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, suspense, psychological, mind bending, twisted and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with twists and turns, death, plot twist, mind game, murder, blood, psychology, suicide, supernatural and moving plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as enigmatic: Midsommar (2019), I Origins (2014), Arrival (2016), The OA (2016), The Game (1997), Fracture (2007), The Prestige (2006), In the House (2012), Fight Club (1999), Coma (2019).

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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 7.3
 133K
I Origins (2014)
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, spiritual, mind bending, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot: reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, spirituality, religion, genetics, buddhism, atheism, evolution, society, love story, elevator ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2012 ...
Place: india, usa, new york, asia, new haven connecticut ...
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 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
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, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
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 7.8
 115K
The OA (2016)
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, bleak, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel universe, captive, alternate dimension, ritual, disappearance, mysticism, alternate reality, blindness, mysterious disappearance, experiment, near death experience, abduction ...
Time: future
Place: san francisco
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 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
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, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style: suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
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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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 7.3
 34K
In the House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, witty, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: writers, teacher, high school, obsession, student, literature, art, school, privacy invasion, teen angst, mind game, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
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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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 6.3
 12K
Coma (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a colossal and mysterious accident a young talented architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world that only resembles the reality. This world is based on the memories of the ones who live in it - people who are currently finding ...
Style: atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: subconscious, architect, imaginary, couples, getting home, coma, alternate reality, imagination, scientist, research, virtual world, society ...
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 7.7
 73K
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: disfigurement, dream, surrealism, psychiatrist, love, nightmare, paranoia, car accident, love triangle, memory loss, jealousy, insanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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 6.2
 37K
The Discovery (2017)
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, psychological, philosophical, intellectual, dark ...
Plot: suicide, afterlife, alternate reality, life after death, macabre, science, self discovery, religion, plot twist, dream, life philosophy, philosophy ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2017
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 7.6
 413K
The Machinist (2004)
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, surprise ending, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insomnia, insanity, obsession, mysterious character, losing-it hero, paranoia, hallucination, life is a bitch, uncover truth, schizophrenia, secrets, mental illness ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, los angeles
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 6.0
 15K
Parallels (2015)
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, suspense, enigmatic, confusing, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel universe, plot twist, time, alternate universe, teleportation, survival, betrayal, multiverse, alternate reality, clone, twists and turns, dystopia ...
Time: future
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 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
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 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
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, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: urban legend, psychic, conspiracy, twists and turns, death of wife, reporter, supernatural, supernatural power, investigation, hallucination, warning, angel ...
Time: year 2000, year 2002, 20th century, 70s
Place: west virginia, pittsburgh, virginia, washington d.c., usa ...
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 7.5
 388K
The Illusionist (2006)
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: magic, twists and turns, forbidden love, wizards and magicians, investigation, murder, love triangle, magic trick, death, duchess, nobility, rivals ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2006, 2000s, edwardian era ...
Place: austria, vienna, america, london, england ...
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 7.6
 391K
The Others (2001)
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: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mansion, supernatural horror, mysterious character, haunting, spiritualism, macabre ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 2000, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
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, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 7.1
 119K
The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, time loop, mental institution, supernatural, murder, hallucination, mental illness, memory loss, butterfly effect, supernatural ability, parallel universe ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: iraq, vermont
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 7.7
 470K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, hitman, drug cartel, revenge, swat team, fbi, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, crime boss, organized crime, cia agent ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, el paso texas, tucson arizona ...
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 6.9
 284K
Vanilla Sky (2001)
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, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: virtual reality, dream, surrealism, tragic love, amnesia, love, disfigurement, obsession, lost love, mind game, love story, alternate reality ...
Time: year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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, psychological thriller, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, secret identity, gay, homosexuality, envy, murder, bisexuality, murder mystery, literary ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 1999, year 1959 ...
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, america, mediterranean sea ...
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 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
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 5.9
 19K
Haunter (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, time loop, afterlife, haunted house, supernatural, rescue, trapped, youth, murder, coming of age, uncover truth, house ...
Time: 2010s, year 1983, year 1985, year 1953, 80s ...
Place: usa, ontario canada, canada
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 6.3
 214
A Good Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Who and What is “A Good Man”? This is the central question in this original drama series from Konstantin Bogomolov, agent provocateur of Russian cinema. Based on a true story, inspired by the capture of Russia’s most prolific and brutal serial ...
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, detective, suspense
Plot: serial killer, female detective, investigation, police investigation, murder, maniac, brutality, police, danger, small town, police officer, death ...
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The Secret Circle (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her boyfriend Adam, brooding ...
Style: mysterious, captivating, enigmatic, supernatural thriller, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: supernatural, witch, witchcraft, high school, female protagonist, teenage life, teenage love, supernatural ability, youth, teenage girl, curses spells and rituals, small town ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington state
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A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: cure, therapist, patient, hospital, dark secret, spa, capitalism, macabre, slut, experiment, torture, boobs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017, future
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, america ...
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The Bothersome Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style: surreal, enigmatic, psychological, psychedelic, mindfuck ...
Plot: dystopia, suicide attempt, parallel universe, exile, accountant, nightmare, emotionless, new job, isolation, confined, captivity, confusion ...
Time: distant future
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