The Best Thought-provoking Movies to Watch on Kanopy (Page 2)
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.
An excellent introduction to the screen legend, as smooth as Old Stone Face himself.
A gay footballer gets torn between his life dream and his sexuality in this depressing, but sadly realistic sports drama.
Egyptian cinema delivers a refreshing antidote to Hollywood’s limited view of Muslims with this thoughtful reflection on religion and pop culture.
Rithy Panh redefines Cambodian cinema and history through this harrowing mixed media memory.
A kabuki actor finds the world has changed in this contemplative color film remake of the classic melodrama.
A grim yet witty dark comedy classic from Britain’s post-war era.
Memory tears love across past and present in this landmark French New Wave drama.
A sensual, spellbinding masterpiece depicting the creative process and its muse.
The new girl discovers a chilling town secret in this underrated, challenging neo-noir.
An eccentric foreigner dreams to create an operatic jungle haven in this surprising, audacious epic.
Elia Suleiman remembers his family in this absurdist, slice-of-life comedy.
Affectionate and contemplative, Tsai Ming-liang welcomes us to an old cinema in Taipei.
A spectacularily acted story about dealing with racism as an indigenous teenager.
The pioneering experimental collage of everyday scenes that formed film language as we know it.
An unsettling but important social horror from the director of The Babadook.
A cameraman goes on the quest to photograph fear in the controversial first slasher film ever made.
In his final film, Andrei Tarkovsky contemplates the end of the world in this meditative modern twist to the Sacrifice of Isaac.
