Unusual plot structure movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant unusual plot structure movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out unusual plot structure, suspense, weird, thought provoking, psychological and complex films and TV shows about / with death, storytelling, blood, runaway, twists and turns, mentor, murder, dialogue, catastrophe and vengeance plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as unusual plot structure: Incendies (2010), The Game (1997), Marshland (2014), 127 Hours (2010), Focus (2015), Stranger by the Lake (2013), Tenet (2020), Mr. Nobody (2009), Endless Love (2014), I Saw the Devil (2010).
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List of unusual plot structure movies
246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, rape, last will and testament, unwanted pregnancy, incest, twists and turns, civil war, pregnant from rape, incest rape, torture, lebanese civil war, family problems ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2009, year 1970, y2k ...
Place:
middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal ...
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466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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39K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, detective, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, disappearance, partners against crime, murder, sexual abuse, carnival ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula
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422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
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293K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years ...
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, entertaining, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
heist, cons and scams, con artists, fall in love, twists and turns, mind game, interracial love, sex scene, femme fatale, manipulation, female thief, gambling ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
peru, argentina, usa, south america, new orleans ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Style:
sexy, erotic, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure, detective ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex scene, male male relationship, gender, gay, outdoor sex, murder, police detective, male nudity, homosexuality, naked man, lake, loneliness ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, nebraska, paris france
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677K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, mind bending, twist ending, philosophical ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
time paradox, time travel, time, special agent, time loop, espionage, mission, terrorism, teamwork, quantum physics, cia agent, technology ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
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256K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style:
romantic, unusual plot structure, teen, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
love story, love, forbidden love, teenage love, teen romance, love affair, teenager, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, couples, teenage life ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
disturbing, bloody, dark, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, adult
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, violent, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, murderer, brutality ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, unusual plot structure, futuristic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
wilderness, post apocalypse, distopia, fantasy world, distant planet, mind reading, farm, colonialism, attempted escape, relationships, space colony, farmer ...
Time:
2020s, 23rd century
Place:
space western
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film is based on real events when, in the 1970s, the deepest well in the world with a depth of more than 12 thousand meters was drilled in Murmansk Region for research purposes. During drilling, seismic sensors began to pick up strange sounds, ...
Style:
mysterious, suspense, unusual plot structure, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, rescue, body horror, parasite, science, secret, underground, danger, threat, struggle for survival, creature feature, small time ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, UK, USA, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Style:
humorous, funny, dark comedy, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
death, gory, dark humor, vacation, group of friends, student, nothing goes right, accidental killing, youth, chainsaw, friends, freak accident ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa, canada
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236K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, revenge, dark humor, twists and turns, sex scene, human nature, vengeance, violence, corruption, destiny, wedding party, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
argentina, south america, persia, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, romantic, contemplative, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
nostalgia, husband wife conflict, actress, sex orgy, orgy, dinner, theater, romanticism, husband and wife, party, drug, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, medieval, seppuku, swords and armor, assassin, shogun, swordsman, battles, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1840s, 1800s ...
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Angel of mercy… or murderous “Doctor Death”? Jack Kervorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification. ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, serious, compassionate, witty, talky ...
Plot:
suicide, terminal illness, biopic, murder, moral dilemma, euthanasia, lethal injection, greed, eccentricity, atheism, legal, historical figure ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland, Norway, France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously ...
Style:
christmas horror, unusual plot structure, atmospheric, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
christmas, winter, holiday, holiday horror, krampus, childhood, ancient mystery, hidden truth, young heroes, killer santa claus, youth, small town ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
finland, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Style:
unusual plot structure, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
alien planet, artificial intelligence, mission, planet, alien contact, suspended animation, nasa, space, astronaut, saturn the planet, chess, scientist ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian romance, lake, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian, bisexual woman, flashback sequence, mother daughter relationship, secret, cuckolded husband, cheating wife ...
Time:
60s
Place:
missouri
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, UK, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
Style:
breathtaking, stylized, touching, sad, visual ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magician, art, magic, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, theater, very little dialogue, imagination, mentor, transformation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1959, year 2010 ...
Place:
england, scotland, france, edinburgh scotland, scottish highlands ...
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30K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Mexico, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Style:
unusual plot structure, twist ending, suspense, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nazi, revenge, ss, auschwitz, holocaust, nazi war criminal, nazi officer, old man, swastika, disappearance, genocide, world war two ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
germany, cleveland ohio, canada, reno nevada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
Style:
anthology, psychological, tense, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, danger, haunted house, serial killer, evil force, death, nightmare, insanity, mental institution, creature ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 20th century, 60s, year 2013 ...
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, usa, massachusetts, north carolina ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
Style:
unusual plot structure, visually appealing, mind twisting, twisted, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, teachers and students, japanese schoolgirl, twists and turns, dead daughter, character study, child murders a child, child murder, bullying, grief, teacher ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, tokyo
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147K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, paradox, gory, shipwreck ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Style:
philosophical, unusual plot structure, romantic, suspense, sexy ...
Plot:
professor, murder, russian roulette, philosophy, relationships, plot twist, teachers and students, college, attempted murder, poisoning, judge, character study ...
Time:
year 2015, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Roger is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, unusual plot structure, captivating, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
incest, older woman teenage boy sex, sex, erotica, coming of age, brother sister sex, sexual awakening, older woman younger man sex, teenage sexuality, male nudity, masturbation, woman urinating ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
france
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Style:
psychedelic, unusual plot structure, surreal, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
drug trip, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelia, karma, time travel, drug, surrealism, husband wife relationship, hallucination, acid trip, dealer, visual hallucination ...
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175K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, funny, cute, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
kidnapping, treasure, treasure hunt, novelist, jungle, snake, bodyguard, cargo plane, model, woman in jeopardy, volcano, agoraphobia ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
canary islands, fictional island
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