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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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Garm Wars: The Last Druid
2014 · Action
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · Comedy
Dear White People
2014 · Drama
The Perfect Dictatorship
2014 · Drama
Reminiscence
2014 · Horror
Gone Girl
2014 · Drama
Haider
2014 · Drama
Men, Women & Children
2014 · Drama
Chotushkone
2014 · Thriller
Bachchan
2014 · Drama
The Scribbler
2014 · Sci-Fi
The Zero Theorem
2014 · Sci-Fi
Arrebato
2014 · Drama
Elephant Song
2014 · Drama
Sapthamashree Thaskaraha
2014 · Thriller
Who Am I
2014 · Thriller
Rocks in My Pockets
2014 · Drama
Destinos
2014
The Congress
2014 · Sci-Fi
Rabhasa
2014 · Comedy
Over Your Dead Body
2014 · Horror
Munnariyippu
2014 · Drama
Rege
2014 · Crime
The Word
2014 · Drama
Sarabham
2014 · Mystery
Avatharam
2014 · Thriller
Moebius
2014 · Drama
Get On Up
2014 · Biography
The Blue Elephant
2014 · Drama
A Most Wanted Man
2014 · Thriller
Pizza
2014 · Thriller
I Origins
2014 · Sci-Fi
Ice Cream
2014 · Romance
Drushyam
2014 · Crime
Closed Curtain
2014
Golpo Holeo Shotti
2014 · Horror
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End
2014 · Horror
Jackpot
2014 · Action
Radio Free Albemuth
2014 · Sci-Fi
Third Person
2014 · Drama
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