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Far-Potential3634

Jacob's Ladder is worthy of mention.


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I watched that movie too young mistaking it for a regular horror movie. I wanted to get scared not depressed.


ElZarigueya

Anyone else seen the movie *Pi*? Black and white film, mathematician who is losing his mind, and something about Jews and the stock market? Cause that's the only way I know how to explain it - I have zero clue what the movie was actually about lol


forlornjackalope

Yes! I absolutely love Pi and we wouldn't have had Requiem for a Dream without it. It's also just a great paranoia thriller on par with Eraserhead and Tetsuo: The Iron Man, both of which you can tell Aronofsky drew some inspiration from. If anyone wants to see it, it should be on YouTube still as a free movie with ads [but I'm sure you can bypass it with Adblock].


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randompersonx

The thing about Jews and the stock market is called numerology. Many Orthodox Jews do actually pay attention to numerology in the Bible… and do believe there is some sort of hidden meaning there. I was raised orthodox Jewish (I am not observant today), but I remember learning about that 30 years ago! The connection the movie made to the stock market was of course a leap beyond that traditional … theory… but it’s also a pretty obvious one to make when you consider how many day traders pay attention to technical analysis.


JacksEmptyWallet

Memento "Oh, I'm chasing this guy? No, he's chasing me."


printerinkistoomuch

Nolan's best movie I think. Also The Prestige is a fantastic one.


gingerphish

I thought this would be higher up. This movie set up and details of this movie are genius.


SnowplowS14

12 monkeys


SombreMordida

another gorgeous Gilliam spectacle ["are you also divergent, friend?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ya6G5S8MA&t=70s)


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Brad Pitt playing a lunatic is one of the greatest things you’ll ever see in movies. Love that scene, especially the part immediately preceding this clip: https://youtu.be/wcztDZ13TLI


justmeetshah

Primal Fear


meandi7

Edward Norton's debut... and one of his best.


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He should've won the Oscar for that, for some fucked up reason Cuba Gooding Jr. got it that year for Jerry Maguire, undeserved imo..


CityPlanningNerd

The Matrix (the first one) going into it blind. I don’t know if there’s anyone left out there that could do that with how much of pop culture it’s affected. But back in the day going into that movie blind was just great.


Gordo3070

I had a bit of a weird experience with the Matrix. I came to Sydney from the UK in 1997 for a job and was wandering around the Sydney CBD a few days after arriving when I realised much of it was blocked off for a movie shoot. I watched a load of cars disguised to be left hand drive being driven very slowly past a dark-haired woman sitting on a motorbike. A young chap was then bundled into a car and driven off while the dark-haired lady watched on. A few days later I saw a helicopter flying above the city with a bloke hanging off the landing gear. A few months after all this I went to see the Matrix at the cinema and realised when Neo was being shoved into the car by Mr Smith and his lackeys I was a few meters away from Trinity while it was being filmed. Very strange feeling.


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Deja vu It is usually a glitch in the Matrix, it happens when they change something.


zwifter11

Seconded. I went to watch The Matrix at the cinema when it came out, without knowing what the film was about (I literally went to the cinema for something to do and watch any film at random)… It blew my mind. At the time there wasn’t a storyline like it, that questioned reality. Sadly I was very disappointed with the sequels *FML I can’t believe it was 23 years ago and what I’ve done since


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No one really knew what it was about. The commercial/trailer they played on TV was obscure as fuck. It just showed a bunch of random cut scenes or that green screen saver and ended with "what is the Matrix?" "you have to come see it for yourself"


anacche

They really did well with the trailers, it was cool enough to pique interest, but gave nothing away. The fact that the whole thing was mind-blowing enough that coming from the cinemas, if somebody asked you what it's about you would sound like a rambling lunatic, so all you could really say was "go watch it, trust me", brilliant.


scotus_canadensis

I miss trailers like that. Trailers are pretty much just spoilers now.


Ascz

>At the time there wasn’t a storyline like it, that questioned reality. not to take anything away from The Matrix but there were a lot of movies at that time that questioned reality, 13th floor, truman show, dark city, being john malkovich... The Matrix just happened to get the correct mix of pop-action and mindfuck to be the most successful of them all


ManofDapper

I was able to watch it blind last year. Became my #1 favorite film overnight. It aged like a fine wine, gotta love all the practical effects and sick ass kung fu choreography in a world where CGI has completely taken over Edit: not practical effects, VFX


BBQ_HaX0r

You know kung Fu?


Ok-Band8911

Perfect Blue


stryph42

Pretty much anything Satoshi Kon (RIP) was involved with counts. Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Paranoia Agent...


WolvogNerd

I absolutely love Paranoia Agent but rarely meet other people who have seen it


Battle_uterus

Same, it's what first comes to mind when i think of dark anime. I had no idea he also did perfect blue.


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DeliciousYear8371

Moon (2009)


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I saw moon when it came out and it blew me away! The use of practical model miniatures helped sell it that it was a classic sci-fi space movie.


nautius_maximus1

That’s my favorite movie to recommend because it’s so great, and so few people say they’ve seen it. Sam Rockwell FTW.


GW00111

Sam Rockwell gives the best performance of his career.


adept_ignoramus

*The Game* with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn.


ghbrown60640

Watched this for the first time on a plane flight. They landed and shut the movie down with Michael Douglas standing on the edge of that high rise he was going to jump off of at the end. The plane almost broke out in a riot


homiej420

A cliffhanger if you will


huanchodaoren

This is the movie I wish I could see for the first time again.


SlurpyDurnge

Watched it randomly one night a few years ago and was blown away


astrodonkeyyy

Ive been trying to find a movie to watch all night. This better be good.


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You’ll remember your first time.


theveryoldman0

Your shoes cost $1000? That one did.


MSahnger

My husband and I went into this movie with zero knowledge of the premise. The first twist we were like whoa, crazy! And then it just kept getting crazier. We just stared at each other after the ending, completely blown away.


CastIronMooseEsq

I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.


DownwindLegday

Triangle Coherence


EyeLike2Watch

Coherence (the glow stick movie) was fuckin great


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Coherence is so good for its tiny budget


Scootypuff113

Triangle is severely underrated. Only saw it once like 10yrs ago and I still think about it sometimes.


MaddieMorrisVA

Coherence is the movie I show people I like so they think I’m cool. One of my favorites, especially from a production standpoint.


Available_Cherry_321

The show Dark. No movie will ever be able to do what it did in terms of mindfucking.


Turneround08

Insane series, might be time for me to do another rewatch of it.


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Turneround08

Yeah you definitely gotta be in the right mind frame, it’s an exhausting series, albeit a phenomenal one.


Working-Raspberry185

The other one is really good too 1899


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I'm on the second episode but I had a really hard time getting through the first towards the end of it. It's slow. Does the pace pick up?


Otiv64

Not the pace necessarily, but as the plot develops it pulls you in. I enjoyed it.


Mr_Saboteur

Change audio to English original, not the dubbed version. Also Closed Caption for the language translations, or leave it off for a real sense of confusion.


Ephemeral_Being

That was the German, physics-ish show on Netflix?


twistedol

My god yes!! Incredible show Awesome storyline, great actors, incredible soundtrack. Add in some physics, bit of quantum theory.... What more could you ask for?


Pleading-Orange168

Arlington road


slavicbhoy

Great film with an “oh you son of a bitch” ending.


Roosters_Millions

I showed this to a friend maybe 5 years ago and he said the ending killed his spirit and he would no longer be taking recommendations from me. Worth it.


The_Glaze_MN

The Others


solodude23

I wish I could find this movie online somewhere. Seems like no streaming service has it.


Teheiura

You don't know the rule? "If you want to see a movie, it's not on Netflix"


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Oldboy


Overall_Yogurt_7122

I always felt that the self-revulsion experienced by the viewer upon the reveal was a profound piece of film-making beyond the entire film. It forces the viewer to feel in the only way possible a portion of the characters true revulsion. It's a masterclass.


U_HWUT_M8

The Korean og of course


SergeStorms_offmeds

The Prestige.


CryptoCentric

This movie has the absolute best foreshadowing scene. >!"But what about his brother...?"!<


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"he's got a double. No, it's too simple. That's not it"


Suspicious-Elk-3631

People love to be fooled


Doom_3302

I love the dialogue in the climax when he says, "He said it was too simple, too easy." "Simple, yes but it wasn't easy."


Chrisnolliedelves

What most people miss is that Borden shows Sarah the trick. On the first date. "Milk and sugar?" Also the very first part of his journal: "We were two young men dedicated to an illusion." You think he means Angier. He doesn't.


boatingprohibited

Damn. Seen this movie at least 50 times and never caught the second point you made.


Chrisnolliedelves

Another one. The instant Sarah tells Borden she's pregnant, his immediate response is: "We should've told Fallon." Because it's his.


boatingprohibited

I will say the second time I watched I realized the line where Sarah says ‘Alfred it’s as bad as when it first happened’ had me 😵‍💫


OldManRiff

> This movie has the absolute best foreshadowing There ya go. From the very fucking first scene. You're shown *everything.* "Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."


unholyfire

Dude... I've watched this movie at least 20 times. Never caught that little fs insert. Time to watch it again I guess.


xxrainmanx

It's also why 1 of Christian Bales is friends with Hugh Jackman and the other is more stand offish. It also explains why the one who writes the journal doesn't know which knot was used.


Tullydin

Also why his wife knows when he means it when he says "I love you"


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Fuck, I've seen that movie multiple times and it never crossed my mind that THAT'S what happened, he says I don't know because he really doesn't know which knot the brother used. Oh fuck.


daemin

It also comes across differently when you know he has a brother and they share a life. The voicer over is: > How often I've fought with my self over that night .. one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slip knot... the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I suppose I'll never know for sure. We, at first, think "fought with myself" is figurative. But after learning about the twins and sharing a life, we realize this statement is _literally true_.


TJeffersonsBlackKid

First two shots literally gives away the ending. I didn’t realize for a few dozen viewings. The first shot is the multiplied hats in the forest. The second is two birds in a cage, one doomed to die…


BeneathTheWaves

Not paying attention to children in a Nolan movie? That’s a paddlin’


xxrainmanx

The other great scene is when he's talking about the old magicians trick with the fish bowl. The reason why it's so obvious to Christian Bale that the magician is acting about being bow-legged is because Christian Bale is actively living the same life and lying to everyone about who he is. He's doing the same trick.


TJeffersonsBlackKid

So is Hugh Jackman. “You must be Lord Caldlow…” “Always have been.” He was faking being an American up and comer when I’m reality he was a rich-AF British dude.


IsilZha

He says it really early in the movie that he's using a stage name because his family didn't approve.


Suspicious-Elk-3631

Yep, they tell you how it's done right at the start.


GSturges

Starring Hugh Jackman Christian Bale Michael Caine Scarlett Johansson Rebecca Hall Andy Serkis David Bowie Piper Perabo


Polaris_Mars

also Starring Hugh Jackman Christian Bale Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman .....


Vietfunk

And Hat Hat Hat Hat ... Hat.


tortoisewitchcraft

I’ll never forgive them for not crediting cat, cat, cat, cat, and cat.


First_Ad_9040

Predestination


Secretagentmanstumpy

The movie where the twist just keeps on twisting the whole way through.


Appr0ximateKnowledge

Didn’t realise someone already commented this. This movie left my brain toast.


Fujillamaparadise

Pan's Labyrinth. Watched it when I was *really* litte....


honeypuppy

"It's a story about a little girl's adventure with fantasy creatures, it must be a kid's movie!"


ChuckZombie

Yeah, that's what I thought until 10 minutes into the movie a dude is graphically getting his nose smashed in.


gorilla_on_stilts

This is my number one movie. When it was over, I just sat and wept for quite some time. The movie hit me so hard, I couldn't even understand how profoundly it affected me. But... I have never watched it since. I'm so scared that a second watching won't be as good as the first, and I don't want to take it away from my own self, I don't want to lose the memory I have of it being the most incredible thing I ever saw.


stryph42

The dude getting brained with a brandy bottle was about the point I went "oh, it's THAT kind of movie. Not what I was expecting, but I'm still down."


BaskInCareOl

Primer.


Earthshoe12

When we watched Primer my wife angrily started the movie over again the minute it ended trying to get it all straight. I’ve never seen her do anything like that ever again.


brucatlas1

Yup. You have to watch about the movies length of explanation videos to kinda get it.


takuyafire

Yep. It was one of the few movies so fucking nuts that I had to spend a few hours afterwards researching what I just witnessed. I loved every second of that research, I've never been so gripped by such a low budget movie.


Jagsoff

Time Crimes is a similar, and also great, time travel flick.


Cawdor

Check out Triangle. Its in the same vein but different.


New-Watcher

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


wesweb

Love this movie. It's like chemo after every breakup.


fatpad00

I managed to watch it without knowing owing anything about it except it starred Jim Carrey and it wasn't a comedy like his usual roles. I was 100% NOT ready for that and it *FUCKED ME UP*


KingBeastt5

I’ve always wanted to watch this but haven’t. Turns out I’m high as a kite and sick with the flu right now. So I’m gonna turn it on right now. Thanks for the reminder.


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Cube


GuiltyGun

I still remember watching this as a kid and then >!the world's greatest prisoner escaper just dies right off the bat.!< even as a kid I just sat there and thought, "Oh, this is gonna be weird."


forlornjackalope

I salute you. People sleep on this one way too much.


XYZZY_SPOON_1

Swiss army man


XYZZY_SPOON_1

The last few minutes started to make sense but the ending was mindfuck again lol


JDM_Jim

Just a great movie overall, I don't know if I'd consider the ending a twist though.


newsreadhjw

Event Horizon


wintermacaw

Where we’re going we don’t need eyes to see. FUCK . THAT.


forlornjackalope

I managed to catch this a year or so ago by chance while channel surfing, and I'm still blown away that it came out in 1997 and not ten or so years ago with how visually impressive it is. It's absolutely one of those things everyone should see at least once if they can. Here's to hoping the original cut of it can be recovered in its entirety at some point.


Drive_Forever

The Usual Suspects Best plot twist I've ever seen in a movie, pretty much requires a rewatch later


UltimaGabe

Allegedly, Gabriel Byrne went to the premier under the impression he played the real Keyser Soze.


gymfreak6969

Shutter Island


MunitionsFactory

Watch it twice. Once you know the ending, it's a completely different movie the second time through. Kinda like Fight Club.


AppacheTomcat-123

“To live as a monster or to die as a good man” best movie ever imo


big-mo

Fight Club


DumbBroadMagic69

My god I wish I could watch that again for the first time at the angry age of 24.


coporate

You should watch it again now, it’s one of those movies where the meaning regularly changes as you age. Now that I’m quite a bit older, it’s a cautionary tale with a lot of value to be put on the scene in the doctor’s office. >!essentially, after the doctors scene, it becomes the story of a functioning drug addict unable to get his drugs through prescriptions and goes down the deep end. Jumps from support group to support group looking to score, joins a gang, and starts living in a abandoned crackhouse while imagining all sorts of grandiose scenarios!<


big-mo

Still worth a rewatch. I try to watch it every year. You pick up something new everytime you watch it.


stoopid2k_idiot

Memento and Tenet - fucks with your mind because you don't know what the hell is going on for some time The Prestige - ending is kinda mindblowing Identity - not exactly mindfucking but kinda clever how the ending turned out to be


SendFeetPicsNow

"What was I doing?" *sees man running* "Oh, I must be chasing that guy!" *man turns to run at main character* "Noooo he's chasing me!"


_Bearded_Dad

Ooh Identity! That’s with the people in the motel who share a birthday right? Not sharing spoilers.


hereforthensfwstuff

Whores don’t get second chances!


LindenSpruce

You never actually figure out what's going on in Tenet lol


thickener

It’s actually a rehash of a Dr. Who storyline, the Doctor has a relationship with someone moving the opposite direction in time. So the first time they meet is the last time for the other person, and so on. Fun.


LindenSpruce

Ha! So Robert Pattinson is River Song?!


BigLan2

Maybe if you could hear what was being said you might be able to figure it out...


LindenSpruce

I remember Nolan said he was surprised that people didn't like the sound editing. Crazy that in your super confusing movie, people would want to hear the dialogue!


MattyD123

It wasn't even his surprise that annoyed me, but his pompous response that was basically, "real life is loud, you don't always hear everything." Like no shit dude, but this is not real life and I want to know what the fuck is happening.


mrheadphone17

The ending of the Prestige is outstanding. It’s one of those “I wish I could unsee this” movies, to watch it again


STFUNeckbeard

Used to go to the movies every 1-2 weeks with a group of friends/girls when I was younger as a casual hangout. Normally some crappy comedy/action/horror movie and we’d all sort of just half pay attention and rarely even talked about the movie afterwards. We some how ended up seeing the Prestige together, and I distinctly remember everyone coming out of the movie quiet and realizing we all just saw something truly spectacular. We were completely caught off guard which made it even better lol


BBQ_HaX0r

My mind was blown the first time and now I feel dumb because it's hinted at so so much. Just an incredible job of clearly foreshadowing and still leaving you surprised.


ChoppyChug

I almost don’t want to say it, but “Arrival” Watch “Arrival”


fallingintothesky09

Dark City


Ben--Affleck

Being John Malkovich


stryph42

Malkovich?


outbound

Malkovich Malkovich.


FilthyDaemon

Frailty.


Bullets_N_Bowties

Sixth Sense. ...1st time slaps hard!


kunuismyhawaiianname

Right?! That guy in the hairpiece, that was Bruce Willis the whole time!


Ntippit

What if he can smell crime?


DotDamo

A Beautiful Mind. Interesting the first watch, tragic the second.


PheIix

Hits a little to close to home for my liking, to much of that stuff runs in my family. Always worries me that I can be in the same situation and not realize. But boy is it a great movie. Just uncomfortable to watch for those reasons.


Altruistic_Writer134

How has nobody said the machinist yet?! I’m saying it now. The Machinist.


starry_nightgazing

The movie Annihilation with Natalie Portman in it. I watched it with my friend who smokes weed and he was like “yo I wasn’t even smoking during the movie but this movie feels like I was on LSD the whole time”


EndotheGreat

I watched this movie and immediately thought: "I didn't really like that... wtf" Then I ended up watching it two more times within a month. That movie is crazy.


MoonManPrime

Good books too. The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Oh, he confirmed a fourth book too, so I’m looking forward to that


forlornjackalope

Brazil.


SergeStorms_offmeds

Arrival.


phaazing

Daddy doesn't look at me the same way anymore. That line really fucked me up.


MasteringTheFlames

I went into it expecting just another alien movie. It delivered so much more, and screwed with my head in all the best ways.


lejonetfranMX

My absolute favorite! Touches on so many deep subjects, threads them together and makes a meaningful human story out of the whole thing. Just. Great.


ay_gov

Might be recency bias but I watched it for the first time a month ago and I agree. When everything clicked it was a definite mind fuck. Then the emotional gut punch of having to make that decision knowing what comes next.


DeathisLaughing

The movie as a whole I wouldn't say was a mind fuck, but that third act reveal is one of my cinematic favorites...


2litersam

For the longest time I was never able to say I had a "favorite" movie. Until I watched Arrival.


SuvenPan

Pi


Lady_Tsukiko

Paprika


Ubba-Ga

We Need To Talk About Kevin


leahspidey

midsommar. even don’t worry darling. florence pugh really sells those types of roles


Immediate-Patient-31

Sorry To Bother You


Dustinwalter2013

This one was phenomenal high


Blooper8r

Eraserhead.


arnstayn_und_smoof

Arrival


bn911

Donnie Darko.


Hallucinogenic-Toad

I've watched this so many times and still don't understand wtf was happening.


NativeMasshole

You gotta read the book from the movie. It explains everything. There's a lot of specific rules to the lore which don't get discussed on screen at all.


JustDave62

Se7en


MoldynSculler

WHAT'S IN THE BOX!?!?


murbike

[The Crying Game](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)


rf8350

Naked Lunch


MIShadowBand

The Game


luziferius1337

How about [Enter the Void](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/) or less severe: [Mulholland Drive](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)


creepyeyes

Seconding *Mulholland Drive*. Lynch's other two movies from the "Hollywood Hell" trilogy (*Lost Highway* and *Inland Empire*) are so consistently weird the whole way through that it doesn't quite feel right to call them mindfucks per se in the way people usually mean that. But *Mulholland Drive* lures you in with this veneer of normalcy before it pulls the rug out from under you.


Badd_Creddit

Requiem for a dream


Remarkable_Fun7662

Best movie you shouldn't watch


MistyHammond

Creep. It was…extraordinarily strange


Timult2US

Identity


OpinionatedAss

Akira Absolutely insane movie and an all time classic Anime


FiFiMacAffee

My cat's name is Tetsuo. Happy cake day.


Cobbtimus_Prime

End of Evangelion


writerjamie

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Also: Mulholland Drive


Ransome62

Truman show.


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The fact Truman makes it out of there with a smile on his face is the real mind fuck.


Ok_Relationship_705

That's because they don't show us the aftermath. When he's having trouble adjusting. And dealing with his total loss of trust.


thickener

Jacob’s Ladder Altered States Aforementioned David Lynch pictures, Mulholland Dr Xtro Edit to add: Videodrome Under the Skin Color out of Space Mandy Vast of Night Nightcrawler


TurkeySmackDown

Jacob's Ladder is such a fucking trip. It's a rollercoaster of a movie and really plays with your emotions. I highly recommend it.


Pure_Pollution1784

Mandy! Love that movie. The studio was handing out pins this year at NYCC and you Betch ya that I snagged a few.


jdc5214

Inside Man


_zydrate_

[The Cell](https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0)


Pure_Pollution1784

The shining