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- 'American Psycho' (2000) Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman is a finance bro by day and serial killer by night in American Psycho. At one point, Bateman confesses all his crimes to his lawyer, but when he approaches the lawyer later in the movie, the latter has no idea what Bateman’s talking about.
- 'Arrival' (2016) Talk about time-shifting in a movie. As Dune director Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 sci-fi pic Arrival opens, linguist Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams, is grieving the death of her young daughter, Hannah.
- 'Atonement' (2007) Joe Wright’s 2007 film, based on the book of the same name, follows the heartbreaking romance between Keira Knightly’s Cecilia and James McAvoy’s Robbie.
- 'Coco' (2017) Coco (Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old boy, goes on a search for his great-great-grandfather after being transported to the Land of the Dead.
Dec 9, 2016 · 20. Iron Man 3 (2013) Although the Marvel movies aren't known for wild or unpredictable plot twists, Iron Man 3 director/co-writer Shane Black seems to have taken that as a signal to try something ...
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- 'Parasite' Starring: Cho Yeo-jeong, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-shik, Jeong Ji-so, Kang-Ho Song. Parasite swept the Oscars the year it came out, even though many Americans hadn't seen it yet.
- 'Gone Girl' Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Emily Ratajkowski. The Gone Girl twist is probably the most talked-about plot twist in modern film history.
- 'The Village' Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Jesse Eisenberg, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. All is not what it seems in one small village in the middle of nowhere.
- 'Shutter Island' Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow. Let's be honest, Leo's got range. If you're not sure you can make it through a horror movie to get to the massive twist at the end, do it for him.
- Memento
- Get Out
- Mulholland Drive
- Hereditary
- Unbreakable
- Shutter Island
- Atonement
- Us
- Knives Out
- Gone Girl
What's it about? If ever there was a film made for twists, it's Christopher Nolan's Memento. Not only is the movie told backwards, but main character Leonard Shelby (played brilliantly by Guy Pearce) is a textbook unreliable narrator. Leonard has a condition which means his longterm memory is functional, but he can't remember any of the recent thin...
What's it about? When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) travels to meet his girlfriend's family for the first time, he worries about how they might react to him being Black. But the more time he spends at their family home, the weirder things get. Rose's mother attempts to hypnotise him, the neighbors come over for a strange party, and Chris has some unnervin...
What's it about? Summarising the plot of any David Lynch film is a little like trying to bottle the sun, but here goes. Basically, the bulk of the movie revolves around an aspiring actor called Betty (Naomi Watts) and a mysterious woman with amnesia called Rita (Laura Henning) who breaks into her apartment. But after the two attempt to find out wha...
What's it about? Ari Aster's Hereditary is all about the details, so make sure you pay attention. After the sudden death of their grandmother, Ellen, a grieving family struggles to get their lives back together. But after the grave is vandalised, Annie (Toni Collette) sees a vision of her late mother in her house, and it becomes clear that Ellen ha...
What's it about? We couldn't even think about having a plot twist list without one from The Sixth Sensedirector M. Night Shyamalan in there, and luckily this one — which came out in 2000 — just sneaks in. The first instalment of the eponymous trilogy, Unbreakablefollows comic book art dealer Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) on his quest to find a r...
What's it about? In Martin Scorsese's tense psychological thriller, two U.S. marshals visit a psychiatric facility based on an island to track down a missing patient, who is being held there for drowning her children. But Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), one of the investigators, has an ulterior motive for taking the job — he also wants to find a...
What's it about? Four years prior to World War II, a teenage girl called Briony (Saoirse Ronan) witnesses her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) having sex with their housekeeper's son Robbie (James McAvoy). She mistakenly believes her sister is being assaulted. Later, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola (Juno Temple) is actually raped, she wrongl...
What's it about? In this hauntingly original horror from Jordan Peele, a family's vacation takes a dark turn when they're accosted by a group of very creepy doppelgängers. They eventually learn that their attackers are clones known as "The Tethered," who have come to "cut" themselves free from their doubles so they no longer have to live in the sha...
What's it about? After crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead following his 85th birthday party, private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is hired to look into the case. He soon learns that Harlan had disagreements with pretty much everybody in his family, and that there are a number of people who may have wished...
What's it about? In David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel, teacher Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. As the police fail to find her and the media attention grows around the case, Nick finds himself becoming the prime suspect in her disappearance. Things then get s...
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- Last Night in Soho. Ellie is a fashion design student who loves the style and glamor of the 1960s. After renting an old apartment belonging to an old woman, Ellie finds that she can time travel and embody a woman named Sandie who lived in her apartment during the '60s.
- Knives Out. The film Knives Out borrows tropes from whodunit classics in the style of Agatha Christie while delivering some humorous spins. Harlan Thrombey is a famous thriller writer and the patriarch of a dysfunctional unhappy family.
- Interstellar. Christopher Nolan delivers more twists and turns in his epic, Interstellar. The film stars a group of cosmonauts on a mission through space and time to save planet Earth.
- El Orfanato. Horror master, Guillermo del Toro shocked audiences with this satisfying ghost story called El Orfanato or The Orphanage in English. The main character Laura moves into a converted orphanage on the coast of Spain where her son Simon starts talking to a new “friend,” a small child in a disturbing sack mask named Tomas.
Mar 15, 2022 · The Plot: Two dudes—Rick Dalton, an aging star from TV westerns, and his stunt double, Cliff Booth—live out their bromance in the Manson-era ‘60s. The Twist: Three would-be Manson family ...
Jan 7, 2023 · John Doe's Identity Has Lost Some of Its Shock Value — 'Se7en' (1995) Leave it to David Fincher to deliver brilliant psychological thriller plot twists. In Se7en, one of his best pieces of work ...
