Cure (1997), American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010), You Don't Know Jack (2010), Listen to Me Marlon (2015), Departures (2008), The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008), The Sea Inside (2004), Being There (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Thought-provoking movies.
Storyline: Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage something that he and his family never thought would happen for him - McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life. Both in real terms (as it applies to himself and those around him) and philosophical terms, McElwee discusses, through self-narration, life, death, love, family and babies.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: documentary, autobiographical, family, marriage, death, grief, reflection ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Hubert van der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister Luke finally decides to leave the religious life since she is not able to feel neutral against the invaders of her country.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, religion, faith, spiritual journey, sacrifice, inner conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story of Kaira, a budding cinematographer in search of perfect life. A chance encounter with Jug, an unconventional thinker, helps her gain new perspective about life. She discovers that happiness is all about finding comfort in life's imperfections.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, coming of age, psychological, healing, life, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlet's malaise as requested by the new king? Will the mysterious players who are strolling around the castle reveal the secrets they evidently know? And whose serve is it?
Plot Keywords: absurdist, comedy, drama, existential, philosophical, tragicomedy, postmodern ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Docudrama about the maverick Canadian logger, Grant Hadwin, who became increasingly disillusioned with the logging industry.
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, biography, nature, drama, true story, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.—Jim Sadur <jsadur@keyflux.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, science, physics, time, universe, genius ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After gangster Mulligan's (Willem Dafoe's) cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled, naive daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) refuses to travel on after seeing the Manderlay cotton plantation being run under slavery rules, called Mam's (Lauren Bacall's) law, including flogging. She keeps half of dad's goons as guard to force the dying matriarch-owner's heirs, which she shamelessly dispossesses and reduces to "staff", to taste destitution under absurd, gun-imposed contracts. The "slaves" are made free partners, supposed to vote for progress after lessons from Grace. But almost all of her democracy-pupils prove to be fickle, dumb, and selfish, except old Wilhelm (Danny Glover). Her and their ignorance in Southern planting and crafty Dixie ways means more problems are created then solved. By the time dad returns to pick her up or abandon her for good, she's the one who has learned and changed the most.
Plot Keywords: drama, political, social, power, oppression, american history, slavery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2001, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker, who had been living in Germany for 35 years, kills an elderly wealthy industrialist well known throughout the country. Collini's defense has been assigned to a public defender, the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elayas M'Barek), at his first major trial. However, Caspar had been a protegee of the murdered person, who he considered as a kind of father.—Ferruccio
Plot Keywords: legal drama, courtroom drama, crime thriller, murder mystery, german film, historical drama, justice system ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sent to a converted castle in the Pacific Northwest used by the U.S. government as a psychiatric institution for military personnel who fought in the Vietnam War, the unorthodox psychiatrist, Colonel Kane, has a lot on his plate already, trying to figure out whether the inmates feign insanity or not. Still struggling with his inner demons, Kane is particularly intrigued by the psychotic former astronaut, Captain Cutshaw, whose metaphysical enquiries trigger a feverish recurring nightmare. More and more, as Kane and Cutshaw engage in intense theological debates over the existence of God and evil, the troubled scientist finds himself at a dead-end, in need of a brilliant but reckless plan to determine the root of the soldiers' complex mental breakdowns. Can Colonel Kane provide proof of an afterlife?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: psychological, drama, thriller, horror, mystery, surreal, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paralyzed from the neck down by a car accident, a sculptor (Richard Dreyfuss) argues for his right to die.
Plot Keywords: drama, medical, ethics, life and death, disability, legal, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a the Clutter family. There's no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote's implacable, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, true story, writer, journalist, interview ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, post-apocalyptic, family drama, survival, tragedy, emotional impact, societal collapse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, mystery, social isolation, death, urban life, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. The House That Jack Built is a dark and sinister story, yet presented through a philosophical and occasional humorous tale.
Plot Keywords: psychological horror, serial killer, dark comedy, disturbing, violence, art film, controversial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One hundred years of Hindi cinema is celebrated in four short stories showcasing the power of film.
Plot Keywords: anthology film, bollywood, drama, indian cinema, urban life, human relationships, emotional ...
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