Thought provoking movies
Food, Inc. (2008)
Thought provokingInsightfulRealScary
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and ... (more)
Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Thought provokingUpliftingBrilliantInspiring
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot ... (more)
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
DarkInsightfulThought provokingIntense
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities. (more)
Stalker (1979)
Thought provokingClassicSlow movingBrilliant
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted. (more)
Big Eyes (2014)
DramaticRealEmotionalThought provoking
The story of the awakening of painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. (more)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Tear-jerkerThought provokingDarkDisturbing
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the ... (more)
The Lunchbox (2013)
RomanticThought provokingSlow movingBeautiful
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy ... (more)
Secretary (2002)
Thought provokingIntenseRomanticInsightful
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one. (more)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Thought provokingSuspensefulComplexDark
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make ... (more)
The Wave (2008)
Thought provokingBrilliantPowerfulGripping
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can ... (more)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Thought provokingOriginalFuturisticEnjoyable
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. (more)
Crash (2005)
Thought provokingOriginalEmotionalDramatic
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period. (more)
The Truman Show (1998)
Thought provokingOriginalCharmingClever
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including ... (more)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
DisturbingThought provokingIntensePowerful
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. (more)
God Bless America (2011)
CleverThought provokingBrilliantFunny
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy. (more)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Mind blowingComplexThought provokingDepressing
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences. (more)
3 Idiots (2009)
BrilliantThought provokingEmotionalEnjoyable
In the tradition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” comes this refreshing comedy about a rebellious prankster with a crafty mind and a heart of gold. Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at ... (more)
Inside Out (2015)
EmotionalBeautifulThought provokingCute
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside ... (more)
The Book Thief (2013)
DramaticPowerfulThought provokingIntense
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. (more)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
FuturisticThought provokingComplexOriginal
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. (more)