Top rated intellectually stimulating movies on Amazon Prime Video

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

1 Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

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2022-12-14 | Science Fiction / Adventure

Cast

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña

Rating

rating icon 7.626
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    masterpiece visual
  2. Ranked #1 for
    visually appealing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stunning visual

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2 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

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2022-03-24 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #1 for
    multiverse
  3. Ranked #2 for
    naff

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3 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

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    futuristic vision
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for contemplation
  3. Ranked #1 for
    posing questions

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4 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.

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2019-09-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.103
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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5 Tenet (2020)

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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2020-08-22 | Action / Thriller

Cast

John David Washington, Robert Pattinson

Rating

rating icon 7.18
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    tangled
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rewatching
  3. Ranked #1 for
    like Inception

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6 Crimes of the Future (2022)

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission -- to use Saul's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

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2022-05-25 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux

Rating

rating icon 6.108
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    corporeal theme
  2. Ranked #1 for
    exhibitionist
  3. Ranked #2 for
    welcome return

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7 Nope (2022)

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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2022-07-20 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer

Rating

rating icon 6.863
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    cinematic spectacle
  2. Ranked #5 for
    helium voice
  3. Ranked #5 for
    otherworldly

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8 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
    nicely crafted
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absorbing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    very entertaining

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9 Dune (2021)

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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2021-09-15 | Science Fiction / Adventure

Cast

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson

Rating

rating icon 7.789
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    epic feeling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sweeping

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10 The Alternate (2021)

Upon unlocking a portal to an alternate dimension where all his dreams have come true, struggling filmmaker Jake is forced to confront his idealized self.

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2021-09-11 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Natalia Dominguez, Ed Gonzalez Moreno

Rating

rating icon 4.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    interesting take
  2. Ranked #2 for
    with miserable existence
  3. Ranked #2 for
    unique take

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The Alternate trailer
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