Top rated thoughtful and intelligent movies with a captivating ending

Check out today’s highest ranked thoughtful and intelligent movies with a captivating ending! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best thoughtful and intelligent movies with a captivating ending, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

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2022-08-24 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba

Rating

rating icon 6.887
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    totally absorbing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    innocence and desire
  3. Ranked #1 for
    old-fashioned story

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2 Cicada Song (2019)

Karen is a tough, corn fed, outspoken, farm manager who cares about the people she works for and the migrant people who work for her. When one of her farmhands approaches her about a little girl that has recently disappeared, she becomes closer to her employees than she ever thought possible. But, when her lover, Annabelle, disappears, the bubble Karen lives in bursts and she begins an investigation only to uncover something dark in the little town she grew up in.

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2019-09-27 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Lyndsey Lantz, Jenny Mesa

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    running smoothly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    good pace
  3. Ranked #1 for
    eagerly awaited

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3 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 7.191
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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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4 Let Them All Talk (2020)

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.

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2020-12-10 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Meryl Streep, Lucas Hedges

Rating

rating icon 5.711
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    improvisational style
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deadly dull
  3. Ranked #1 for
    weak link in cast

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5 The Birdcatcher (2019)

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

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2019-03-08 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Arthur Hakalahti

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wholly unbelievable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unique spin
  3. Ranked #1 for
    implausible

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6 The Way You Look Tonight (2019)

Peter is approaching 30 and still trying to navigate modern online dating culture. After a whimsical, romantic evening with a mysterious young woman ends with him waking up alone, Peter tries to put the night behind him by turning to a mythically effective dating site guaranteed to find his perfect match. But with each date from the site, Peter notices strange similarities between each woman and that first amazing date. As he learns the truth about their connection, he'll discover a whole new world of people and experiences that will make him question the nature of identity, attraction, and love.

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2019-03-08 | Romance / Fantasy

Cast

Nick Fink, Juliette Goglia

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unknown actor
  2. Ranked #2 for
    using editing tricks
  3. Ranked #8 for
    compulsively watchable

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7 Waves (2019)

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

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2019-11-15 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell

Rating

rating icon 7.396
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    propulsive
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sob story
  3. Ranked #1 for
    picking up pace

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8 Saint Omer (2022)

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

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2022-11-23 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    empathetic character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fresh look
  3. Ranked #1 for
    providing answers

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9 Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2022)

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

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2022-01-14 | Documentary

Cast

Jeffery Robinson, Gwen Carr

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    so ingrained
  2. Ranked #2 for
    succinct
  3. Ranked #2 for
    precise directing

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10 Between Waves (2020)

Professional photographer Jamie's quantum physicist boyfriend Isaac has gone missing, and is presumed dead. Haunted by his disappearance while attempting to continue with life as normal, Jamie gets more and more wrapped up in figuring out exactly what happened, and is convinced that his disappearance has something to do with Isaac’s research into parallel dimensions. She continues to pursue him until she collides with a shattering revelation.

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2020-07-15 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Fiona Graham, Luke Robinson

Rating

rating icon 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    masochistic character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cleverly put together
  3. Ranked #1 for
    evocative cinematography

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