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The Best Mindf*ck Movies

Updated November 4, 2019 13.6k votes 2.3k voters 86.6k views70 items

List RulesDon't list movies that are merely strange, surreal, or incomprehensible.

Movies that mess with your mind, plots that reveal radically different realities; things are seldom what they seem in these stories, for the protagonist or the viewer. Technically referred to as paranoid fictions or paranoid fantasies, the (albeit crass) term 'mindfuck' appears to be a more common (and arguably more descriptive) label for these movies.

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Fight Club
Brad Pitt, Jared Leto
Released: 1999
Directed by: David Fincher
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Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy
Released: 2010
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
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Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams
Released: 2010
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
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Predestination
Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor
Released: 2014
Directed by: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
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Memento
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss
Released: 2000
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
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The Prestige
Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie
Released: 2006
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
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Donnie Darko
Drew Barrymore, Ashley Tisdale
Released: 2001
Directed by: Richard Kelly
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Interstellar
Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey
Released: 2014
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
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The Sixth Sense
Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton
Released: 1999
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
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Coherence
Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
Released: 2013
Directed by: James Ward Byrkit
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The Matrix
Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving
Released: 1999
Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
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The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey, Benicio del Toro
Released: 1994
Directed by: Bryan Singer
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Source Code
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan
Released: 2011
Directed by: Duncan Jones
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst
Released: 2004
Directed by: Michel Gondry
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Jacob's Ladder
Macaulay Culkin, Tim Robbins
Released: 1990
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
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Oldboy
Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae
Released: 2003
Directed by: Park Chan-wook
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The Game
Sean Penn, Michael Douglas
Released: 1997
Directed by: David Fincher, Pedro Coutinho
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The Machinist
Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Released: 2004
Directed by: Brad Anderson
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The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
Released: 2004
Directed by: J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress
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The Truman Show
Jim Carrey, Paul Giamatti
Released: 1998
Directed by: Peter Weir
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The Others
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston
Released: 2001
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
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Mr. Nobody
Diane Kruger, Jared Leto
Released: 2009
Directed by: Jaco Van Dormael
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Triangle
Melissa George, Michael Dorman
Released: 2009
Directed by: Christopher Smith
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Primer
Shane Carruth, David Sullivan
Released: 2004
Directed by: Shane Carruth
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The Illusionist
Jessica Biel, Edward Norton
Released: 2006
Directed by: Neil Burger
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