Top rated movies with a wallowing in self pity and literary genius

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a wallowing in self pity and literary genius! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a wallowing in self pity and literary genius, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Pain and Glory (2019)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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2019-03-22 | Drama

Cast

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    master filmmaker
  2. Ranked #1 for
    famed director
  3. Ranked #1 for
    for introspection

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2 Blithe Spirit (2020)

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

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2020-11-10 | Comedy / Fantasy

Cast

Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sparkling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    superior
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sarcastic wit

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3 Blonde (2022)

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

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2022-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody

Rating

rating icon 5.986
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pin-up girl
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cultural icon
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sexually explicit

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4 Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

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2022-10-21 | Documentary / Drama

Cast

Nina Menkes, Rosanna Arquette

Rating

rating icon 5.977
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    skewed view
  2. Ranked #1 for
    using camera tricks
  3. Ranked #1 for
    desirable cast

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5 The Whale (2022)

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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2022-12-09 | Drama

Cast

Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink

Rating

rating icon 7.851
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    regretful character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    unhealthy character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    tour de force

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6 The Tender Bar (2021)

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

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2021-12-17 | Drama

Cast

Tye Sheridan, Ben Affleck

Rating

rating icon 6.618
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    role model
  2. Ranked #1 for
    father figure
  3. Ranked #3 for
    solid directing

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7 Drive My Car (2021)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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2021-08-18 | Drama

Cast

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura

Rating

rating icon 7.417
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    patient
  2. Ranked #2 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #3 for
    tour de force

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8 Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.

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2021-07-16 | Documentary

Cast

Anthony Bourdain, Nancy Bourdain

Rating

rating icon 6.91
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    virtuous
  2. Ranked #1 for
    self-sacrificing character
  3. Ranked #1 for
    giddy

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9 Rifkin’s Festival (2020)

The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.

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2020-10-01 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Wallace Shawn, Gina Gershon

Rating

rating icon 6.134
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    energizing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    customary style directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    aced

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10 Boxing Day (2021)

Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.

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2021-12-03 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Aml Ameen, Aja Naomi King

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    predictable ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sniping lines
  3. Ranked #3 for
    flimsy plot

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