Plot twist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant plot twist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, twisted and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with plot twist, twists and turns, murder, blood, puzzle, mind game, psychology, death, flashback and fear plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as plot twist: Exam (2009), Knives Out (2019), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Handmaiden (2016), Predestination (2014), Shutter Island (2010), Memento (2000), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Best Offer (2013).

List of plot twist movies

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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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 7.9
 766K
Knives Out (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his ...
Style: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder, death, murder investigation, mansion, mystery killer, eccentric family, large family, plot twist, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
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: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, organized crime, criminal, manipulation, gangster, great ending, interrogation, murder mystery, whodunit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s, year 1981
Place: new york, los angeles, hungary, turkey, north america ...
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 8.1
 170K
The Handmaiden (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, plot twist, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, sex, lust, lgbtq, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism, twists and turns, seduction ...
Time: 1930s, year 2016, 2010s, ancient times
Place: japan, south korea, asia, indiana
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 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
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, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
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, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
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, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: ​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: found footage, facebook, plot twist, hacking, dark web, characters killed one by one, sign language, murder, psychopath, teenager, cyberspace, characters murdered one by one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 7.8
 128K
The Best Offer (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: twists and turns, painting, art, loneliness, art collector, art theft, age difference, collector, obsession, deception, mysterious character, forgery ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, prague, vienna, italy
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 7.4
 45K
Forgotten (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: plot twist, brother brother relationship, memory loss, uncover truth, home invasion, delusion, revenge, twists and turns, new house, deception, chase, childhood memory ...
Place: south korea, korea
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And Then There Were None (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
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Story: Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, island, isolation, plot twist, murder, survival, investigation, bully comeuppance, trapped, accusation, death ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, 20th century
Place: britain, united kingdom, europe, england
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 6.5
 49K
Time Lapse (2014)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Style: twist ending, psychological, tense, cerebral, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, parallel universe, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, time loop, paranoia, twists and turns, blackmail, murder, brutality, death threat ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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 7.2
 90K
Frailty (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
Style: psychological, surprise ending, scary, twisted, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, insanity, religious fanatic, childhood, plot twist, father son relationship, punishment, demon, child abuse ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2000, year 1979, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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 6.6
 130K
Wild Things (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but ...
Style: erotic, surprise ending, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot: femme fatale, blackmail, rape, fatal attraction, dangerous attraction, lesbian, plot twist, desire, sex, sexual harassment, teachers and students, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami, miami beach, everglades
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 8.5
 1.4M
The Prestige (2006)
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, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, magic, magician, secret, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, deception ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2006, edwardian era, future ...
Place: london, colorado, britain, peru, los angeles ...
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 6.6
 276K
The Village (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style: surprise ending, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: plot twist, forest, isolation, psychology, twists and turns, utopia, village, mysterious place, autumn, small town, village life, blind character ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
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 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
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, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
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 5.9
 88K
Hide and Seek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, mental illness, psychologist, haunted by the past, murder, single father, haunted house, serial killer, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.0
 66K
Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, execution, morality, life & death, prejudice, game of death, survival horror, stranger, struggle for survival, plot twist, sole survivor, twists and turns ...
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 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, plot twist, madhouse, doctor, doctors and patients, macabre, conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1900
Place: england, britain, usa, tuscany
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 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
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 7.5
 64K
The Guilty (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot: police, plot twist, police vigilantism, kidnapping, guilt, nordic, race against time, police officer, telephone call, mission, woman in danger, saving a life ...
Time: 2010s, future
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 7.5
 101K
Following (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspense, black and white, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: plot twist, manipulation, voyeurism, character study, breaking and entering, stranger, friendship, framed for murder, whodunit, buddies, dishonesty, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: england, persia, london, europe
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