36 Inspirational Movies That Will Challenge You to Become a Better Person

Movies can sometimes have a profound impact on our lives. There are even some movies that fill us with hope and make us feel happy every time we watch them. We have compiled a list of movies that will make you a better person when you watch them. Enjoy!IMDb: 6,8/10Summary: Centering on a Midwestern family in the 1950s, the film follows Jack, the eldest son of the family, from the loss of his childhood innocence to his bitter transition into adulthood.Director: Terrence MalickCast: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean PennIMDb: 7,2/10Summary: The movie is about the forbidden love between two teenagers and the rivalry between two street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.Director: Steven SpielbergCast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBoseIMDb: 7,2/10Summary: Schmidt was a man who lived well in his old order. But after the loss of his wife, disaster struck one after another. Director: Alexander PayneCast: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope DavisMDb: 7,3/10Summary: Adela Quested is a young and headstrong Englishwoman. She travels to India with her fiancé's mother, Mrs. Moore. Dr. Aziz, whom she meets and befriends, invites Adela to join him on a visit to the mystical Marabar caves. When Adela emerges from a cave with scars, she claims that Aziz attacked her.Director: David LeanCast: Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy DavisIMDb: 7,4/10Summary: Adam Ewing makes the rough sea voyage from the archipelago in New Zealand to his home in California. Robert Frobisher, a penniless but talented composer living in Belgium in the 1930s, has Adam Ewing's diary in his possession.Director: Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Lilly WachowskiCast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim BroadbentIMDb:7.5/10Summary: Alice Howland is a renowned professor of linguistics at Columbia University. One day Alice is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Alice's life will never be the same after this diagnosis.Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash WestmorelandCast: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Kate BosworthMDb: 7,5/10Summary: Miles Raymond is an English teacher whose biggest dream is to become a writer.Director: Alexander PayneCast: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia MadsenIMDb: 7,5/10Summary: The movie follows the growing-up and adult years of a mentally ill New Zealand writer. Director: Jane CampionCast: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen FergussonIMDb: 7,5/10Summary: In the movie, people from different continents are hopelessly connected by a gunshot.Director: Alejandro González IñárrituCast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García BernalIMDb:7.6/10Summary: 6-year-old Moone and her friends have created a world of their own, completely removed from the challenging world of adults. With school on vacation, this group only cares about traveling and having fun, but that's not the case for the adults.Director: Sean BakerCast: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem DafoeIMDb: 7,6/10Summary: Sorry We Couldn't Missed You is the story of a family trying to cope with the financial crisis.Director: Ken LoachCast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys StoneIMDb:7,7/10Summary: Henry Barthes is a highly skilled teacher who can relate well to his students, but he puts this ability on the back burner and becomes a substitute teacher. As a substitute teacher until a permanent teacher arrives at the school, Henry is never able to stay in any school long enough to make an emotional connection with the students or his coworkers.Director: Tony KayeCast: Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James CaanIMDb: 7,8/10Summary: Astronaut candidate Vincent is able to get a job as a cleaner in an important company. However, thanks to a scheme he devises along the way, he lands a high position. A private detective assigned to solve a murder at the company uncovers Vincent's secret.Director: Andrew NiccolCast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude LawIMDb: 7,8/10Summary: The film tells the story of a community of lepers living in the north of Iran, rejected by society.Director: Forugh FarrokhzadCast: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein MansouriIMDb: 7,8/10Summary: Robert G. Shaw is a commander assigned to lead a regiment of black people in the United States Army during the American Civil War. This war, which is also a war against discrimination against blacks and slavery, is a very difficult test for the entire regiment.Director: Edward ZwickCast: Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Denzel WashingtonIMDb: 7,8/10Summary: In the movie, a nerd , an athletic sportsman, a freak 'freak anarchist', an intellectual and a 'blonde' are on their way to the partnership they will discover between them.Director: John HughesCast: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul GleasonIMDb: 7,8/10Summary: Ordinary people living unaware of each other in the daily monotony of Los Angeles meet each other within 36 hours.Director: Paul HaggisCast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt DillonIMDb: 7,9/10Summary: A freighter from India to Canada sinks with every living thing on board. A lifeboat is left alone in the middle of the vast and wild Pacific Ocean.Director: Ang LeeCast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil HussainIMDb: 7,9/10Summary: Myrtle Gordon is a famous and successful actress. One day one of her admirers, a young woman, asks to meet her after one of her plays. Myrtle does not refuse this passionate admirer's offer and is devastated to learn that the woman has been murdered just before the meeting.Director: John CassavetesCast: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben GazzaraIMDb:8.1/10Summary: The movie follows the adventurous journey of a group of children on the trail of a missing body. Director: Rob ReinerCast: River Phoenix, Richard Dreyfuss, Corey FeldmanIMDb: 8,1/10Summary: Christopher graduates with honors from a prestigious university and is also a successful athlete. At a post-graduation party, he tells his family that this is not the life he wants, that something is missing and wrong. Donating all his possessions to charity and leaving everything he owns at home, the young man embarks on a long journey towards a different life.Director: Sean PennCast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William HurtIMDb: 8,1/10Summary: Welton Academy is a serious, disciplined and academic school. The conservative attitude of the school administration makes the school a boring and depressing place for the students. The appointment of a new English teacher, John Keating, changes the school considerably. Director: Peter WeirCast: Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean LeonardIMDb: 8/10Summary: In 1981, Chris Gardner, who lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda and son Christopher, takes over the sale of bone scanner products, an expensive and quickly obsolete technology. He is abandoned by his wife Linda after he fails to succeed in the sale of these products.Director: Gabriele MuccinoCast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, Dan CastellanetaIMDb: 8/10Summary: Alvin Straight is a rather ordinary old man. He lives in a small town with his daughter. One day he receives a phone call and learns that his brother, whom he hasn't spoken to in ten years, has had a heart attack. So he takes his lawn mower and sets off on a journey of many kilometers.Director: David LynchCast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean StantonIMDb: 8/10Summary: A drunken man waiting in a cemetery for the car that will take him to the afterlife, recalls in flashbacks the important events of his life, the mistakes he made and the depression he experienced.Director: Victor SjöströmCast: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore SvennbergIMDb: 8,1/10Summary: Andrei Rublev is both a monk and a painter of icons. In contrast to barbarism, violence and bloodshed, the miraculous beauty of nature and faith is Rublev's source of nourishment. But when he is forced to kill a man to save a peasant girl from rape, he questions life and his faith in God.Director: Andreï TarkovskyCast: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Ivan BykovIMDb: 8,1/10Summary: The movie follows the adventures of a man who is forced to relive a day he hates over and over again.Director: Harold RamisCast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen TobolowskyIMDb: 8,2/10Summary: Indian Mohan Bhargava is a young and brilliant scientist working as a project manager at NASA. Mohan realizes that he has not called his nanny, who has taken care of him for years, for a long time and feels a great remorse. Deciding to find his nanny Kaveri Amma, Mohan takes a leave of absence from his job and travels from America to India.Director: Ashutosh GowarikerCast: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori BallalIMDb: 8,2/10Summary: Dr. Treves is wandering the dirty streets when he stumbles upon a traveling circus. As the crowd in front of it shows, there is an abnormal show inside... And the hero of this abnormal show is John Merrick, who is disabled from birth.Director: David LynchCast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne BancroftIMDb: 8,3/10Summary: Kanji Watanabe is an ordinary man who has been working at the same job for years and has no expectations in life. He is surrounded by his son and stepdaughter. Kanji's wife has left this world. After a while, Kanji learns that he has cancer.Director: Akira KurosawaCast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Chiaki MinoruIMDb: 8,3/10Summary: Will Hunting is a young boy working as a janitor at MIT with an IQ far above the general IQ. On one of his cleaning evenings, he comes across a math problem written on the blackboard of a classroom. Easily solving this almost impossible problem, Will quietly disappears.Director: Gus Van SantCast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben AffleckIMDb: 8,6/10Summary: Smart and resourceful, Cooper makes a living by farming vast cornfields, with the goal of providing a secure life for his two children.Director: Christopher NolanCast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael CaineIMDb:8.6/10Summary: Guido falls in love with Dora, a teacher, and marries her against all odds. After they get married and have a child, the couple is confronted with a war.Director: Roberto BenigniCast: Roberto Benigni, Horst Buchholz, Marisa ParedesIMDb: 8,8/10Summary: Forrest Gump is a young man with a low I.Q. When he meets Jenny, he falls in love with her. Gump accidentally meets historical figures, including Elvis Presley, Kennedy and Nixon, and events unfold over a period from the 50s to the late 70s.Director: Robert ZemeckisCast: Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin WrightIMDb: 9/10Summary: A German businessman named Oskar Schindler builds a factory in Poland during World War II and saves the lives of 1100 Jews. Director: Steven SpielbergCast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph FiennesIMDb: 9,2/10Summary: The movie tells the epic story of an Italian mafia family in America in the 40s and 50s.Director: Francis Ford CoppolaCast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan