What are mind bending or mind blending movies or thought-provoking movies?
There are many different genres in movies, mind-bending / mind blending are also known as thought-provoking movies.
These type of movies are not easy to make.
In order to be called a thought-provoking or mind-bending film, it needs to have a few essential qualities.
movie list:
1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Starring: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, John Travolta
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Storyline: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
2. Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow
Director: Martin Scorsese
Storyline: A U.S Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
3. Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Naomi Watts, Jeanne Bates, Dan Birnbaum, Laura Harring
Director: David Lynch
Storyline: After hiring a hit man to kill her lover, Camilla; Diane dreams of a different Hollywood experience. One where she is a wonderfully talented and versatile actress, Betty, who almost instantly is in demand by the best Casting Directors in the business. And one where her lover becomes an amnesiac, Rita, after a brutal accident that saves her from the hit on her life. Betty and Rita meet and as they fall in love, they also try to undercover Rita's real identity. But when Betty and Rita's search begins to intermingle with the reality of Diane and Camilla's nightmarish relationship, the walls of the dream begin to collapse ("It's strange to be calling yourself" says Betty).
4. The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
Director: Brad Anderson
Storyline: Trevor Reznik is a machinist in a factory. An extreme case of insomnia has led to him not sleeping in a year, and his body withering away to almost nothing. He has an obsessive compulsion to write himself reminder notes and keep track of his dwindling weight, both scribbled on yellow stickies in his apartment. The only person he lets into his life in an emotional sense is Stevie, a prostitute, although he has an infatuation with Maria, a single mother waitress working in an airport diner. His coworkers dont associate with and mistrust him because of not knowing what is going on in his life that has led to his emaciated physical appearance. A workplace incident further alienates him with his coworkers, and in conjunction with some unfamiliar pieces of paper he finds in his apartment, Trevor believes that someone or some people probably one or some of his coworkers are out to get him, using a phantom employee named Ivan as their front. As Trevor goes on a search for evidence as to...
5. Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Director: Christopher Nolan
Storyline: Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an exinsurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.
6. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak
Director: Bryan Singer
Storyline: Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Soze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Soze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Soze?
7. Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Crime
Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori
Creators: Satoshi Kon
Storyline: Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and, under the code name "Paprika," is a dream detective at night. Atsuko and her colleagues are working on a device called the DC Mini, which is intended to help psychiatric patients, but in the wrong hands it could destroy people's minds. When a prototype is stolen, Atsuko/Paprika springs into action to recover it before damage is done.
8. Mr Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Storyline: In 2092, humanity has conquered mortality through the endless renewal of cells. The world watches in fascination as the 118-year-old Nemo Nobody, the last mortal on Earth, edges towards death. Curious to know of life before quasi-immortality, they interview Nemo. Dr. Feldheim, a psychiatrist, uses hypnosis to help Nemo recall some of his memories, while Nemo relates other memories to a journalist. As he is prodded, Nemo makes contradictory statements. He recounts his life at three primary points: at age 9, when his parents divorced, at age 15 when he fell in love, and at age 34 as an adult. All three unfold into their many possible outcomes.Nemo explains that before birth, children remember everything that will happen in their lives. At the moment of conception, the Angels of Oblivion erase their memory. The Angels, however, forget about Nemo, allowing him to "remember" different possible futures for himself. At age 9, at a railway station, he is forced to choose as his mother leaves on a train while his father stays on the platform. In one case, he manages to board the train while in another he stays with his father.
9. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Starring: Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, Jon Seda, Michael Chance
Director: Terry Gilliam
Storyline: Twelve Monkeys (1995) An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
10. Coherence (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Starring: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Lorene Scafaria
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Storyline: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events
11. Jacobs Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Director: Adrian Lyne
Storyline: Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.
12. Triangle (2009)
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
Director: Christopher Smith
Storyline: While preparing to take her autistic son Tommy on a boat trip with her friend Greg, Jess hears the doorbell ring, but no one is there. She later arrives at a harbor in Florida without Tommy, explaining he's at school, and boards Greg's boat. She meets Greg's married friends Sally and Downey, Sally's friend Heather, and Victor, a runaway teen living with Greg. While out at sea, the wind dies and a storm approaches, and they pick up a distress signal while radioing the coast guard. The storm capsizes the boat, during which Heather is swept out into the water, and the others climb onto the overturned boat when the storm clears...
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Storyline: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
14. Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy
Director: Christopher Nolan
Storyline: Dominick "Dom" Cobb and Arthur are "extractors", who perform corporate espionage using an experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract valuable information through a shared dream world. Their latest target, Japanese businessman Saito, reveals that he arranged their mission himself to test Cobb for a seemingly impossible job: planting an idea in a person's subconscious, or "inception". To break up the energy conglomerate of ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, Saito wants Cobb to convince Fischer's son and heir, Robert, to dissolve his father's company. In return, Saito promises to use his influence to clear Cobb of a murder charge, allowing Cobb to return home to his children. Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, a conman and identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts a powerful sedative for a stable "dream within a dream" strategy; and Ariadne, an architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes, recruited with the help of Cobb's father-in-law, Professor Stephen Miles. While dream-sharing with Cobb, Ariadne learns his subconscious houses an invasive projection of his late wife Mal....
15. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton
Director: Doug Liman
Storyline: Edge of Tomorrow 2014 In 2015, an alien race called Mimics arrive in Germany to storm and conquer continental Europe. In 2020, the United Defense Force (UDF) achieves one solid victory over the Mimics at Verdun. In Britain, General Brigham of the UDF commands Major William Cage to cover a massive assault on France. Cage, who has no combat experience, objects and threatens to put the blame on Brigham should the invasion result in failure. Brigham has Cage arrested for disobeying orders and orders him sent to Heathrow Airport, now a military base. Cage wakes up to find Brigham has falsified records to make it appear he is only a private and has assigned him to the misfit J squad under the command of Master Sergeant Farell....
16. Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Director: Shane Carruth
Storyline: At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you cant have, what do you want when you can have anything?
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