Thought-provoking, a list by Riz

9.3

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91

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87

/25841/

4.5

/1250677/

89

/140/

Audience

98

/890157/

82

/21/

4.0

age 15+

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

83

7.7

/126353/

75

/4370/

76

/1943/

4.2

/860484/

96

/278/

Audience

90

/62/

86

/44/

3.5

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

10

82

8.7

/2107571/

85

/71376/

84

/34259/

4.3

/2399031/

73

/378/

Audience

86

/182726/

74

/46/

3.5

age 12+

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

79

7.6

/103307/

77

/5513/

75

/2033/

3.8

/105376/

89

/236/

Audience

95

/539/

73

/38/

3.0

age 14+

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

83

7.6

/242683/

73

/7927/

74

/2862/

4.1

/811432/

93

/465/

Audience

84

/1561/

89

/63/

4.0

age 16+

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

73

7.3

/556307/

74

/32223/

73

/16849/

3.5

/971114/

78

/312/

Audience

79

/54556/

63

/48/

3.0

age 14+

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

10

82

8.7

/2057778/

87

/60457/

82

/24728/

4.2

/1449020/

83

/207/

Audience

85

/33324202/

73

/35/

3.0

age 15+

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

10

86

8.8

/2556372/

86

/70922/

83

/35645/

4.2

/2117604/

87

/372/

Audience

91

/41764/

74

/42/

4.0

age 14+

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

61

6.5

/198180/

64

/7613/

64

/2138/

2.9

/515240/

73

/160/

Audience

35

/3922/

68

/35/

2.5

age 15+

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

10

73

8.4

/1494459/

81

/46286/

81

/24532/

3.8

/2613765/

69

/600/

Audience

88

/23600/

59

/60/

2.0

age 16+

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

10

79

8.8

/2329840/

87

/48890/

84

/28477/

4.3

/2528346/

80

/185/

Audience

96

/74018/

67

/36/

2.0

age 17+

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

72

6.9

/58332/

66

/2768/

67

/606/

3.5

/277437/

91

/231/

Audience

68

/59/

74

/47/

3.0

age 15+

Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.

78

7.5

/79829/

75

/3286/

73

/771/

3.7

/378515/

93

/283/

Audience

96

/478/

81

/54/

2.5

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

91

8.5

/963522/

85

/33408/

85

/17494/

4.6

/2803011/

99

/482/

Audience

90

/7296/

97

/56/

4.0

age 16+

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

75

7.1

/405217/

71

/13399/

71

/6720/

3.8

/2055432/

83

/405/

Audience

63

/1156/

72

/54/

4.0

age 17+

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

86

7.9

/117405/

78

/3788/

78

/1287/

4.2

/903981/

95

/305/

Audience

84

/964/

94

/52/

4.0

age 13+

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

83

7.8

/535586/

79

/22359/

77

/6057/

4.3

/2331176/

93

/405/

Audience

86

/1947/

81

/55/

3.5

age 15+

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.

9

85

8.6

/1803098/

85

/33378/

83

/20127/

4.3

/1497108/

83

/88/

Audience

95

/470290/

65

/22/

4.0

age 18+

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

80

8.5

/1444126/

83

/28917/

82

/15454/

4.2

/891445/

77

/206/

Audience

92

/43703/

66

/36/

3.0

age 14+

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

10

83

8.3

/1071328/

83

/20933/

81

/11797/

4.3

/1164367/

97

/91/

Audience

94

/15788/

71

/28/

3.0

age 15+

When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.

10

80

7.9

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77

/56108/

76

/17239/

4.1

/1392404/

94

/442/

Audience

82

/6185/

81

/52/

3.0

age 11+

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

8

89

8.5

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84

/24463/

84

/14619/

4.4

/2123483/

94

/307/

Audience

94

/5070/

89

/49/

4.0

age 15+

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

10

81

8.3

/900261/

81

/14617/

80

/9589/

4.1

/766894/

78

/139/

Audience

93

/329103/

71

/32/

3.5

age 18+

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.

74

7.6

/717909/

76

/18177/

74

/10440/

3.9

/1793695/

68

/154/

Audience

85

/306372/

64

/35/

3.0

age 18+

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

10

83

7.7

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77

/30384/

75

/12853/

4.0

/864350/

92

/289/

Audience

86

/4719/

78

/42/

4.0

age 17+

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

10

78

8.2

/811836/

80

/19416/

80

/11302/

4.3

/1065507/

81

/254/

Audience

87

/6036/

70

/53/

2.5

age 18+

Keller Dover is facing a parent’s worst nightmare: his young daughter and her friend have gone missing. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests the only suspect – the driver of an RV on which the girls had been playing – but a lack of evidence forces his release. As pressure mounts, Loki’s team pursues multiple leads while a frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

65

7.1

/168548/

69

/5479/

74

/2785/

3.8

/603923/

57

/361/

Audience

52

/588/

61

/63/

2.5

age 17+

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

81

8.0

/826457/

77

/18331/

76

/14024/

4.1

/1432374/

85

/322/

Audience

84

/178914/

79

/42/

3.5

age 17+

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

10

82

7.8

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77

/40713/

76

/16800/

4.2

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98

/402/

Audience

86

/6349/

85

/48/

3.0

age 17+

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

8

82

8.1

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80

/32225/

78

/18034/

4.1

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88

/376/

Audience

87

/8383/

79

/49/

3.5

age 17+

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.

80

7.3

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72

/15587/

72

/7304/

4.0

/1473207/

90

/383/

Audience

70

/4681/

87

/49/

4.0

age 17+

Following the death of Ellen Leigh, the matriarch of their family, her daughter Annie and the rest of the family start to uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

87

8.2

/922860/

79

/14387/

81

/11731/

4.2

/1221401/

89

/159/

Audience

93

/13477/

94

/23/

4.0

age 17+

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

84

8.4

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83

/25298/

82

/14282/

4.2

/947205/

94

/185/

Audience

94

/382363/

83

/34/

3.0

age 17+

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

88

8.3

/1080018/

82

/21257/

80

/14396/

4.2

/1559132/

92

/257/

Audience

94

/46691/

89

/41/

4.0

age 16+

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

10

77

8.2

/1460665/

81

/32261/

82

/23285/

4.1

/1591642/

69

/267/

Audience

77

/26222/

63

/37/

3.5

age 18+

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

79

8.3

/882571/

80

/14700/

82

/12336/

4.1

/792160/

87

/82/

Audience

93

/437803/

77

/22/

2.0

age 17+

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

8

83

8.1

/442534/

81

/8518/

78

/5622/

4.2

/522787/

92

/63/

Audience

94

/13396/

75

/20/

age 14+

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

75

7.1

/297792/

68

/10118/

70

/5947/

3.8

/713761/

87

/268/

Audience

65

/2000/

82

/44/

3.5

age 18+

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

79

8.0

/851332/

79

/19613/

77

/11959/

4.0

/1073493/

87

/119/

Audience

80

/871660/

88

/15/

2.5

age 17+

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

77

6.8

/53727/

66

/1585/

67

/548/

3.7

/456031/

91

/317/

Audience

65

/460/

86

/53/

4.0

age 15+

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

72

6.5

/35860/

64

/1291/

69

/573/

3.6

/609299/

84

/293/

Audience

63

/213/

79

/59/

3.5

age 14+

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

87

8.5

/914737/

84

/12376/

83

/8818/

4.4

/572338/

95

/190/

Audience

96

/10840/

85

/40/

3.5

age 16+

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

81

8.5

/1188171/

84

/20028/

83

/11205/

4.1

/439834/

84

/89/

Audience

96

/34130/

62

/32/

3.0

age 17+

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

10

87

8.2

/1199516/

82

/28191/

81

/17685/

4.2

/2003893/

94

/162/

Audience

89

/19770/

90

/30/

4.0

age 10+

Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.

69

7.3

/147964/

71

/3273/

72

/2755/

3.8

/172499/

59

/126/

Audience

80

/3938/

51

/38/

3.0

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

75

7.0

/301856/

67

/13201/

69

/6634/

3.8

/853424/

90

/336/

Audience

60

/3972/

84

/46/

3.5

age 17+

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

84

7.9

/384552/

76

/7721/

78

/5919/

4.2

/534591/

84

/261/

Audience

87

/189752/

86

/36/

4.0

age 18+

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

73

7.0

/188296/

68

/6115/

70

/3762/

3.7

/517348/

79

/281/

Audience

63

/11028/

73

/45/