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
- 7.2
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
- 7.824
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
- 6.8
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
- 7.714
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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
- 8.1
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
- 7.864
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
- 6.869
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
- 7.387
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
- 7.302
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
- 7.724