Top rated humble movies that are also intellectually challenging
Check out today’s highest ranked humble and intellectually challenging movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are humble and intellectually challenging, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.499
2 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
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7.406
3 Mayor Pete (2021)
Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana runs for President of the United States. With extraordinary access to the candidate, his husband Chasten and member of the campaign team, the film follows Buttigieg from before he officially announced his candidacy, through the campaign and his victory in the Iowa Caucus and his appointment to the Biden Administration as the first LGBTQ Cabinet member in history.
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- 2021-11-12 | Documentary
Cast
- Pete Buttigieg, Chasten Buttigieg
Rating
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5.9
4 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.
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- 2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith
Rating
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6.4
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5 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
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- 2022-06-16 | Romance / Drama
Cast
- Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack
Rating
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7.0
6 Albatross (2022)
Worlds collide at an awkward dinner party in 1959 New England. Tables turn when a progressive biracial couple attends dinner at the imposing home of an unexceptional artist and questionable psychiatrist. By daybreak, they find themselves pawns in a cynical game that exposes the cracks in their facades.
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- 2022-02-19 | Drama
Cast
- Mikaela Bisson, Sarah Orenstein
Rating
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3.8
7 The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
From the 1960's to the 1980's, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
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- 2021-09-17 | Drama / History
Cast
- Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield
Rating
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6.495
8 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.
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- 2021-12-17 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris
Rating
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7.17
9 Straight Up (2020)
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.
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- 2020-02-28 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Katie Findlay, James Sweeney
Rating
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6.801
10 The Painter and the Thief (2020)
When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner in Oslo, the police are able to find the thief after a few days, but the paintings are nowhere to be found. Barbora goes to the trial in hopes of finding clues, but instead she ends up asking the thief if she can paint a portrait of him. This will be the start of a very unusual friendship. Over three years, the cinematic documentary follows the incredible story of the artist looking for her stolen paintings, while at the same time turning the thief into art.
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- 2020-09-05 | Documentary
Cast
- Barbora Kysilkova, Karl-Bertil Nordland
Rating
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7.306
