Watching movies can be a great way to relax and unwind!
But sometimes, you want something more than just a regular movie. You want something that will challenge your mind and make you think.
That’s why we’ve compiled this list of the top 10 mind-bending movies of all time. From action-packed thrillers to romantic comedies to gripping dramas, these movies will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride and leave you with plenty of questions to ponder. Whether it’s the intricate plot twists or the thought-provoking themes, these are some of the best mind-bending movies out there!
1. Primer
Primer is an intelligent, meditative time-travel movie about a group of engineers who unwittingly open a door to the future by building a time machine,” according to The New York Times. It’s about one man’s quest to build a time machine from scratch so he can go back in time and save his wife, who died in childbirth. But as it turns out, what starts out as scientific discovery soon becomes something much more nefarious.
2. Memento
In this psychologically challenging film, Leonard Shelby suffers from anterograde amnesia and depends on a digital audio recorder to remember his past. . But when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, his search for the truth takes a sinister turn.
3. A Clockwork Orange
A former juvenile delinquent is shown an ultraviolent film made by a scientist who believes he has found “the answer” to crime and violence. The protagonist undergoes treatment with a drug given to him that has the effect of turning him into this man’s perfect subject—a human machine who enjoys cruelty and pain as much as anyone else.
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A tale about two people, one who erases all vestiges of his failed relationship from his memory, and the other who makes a desperate attempt to snap back a happy memory. The only way to make this happen is through technology – using artificial intelligence to remove painful memories like a surgical procedure.
5. The Sixth Sense
This film tells the story of Bruce Willis as he helps Haley Joel Osment’s character, Cole Sear, find his lost little boy. It’s interesting because it used numerous special effects that made it seem like there was more than one ghost in some scenes and when that happened I got goose bumps on my arms and felt scared for not knowing what would happen next in those scenes.
6. The Usual Suspects
A detective is having trouble figuring out who, among five friends, is responsible for a series of murders. The twist at the end of the film reveals that all five suspects are actually one person in disguise.
7. Spirited Away
A young girl has to deal with an evil spirit after she is swept into a world of endless dreams and fantasy.
8. The Matrix
A computer hacker learns that our world is nothing more than a vast illusion generated by sentient machines with human bodies. The movie follows his quest to lead an insurgency to free humanity from the machine-created “reality.”
9. Inception
The idea at the center of Inception is that, by entering someone else’s dream and planting an idea into his mind, you can create reality in someone’s mind.
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A farmer in Missouri watches two mysterious, shining objects over his field. When he wakes up, he realizes that he has had a close encounter with aliens.
