Top rated unfulfilling movies that are also thought-provoking

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

1 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.

Info

2019-09-27 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Lyndsey Lantz, Jenny Mesa

Rating

rating icon 5.0
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    socially relevant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    good directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    running smoothly

Trailer

youtube Watch Trailer on Youtube

2 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.

Info

2021-11-01 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Sian Altman, John-Christian Bateman

Rating

rating icon 2.0
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for intellectual exercise
  2. Ranked #2 for
    semiotic topic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    perpetual

Trailer

Them trailer
play button

3 Luce (2019)

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

Info

2019-08-02 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts

Rating

rating icon 6.344
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    vague ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    multifaceted plot
  3. Ranked #1 for
    unanswered question

Trailer

Luce trailer
play button

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.

Info

2019-11-08 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan

Rating

rating icon 6.979
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

The Platform trailer
play button
download maimovie
Download
Maimovie Now

to discover other
84,718 similar movies

5 Shelter in Place (2021)

When a global pandemic limits the possibility of travel, a honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where a skeleton staff of two employees tend to them. As tensions escalate amidst a forced lockdown, it becomes apparent there is more to fear at the storied hotel than just cabin fever.

Info

2021-09-14 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Kevin Daniels, Brendan Hines

Rating

rating icon 3.6
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    genuinely chilling
  2. Ranked #3 for
    certainly worth checking
  3. Ranked #4 for
    worthwhile

Trailer

Shelter in Place trailer
play button

6 Master (2022)

At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.

Info

2022-03-18 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Regina Hall, Zoe Renee

Rating

rating icon 5.308
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    less than satisfying
  2. Ranked #1 for
    enormously talented
  3. Ranked #1 for
    lingering question

Trailer

Master trailer
play button

7 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.

Info

2021-02-05 | Science Fiction / Romance

Cast

Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek

Rating

rating icon 5.521
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

Bliss trailer
play button

8 Saint Maud (2020)

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

Info

2020-10-09 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle

Rating

rating icon 6.6
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bated breath
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fanaticism
  3. Ranked #1 for
    psychological character

Trailer

Saint Maud trailer
play button

9 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.

Info

2019-06-07 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne

Rating

rating icon 6.69
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

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

Trailer

I Am Mother trailer
play button

10 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

Info

2022-06-16 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack

Rating

rating icon 7.0
More Info

People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    studly
  2. Ranked #1 for
    intimate
  3. Ranked #1 for
    orgasmic

Trailer

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande trailer
play button

FAQ

According to the review analysis on Maimovie, movies in Top rated unfulfilling movies that are also thought-provoking list are rated as semiotic topic, full of symbolism, completely boring, altered state, nebulous, left unanswered, open for interpretation, vague ending, open-ending, literate.
We collect all existing reviews on the web for all movies and proceed machine learning to calculate the A.I. ranking. It ranks the movies while automatically updating new information every week.
Using Taste search, Maimovie provides a unique system which helps you search for specific results through phrases that are collected from movie reviews and information from various movie databases. You can look for movies with phrases such as “adrenaline pumping movies” or “unexpected plot twist of all time.” The Maimovie application’s database covers movie information from all 540K+ movies and connects you to all 74+ available streaming services.