Thought Provoking, a list by Mulanzo1

6.3

/13782/

71

/443/

64

/219/

3.1

/5592/

43

/21/

65

/294/

50

/17/

3.0

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

NEW

85

8.4

/832656/

82

/24827/

80

/10519/

4.1

/835346/

94

/143/

94

/22899/

84

/23/

3.5

age 15+

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

NEW

62

7.3

/176994/

77

/13925/

72

/3820/

3.4

/123244/

51

/224/

83

/2222/

48

/36/

1.0

age 16+

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

NEW

58

6.5

/70970/

66

/1487/

62

/716/

3.0

/27928/

46

/153/

64

/10731/

48

/27/

age 14+

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

NEW

72

7.5

/359702/

74

/9446/

73

/5479/

3.6

/449830/

70

/253/

79

/10162/

63

/41/

age 14+

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

NEW

63

6.2

/17960/

69

/591/

67

/268/

3.4

/27464/

35

/31/

83

/1066/

51

/20/

3.0

age 16+

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?

NEW

53

6.6

/141234/

69

/7985/

65

/3503/

3.1

/150972/

29

/159/

45

/759/

42

/28/

2.0

age 16+

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

NEW

80

IMDb 10

7.3

/77980/

75

/4383/

76

/1163/

3.5

/294608/

86

/267/

95

/2984/

71

/43/

4.0

age 14+

Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

NEW

78

7.6

/26524/

75

/693/

76

/589/

3.9

/118728/

82

/34/

87

/328/

75

/14/

3.0

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

NEW

80

7.7

/164006/

77

/3779/

74

/2126/

3.8

/90368/

79

/204/

87

/7334/

73

/40/

4.0

age 15+

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

NEW

72

7.3

/159179/

73

/4003/

70

/2254/

3.9

/288641/

91

/65/

85

/4576/

69

/23/

1.5

age 14+

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

NEW

83

7.7

/412002/

76

/9289/

78

/7376/

4.2

/1315606/

88

/262/

82

/27141/

87

/41/

4.0

age 15+

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

59

6.6

/102854/

67

/2860/

63

/1650/

3.0

/23174/

54

/215/

49

/6337/

55

/34/

2.5

age 18+

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

NEW

77

8.0

/902081/

79

/24464/

78

/13094/

4.0

/2040293/

88

/124/

80

/871660/

71

/21/

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.

NEW

74

7.8

/449805/

77

/20230/

76

/6343/

3.8

/582893/

76

/278/

84

/2664/

51

/44/

3.0

age 17+

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

NEW

74

7.3

/40416/

73

/894/

69

/537/

3.6

/12260/

77

/148/

86

/1210/

62

/32/

3.5

age 14+

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.

NEW

79

7.2

/12632/

71

/329/

63

/150/

3.8

/24942/

83

/133/

90

/364/

78

/21/

4.0

age 16+

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

NEW

62

6.7

/133451/

69

/4572/

66

/2215/

2.9

/72330/

61

/28/

56

/908/

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

NEW

83

7.5

/310054/

76

/16047/

74

/7910/

4.0

/1075708/

96

/448/

83

/1723/

83

/56/

4.0

age 15+

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

NEW

70

6.5

/276993/

63

/17412/

61

/7017/

3.4

/433095/

83

/398/

40

/2655/

80

/56/

4.0

age 13+

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

NEW

73

8.0

/167191/

76

/2962/

78

/2597/

4.2

/182728/

70

/164/

89

/3415/

61

/39/

2.0

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

NEW

71

68

6.7

/10346/

67

/279/

67

/216/

3.6

/17318/

81

/16/

76

/166/

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

NEW

81

IMDb 41

7.9

/1476541/

78

/68946/

76

/33224/

3.7

/2584637/

81

/335/

82

/83114/

83

/38/

4.0

age 13+

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

NEW

62

7.0

/7537/

72

/124/

64

/64/

3.2

/1245/

39

/28/

76

/181/

2.0

Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.

NEW

56

6.1

/27548/

62

/435/

57

/374/

2.9

/6707/

49

/142/

40

/347/

50

/34/

3.0

age 18+

Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.

NEW

82

7.7

/49923/

75

/1111/

74

/692/

4.0

/54637/

88

/40/

88

/744/

77

/17/

4.0

age 15+

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

NEW

58

6.0

/62875/

66

/5498/

64

/1843/

2.5

/33706/

41

/111/

87

/650/

46

/21/

2.0

age 13+

A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.

NEW

82

80

7.6

/17032/

75

/367/

73

/263/

4.1

/26114/

100

/32/

82

/243/

86

/10/

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

NEW

76

7.4

/330519/

75

/16590/

74

/6869/

3.6

/238956/

84

/108/

75

/1460/

69

/28/

3.5

age 16+

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

NEW

82

8.6

/1538540/

86

/31998/

85

/18705/

4.3

/1132476/

78

/134/

94

/31674/

61

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

NEW

76

7.3

/165633/

73

/3914/

72

/1980/

3.8

/308693/

81

/137/

84

/13325/

70

/32/

3.5

age 16+

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

51

6.3

/6953/

69

/361/

64

/177/

3.1

/16428/

26

/19/

59

/52/

29

/6/

1.5

Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.

NEW

72

7.2

/12091/

70

/199/

72

/175/

3.4

/1779/

60

/10/

80

/142/

3.5

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

NEW

72

7.4

/104125/

76

/7754/

76

/1626/

3.5

/189450/

81

/189/

88

/323/

61

/36/

2.0

age 14+

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

NEW

68

7.3

/231469/

75

/5334/

76

/4049/

3.9

/1259284/

53

/113/

84

/8008/

51

/32/

2.5

age 17+

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

NEW

74

7.0

/11818/

64

/104/

62

/101/

3.5

/2726/

83

/113/

71

/307/

74

/26/

4.0

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

NEW

68

6.9

/47350/

70

/1477/

67

/744/

3.8

/86439/

74

/31/

77

/1055/

66

/20/

2.0

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

NEW

60

6.2

/30644/

66

/935/

65

/719/

3.2

/16757/

43

/30/

45

/494/

3.0

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

NEW

74

7.3

/173253/

74

/4230/

71

/2182/

3.6

/102336/

78

/64/

81

/2695/

56

/16/

3.5

age 17+

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.

68

6.2

/73098/

65

/7662/

63

/2204/

3.1

/103104/

82

/263/

58

/820/

70

/38/

3.5

age 16+

A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

67

6.8

/51683/

73

/1935/

68

/1080/

3.3

/20639/

66

/29/

74

/795/

53

/16/

3.0

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

NEW

68

7.2

/111039/

71

/2379/

70

/1830/

3.9

/256231/

65

/57/

81

/2093/

52

/18/

2.5

age 18+

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

NEW

71

7.0

/86798/

69

/2663/

67

/1581/

3.4

/72841/

75

/32/

71

/2111/

67

/8/

3.5

age 16+

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.

70

7.1

/30692/

69

/588/

67

/370/

3.5

/16080/

71

/21/

78

/673/

63

/14/

3.0

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

NEW

73

7.1

/198887/

70

/4164/

66

/2331/

3.6

/140572/

93

/185/

55

/792589/

75

/38/

3.5

age 14+

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.

NEW

54

6.2

/269083/

66

/17200/

64

/10288/

2.5

/363831/

29

/206/

58

/2398/

42

/40/

2.5

age 14+

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

NEW

75

7.5

/243921/

75

/6474/

73

/2442/

3.6

/166211/

73

/176/

85

/29388/

67

/35/

3.5

age 13+

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

NEW

77

7.5

/35095/

75

/810/

72

/486/

3.9

/23789/

84

/86/

85

/638/

65

/18/