Top rated intellectually stimulating movies on Magnolia Selects

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

1 Melancholia (2011)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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2011-05-26 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #83 for
    jittery
  2. Ranked #138 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  3. Ranked #171 for
    elegiac

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2 Mr. Nobody (2009)

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

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2009-11-06 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Jared Leto, Sarah Polley

Rating

rating icon 7.824
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    multiverse
  2. Ranked #73 for
    time-loop
  3. Ranked #147 for
    intellectually stimulating

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3 The Square (2017)

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

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2017-08-25 | Drama

Cast

Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #99 for
    Black Comedy
  2. Ranked #124 for
    diorama
  3. Ranked #129 for
    daunting challenge

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4 I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

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2017-02-03 | Documentary

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin

Rating

rating icon 7.714
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #108 for
    juxtaposition
  2. Ranked #142 for
    archival footage
  3. Ranked #155 for
    timely reminder

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5 The Hunt (2012)

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

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2012-10-25 | Drama

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #56 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #124 for
    proof positive

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6 Blackfish (2013)

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

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2013-06-07 | Documentary

Cast

Dean Gomersall, Samantha Berg

Rating

rating icon 7.864
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #101 for
    carny ride
  3. Ranked #150 for
    gut-wrenching

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7 Force Majeure (2014)

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

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2014-08-15 | Drama

Cast

Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli

Rating

rating icon 6.869
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #50 for
    sabbatical
  2. Ranked #80 for
    waggish
  3. Ranked #88 for
    machismo

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8 Man on Wire (2008)

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

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2008-08-01 | Documentary

Cast

Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel

Rating

rating icon 7.387
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #151 for
    archival footage
  2. Ranked #159 for
    putting a foot wrong
  3. Ranked #176 for
    daunting challenge

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9 13 Assassins (2010)

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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2010-09-09 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada

Rating

rating icon 7.302
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #35 for
    chivalry
  3. Ranked #156 for
    action-packed finale

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10 Mother (2009)

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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2009-05-28 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin

Rating

rating icon 7.724
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    like Mr. Brooks
  2. Ranked #72 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #105 for
    masterpiece

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