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Mind-Bending & Cerebral [list in progress]

by mar-has-8844 • Created 8 years ago • Modified 1 month ago
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  • Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dalí, Jaume Miravitlles, Simone Mareuil, and Fano Messan in Un chien andalou (1929)

    1. Un chien andalou

    192916mNot RatedShort
    7.6 (55K)
    Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis Buñuel
  • Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in Memento (2000)

    2. Memento

    20001h 53mR83Metascore
    8.4 (1.4M)
    A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe Pantoliano
  • Blind Chance (1987)

    3. Blind Chance

    19871h 54mNot Rated
    7.7 (12K)
    Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaTadeusz LomnickiZbigniew Zapasiewicz
  • Suspiria (1977)

    4. Suspiria

    19771h 32mR79Metascore
    7.3 (112K)
    An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio Bucci
  • Melissa George in Triangle (2009)

    5. Triangle

    20091h 39mR
    6.9 (141K)
    Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
    DirectorChristopher SmithStarsMelissa GeorgeJoshua McIvorJack Taylor
  • Emily Baldoni in Coherence (2013)

    6. Coherence

    20131h 29mNot Rated65Metascore
    7.2 (161K)
    Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
    DirectorJames Ward ByrkitStarsEmily BaldoniMaury SterlingNicholas Brendon
  • Nicolas Cage in Adaptation. (2002)

    7. Adaptation.

    20021h 55mR83Metascore
    7.7 (209K)
    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
  • John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich (1999)

    8. Being John Malkovich

    19991h 53mR90Metascore
    7.7 (363K)
    A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
    DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine Keener
  • Franka Potente in Run Lola Run (1998)

    9. Run Lola Run

    19981h 20mR79Metascore
    7.6 (214K)
    After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
    DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteMoritz BleibtreuHerbert Knaup
  • Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive (2001)

    10. Mulholland Drive

    20012h 27mR87Metascore
    7.9 (408K)
    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
  • Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet (1986)

    11. Blue Velvet

    19862hR75Metascore
    7.7 (233K)
    The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis Hopper
  • Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman in Lost Highway (1997)

    12. Lost Highway

    19972h 14mR53Metascore
    7.6 (164K)
    Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn Roselius
  • Laura Dern in Inland Empire (2006)

    13. Inland Empire

    20063hR73Metascore
    6.8 (66K)
    As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaKrzysztof MajchrzakGrace Zabriskie
  • Babel (2006)

    14. Babel

    20062h 23mR69Metascore
    7.5 (324K)
    Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
    DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García Bernal
  • Oldboy (2003)

    15. Oldboy

    20032hR78Metascore
    8.3 (681K)
    After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
    DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsChoi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jeong
  • Life of Significant Soil (2016)

    16. Life of Significant Soil

    20161h 12m
    6.1 (76)
    A struggling young couple is forced to live the last day of their relationship over and over again.
    DirectorMichael IrishStarsCharlotte BydwellAlexis MouyiarisDon Bajema
  • Dogtooth (2009)

    17. Dogtooth

    20091h 37mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.1 (117K)
    A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
    DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki Papoulia
  • Colin Farrell in The Lobster (2015)

    18. The Lobster

    20151h 59mR82Metascore
    7.1 (320K)
    In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
    DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsColin FarrellRachel WeiszJessica Barden
  • Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass in The One I Love (2014)

    19. The One I Love

    20141h 31mR66Metascore
    7.0 (45K)
    A troubled couple vacate to a beautiful getaway, but bizarre circumstances further complicate their situation.
    DirectorCharlie McDowellStarsMark DuplassElisabeth MossTed Danson
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)

    20. Inception

    20102h 28mPG-1374Metascore
    8.8 (2.7M)
    A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot Page
  • Jeremy Theobald in Following (1998)

    21. Following

    19981h 9mR60Metascore
    7.4 (106K)
    A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldAlex HawLucy Russell
  • Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar (2014)

    22. Interstellar

    20142h 49mPG-1374Metascore
    8.7 (2.4M)
    When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsMatthew McConaugheyAnne HathawayJessica Chastain
  • Pi (1998)

    23. Pi

    19981h 24mR72Metascore
    7.3 (190K)
    A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
    DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsSean GulletteMark MargolisBen Shenkman
  • Primer (2004)

    24. Primer

    20041h 17mPG-1368Metascore
    6.7 (118K)
    Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
    DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey Gooden
  • Jim Carrey in The Number 23 (2007)

    25. The Number 23

    20071h 38mR
    6.4 (218K)
    Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
    DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsJim CarreyVirginia MadsenLogan Lerman

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