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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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The Butterfly
2003 · Drama
The Singing Detective
2003 · Mystery
Destino
2003 · Family
Basic
2003 · Drama
Cowards Bend the Knee
2003 · Romance
Adaptation.
2002 · Drama
Russian Ark
2002 · Drama
*Corpus Callosum
2002 · Drama
Sex with Strangers
2002 · Drama
Vanilla Sky
2001 · Sci-Fi
Waking Life
2001 · Drama
Mulholland Dr.
2001 · Drama
Werckmeister Harmonies
2001 · Sci-Fi
Love Torn in a Dream
2000 · Fantasy
Timecode
2000 · Drama
Gossip
2000 · Drama
Magnolia
1999 · Drama
Run Lola Run
1999 · Thriller
The Thirteenth Floor
1999 · Sci-Fi
eXistenZ
1999 · Adventure
Following
1999 · Drama
Open Your Eyes
1997 · Thriller
Schizopolis
1997 · Comedy
Lost Highway
1997 · Drama
Mother
1997 · Drama
Yuvathurki
1996 · Action
Three Lives and Only One Death
1996 · Mystery
The Usual Suspects
1995 · Mystery
In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · Mystery
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Drama
Past Tense
1994 · Mystery
Short Cuts
1993 · Drama
Barbarians at the Gate
1993 · Drama
Naked Lunch
1991 · Biography
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
1991 · Comedy
Archangel
1991 · Drama
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1990 · Comedy
The Golden Boat
1990 · Comedy
Begotten
1989 · Fantasy
Graverobbers
1988 · Horror
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