Top rated properly developed movies that are also intellectually challenging

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

1 A Sun (2019)

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.

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2019-11-01 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Chen Yiwen, Shu-qin Ke

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    grabbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely brilliant
  3. Ranked #1 for
    life-altering

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2 A Shattered Diamond (2021)

A story of a group friends as they deal with the loss of one of their own, and learn how to move on.

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2021-01-01 | Drama

Cast

Lou DeNardo, Jenny Boswell

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    moving
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cast of familiar faces
  3. Ranked #1 for
    powerhouse performance

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3 Charlotte (2022)

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

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2022-04-22 | Animation / Drama

Cast

Keira Knightley, Sam Claflin

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    heavy topic
  2. Ranked #3 for
    enormously talented
  3. Ranked #4 for
    prodigious talent

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4 Aniara (2019)

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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2019-05-17 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian

Rating

rating icon 6.018
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brightly lit imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #1 for
    despaired

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5 Possessor (2020)

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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2020-10-02 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott

Rating

rating icon 6.383
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sexual imagery
  2. Ranked #1 for
    disturbing imagery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    grisly image

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6 Broker (2022)

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

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2022-06-08 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won

Rating

rating icon 7.18
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    with poignant moments
  2. Ranked #2 for
    flexible
  3. Ranked #2 for
    existential theme

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7 Argentina, 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

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2022-09-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani

Rating

rating icon 7.923
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    practically flawless
  2. Ranked #1 for
    humorous tone
  3. Ranked #1 for
    light-hearted tone

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8 Triangle of Sadness (2022)

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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2022-09-18 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean

Rating

rating icon 7.108
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    top model
  2. Ranked #2 for
    feeling sea sickness
  3. Ranked #2 for
    trenchant dialogue

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9 The Humans (2021)

Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.

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2021-11-24 | Drama

Cast

Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell

Rating

rating icon 6.108
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    talky
  2. Ranked #1 for
    heavy dialogue
  3. Ranked #2 for
    bumping at night

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10 Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

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2019-02-01 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Rene Russo, Jake Gyllenhaal

Rating

rating icon 5.363
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    high art
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hammy performance

Trailer

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