Top rated intellectually stimulating movies on FXNow

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

1 Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

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2019-01-31 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz

Rating

rating icon 7.225
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cyberpunk
  2. Ranked #2 for
    Mecha
  3. Ranked #2 for
    like Blade Runner

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2 Glass (2019)

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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2019-01-16 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

James McAvoy, Bruce Willis

Rating

rating icon 6.679
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shocking climax
  2. Ranked #2 for
    climactic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    epic ending

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3 Interstellar (2014)

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

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2014-11-05 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway

Rating

rating icon 8.429
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #23 for
    wonderful
  2. Ranked #27 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #33 for
    poindexter

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4 War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

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2017-07-11 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson

Rating

rating icon 7.17
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    wonderful
  2. Ranked #201 for
    harsh sound
  3. Ranked #211 for
    cash grab

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5 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

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2018-12-06 | Animation / Action

Cast

Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson

Rating

rating icon 8.406
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #77 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #92 for
    wonderful

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6 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

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2019-01-03 | Animation / Family

Cast

Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera

Rating

rating icon 7.751
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    inevitable conclusion
  2. Ranked #1 for
    eye-catching
  3. Ranked #1 for
    out with a bang

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World trailer
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7 A Quiet Place (2018)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

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2018-04-03 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Emily Blunt, John Krasinski

Rating

rating icon 7.395
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    great sound effects
  2. Ranked #123 for
    Survival Movie
  3. Ranked #127 for
    fakeout

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8 The Hate U Give (2018)

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

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2018-10-19 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall

Rating

rating icon 8.139
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    didactic
  2. Ranked #124 for
    not shying away
  3. Ranked #211 for
    pulling punches

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9 Green Book (2018)

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

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2018-11-16 | Drama / History

Cast

Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali

Rating

rating icon 8.243
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    didactic
  2. Ranked #111 for
    Oscar bait
  3. Ranked #115 for
    crowd-pleaser

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10 Alien: Covenant (2017)

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

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2017-05-09 | Science Fiction / Horror

Cast

Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston

Rating

rating icon 6.097
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    cyborg
  2. Ranked #89 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #99 for
    canonical

Trailer

Alien: Covenant trailer
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