Mind blowing movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mind blowing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, psychological thriller, complex, interesting, mind blowing and intellectual films and TV shows about / with suspense, storytelling, twists and turns, puzzle, plot twist, death, dialogue, existentialism, trippy and conundrum plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
mind blowing
TOP 10 movies tagged as mind blowing: Inception (2010), Memento (2000), Shutter Island (2010), The Prestige (2006), Fight Club (1999), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Donnie Darko (2001), Triangle (2009), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Game (1997).
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List of mind blowing movies
2.4M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
suspense, memory, virtual reality, alternate reality, dream, subconscious, architecture, existentialism, fictional reality, mind control, imagination, lucid dream ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, new york, kenya ...
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1.3M
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, amnesia, memory loss, murder, plot twist, revenge, memory, paranoia, vengeance, psychology, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
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1.3M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, magic, plot twist, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, deception, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, secrets, secret ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, colorado, los angeles, europe, england
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2.2M
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, twist ending, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, plot twist, fight, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, against the rules, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
delaware, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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811K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, insanity, time travel, imaginary friend, surrealism, parallel universe, hallucination, suspense, time loop, suburbs, schizophrenia ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
virginia, los angeles, usa
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120K
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, surprise ending, twist ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, suspense, time travel, supernatural, ocean, ghost ship, isolation, insanity, macabre, castaway ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, caribbean
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style:
surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, mind bending, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, criminal, manipulation, organized crime, gangsters, suspense, interrogation, investigation, deception ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, hungary, turkey, manhattan new york city
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405K
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, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
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109K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, time machine, parallel universe, changing the past or future, changing the future, twists and turns, science, inventor, time, mathematics, scientist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, thought provoking, clever, twist ending, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, time loop, plot twist, time paradox, time machine, mission, parallel universe, changing the past or future, mysterious character, existentialism, special agents ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place:
usa, new york, cleveland ohio
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273K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, virtual reality, mind game, love, tragic love, disfigurement, psychology, dream, obsession, lost love, alternate reality ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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397K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
insanity, insomnia, hallucination, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, twists and turns, mysterious character, suspense, losing-it hero, loneliness, schizophrenia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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237K
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, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
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254K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mental disorder, suspense, murder mystery, psychology, investigation, murderer, murder, stranded, twists and turns, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, florida
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, space, artificial intelligence, scientist, computer, surrealism, human versus computer, technology, evolution, self discovery, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 1930s, prehistory, 2000s ...
Place:
vatican
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373K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, scary, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, suspense, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mysterious character, spiritualism, mansion, isolation, supernatural horror ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
europe, english channel, england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged ...
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
magic, twists and turns, forbidden love, love, wizards and magicians, investigation, murder, love triangle, secrets, suspense, magician, death ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 1880s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, london, europe, england
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1.9M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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528K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, train, twists and turns, alternate reality, bomb, destiny, save the day, memory, parallel universe, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, afghanistan, chicago illinois, illinois
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998K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, suspense, missing person, investigation, infidelity, murder mystery, marriage, manipulation, psychology, adultery, missing wife, disappearance ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york, missouri, st. louis missouri
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199K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, nightmare, suspense, surrealism, obsession, spider, disturbed individual, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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203K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, neo noir, gothic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, investigation, memory, alternate reality, cyberpunk, suspense, alien race, alien, post apocalypse, future dystopia, amnesia, memory loss ...
Time:
future, 1940s
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1.9M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, intense, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
distopia, artificial intelligence, martial arts, existentialism, philosophy, cyberpunk, alternate reality, virtual reality, fight, gunfight, post apocalypse, hacker ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 22nd century ...
Place:
los angeles
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364K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style:
psychological, futuristic, bleak, philosophical, twist ending ...
Plot:
isolation, moon, astronaut, loneliness, space travel, space, solitude, cloning, suspense, twists and turns, distopia, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, mexico
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, soldier, military, battles, invasion, repeated event, changing the past or future, time paradox, evil alien ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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133K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, tense, confusing ...
Plot:
parallel world, twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel universe, time loop, friends, disorder, paranoia, suspense, dinner party, confinement indoors, comet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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