

rating icon 8.241
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    antagonistic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    suitably menacing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    giving shivers

Trailer

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10 I Lost My Body (2019)

A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.

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2019-11-06 | Animation / Drama

Cast

Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois

Rating

rating icon 7.49
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    perilous journey
  2. Ranked #1 for
    everything fitting together
  3. Ranked #1 for
    leap of faith

Trailer

I Lost My Body trailer
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