Top rated unfulfilling movies that are also intellectually stimulating

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

1 Them (2021)

Humans live in a comfortable dream that repeats itself. They control the dream. They were humans once too. Some humans wake up, most don't. Daniel wakes to be told that things could be different. Daniel believes it. For a while at least.

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2021-11-01 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Sian Altman, John-Christian Bateman

Rating

rating icon 2.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for intellectual exercise
  2. Ranked #2 for
    perpetual
  3. Ranked #3 for
    standing tall

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Them trailer
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2 Risen (2021)

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind.

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2021-08-20 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Nicole Schalmo, Jack Campbell

Rating

rating icon 5.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    badly produced
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tying loose ends
  3. Ranked #2 for
    painfully slow

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Risen trailer
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3 First Signal (2021)

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.

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2021-04-26 | Drama / History

Cast

Paul Noonan, Conor Timmis

Rating

rating icon 3.417
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    wooden performance
  2. Ranked #1 for
    obvious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    acting with flubs

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First Signal trailer
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4 In the Earth (2021)

As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.

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2021-04-16 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia

Rating

rating icon 5.748
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    drug trip
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pretty colors
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hallucinatory

Trailer

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5 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

rating icon 6.977
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for the fearless
  2. Ranked #1 for
    study of human nature
  3. Ranked #1 for
    open-ending

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6 Bliss (2021)

A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.

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2021-02-05 | Science Fiction / Romance

Cast

Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek

Rating

rating icon 5.527
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    blissful
  2. Ranked #1 for
    altered state
  3. Ranked #2 for
    crackhead

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7 IO (2019)

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

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2019-01-18 | Science Fiction

Cast

Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie

Rating

rating icon 4.922
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow and boring
  2. Ranked #1 for
    tedious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    trouble staying awake

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8 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
    too many unanswered questions
  3. Ranked #3 for
    like Blade Runner

Trailer

I Am Mother trailer
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9 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

rating icon 5.75
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    glacial pace
  2. Ranked #3 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #3 for
    howler

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10 The Beyond (2018)

Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.

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2018-01-09 | Science Fiction

Cast

David Bailie, Jane Perry

Rating

rating icon 5.503
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    cinema verite
  2. Ranked #53 for
    Mockumentary
  3. Ranked #64 for
    cyborg

Trailer

The Beyond trailer
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