Movies That Make You Think for Days

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Mind-bending, philosophical films that refuse to leave you alone. Prepare to stare at the ceiling.

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Stalker

Stalker

1979 · 2h 42m · Movie

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Not Rated
8.6
2
Solaris

Solaris

1972 · 2h 47m · Movie

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

PG
8.2
3
Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008 · 2h 4m · Movie

A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

R
8.2
4
Arrival

Arrival

2016 · 1h 56m · Movie

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial vi...

PG-13
8.1
5
Interstellar

Interstellar

2014 · 2h 49m · Movie

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

PG-13
8.9
6
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004 · 1h 48m · Movie

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.

R
8.4
7
Melancholia

Melancholia

2011 · 2h 15m · Movie

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

R
7.4
8
A Ghost Story

A Ghost Story

2017 · 1h 32m · Movie

In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

R
7.4
9
Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas

2012 · 2h 52m · Movie

As souls are born and reborn, they renew their connections to one another throughout the ages.

R
7.2
10
Mr. Nobody

Mr. Nobody

2009 · 2h 21m · Movie

A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.

R
7.6
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2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 · 2h 29m · Movie

When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

G
8.4
12
The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

2011 · 2h 19m · Movie

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.

PG-13
7.3
13
Enemy

Enemy

2014 · 1h 31m · Movie

A mild-mannered college professor investigates the life of an actor who looks exactly like him.

R
7.0
14
Under the Skin

Under the Skin

2014 · 1h 48m · Movie

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

R
6.9
15
The Man from Earth

The Man from Earth

2007 · 1h 27m · Movie

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.

Not Rated
7.7
16
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022 · 2h 19m · Movie

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

R
8.3
17
Annihilation

Annihilation

2018 · 1h 55m · Movie

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition in which the laws of nature don't apply.

R
7.1
18
First Reformed

First Reformed

2018 · 1h 53m · Movie

A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

R
7.8
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The Master

The Master

2012 · 2h 18m · Movie

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by a cult and its charismatic leader.

R
7.7
20
There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

2007 · 2h 38m · Movie

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

R
8.7
21
Perfect Blue

Perfect Blue

1998 · 1h 22m · Movie

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.

Not Rated
8.7
22
I'm Thinking of Ending Things

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020 · 2h 14m · Movie

Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.

R
6.9
23
Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid

2023 · 2h 59m · Movie

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

R
6.8
24
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010 · 1h 54m · Movie

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

Not Rated
7.6
25
Waking Life

Waking Life

2001 · 1h 39m · Movie

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

R
7.7
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Mother!

Mother!

2017 · 2h 1m · Movie

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

R
6.9
27
The Fountain

The Fountain

2006 · 1h 37m · Movie

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.

PG-13
7.1
28
Aftersun

Aftersun

2022 · 1h 42m · Movie

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she d...

R
8.3
29
Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

2017 · 2h 44m · Movie

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

R
8.2
30
Blade Runner

Blade Runner

1982 · 1h 57m · Movie

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

R
8.2
31
The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

1957 · 1h 36m · Movie

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Not Rated
8.4
32
Persona

Persona

1966 · 1h 23m · Movie

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

Not Rated
8.6
33
Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

1957 · 1h 32m · Movie

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Not Rated
8.4
34
Mirror

Mirror

1975 · 1h 47m · Movie

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Not Rated
8.4
35
Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

1966 · 3h 9m · Movie

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

R
8.5
36
Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

1987 · 2h 8m · Movie

An angel meets Peter Falk, and loves a French trapeze artist in Berlin.

PG-13
8.4