Mind-bending movies – that purposely aim the audience’s brain as their toy. For some cause, many people want to watch horror movies and sense fear. Others appreciate watching romantic movies and crying their eyes out.
So, what is being aimed at when someone wants to choose a “mind-bending” movie? These Mind-bending movies can screw your head and force you to think. Not only that, but they are also pushing you to change the way of your think. They are mind-bending movies that strike you on an analytical and visceral level. They manipulate your brain in a good way.
Here we discussed the list of 10 mind-bending movies, which have a confusing story, and an open end that will drive you to stimulate variations that can change the complete meaning of what you have seen on the screen.
Thus, the below rankings are not thinking of the most mind-bending movies, but they are the best ones.
Memento
Memento is a masterpiece creation of a neo-noir psychological suspense film by Christopher Nolan.
The story of This film is about a man who bears anterograde amnesia and continues trying to hunt down the man who attacked his wife and murdered her.
He can not remember any facts after the murder of his wife. So he continues to try to struggle to create new memories. His problematic effort becomes more challenging because of his sickness.
Even he tattooed the look of the murderer and all the details regarding him. To smoothen his journey to discover the murderer, he takes polaroid photos of specialties.
Memento is a rare movie portraying characters with unusual mental illnesses. This kind of movie is rare to come by. Yet, if you are interested in knowing a person’s struggles with amnesia, you must watch Memento.
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
A Tale Of Two Sisters
If you want to watch a Psychological horror drama, you will love to see this movie Established in South Korea. “A Tale Of Two Sisters” rotates around the life of two sisters (two siblings) who are treated with barbarity by their stepmother.
The Korean culture of family dynamics contributes to it also. The two sisters were recently discharged from a psychiatric establishment, and they witnessed some extraordinarily disturbing affairs there. However, these incidents change their life forever.
“A story Of Two Sisters” was the first movie in South Korea that was screened in America, and this film was proven to be one of the highest-grossing films in South Korea in the horror genre.
Cast: Im Soo-Jung, Moon Geun-young, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-soo
Directed By: Jee- Woon Kim
Audition
Audition is the fascinating film on this mind-bending movie list. Audition is a Japanese horror film that is adapted from the novel Audition by Ryu Murakami.
This movie is the story of a lonely widower who takes care of his son and his business after his wife’s death.
The turning of this film happens when His son determines that his father has to marry a second time. So, his friend arranges an audition for a bogus film for searching new wife for his friend’s father.
At the audition. The businessman gets attracted to one woman among all ‘candidates’ because of her history and emotional deepness.
The romance between them turns into horribleness as the story grows slowly. Something about this woman endangers to proclaim the businessman’s life.
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
Directed By: Takashi Miike
Snowpiercer
The movie represented the future world of 2031, when the ice age started after the failed attempt to restrain global warming.
This failed experiment proclaimed all living things. The remaining survivors are those who boarded the Snowpiercers, the only train that circumscribes the world.
This is how the train has been driving for 17 years with the survivors. But a central class system has appeared, and the poor residents who live at the tail end of the train decided to revolt against the upper-class citizens in the front section of the train for fair and equal treatment.
Cast: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Song Kang-ho, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, Ko Aung
Directed By: Bong Joon-ho
Being John Malkovich
Did you ever anticipate a mind-bending movie with a comedy version? Or even you expect to giggle loudly in the middle of a serious film? We are sure you wouldn’t have. But your preoccupied ideas will seem false after you watch Being John Malkovich.
This 1999 movie “Being John Malkovich” revolves around the belief that the doorway in the building of Dr. Lester is a door to occupy the sense of a movie star: John Malkovich. This rumor creates an embarrassing atmosphere that causes hilarity.
One of the significant reasons this movie is recognized is because of this movie’s star cast like Brad Pitt, Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Sean Penn, etc. This film was nominated for the Best Director Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay award, and many more.
Cast: John Cusack, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Cameron Diaz, Mary Kay Place, John Malkovich
Directed By: Spike Jonze
Identity
“Movie Identity” is considered a neo-noir movie which makes it mesmerizing that the count of victims keeps increasing.
“Identity” is all about Ten strangers who were left abandoned in a lonely Nevada motel in heavy rains where they were pushed to gang together after discovering that a killer was tracking them down.
This film’s “identity” has been equally criticized and praised by critics. The film is established on the tale of Michael Cooney.
However, according to the critics, the story has a far-reaching storyline that produces it looking unrealistic, even though the audience thinks this film does not have a proper conclusion.
Cast: Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Cusack, Alfred Molina, Mark Ruffalo Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Directed By: James Mangold
Shutter Island
If you are a die-hard fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, you should watch Shutter Island. This neo-noir psychological movie is acclimated to the fiction Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
We suppose you might be wrong if you think DiCaprio is the movie’s hero. He plays a dangerous prisoner in a psychiatric establishment. He was admitted for his wife’s murder because She murdered their children in her depressed condition.
Through an intricate procedure, the psychiatrist of the establishment tries to create an illusion that the inmate believes he is an officer of the U.S. marshall. And he has been dispatched to the establishment to investigate a complicated case.
The psychiatrist’s motto is to confront the inmate to realize what he did, and Once he is faced with the truth, he will be healed of his madness.
The story of Shutter Island is full of turns and twists, leaving the audience busy with the storyline until the end.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Inception
The mind-bending movie list will be unfinished without Inception on it. The movie “Inception,” is a science-fiction thriller directed by Christopher Nolan.
The film is about the open world where dream-sharing technology is present. Using that technology, a skilled thief (Dom Cobb) hacks people’s dreams for corporate intelligence.
Dom Cobb has been charged with the complex assignment of implanting the seed of an opinion into the consciousness of a C.E.O. This opportunity feels like deliverance to him, and he has to achieve it.
But however carefully they prepare, they can not run from an enemy who is aware of their upcoming move. Dom Cobb’s tragic history can recreate a part of his team as a catastrophe. Frankly, movies like Inception can mangle anyone’s sanity.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Interstellar
Interstellar is developed in a future world where our Earth is no longer usable by humanity. Changes in Climate, overexploitation of natural resources, and casualties have created difficulty for humans to stay on Earth.
That’s why few astronauts departed on a journey to the galaxy for searching a new home for humans. Those astronauts have been traveling through a wormhole close to Saturn in search of a perfect planet.
After their search for a new planet, they return home and find they have not aged like the other family members.
Co-written by Jonathan and Christopher, Interstellar has proven to be one of the highest-profiting films of 2014, and It bagged five Academy Award nominations and achieved a win.
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin,
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Split
The split movie is a psychological horror movie that composes a fascinating and suspenseful story. This movie’s story is rich in turns and twists that force you to sit in an uncomfortable position,
However, this actuality should not be unexpected. Because this movie was, written, directed, and produced by the mythical and well-known M. Night Shyamalan.
This movie is about a man called Kevin who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.). Kevin has 23 distinct personalities, including The 24th personality.
Kevin experiences a transformation in his physiological feature With a nature change. That’s why Kevin sometimes transform into a Beast with superhuman speed. And sometimes, as Barry, the strongest one.
The story begins when Kevin kidnaps three young girls. The girls must discover a way to run Kevin’s grips before that happens. And Kevin’s other two personalities are preparing to offer the girls to the Beast.
This Split movie considers one of the most watched and appreciated psychological thrillers till now. This is one of the best mind-bending movies we have ever watched.
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley
Directed By: M. Night Shyamalan