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60 Best Challenging Movies to Watch

Popular + Challenging

Find the best challenging movies to watch, from our mood category. Like everything on agoodmovietowatch, these challenging movies are highly-rated by both viewers and critics.

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The Nightingale (2018)

7.1

netflix

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An unsettling but important social horror from the director of The Babadook

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A Cop Movie (2021)

7.5

netflix

An empathetic and impressively inventive look at the notoriously corrupt Mexican police force

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Quo Vadis Aida? (2020)

8.2

hulu

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A difficult and alarmingly timely portrayal of the Srebrenica massacre

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Sound of Metal (2020)

9.1

amazon prime

Riz Ahmed excels in this piercing drama about a musician losing his hearing.

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Poetry (2011)

8.8

kanopy

tubi tv

A movie that aims straight for your heart and leaves you broken into a thousand pieces

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Wendy and Lucy (2008)

8.1

kanopy

tubi tv

Michelle Williams gives her all as a drifter just trying to make it in America

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The Platform (2019)

7.0

netflix

If Parasite was too tame for you

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Tell Me Who I Am (2019)

8.2

netflix

A devastating, unlikely story

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Midsommar (2019)

7.8

amazon

A horror film that might be too twisted for anyone to enjoy

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Vagabond (1985)

7.9

criterion channel

In a series of flashbacks, this drama traces the final steps of a transient woman on her uncharted journey across the French countryside to her lonely end

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Climax (2018)

7.1

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amazon

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The Hate U Give (2018)

8.5

amazon

amc theatres on demand

A powerful 'movie' movie

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