354 Best Challenging Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch
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One of the cinema's most noble roles is to challenge pre-conceived perceptions and tackle difficult questions about humanity and the world. Here are some of the most important and topically challenging movies to stream right now.
Once Were Warriors (1994)
8.0
A Maori family survives in an alienating Auckland in this raw, tragic drama
The Substance (2024)
8.3
Demi Moore swaps bodies in this standout chaotic body dysmorphia horror
Silenced (2011)
9.0
A brutal and harrowing exposé of the schoolwide abuse case that sparked outrage in Korea
His Three Daughters (2024)
8.2
Three sisters deal with life and death in this moving family portrait
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
8.5
In this masterful Iranian drama, tyranny starts at home
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (2024)
8.3
A gamer with disability crafts a life and community in online roleplay in this unconventional, moving documentary
Leave the World Behind (2023)
8.2
Shyamalan meets Black Mirror in this hugely entertaining, visually inventive apocalyptic thriller with a killer ending
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
8.3
Memory tears love across past and present in this landmark French New Wave drama
Being Julia (2004)
7.1
A middle age crisis leads to a star finding her spark in this insightful comedy
Peeping Tom (1960)
8.0
A cameraman goes on the quest to photograph fear in the controversial first slasher film ever made
Babylon (2022)
8.0
An intoxicating and lavishly designed experience of Hollywood hedonism
Mister Organ (2022)
8.1
A filmmaker chases — and then struggles to escape — a shady figure in this fascinating and disturbing documentary