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The best mind-bending movies

These are the movies you will be talking about long after they finish. Inception layers dream within dream, Memento plays with time in a brilliant way, and Arrival is thoughtful and moving. Give them your full attention and be ready for a good late night debate.

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43 movies

  1. Inception poster Inception2010
  2. The Matrix poster The Matrix1999
  3. Memento poster Memento2000
  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind poster Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004
  5. Donnie Darko poster Donnie Darko2001
  6. Mulholland Drive poster Mulholland Drive2001
  7. 2001: A Space Odyssey poster 2001: A Space Odyssey1968
  8. Interstellar poster Interstellar2014
  9. Arrival poster Arrival2016
  10. Shutter Island poster Shutter Island2010
  11. Fight Club poster Fight Club1999
  12. The Prestige poster The Prestige2006
  13. Being John Malkovich poster Being John Malkovich1999
  14. Black Swan poster Black Swan2010
  15. Tenet poster Tenet2020
  16. Primer poster Primer2004
  17. Coherence poster Coherence2014
  18. Predestination poster Predestination2014
  19. Looper poster Looper2012
  20. Source Code poster Source Code2011
  21. Twelve Monkeys poster Twelve Monkeys1995
  22. Everything Everywhere All at Once poster Everything Everywhere All at Once2022
  23. Mr. Nobody poster Mr. Nobody2009
  24. Adaptation. poster Adaptation.2002
  25. Synecdoche, New York poster Synecdoche, New York2008
  26. Ex Machina poster Ex Machina2015
  27. Moon poster Moon2009
  28. Annihilation poster Annihilation2018
  29. Enemy poster Enemy2014
  30. Jacob's Ladder poster Jacob's Ladder1990
  31. Lost Highway poster Lost Highway1997
  32. Pi poster Pi1998
  33. The Machinist poster The Machinist2004
  34. Triangle poster Triangle2009
  35. Dark City poster Dark City1998
  36. Total Recall poster Total Recall1990
  37. Videodrome poster Videodrome1983
  38. eXistenZ poster eXistenZ1999
  39. The Thirteenth Floor poster The Thirteenth Floor1999
  40. Vanilla Sky poster Vanilla Sky2001
  41. The Butterfly Effect poster The Butterfly Effect2004
  42. The Lighthouse poster The Lighthouse2019
  43. The Man from Earth poster The Man from Earth2007

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