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Mind fuck movies master list

by phil_lebessis • Created 3 years ago • Modified 1 month ago
Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses, disturbs or manipulates the mind of another person, in particular one that is caused by deliberate psychological manipulation.
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  • Donald Sutherland, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, and Diane Varsi in Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

    1. Johnny Got His Gun

    19711h 51mPG71Metascore
    7.8 (19K)
    During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
    DirectorDalton TrumboStarsTimothy BottomsKathy FieldsMarsha Hunt
  • Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa, and Jô Shishido in Branded to Kill (1967)

    2. Branded to Kill

    19671h 31mNot Rated
    7.2 (11K)
    After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.
    DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsJô ShishidoMariko OgawaAnnu Mari
  • Irène Jacob and Guillaume de Tonquédec in The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

    3. The Double Life of Véronique

    19911h 38mR86Metascore
    7.6 (55K)
    Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
    DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobWladyslaw KowalskiHalina Gryglaszewska
  • Hagazussa (2017)

    4. Hagazussa

    20171h 42m72Metascore
    5.8 (7.8K)
    After the loss of her tormented mother, the erratic behavior of a 15th century woman living in an isolated mountain village becomes a threat to the safety of her infant child.
    DirectorLukas FeigelfeldStarsAleksandra CwenCelina PeterClaudia Martini
  • Kate Lyn Sheil in She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

    5. She Dies Tomorrow

    20201h 26mR81Metascore
    5.0 (7.6K)
    A woman becomes strangely convinced she will die the next day. Her friend initially disbelieves her before becoming paranoid herself that she too will die the next day.
    DirectorAmy SeimetzStarsKate Lyn SheilJane AdamsKentucker Audley
  • THX 1138 (1971)

    6. THX 1138

    19711h 26mGP75Metascore
    6.6 (56K)
    In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
    DirectorGeorge LucasStarsRobert DuvallDonald PleasenceDon Pedro Colley
  • Proxy (2013)

    7. Proxy

    20132h 2mNot Rated57Metascore
    5.7 (4.5K)
    The life of three parents who have all shared the loss of a child. Motives are not what they seem and sanity is in short supply in this thriller.
    DirectorZack ParkerStarsAlexa HavinsJoe SwanbergKristina Klebe
  • Code Unknown (2000)

    8. Code Unknown

    20001h 58mNot Rated74Metascore
    7.1 (16K)
    A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?
    DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJuliette BinocheThierry NeuvicJosef Bierbichler
  • L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)

    9. L'hypothèse du tableau volé

    19781h 6m
    7.4 (1.3K)
    Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
    DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJean RougeulChantal PaleyJean Raynaud
  • The Element of Crime (1984)

    10. The Element of Crime

    19841h 44mNot Rated66Metascore
    6.7 (12K)
    A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
    DirectorLars von TrierStarsMichael ElphickEsmond KnightMe Me Lai
  • Epidemic (1987)

    11. Epidemic

    19871h 46mNot Rated66Metascore
    5.9 (6.4K)
    A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
    DirectorLars von TrierStarsAllan De WaalOle ErnstMichael Gelting
  • In a Glass Cage (1986)

    12. In a Glass Cage

    19861h 50mUnrated
    6.7 (5.3K)
    A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
    DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsGünter MeisnerDavid SustMarisa Paredes
  • High Life (2018)

    13. High Life

    20181h 53mR78Metascore
    5.7 (44K)
    A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
    DirectorClaire DenisStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheAndré 3000
  • Our House (2017)

    14. Our House

    20171h 20mNot Rated
    6.1 (263)
    In this creepy thriller, two people share the same house but do not realize the other is also there.
    DirectorYui KiyoharaStarsNodoka KawanishiYukiko YasunoMei Fujiwara
  • The Last Broadcast (1998)

    15. The Last Broadcast

    19981h 26mTV-14
    5.2 (6.6K)
    A film crew ventures into the forest in search of the mythical 'Jersey Devil'.
    DirectorsStefan AvalosLance WeilerStarsDavid BeardLance WeilerStefan Avalos
  • Anne Heche, Christopher Walken, and Joan Chen in Wild Side (1995)

    16. Wild Side

    19951h 36mR
    5.6 (2.5K)
    While Bruno is an international money mover and influence peddler and Virginia is his very beautiful wife, his sexual appetite requires the services of banker and part-time hooker Alex. It's love at first sight. But, who are the lovers?
    DirectorDonald CammellStarsChristopher WalkenJoan ChenSteven Bauer
  • The Attic Expeditions (2001)

    17. The Attic Expeditions

    20011h 40mR
    4.9 (2K)
    An amnesiac awakens in an asylum for the criminally insane and must find answers as those around him die one by one.
    DirectorJeremy KastenStarsAndras JonesSeth GreenJeffrey Combs
  • The Incident (2014)

    18. The Incident

    20141h 40m
    6.3 (4.8K)
    Two parallel stories about characters trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road - for a very long time.
    DirectorIsaac EzbanStarsRaúl MéndezMagda BrugengheimHumberto Busto
  • Rory Kinnear in Men (2022)

    19. Men

    20221h 40mR65Metascore
    6.0 (73K)
    A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.
    DirectorAlex GarlandStarsJessie BuckleyRory KinnearPaapa Essiedu
  • Dustin Hoffman in Into the Labyrinth (2019)

    20. Into the Labyrinth

    20192h 10mTV-MA
    5.8 (5.3K)
    Samantha, a young girl who was kidnapped, resurfaces in shock after being imprisoned and hospitalized.
    DirectorDonato CarrisiStarsDustin HoffmanToni ServilloValentina Bellè
  • Observance (2015)

    21. Observance

    20151h 27mNot Rated
    4.5 (1.1K)
    In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
    DirectorJoseph Sims-DennettStarsStephanie KingLindsay FarrisBrendan Cowell
  • Armie Hammer in Wounds (2019)

    22. Wounds

    20191h 35mR51Metascore
    4.1 (23K)
    Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
    DirectorBabak AnvariStarsArmie HammerZazie BeetzKarl Glusman
  • In a Fishbowl (2023)

    23. In a Fishbowl

    20231h 20mTV-MA
    3.9 (115)
    After an accident, a young woman finds herself on a remote mansion trying to recover her memory with the help of a mysterious caretaker and a gold fish.
    DirectorKonstantinos FragkoulisStarsMaria DamasiotiGiorgos KafetzopoulosKorina Gougouli
  • Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema, and Henriëtte Tol in A Question of Silence (1982)

    24. A Question of Silence

    19821h 32mR
    6.7 (1.3K)
    When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
    DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsEdda BarendsNelly FrijdaHenriëtte Tol
  • Gabriela Muskala in Fugue (2018)

    25. Fugue

    20181h 42m
    6.3 (1.2K)
    After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. A dizzying psychological puzzle. Mesmerizing from the jaw-dropping first frame to the last.
    DirectorAgnieszka SmoczynskaStarsGabriela MuskalaLukasz SimlatMalgorzata Buczkowska

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