Arrival is a great answer.

Interstellar

idiocracy has the most accurate depiction of today and future society so it's pretty smart for being dumb.

Idiocracy.

It is so close to real life, it is scary.

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Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest

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So funny that this word gets censored

I really liked The Fountain. It's beautiful, and the meditation on mortality and what that means is very good. I liked it better than Pi.

The TV series Dark is probably one of the smartest things I have watched. Very hard to keep up with the first time through. I think even better the second time through.

I also thought that Being John Malkovich was really smart, in that it was just so trippy and original.

Inglourious Basterds

Thank You For Smoking

An amazing film that balances the idea of freedom with things that you may or may not agree with. Watched it randomly years ago and was so happy that I did

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By "intelligent" I assume you mean that the writers were intelligent not that the character in the movie was intelligent? It's easy to make a character intelligent. I assume the answer would be the that blue guy from watchman or Jesus or something.

I'm more impressed when the writing is smart. So not Good Will Hunting or anything like that. I think Inception, Silence of the Lambs, Jackie Brown, 6th Sense, 12 Monkeys, and Fight Club are all good examples of smart scripts.

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I rewatched Jackie Brown recently, forgot how great that movie is. Also, by the end I think I was in love with Pam Grier too. She is so damn hot in the movie, especially for an older woman.

First movie I thought of was 12 Angry Men. Even after all this time, I still think it is brilliant.

Cannonball Run

Mulholland Drive is easily among the most mind bending movies out there. - I've watched it 2 dozen times probably and been involved in many online discussion groups and an irl friends group that all tried to decipher it. It is fascinating but also there is no clear or right answer really. And Lynch refuses to offer explanation.

The first viewing will make no sense really. It takes a couple of viewings to even figure out half of it.

Based on my love of it my daughter tried watching it on her own - she has a degree in theatre/acting and she was so lost she quit. I told her she needed to watch it with me next time.

The Prestige

Why do I feel like there was a cultural movement of "artistic" films in the 90s that grungy baristas would claim "you probably wont get the subtext of the film, man"?