120 Best Smart Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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Good movies serve beyond entertainment, to expand perspectives and improve our understanding of humanity and the world. If you're hungry for some food for thought, here are the best smart movies and shows available to stream now.

Kneecap (2024)

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8.7

The titular hip hop group breaks new ground in this energetic and irreverent music biopic

Network (1976)

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8.5

Featuring compelling performances and a biting script, this award-winning film offers an unflinching look at the cutthroat industry that’s broadcast news

Leave the World Behind (2023)

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8.2

Shyamalan meets Black Mirror in this hugely entertaining, visually inventive apocalyptic thriller with a killer ending

Small Things Like These (2024)

7.4

Cillian Murphy meditates over the silence of systemic abuse in this understated yet devastating historical drama

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

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8.8

A haunting, magnificently performed courtroom drama that expertly builds an atmosphere of distrust

Real Life (1979)

7.9

This mockumentary about a regular family is as prescient as it is hilarious

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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8.7

Martin Scorsese grapples with harrowing history and the limits of storytelling in this monumental masterpiece

The Stranger (1991)

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8.0

A long-lost uncle arrives home with interesting insight in this charming domestic drama

The Death of Stalin (2017)

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8.1

The Monk and the Gun (2024)

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8.1

Pawo Choyning Dorji depicts Bhutan through this fascinatingly gentle comedy during its shift to democracy

The Sacrifice (1986)

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8.1

In his final film, Andrei Tarkovsky contemplates the end of the world in this meditative modern twist to the Sacrifice of Isaac

Caddo Lake (2024)

7.2

It starts slow, but this Shyamalan-produced thriller ultimately delivers gratifying twists

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