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623 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.

Cold Water (1994)

7.0

Olivier Assayas remembers his generation’s rebellious phase in this raw, rock-scored drama

A Family (2021)

7.0

A somber send-off to the organized crime genre and outcasts that once found family there

Three Seasons (1999)

7.2

A stunning, multifaceted portrait of post-reunification Vietnam

A Date for Mad Mary (2016)

7.3

A former inmate tries to find a date and ends up finding herself in this unexpected, thoughtful Irish indie

Chocolat (1988)

7.3

A woman remembers her childhood in colonial Africa in this brilliant and nuanced French drama

Rough Cut (2008)

7.0

An actor and a gangster team up to save a movie in this meta action drama

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.7

A poet reminisces over lost love in this spectacular, sung-through opera adaptation

A Simple Plan (1998)

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Holiday (1938)

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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn’s most underrated screwball comedy

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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

Pickpocket (1997)

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A raw, existential portrait of a man lost in change

The Assessment (2025)

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A couple goes through a brutal test to prove their worthiness as parents in this psychological and dystopian thriller

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