572 Best Thought-provoking Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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Challenging movies serve beyond entertainment, pushing us to ask new questions about humanity and the world around us. If you're hungry for some food for thought, here are the best thought-provoking movies and shows available to stream now.

Nickel Boys (2024)

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An intimate, immersive, and incredibly inventive look into the racial abuse of a Jim Crow-era reform school

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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A Maori family survives in an alienating Auckland in this raw, tragic drama

The Substance (2024)

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Demi Moore swaps bodies in this standout chaotic body dysmorphia horror

Silenced (2011)

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A brutal and harrowing exposé of the schoolwide abuse case that sparked outrage in Korea

His Three Daughters (2024)

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Three sisters deal with life and death in this moving family portrait

The Red Shoes (1948)

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A fantastical, transcendent Technicolor classic that stands as the definitive ballet drama

Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)

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Soldiers find and protect a slice of paradise in this surreal, heartfelt war comedy

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (2024)

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A gamer with disability crafts a life and community in online roleplay in this unconventional, moving documentary

Kneecap (2024)

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

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

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Memory tears love across past and present in this landmark French New Wave drama

Leave the World Behind (2023)

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

Peeping Tom (1960)

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A cameraman goes on the quest to photograph fear in the controversial first slasher film ever made

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