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 clever, psychological, twist ending, interesting, intense and dark films and TV shows about / with plot twist, twists and turns, suspense, dialogue, storytelling, murder, mentor, greed, psychology and chase plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as plot twist: Exam (2009), Predestination (2014), The Usual Suspects (1995), Shutter Island (2010), Fight Club (1999), Primal Fear (1996), Memento (2000), Timecrimes (2007), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Prestige (2006).
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List of plot twist movies
119K
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, mind bending, twist ending, tricky ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, plot twist, mind game, survival, confinement indoors, surveillance, rivalry, psychologist, suspense, pandemic, ambition ...
Time:
future
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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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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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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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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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228K
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:
surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, neo noir, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, court, plot twist, murder, corruption, psychopath, lawyer, courtroom, legal investigation, psychology, courtroom drama ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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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: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, tricky, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, plot twist, time machine, mysterious character, twists and turns, threat, time, surrealism, disorder, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
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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, touching, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, existentialism, plot twist, life, friendship between men, life sentence, life philosophy, hopes, adaptation, powerful ending ...
Time:
1940s, year 1963, year 1965, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, maine, pacific ocean, mexico
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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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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:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, suspense, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, psychologist, mental illness, haunted by the past, ghost, murder, single father, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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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, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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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:
surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twists and turns, loneliness, art collector, art, art theft, deception, collector, solitude, obsession, adult virgin, mysterious character, age difference ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, prague, europe, italy
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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, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Horror, 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:
intellectual, psychological, tense, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, parallel universe, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, suspense, paranoia, twists and turns, blackmail, destiny, survival, murder ...
Time:
future
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267K
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, captivating, psychological, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
village, plot twist, psychology, isolation, forest, utopia, macabre, twists and turns, mysterious place, small town, village life, cult ...
Time:
18th century, 1890s, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, new england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Style:
surprise ending, serious, thought provoking, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, inspector, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, introspection, family problems, haunted by the past, suicide, justice, rich and poor ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place:
england
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424K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, plot twist, invulnerability, twists and turns, train crash, suspense, villain, self discovery, father son relationship, supernatural ability, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 60s, 2000s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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430K
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, surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, fear, psychopath, plot twist, mind game, macabre, violent, suspense, survival horror, trapped, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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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:
suspenseful, exciting, clever, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
police, police vigilantism, one day, plot twist, kidnapping, twists and turns, suspense, guilt, race against time, police officer, woman in danger, saving a life ...
Time:
future
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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:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lust, plot twist, sex, lesbianism, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, twists and turns, seduction, woman ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
japan, india, asia, south korea, tokyo
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60K
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, talky, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, morality, twists and turns, execution, prejudice, suspense, plot twist, life & death, survival horror, struggle for survival, stranger, sole survivor ...
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124K
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:
surprise ending, psychological, erotic, tense, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
blackmail, femme fatale, twists and turns, rape, dangerous attraction, suspense, lesbian, plot twist, desire, sex, teachers and students, seduction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa, miami beach, miami
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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, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, torture, game of death, group of strangers, game, psychopath, deathtrap, mind game, confinement indoors, plot twist, moral dilemma, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, psychological, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, prison, justice, investigation, vigilantism, suspense, master criminal, fighting the system, lawyer, murder, mind game, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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37K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A bright but meek salesman, drowning in debt as he's about to get married, receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
suspense, game, psychology, mysterious character, greed, graphic violence, brutality, plot twist, twists and turns, on the run, mind game, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
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440K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, bleak, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, prejudice, multiple storylines, plot twist, sexual harassment, racist, racial tension, social injustice, redemption, class differences, city life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, puerto rico, santa monica california ...
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15K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes
Style:
futuristic, intense, enigmatic, confusing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, plot twist, suspense, teleportation, twists and turns, survival, time, betrayal, multiverse, alternate universe, alternate reality, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style:
enigmatic, philosophical, intellectual, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot:
afterlife, suicide, alternate reality, life after death, macabre, plot twist, dreams, twists and turns, self discovery, science, religion, psychology ...
Time:
future
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