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Movies with Complex, Mind-Bending Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
3,156 movies with complex, mind-bending plots, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Destroyer
2018 · Action
Airpocalypse
2018 · Action
Welcome To Marwen
2018 · Biography
K.G.F: Chapter 1
2018 · Adventure
Maya
2018 · Thriller
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Action
The House That Jack Built
2018 · Drama
Mary Queen of Scots
2018 · Biography
Happy as Lazzaro
2018 · Drama
Martyr
2018 · Drama
The Favourite
2018 · Biography
Commando Ninja
2018 · Action
Glorious
2018 · Drama
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018 · Adventure
Joseph
2018 · Drama
Of Fathers and Sons
2018 · Documentary
A Cool Fish
2018 · Drama
G Affairs
2018 · Drama
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Drama
The Weight of Water
2018 · Adventure
Welcome to Mercy
2018 · Thriller
Victory 2
2018 · Comedy
Suspiria
2018 · Mystery
Shirkers
2018 · Documentary
Burning
2018 · Drama
London Fields
2018 · Mystery
Kaashi in Search of Ganga
2018 · Thriller
Amar Akbar Anthony
2018 · Drama
Lucid Dreams
2018 · Thriller
Dons of Disco
2018 · Documentary
Being Impossible
2018 · Drama
Aanakallan
2018 · Comedy
Harvey Birdman, Attorney General
2018 · Animation
Antrum
2018 · Horror
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · Drama
Cut Off
2018 · Crime
Sincerely Yours, Dhaka
2018 · Drama
Ten Years Japan
2018 · Drama
Asandhimitta
2018 · Drama
Zabardast
2018 · Documentary
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