Enigmatic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant enigmatic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out enigmatic, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, thought provoking and cerebral films and TV shows about / with death, storytelling, twists and turns, blood, dialogue, puzzle, murder, plot twist, surrealism and flashback plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as enigmatic: Arrival (2016), I Origins (2014), The Game (1997), The OA (2016), Shutter Island (2010), 2:22 (2017), Twin Peaks (1990), The Prestige (2006), Servant (2019), Fight Club (1999).
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New films
| ReBroken (2023) | 4.3 | |
| Ghosts of Beirut (2023) | 7.3 | |
| The Adam Project (2022) | 6.7 | |
| The Beach Hotel (2023) | 3.4 | |
| Unseen (2023) | 6.0 |
852K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
140K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
126K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Style:
enigmatic, mysterious, sensual, erotic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, alternate dimension, captive, disappearance, mysticism, alternate reality, supernatural power, blindness, forbidden love, mysterious disappearance, ritual, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, 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:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man's life is derailed when an ominous pattern of events repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending at precisely 2:22 p.m.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, cerebral, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
time loop, train station, air traffic controller, repeated event, premonition, investigation, artist, time travel, obsession, love triangle, coincidence, ballet ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york
Is relevant?
243K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, neo noir, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, small town, nightmare, murder, investigation, mysterious villain, hallucination, supernatural, mysterious death, small town life, mysterious place ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place:
washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa, canada
Is relevant?
1.6M
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, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
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52K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, spooky ...
Plot:
psychological trauma, bereavement, strange person, mysticism, religion, child, religious fanatic, nanny, uncover truth, chef, supernatural, grief ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Is relevant?
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
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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, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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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, period piece, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, forbidden love, wizards and magicians, magician, murder mystery, murder, love triangle, magic trick, investigation, nobility, love story ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2006, 2000s, edwardian era ...
Place:
vienna, london, austria, america, england ...
Is relevant?
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 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:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Is relevant?
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, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Style:
scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, old dark house, supernatural horror, mysterious past, addiction, haunted, sibling relationship, past coming back to haunt, haunted castle, supernatural, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
2.8M
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, cerebral, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, teamwork, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, twists and turns, fictional reality, existentialism, lucid dream ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
1.2M
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, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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121K
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:
philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and ...
Style:
enigmatic, light, fairy tale, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
witch, sorceress, eye, witchcraft, black cat, black magic, evil witch, evil, coming of age, teenage girl, redhead girl, redheaded woman ...
Place:
denmark
Is relevant?
36K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, cerebral, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, amnesia, investigation, macabre, hallucination, hypnosis, police detective, interrogation, murder mystery, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
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:
suspense, twist ending, cerebral, enigmatic, confusing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, twists and turns, time machine, plot twist, threat, mysterious character, problem solving, trippy, time, surrealism, disorder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
basque country, iberian peninsula, europe, spain
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun.
Style:
enigmatic, surreal, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
japanese schoolgirl, massacre, wedding, mass murder, japanese girl, alternate reality, blood, murder, surrealism, school shooting, death, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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104K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, scientist, metaphysics, space travel, space and aliens, space station, dream, trapped in space, astronaut, loneliness, science, philosophy ...
Time:
distant future, 70s, future, year 1972
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
obsession, manipulation, gay, serial killer, lgbtq, homosexuality, secret identity, gay subtext, psychopath, envy, jealousy, sociopath ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe, persia ...
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
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, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, dream, alternate reality, surrealism, lost love, disfigurement, redemption, obsession, tragic love, love, hopes, death ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's ...
Style:
enigmatic, suspense, tense, satanic, mystical ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, supernatural, mysticism, basement, occult, witchcraft, demon, evil, haunted house, mother, hell, disappearance ...
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Style:
enigmatic, mysterious, funny, disturbing, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
time travel, time, father, suv, child, female warrior, time traveler, travel, space, time paradox, death of father, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
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: 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, philosophical, confusing, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, time paradox, twists and turns, parallel universe, gender, destiny, existentialism, changing the past or future, loner ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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