Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also for self reflection
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and for self reflection movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and for self reflection, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Feb 22 2021
1 Captain Fantastic (2016)
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
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- 2016-07-02 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Viggo Mortensen, Samantha Isler
Rating
8.0
2 Into the Wild (2007)
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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- 2007-09-11 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden
Rating
7.8
3 Gone Girl (2014)
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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- 2014-10-01 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck
Rating
7.9
4 Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflict
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- 2005-09-10 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
Rating
7.8
5 Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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- 2012-06-08 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass
Rating
6.8
6 Signs (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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- 2002-08-02 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix
Rating
6.6
7 Sideways (2004)
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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- 2004-10-22 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
Rating
7.1
8 Capote (2005)
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
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- 2005-09-30 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener
Rating
7.0
9 Lost in Translation (2003)
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
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- 2003-09-18 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson
Rating
7.4
10 Highway (2014)
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
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- 2014-02-13 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Randeep Hooda, Alia Bhatt
Rating
7.1