Top rated deliberately slow movies that are also intellectually stimulating

Check out today’s highest ranked deliberately slow and intellectually stimulating movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are deliberately slow and intellectually stimulating, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Swan Song (2021)

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.

Info

2021-12-17 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris

Rating

rating icon 7.179
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    futuristic technology
  2. Ranked #1 for
    crisp and clean
  3. Ranked #1 for
    moral question

Trailer

Swan Song trailer
play button

2 After Yang (2022)

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

Info

2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith

Rating

rating icon 6.413
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    posing questions
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for contemplation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    introspective

Trailer

After Yang trailer
play button

3 Archive (2020)

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

Info

2020-08-13 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Theo James, Stacy Martin

Rating

rating icon 6.253
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    jealous character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    double twist
  3. Ranked #1 for
    twist at the end

Trailer

Archive trailer
play button

4 The Midnight Sky (2020)

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Info

2020-12-10 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

George Clooney, Felicity Jones

Rating

rating icon 5.753
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    glacial pace
  2. Ranked #3 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #3 for
    howler

Trailer

The Midnight Sky trailer
play button
download maimovie
Download
Maimovie Now

to discover other
124,131 similar movies

5 Ad Astra (2019)

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

Info

2019-09-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.108
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #5 for
    great sound effects
  3. Ranked #6 for
    exploration of human

Trailer

Ad Astra trailer
play button

6 The Artifice Girl (2023)

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

Info

2023-04-27 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols

Rating

rating icon 6.659
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    artificial intelligence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    doomy and gloomy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    super-intelligent

Trailer

The Artifice Girl trailer
play button

7 I Am Mother (2019)

A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

Info

2019-06-07 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne

Rating

rating icon 6.694
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    lingering question
  2. Ranked #3 for
    like Blade Runner
  3. Ranked #3 for
    super-intelligent

Trailer

I Am Mother trailer
play button

8 Last and First Men (2020)

As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.

Info

2020-02-25 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Tilda Swinton

Rating

rating icon 6.445
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dramatic structure
  2. Ranked #1 for
    completely mesmerized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    architectural

Trailer

Last and First Men trailer
play button

9 Come True (2020)

Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.

Info

2020-09-24 | Science Fiction / Horror

Cast

Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron

Rating

rating icon 5.9
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ambient music
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gloomy mood
  3. Ranked #1 for
    shadowy

Trailer

Come True trailer
play button

10 In the Earth (2021)

As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.

Info

2021-04-16 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia

Rating

rating icon 5.7
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pretty colors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    acid trip
  3. Ranked #1 for
    trippy theme

Trailer

In the Earth trailer
play button

FAQ

According to the review analysis on Maimovie, movies in Top rated deliberately slow movies that are also intellectually stimulating list are rated as futuristic technology, futuristic vision, thought-provoking, advanced, ambient, ambient music, artificial intelligence, super-intelligent, meaningful, moral question.
We collect all existing reviews on the web for all movies and proceed machine learning to calculate the A.I. ranking. It ranks the movies while automatically updating new information every week.
Using Taste search, Maimovie provides a unique system which helps you search for specific results through phrases that are collected from movie reviews and information from various movie databases. You can look for movies with phrases such as “adrenaline pumping movies” or “unexpected plot twist of all time.” The Maimovie application’s database covers movie information from all 540K+ movies and connects you to all 74+ available streaming services.