Thought Provoking Movies

Two young brothers are left alone in a car while their dad paddleboards out at sea. When a mischievous local boy climbs into the backseat, an...

When her longtime acting rival lands a career-defining film role, Darla, a struggling actress, attends a celebratory house party determined to...

In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to summon...

In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted...

A young man has a conversation with his inner self

In a near future Britain, at a biotech lab on the brink of collapse, three interns invent a cognitive enhancing drug. They begin full scale...

Shadows of Light combines the loud and soft tones of life. The centerpiece is an Austrian mountain pasture where the summer solstice is celebrated...

Jacob's got problems-deep, mental ones. Desperate for relief, he volunteers for a radical treatment to escape his tortured mind. But instead of...

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

Filmmaker Jamal Ademola documents Akua Shabaka and her mother, Rebecca Henry, the creative minds behind the acclaimed fashion label House of Aama, as...

Hidden beneath the surface of the world’s waterways flows one of the most secretive and lucrative trades on Earth — the trafficking of...

A teenager who was confused when his teacher assigned him to write an essay about the good deeds of his abusive father.

It tells the story of 3 scientific renegades: a botanist (Robin Wall Kimmerer), a forester (Suzanne Simard), and a philosopher (Paco Calvo) who...

A young Catholic priest is assigned to a poor rural parish in the small village of Ambricourt. Frail, alone, and tormented by stomach pains, he...

An experimental dreamscape, "Who Should I Be in the World?" follows Tifeny Moreria, a first-generation Afro-diasporic immigrant navigating the deep...

When a real-life house of horror is reopened as a tourist attraction, four friends decide to teach the inhabitants a lesson. But nothing is what it...

When Tom shows up late to an assessment, he’s thrown into an unexpected, surreal purgatory-like place called L.I.M.B.O. Trapped in this...

An instructor sees his student's inability to drive is a block tied to his father. He devises a plan to mend their fractured relationship, unlocking...

A society without money or competition: AfrikaBurn, the largest regional event inspired by the world-famous Burning Man, becomes the setting for a...

Based on the first few pages of the book with the same title, this short film brings us into the life of a Cyrus, a queer Iranian-American dealing...