295 movie summaries
Movies with Confusing, Mind-Bending Plots: Summaries & Endings Explained
295 movies with confusing, 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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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026 · Drama
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026 · Drama
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
2026 · Action
Resurrection
2025 · Drama
Agnyathavasi
2025 · Mystery
L2: Empuraan
2025 · Thriller
Baby Invasion
2025 · Action
UI
2024 · Thriller
La Palisiada
2024 · Crime
Levels
2024 · Action
It's What's Inside
2024 · Comedy
Megalopolis
2024 · Drama
Level Cross
2024 · Thriller
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three
2024 · Animation
Dragon Ball Z Kai
2024 · Animation
Unsung Hero
2024 · Drama
The End of Evangelion
2024 · Animation
Gaami
2024 · Adventure
Until the End of the World
2024 · Documentary
Wish Me Luck
2024 · Action
Mallari
2023 · Mystery
Everything, Everywhere
2023 · Drama
Deus Irae
2023 · Thriller
Beau Is Afraid
2023 · Drama
Someday or One Day
2022 · Mystery
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022 · Drama
Slayers
2022 · Fantasy
Babe Bhangra Paunde Ne
2022 · Comedy
God’s Crooked Lines
2022 · Mystery
Alienoid
2022 · Action
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Action
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 · Action
Ultrasound
2022 · Sci-Fi
Drushyam 2
2021 · Drama
Arrebato (1979)
2021 · Drama
The Nowhere Inn
2021 · Drama
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021 · Action
Death Note
2021 · Drama
Undergods
2021 · Thriller
Plurality
2021 · Thriller
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