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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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Coriolanus
2011 · Drama
Remembrance
2011 · War
A Dangerous Method
2011 · Drama
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
2011 · Crime
The Magic Crystal
2011 · Animation
11-11-11
2011 · Thriller
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2011 · Action
Melancholia
2011 · Sci-Fi
Loot
2011 · Crime
Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged
2011 · Documentary
Anonymous
2011 · Drama
Below Zero
2011 · Horror
Four
2011 · Thriller
Martha Marcy May Marlene
2011 · Drama
Apartment in Athens
2011 · Drama
The Skin I Live In
2011 · Drama
Ex 2: Still Friends
2011 · Comedy
The Ides of March
2011 · Drama
Dream House
2011 · Drama
Margaret
2011 · Drama
My Joy
2011 · Drama
A Thousand Kisses Deep
2011 · Romance
Baishe Srabon
2011 · Thriller
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
2011 · Crime
Bunohan: Return to Murder
2011 · Drama
Contagion
2011 · Action
Life Without Principle
2011 · Crime
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2011 · Documentary
Kotoko
2011 · Horror
How to Steal 2 Million
2011 · Action
The Man from the Future
2011 · Fantasy
Love Crime
2011 · Mystery
The Debt
2011 · Drama
Mankatha
2011 · Action
Flypaper
2011 · Comedy
The Last Circus
2011 · Comedy
Overheard 2
2011 · Action
The Optimists
2011 · Drama
Sarah's Key
2011 · Drama
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2011 · Drama
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