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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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Yakeen
2005 · Action
Tale of Cinema
2005 · Drama
The Moustache
2005 · Drama
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
2005 · History
Layer Cake
2005 · Drama
Tara Road
2005 · Drama
Crash
2005 · Drama
Divergence
2005 · Thriller
Haze
2005 · Mystery
Manik
2005 · Drama
The State Counsellor
2005 · Crime
Whisky Romeo Zulú
2005 · Drama
Save the Green Planet!
2005 · Sci-Fi
Star Wars: Revelations
2005 · Action
The Girl from Monday
2005 · Action
Palindromes
2005 · Adventure
Man with the Screaming Brain
2005 · Comedy
Sin City
2005 · Action
Oldboy
2005 · Action
Melinda and Melinda
2005 · Drama
Dot the I
2005 · Drama
The Jacket
2005 · Sci-Fi
Herbert
2005 · Drama
The Best of Youth
2005 · Drama
Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough
2005 · Crime
Fear X
2005 · Thriller
Travelers and Magicians
2005 · Adventure
Evadi Gola Vadide
2005 · Romance
Vaada
2005 · Drama
Ocean's Twelve
2004 · Thriller
A Tale of Two Sisters
2004 · Drama
Freeze Frame
2004 · Drama
Musafir
2004 · Action
Natural Enemy
2004 · Drama
Closer
2004 · Drama
House of Flying Daggers
2004 · Action
AmnesiA
2004 · Drama
Purple Butterfly
2004 · Drama
Alexander
2004 · Action
Notre musique
2004 · Drama
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