Top 50 Spiritual / Awakening / Thought Provoking Films

Top 50 Spiritual / Awakening / Thought Provoking Films





Top 50 Spiritual / Awakening / Thought Provoking Films
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1. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
20122h 2mNot Rated
8.4 (2.3K)Rate

There is one vibratory field that connects all things. It has been called Akasha, Logos, the primordial OM, the music of the spheres, the Higgs field, dark energy, and a thousand other names throughout history.DirectorDaniel SchmidtStarsPatrick Sweeney





2. Waking Life
20011h 39mR
7.7 (67K)Rate85Metascore

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEthan HawkeTrevor Jack BrooksLorelei Linklater





3. Fight Club
19992h 19mR
8.8 (2.4M)Rate67Metascore

An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat Loaf





4. Samsara
20111h 42mPG-13
8.4 (38K)Rate65Metascore

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.DirectorRon FrickeStarsBalinese Tari Legong DancersNi Made Megahadi PratiwiPuti Sri Candra Dewi





5. Home
20091h 58mNot Rated
8.5 (23K)Rate47Metascore

With aerial footage from fifty-four countries, 'Home' is a depiction of how Earth's problems are all interlinked.DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandStarsYann Arthus-BertrandGlenn CloseJacques Gamblin





6. Boyhood
20142h 45mR
7.9 (369K)Rate100Metascore

The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEllar ColtranePatricia ArquetteEthan Hawke





7. The Truman Show
19981h 43mPG
8.2 (1.2M)Rate90Metascore

An insurance salesman is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors. As he starts noticing things and uncovers the truth, he decides to escape.DirectorPeter WeirStarsJim CarreyEd HarrisLaura Linney





8. Revolver
20051h 51mR
6.3 (104K)Rate25Metascore

Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason StathamRay LiottaAndré 3000





9. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
20031h 43mR
8.0 (87K)Rate85Metascore

A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsKim Ki-dukOh Yeong-suJong-ho Kim





10. American Beauty
19992h 2mR
8.3 (1.2M)Rate84Metascore

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora Birch





11. I Am
20101h 18mNot Rated
7.5 (3.9K)Rate38Metascore

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.DirectorTom ShadyacStarsTom ShadyacDesmond TutuNoam Chomsky





12. Cloud Atlas
20122h 52mR
7.4 (376K)Rate55Metascore

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.DirectorTom TykwerLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsTom HanksHalle BerryHugh Grant





13. Tuning In
20081h 20mNot Rated
7.4 (220)Rate

A feature-length documentary exploring, for the very first time and in a very down-to-earth fashion, the phenomenon of channeling.DirectorDavid ThomasStarsDarryl AnkaJohn CaliLee Carroll





14. Awake: The Life of Yogananda
20141h 27mPG
7.2 (1.4K)Rate54Metascore

Unique biopic about Yogananda, telling the story of his life and influence on yoga, religion and science, combining re-enactment, interviews, and verité.DirectorPaola di FlorioLisa LeemanStarsMarc BenioffBrother ChidanandaDeepak Chopra





15. Peaceful Warrior
20062hPG-13
7.2 (30K)Rate40Metascore

Dan, a college student and a world-champion gymnast, is disturbed and wants to add some meaning to his life. A chance encounter leads him to discover an enlightened way ahead.DirectorVictor SalvaStarsScott MechlowiczNick NolteAmy Smart





16. Groundhog Day
19931h 41mPG
8.0 (691K)Rate72Metascore

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.DirectorHarold RamisStarsBill MurrayAndie MacDowellChris Elliott





17. Baraka
19921h 36mNot Rated
8.5 (41K)Rate

A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.DirectorRon FrickeStarsPatrick Disanto





18. Adaptation.
20021h 55mR
7.7 (204K)Rate83Metascore

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.DirectorSpike JonzeStarsNicolas CageMeryl StreepChris Cooper





19. I Heart Huckabees
20041h 47mR
6.5 (66K)Rate55Metascore

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.DirectorDavid O. RussellStarsJason SchwartzmanJude LawNaomi Watts





20. The Fountain
20061h 37mPG-13
7.2 (250K)Rate51Metascore

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.DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsHugh JackmanRachel WeiszSean Patrick Thomas





21. Avatar
20092h 42mPG-13
7.9 (1.4M)Rate83Metascore

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney Weaver





22. K-PAX
20012hPG-13
7.4 (194K)Rate49Metascore

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.DirectorIain SoftleyStarsKevin SpaceyJeff BridgesMary McCormack





23. Happy
20121h 16mNot Rated
7.2 (3.4K)Rate

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.DirectorRoko BelicStarsMarci ShimoffEd DienerRichard Davidson





24. I Origins
20141h 46mR
7.3 (134K)Rate57Metascore

A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it.DirectorMike CahillStarsMichael PittSteven YeunAstrid Bergès-Frisbey





25. Dark City
19981h 40mR
7.6 (214K)Rate66Metascore

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.DirectorAlex ProyasStarsRufus SewellKiefer SutherlandJennifer Connelly





26. Ram Dass, Fierce Grace
20011h 33mNot Rated
7.5 (491)Rate

After Richard Alpert was fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting psychedelic drug research, he journeyed to India, found a guru and was renamed Ram Dass ("Servant of God").DirectorMickey LemleStarsRam DassWilliam AlpertLarry Brilliant





27. Earthlings
20051h 35m
8.6 (20K)Rate

Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.DirectorShaun MonsonStarsJoaquin Phoenix





28. Planetary
20151h 25m
6.7 (395)Rate

We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. PLANETARY is a poetic and humbling reminder that it's time to shift our perspective. PLANETARY asks us to rethink who we really are, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us - to remember that: we are PLANETARY. In a stunning visual exploration, the film interweaves imagery from NASA Apollo missions with visions of the Milky Way, Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas, and the cacophonous sounds of downtown Tokyo and Manhattan, with intimate interviews from renowned experts including astronauts Ron Garan and Mae Jemison (the first African American woman in space), celebrated environmentalist Bill McKibben, National Book Award winner Barry Lopez, anthropologist Wade Davis, to National Geographic Explorer Elizabeth Lindsey, and Head of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu school, the 17th Karmapa. They shed new light on the ways our worldview is profoundly affecting life on our planet.DirectorGuy ReidSimon RieberSteve Watts KennedyStarsJanine BenyusRonald GaranJoan Halifax





29. The Matrix
19992h 16mR
8.7 (2.1M)Rate73Metascore

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss





30. Into the Wild
20072h 28mR
8.1 (662K)Rate73Metascore

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.DirectorSean PennStarsEmile HirschVince VaughnCatherine Keener





31. Ashes and Snow
20051h 2m
8.0 (4.4K)Rate

Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.DirectorGregory ColbertStarsPatrick DisantoLaurence FishburneJeanne Moreau





32. Kymatica
20091h 24mNot Rated
7.5 (641)Rate

We may be quick to blame secret organizations, corporations and corrupt politicians for the state of the environment. The harsh truth is that the world is in its current state because humanity is evolving and taking the world with it.DirectorBenjamin StewartStarsBruce LiptonHenrik PalmgrenBenjamin Stewart





33. Our Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell
201257m
8.4 (425)RateTV Movie

There is a battle playing out inside your body right now. It started billions of years ago and it is still being fought in every one of us every minute of every day. It is the story of a viral infection - the battle for the cell.DirectorMichael DavisStarsDavid TennantSusanna BidgoodSteve Jones





34. Zeitgeist: Addendum
20082h 3mNot Rated
8.2 (19K)RateVideo

Zeitgeist: Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution.DirectorPeter JosephStarsJacque FrescoRoxanne MeadowsJohn Perkins





35. The Reality of Me (TROM)
2011
8.2 (371)Rate

From The Big Bang to The Monetary System, Religion, Human Behaviour, War or Slavery, to a new Global Social System, TROM Documentary tries to analyze the world we live in.StarsGeorge CarlinRichard DawkinsAubrey de Grey





36. Life in a Day
20111h 35mPG-13
7.6 (16K)Rate58Metascore

A documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010.DirectorTegan BukowskiLoressa ClisbyKevin MacdonaldStarsHiroaki AikawaCindy BaerTeagan Bentley





37. Surviving Progress
20111h 26mNot Rated
7.4 (1.9K)Rate59Metascore

Theorists consider the evolution of human society and question the sustainability of the current paradigm.DirectorMathieu RoyHarold CrooksStarsRonald WrightMark LevineRobert Wright





38. Finding Joe
20111h 20mNot Rated
7.0 (502)Rate45Metascore

A truly inspirational film, Finding Joe explores the studies of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Take a journey through the human psyche and discover the pattern hidden in every story.DirectorPatrick Takaya SolomonStarsChungliang Al HuangRebecca ArmstrongDeepak Chopra





39. The Dhamma Brothers
20081h 16m
7.6 (480)Rate

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program.DirectorAndrew KukuraJenny PhillipsAnne Marie SteinStarsGrady BankheadRon CavanaughJonathan Crowley





40. The Culture High
20142hTV-14
8.2 (3.8K)Rate37Metascore

Scours the deep-seated roots of this morally induced Marijuana campaign and reveal the fascinating path it has taken to get to where it is today.DirectorBrett HarveyStarsSnoop DoggJoe RoganRonald Reagan





41. Milarepa
20061h 30mPG
7.0 (1.1K)Rate52Metascore

Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.DirectorNeten ChoklingStarsOrgyen TobgyalKelsang Chukie TethtongJamyang Lodro





42. Ayurveda: Art of Being
20011h 42mNot Rated
7.5 (466)Rate45Metascore

Ayurveda is science of life and art of healing; where body, mind and spirit are given equal importance. This voyage of thousands of miles across India and abroad takes you on a unique poetic journey, where we encounter remarkable men of medicine or simply a villager who lives in harmony with nature. "Hope is nature's way of enabling us to survive so that we can discover nature itself."DirectorPan NalinStarsNicolos KostopoulosVaidya Narayan MurthyBrahmanand Swamigal





43. Under the Skin
20131h 48mR
6.3 (160K)Rate80Metascore

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





44. The Man from Earth
20071h 27mNot Rated
7.8 (202K)Rate

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.DirectorRichard SchenkmanStarsDavid Lee SmithTony ToddJohn Billingsley





45. The Seventh Seal
19571h 36mNot Rated
8.1 (200K)Rate88Metascore

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.DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt Ekerot





46. Her
20132h 6mR
8.0 (678K)Rate91Metascore

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJoaquin PhoenixAmy AdamsScarlett Johansson





47. The Holy Mountain
19731h 54mR
7.7 (49K)Rate76Metascore

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira Saunders





48. Vanilla Sky
20012h 16mR
6.9 (288K)Rate45Metascore

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruisePenélope CruzCameron Diaz





49. Lucy
20141h 29mR
6.4 (539K)Rate62Metascore

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.DirectorLuc BessonStarsScarlett JohanssonMorgan FreemanChoi Min-sik





50. Being John Malkovich
19991h 53mR
7.7 (355K)Rate90Metascore

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine Keener





51. eXistenZ
19991h 37mR
6.8 (108K)Rate70Metascore

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJude LawJennifer Jason LeighIan Holm





52. Mulholland Drive
20012h 27mR
7.9 (387K)Rate87Metascore

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin Theroux