Hollywood Thought Provoking Movies and Where to Watch Them

The film narrates the life of Pi Patel, as he recounts all the events that lead to his fame in the present day. He starts off from his childhood days, when his family owned a zoo in India, to the time when they were moving to Canada with the animals after selling the zoo. Their freighter meets with an accident on the voyage, and Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat, with only wild animals for company. What follows is a beautiful story of courage, love, and struggle, as Pi fights his way against the odds, befriending the animals on the way.

'Interstellar' is a gripping tale of future possibilities. Earth slowly becomes an uninhabitable planet. Dust storms, food shortage and acute chances of human survival are prevalent in the dystopian world. Cooper is an ex NASA pilot. His daughter, Murphy, discovers some strangle patterns happening in her room. These turn out to be the co-ordinates of a secret NASA Agency that is trying to find habitable planets beyond Earth. In such a situation at hand Cooper is called to duty to find another planet where survival is feasible. A team of 12 was initially sent and three had positive reports. The head scientist, Professor Brand wanted to check the feasibility of all three and hence send a new team of 4 humans and 2 robots to search for planets that could sustain human life. As a parting gift, Cooper gives a wristwatch to his daughter which later turns to be used to transfer data Murphy gets from Cooper to help the people resettle. Cooper and company travel through black holes, hop from planet to planet and experience how time plays around in different parts of the universe.

When enormous spaceships land across twelve different locations around the world, countries are thrown into a frenzy. With an imminent possibility of a global war on the rise, the government recruits a team of elite investigators. Led by linguistics expert, Louise Banks, the team aims to decipher the language of the aliens aboard, to find out their motives. Racing against time, Banks and a physicist, Ian Donnelly board one of the ships to put their expert skills to use. They decide to interview two extraterrestrial creatures, hoping to find out why they’re on Earth. However, trouble arises when Banks’ decision threatens both her life and mankind.

With three-story arcs revolving around a mans past, present, and future, the movie depicts mans quest for immortality through a combination of elements from sci-fi, history, and fantasy. Located in the ancient past, Toms Verde, a Spanish conquistador, fights off the Mayans to find the Tree of Life and save his queen. A present-day surgeon cum medical researcher, Tom Creo struggles to find a cure for his wifes fatal ailment and devotes his time to a formula for reversing ageing. In the future, Tommy, a space traveller, embarks on a quest for the Tree of Life in the endless domain of the outer space. The entire plot demonstrates the mythical concept of the Tree of Life.

In the late 1930s in Los Angeles lived a computer scientist named Hannon Fuller. Fuller owns a multi-billion dollar computer company and has developed a new virtual reality simulation (VR). This reality simulation looks like a real person with real emotions. Fuller wants to share this beautiful development with his colleague, Douglas Hall. He is well aware that someone is after him because of this development. He sends a letter on a computer-generated parallel world and gets murdered in the real world. His colleague, Douglas Hall is the prime suspect. Hall finds a bloody shirt in his bathroom and tries to recall the doing of last night. Hall fails to recall anything and starts doubting his own innocence. LAPD detective named Larry McBain gets appointed for Fullers murder case and starts questioning Hall. During this period Douglas Hall meets Jane Fuller, the abandoned daughter of Hannon Fuller. When a bartender testifies to seeing Fuller and Hall together on the night of Fullers murder, Hall gets arrested. Can Hall and Jane find the real murderer?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie about love's strange habit to come back in life, time and again. This is a story of Joel and Clementine. They are romantically involved with each other, but eventually, things start taking an ugly turn. Clementine makes up her mind to undergo a kind of medical procedure that can erase all the memories related to Joel and their relationship. After learning what Clementine did, Joel decides to undergo the same procedure. All the memories, good and bad, are erased from both of their minds. In such a scenario, Joel and Clementine meet again in a train from Montauk and a connection starts developing between them almost instantly.

Donald Donnie Darko is an intelligent but confused teen that, as it turns out, has been chosen to save the world. One night, Donnie is awakened by a strange voice belonging to an even stranger bunny rabbit called Frank. Frank beckons Donnie out of his house and informs him that the world is going to end in precisely 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. What then follows is a series of events revolving around multiple universes, time travel and the very existence of God which conspire to lead Donnie to realize and then fulfil his destiny.

The movie begins with a time-travelling agent trying to disarm a bomb, failing which, the bomb blows upon his face. Using his time travel machine, he goes to a hospital in the future and undergoes surgery. After recovery, he is sent to New York in 1970s as a bartender. During one of his bartending sessions, he strikes a conversation with a man named John, who reveals the truth about his past life when he was a girl named Jane. She was impregnated by a man who ghosted her. The time-travelling agent offers to take John back in time to avenge the ex-lover. As the plot progresses, the movie reveals many paradoxes, where the characters keep intertwining.

A cutting-edge thriller, 'Inception' is the story of Cobb (a thief) who is skilled in the art of entering people's dreams and reading their thoughts. He steals information in this manner. Cobb later gets tangled in the blame of murdering his own wife and the only legal way out and meet his children, is the inception of an idea in one of the competitor's minds.

I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot, is enlisted for a top-secret military operation. When a commuter train explodes outside Chicago, Stevens must identify the bomber responsible. To prevent a similar disaster, his consciousness is inserted into one of the commuter’s bodies, who was on the train that morning. Colter now lives the final moments of Sean Fentress, a man who died in the explosion. Being directed to only gather the required information, Sean searches the train for clues to the bomber’s identity. However, with each passing moment, he grows confident about preventing the train’s explosion. Racing against time, will Stevens succeed or will he change the future for the worse?

In the year 2054, the Precrime Police Department can prevent crimes before they happen with the help of visions, from three gifted people, the Precogs. Captain John Anderton of the Precrime department abruptly finds himself on the run when the precogs accuse him of murdering a man in the future. As Anderton tries to prove his innocence, he unravels a conspiracy that threatens the entire Precrime department.

The movie is based on the book by Dennis Lehane. Edward "Teddy" Daniels and Chuck Aule are sent to Shutter Island to investigate a case at the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane people. There, in the asylum, Teddy discovers shocking truths about the place, and his history to the person who's mysterious running away case he is investigating.

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

Wikus van de Merwe works for a multinational weapons manufacturer called MNU. The government has hired MNU to deal with an alien species living on earth called Prawns by humans. In 1982, a gigantic alien spacecraft arrives on earth hovering over the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. The humans find a large population of starving aliens inside and build a camp for them right under the spaceship. The area soon turns into a militarized slum called District 9. After multiple complaints from the locals, the government hires MNU to relocate the aliens and Wikus goes to district 9 to give the aliens eviction notices. Meanwhile, some aliens are conducting some experiments when Wikus shows up at their door. Wikus confiscates a container of alien fuel which sprays on his face while handling it and Wikus starts to slowly mutate into an alien.

In 2092, mankind has vanquished mortality through the endless reestablishment of cells. Nemo Nobody is 118 years and the final human, edging towards death. Curiosity brings Dr Feldheim, a therapist, to utilize hypnotism and help Nemo recall a portion of his life. Nemo gives conflicting expressions. He describes his life at three essential points. Age 9, when his parents separated, at age 15 when he experienced love, and at age 34 as a grown-up. Each of the three unfurls into their numerous possible results which are subject to his one choice. Would it be advisable for him to remain with his dad or leave with his mom? How can he be in several places simultaneously, living different lives?

A psychological thriller, set in Missouri- 'Gone Girl' is the story of conflicts in coupledom. Nick Dunne becomes the part of a mystery that follows the strange disappearance of his wife, Amy. As the story unfolds, the husband finds himself become the primary suspect in his wife's disappearance.

Inside Out' is an animated drama about a fictional character, Riley. 11-year-old Riley moves from San Francisco to Minnesota. Her 5 core emotions (fear, anger, disgust, joy and sadness) accompany her everywhere. It's a story where emotions are personified and they live in Riley's mental quarters and these emotions fight it out with Riley through her every decision.

Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.

In the distant future, Earth has been completely destroyed by global warming. Theres barely any trace of life on the planet. All thats left is garbage and a few robots to process that garbage into little cubes. WALL-E is among those garbage processing robots whose routine involves compressing garbage from sunrise to the days end. One day weird egg-shaped spaceship land on Earth and out comes EVE, a beautiful robot. Soon Wall-E falls for EVE and follows her to outer space where he finds out that Humans have developed a huge station where they live comfortably. Soon EVE finds out that theres still life possible on Earth, Captain McCrea decides to go back to Earth. Theres only one problem. AUTO, the pilot of the ship, isnt allowed to let humans go back.

Young student, Rhoda Williams is ecstatic after receiving an acceptance letter of her dreams. She celebrates this happy news with her buddies. On the same night, while driving back home, she encounters another planet called Earth 2 which is close and similar to Earth. She drives while looking and wondering about Earth 2 which results in an accident wherein she crashes her car and bumps into a car of John Burroughs, a composer by profession. This results in the death of Jonh's pregnant wife and this makes him miserable and inconsolable. Rhoda is imprisoned for four years and once she is out, she decides to meet John and confess that she is the reason behind her family's death. After meeting John, she could not gather the courage to confess and both of them fall in love. Would she open pandora's box and reveal what happened or she will be tight-lipped as she does not want to risk her relationship with John? The movie will let you know!

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

The Fault in Our Stars is an adaptation of John Greens bestselling fictional work of the same name. The simple yet profound storyline is about love and loss. Hazel Grace, is a sixteen-year-old suffering from thyroid cancer since childhood. Hazel finds a true friend in a charming handsome teenager, Augustus Waters, who has also suffered from cancer previously. They meet in a support group and bond over each others best read books & eventually fall in love. However, fate has something completely unexpected for them. The Fault in Our Stars beautifully portrays the tale of two star-struck lovers and their struggle to live an infinity within numbered days.

Documented since the birth of Truman Burbank, The Truman Show is a live show directed by the visionary producer Christof who intends on filming every moment and movement of Trumans life. Truman is the main protagonist of the show and every other character in his life is an actor. All of these were being recorded without his knowledge until one day he begins to sense that something wasnt right. The film takes one on a comical journey of how Truman acts on his realization.

Humanity deems that emotions cause wars, and after World War III, establishes the city of Libria. The Father is their leader; citizens take drugs to suppress emotions, and specialized warriors called Clerics, frequently raid homes for books and music. John Preston is one such cleric, whose wife was executed for being a ‘Sense Offender’. He begins to regret his beliefs when he accidentally skips a dose and begins to experience emotion for the first time.

Caleb works as a programmer for BlueBook, a leading search engine which was created by Nathan. Nathan is currently residing in an isolated area, working alone on a humanoid robot, which he calls Ava. To test her consciousness, Nathan needs Ava to interact with a human. For this, a contest is organized at BlueBook which Caleb wins and gets a chance to spend a week with Nathan. Caleb starts his interactions with Ama, both separated by a glass wall in a closed room, watched over by Nathan through a system of CCTV. Soon, Caleb learns that Nathan is going to kill Ava as he did with his previous humanoid robots. He makes a plan to free Ava from the captivity. Will be able to execute it perfectly? Get your snacks and watch EX MACHINA to find out the answer.

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Traumatized delivery kid Mickey Knox becomes hopelessly attracted to his client, Mallory Wilson. He soon encourages her to execute her empowering parents. Eventually, they embark on a macabre adventure across Route 666, raiding with mass slaughters for fun. They assault everybody within their sight and leave just a single individual alive to tell the story. Reporter Wayne Gale glorifies them, as they stumble into the open country. Jack Scagnetti, similarly cruel, is on the hunt for them. However, an interview with Gale leads to chaos within the jail and the country. What will this satire of public opinion, media and contemporary attitude towards violence, bring upon these psychopathic lovers?

The reincarnation of the soul goes through time, starting with a potential slave-attorney, who travels over the Pacific in 1849. Then a skilled composer, who drafts letters to his darling in Britain's 1930s. Next, a reporter, examining a degenerate case about a US atomic plant during the 1970s. Prevailed by a publisher's funny detention in a nursing home in 2012. Trailed by a clone's exciting escape and revolt in 2144's Korea. Lastly, a tribesman, who battles barbarians in an overlooked settlement of the world past 2300. As these avatars are born and reborn, they revive their bonds with each other. Every story challenges the degenerate standards of the time.

The Silence of The Lambs deviates from the good vs evil genre tropes and metaphorically pits a devil against one. The film moves from the perspective of Clarice Starling, a top student of the FBIs training academy who takes the help of a cannibalistic serial killer, Dr Hannibal Lecter, to catch another psychopath serial killer who likes to skin his victims, treating them as his very own personal trophies.

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

Based on the novel written in 1995 by Christopher Priest, the movie follows two good acquaintances turned rivals after an unfortunate incident takes place. Robert Angier and Alfred Borden perform as magicians together until one fateful event that tears them apart and throw them into a cut-throat competition with unpleasant results. Borden comes up with a brilliant trick that transports him from one end of the room to the other. This infuriates Angier and he plots to learn Bordens secrets.

After a birthday celebration, three classmates - Casey, Claire, and Marcia fall prey to a dreadful predator, Kevin Wendell. Soon, the girls assimilate that he suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Not one, but 23 distinct characters dwell inside Kevin. His psychiatrist, Dr Fletcher delves further into his peculiar disorder but doesn't suspect him of the kidnapping. Casey manipulates the most fragile personalities to get away, but the stronger personalities retaliate. At some point or another, the subtle 24th 'Brute' persona will rise to its horror, as an amalgamation of Kevin's characteristics. Is the dreaded beast inside, genuine or grim?

A highly unsociable, introvert man Lars Lindstrom, finds a girlfriend named Bianca over the internet. His brother Gus and sister-in-law Karin are in for a shock when they see that Bianca is a life-size sex doll. Dr Dagmar, a psychologist, suggests that Lars is suffering from a delusional disorder. the only solution for this is to address his underlying problems. When Dagmar urges, Lars family and the townspeople cooperate and start treating Bianca as a real person. What begins is an emotional journey of true solidarity.

An unnamed insomniac is unfulfilled with his life and work. He has nothing and no one to live for. In a bid to fix his sleep cycle, he joins various support groups where he gets a kick from other peoples miseries and is able to sleep well. His life changes when he meets Tyler Durden, a carefree, crazy guy and starts a fighting club with him. The idea is to pit two angry, irrational men against each other and make them fight till one of them accepts defeat. Soon the club begins to grow and turn into a militant group with an aim to destroy the so-called American Lifestyle.

A Hollywood actor named Riggan Thomson is popular for his role in a 1990s superhero franchise called Birdman. The persona of Birdman is still inside Riggan and he is haunted by Birdmans constant Jabbering. He also often visualizes himself with the powers of his Birdman persona. Riggan decides to get rid of his superhero identity and tries to regain his lost popularity by working in a Broadway show, while the Birdman persona mocks him and tells him to make a new Birdman movie. Riggans daughter Sam who is a former drug addict is working with him as his assistant. After an unfortunate event, Riggan hires a new talented but egotistical actor named Mike, who causes several issues during the first two previews. Several other series of events leads Riggan to a depressed state and he takes a real gun to the stage to perform the final act.

Edward is a humanoid created by a genius scientist and inventor. The inventor homeschools Edward and teaches him the way of this world. Since Edward is a new project, he gets temporary hands in the shape of scissors. The inventor intends to replace them with real hands but before he could do that, he suffers a heart attack and dies. This leaves Edward in quite a dilemma but since he doesnt know of any other way to live, he quickly gets used to his weird hands. One day a local door-to-door salesman called Peg Boggs knocks at Edwards mansion to sell a product. Seeing Edward, she gets scared at first but soon understands the pain and confusion Edward must be in and decides to take him home. She introduces him to her family which includes her husband, their young son Kevin and their teenage daughter Kim. Kim initially is scared of Edward but soon becomes friends with him and they fall in love. Things get tricky when the family accuses Edward of stealing something which he hasnt. His innocence is challenged in a brutal way.

Chris Washington, a black photographer, encounters strange experiences upon meeting his white girlfriend Roses parents in their countryside estate. At a gathering of the wealthy white men and women, he notices a young black man married to an elderly white woman which makes him suspicious. On digging deeper with the help of his pal Rod Williams who is a TSA agent, he finds out that the young black man went missing a few months ago. Chris also undergoes Roses mother's hypnotherapy which cures his smoking addiction but also plunges him into a void she likes to call the sunken place. He uncovers hidden sinister plans of the family that they have for him and other black people out there.

Theodore Twombly is a lonely man, unwilling to sign divorce papers after his marriage ends. He upgrades his system which includes a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence. The AI assistant is designed to evolve with time. Theodore develops a relationship with it through constant conversations and finds himself to be happy. A girl he briefly dated in college, is now his neighbour and on the verge of divorce herself because she has become close to her AI assistant. Theodore is plunged into a re-thinking where exactly is his love story headed after his ex-wife rebukes him.

Megamind was sent to earth from his dying planet as a baby and decides to become a super villain after reflecting on his life experiences. His arch-nemesis is the hero of the Metro city, the Metro man, who also came to earth under similar circumstances but had completely different experiences. During the opening of The Metro man museum, Megamind escapes from prison and kidnaps Metro mans girlfriend Roxanne. Megamind finally manages to get rid of Metro man by tricking him. Megamind celebrates his victory for a while only to realise that he has lost his purpose in life without Metro man around to stop his villainous plans. He creates a new superhero using metro mans DNA to become his new rival but things take a different turn when the new superhero has his own priorities.

Elle Woods, a popular sorority girl, seems to have it all; from pageant titles to the most coveted frat boy on campus, Warner. Sadly, she is not the complete package for Warners blue blood family. He dumps her to move on to an old flame and heads to Harvard Law School. Elle realizes the indignities faced by blondes every day, rounds up all of her resources to get into Harvard Law, and sets off to change her reality.

Mia almost has a near-perfect life. She loves to play cello from an early age, has parents who love and understand her and, has a great boyfriend. During a snowy day, Mia and her entire family decide to spend the day at Mias grandparents house in the countryside. On their way, the family gets into a terrible accident where Mia has an out-of-body experience and sees her unconscious body lying on the road. Mia follows the ambulance as they take her to the hospital, where she learns her body is in a coma. In a flashback, Adam is mesmerised seeing Mia play the cello and later, asks her out. Adam plays guitar in a band where Mia finds herself a little out-of-place among Adams friends. Reminiscing past events and realizing current circumstances, Mia struggles to make a decision whether she should stay, or choose the afterlife.