Top rated thought-provoking movies on Netflix
Check out today’s highest ranked thought-provoking movies on Netflix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best thought-provoking movies on Netflix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
- 7.499
2 I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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- 2020-08-28 | Drama / Fantasy
Cast
- Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley
Rating
- 6.586
3 American Factory (2019)
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
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- 2019-08-21 | Documentary
Cast
- Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Sherrod Brown
Rating
- 7.2
4 The Platform (2019)
A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity.
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- 2019-11-08 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan
Rating
- 6.979
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5 The Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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- 2019-07-12 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen
Rating
- 7.436
6 Passing (2021)
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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- 2021-10-27 | Drama
Cast
- Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga
Rating
- 6.248
7 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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- 2022-03-24 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu
Rating
- 7.8
8 The Midnight Sky (2020)
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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- 2020-12-10 | Science Fiction / Drama
Cast
- George Clooney, Felicity Jones
Rating
- 5.75
9 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
- 7.745
10 The Wonder (2022)
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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- 2022-11-02 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy
Rating
- 6.61