Top rated super-smart movies that are also intellectually challenging

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

1 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
    well put together
  2. Ranked #1 for
    thought-provoking theme
  3. Ranked #1 for
    compelling

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2 The Artifice Girl (2023)

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

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2023-04-27 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols

Rating

rating icon 6.656
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for questioning
  2. Ranked #1 for
    doomy and gloomy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    intellectually stimulating

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The Artifice Girl trailer
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3 I Am Mother (2019)

A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

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2019-06-07 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne

Rating

rating icon 6.69
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    super-intelligent
  2. Ranked #3 for
    moral question
  3. Ranked #3 for
    lingering question

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I Am Mother trailer
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4 Girl Next (2021)

A young woman is abducted by a strange group of human traffickers who use drug and trauma based mind control to turn women into "Sofia" dolls. Trapped in a waking nightmare she fights for a way to escape, to avoid becoming Girl Next.

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2021-06-18 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Rachel Alig, Larry Wade Carrell

Rating

rating icon 5.095
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    obedient
  2. Ranked #1 for
    semiotic topic
  3. Ranked #1 for
    visually sumptuous

Trailer

Girl Next trailer
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5 Vengeance (2022)

A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.

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2022-07-29 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook

Rating

rating icon 6.622
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fish out of water
  2. Ranked #1 for
    insightful
  3. Ranked #2 for
    thoughtful

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6 Shifter (2020)

A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.

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2020-03-06 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Nicole Fancher, Ashley Mandanas

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    most captivating
  2. Ranked #1 for
    super-smart
  3. Ranked #2 for
    credible performance

Trailer

Shifter trailer
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7 The Tangle (2019)

In the near future, The Tangle, an A.I. utilising airborne nanotech, connects the world. It is a benevolent guardian, returning law and order to society. To ensure that The Tangle never turns rogue, a government agency watches over the tech from within safe rooms, locations impermeable to the nanobots that make up The Tangle. When field agent Margot Foster is found dead in one of these rooms, the agency needs to investigate the first murder in years.

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2019-11-15 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Joshua Bitton, Christopher Soren Kelly

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    poetic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    garbling
  3. Ranked #1 for
    indecipherable

Trailer

The Tangle trailer
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8 Groupers (2019)

A grad student kidnaps two homophobic high-school bullies to use as her subjects in an experiment performed at the bottom of an empty swimming pool.

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2019-03-09 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Nicole Dambro, Peter Mayer-Klepchick

Rating

rating icon 4.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    inventive
  2. Ranked #1 for
    eagerly looking forward to
  3. Ranked #1 for
    virtually unknown cast

Trailer

Groupers trailer
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9 How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

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2023-04-07 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth

Rating

rating icon 6.492
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cast of unknown actors
  2. Ranked #1 for
    taut
  3. Ranked #1 for
    tragic backstory

Trailer

How to Blow Up a Pipeline trailer
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10 Straight Up (2020)

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.

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2020-02-28 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Katie Findlay, James Sweeney

Rating

rating icon 6.801
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    repartee
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clever dialogue
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nebulous

Trailer

Straight Up trailer
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