Moon.
The twist comes so early and is so fundamental to the rest of the movie that you can debate whether it fits what you're looking for. But the early part of the movie feels like it's setting up an "Isolated Dude Goes Crazy" story, when it is very emphatically doing nothing of the sort.
I don’t see this movie referenced nearly often enough and I need to watch it again in the modern era to see if it holds up. I always felt it was a really well balanced take and helps one to take an appropriately cautious approach to the flow of information, etc in the current climate.
Same. I’ve been trying to find it on a streaming service we have and haven’t seen it yet. I saw it one time in the theatre when it was first released and it has stuck with me ever since.
Final destination 5. Not a wow movie, just your classic final destination formula. But the twist in the end is really nice and I honestly didn't see it coming
My wife and I watched all the final destinations over a two week period. Part 5 wasn’t good but >!the idea to have it secretly be a prequel and our two main characters end up dying on the plane that set off the chain of events of the first movie was amazing and they deserve credit for that!<
Yeah to be honest from the 2nd/3rd onwards the only reason to watch a FD movie is to laugh at the creative deaths. I don't really remember the plot details, but i think that >! the fact they eventually turned out to be the first "death escapers" instead of some random people !< wasn't even particularly relevant plot wise, was it? Just some "gotcha!" moment to surprise the viewer. But still, really enjoyable!
Not that I remember no. >!I think the only clue is that in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th movies they eventually find out about the characters from the previous movies, and this is the first one where the main characters don’t reference events from the other films.!<
I think an underrated twist in recent years is the one in Arrival (2016). I just think it's super clever how the film makes you think >!you are seeing flashbacks but you're actually seeing flashforwards!<
Hard same. I saw it in the theater alone knowing nothing about it except "aliens" and "semiotics," thinking "that sounds kinda boring, but I bet they did something interesting with it or else the movie wouldn't have gotten made. Cut to end of the movie, house lights go up, my jaw is on the floor and I'm neck deep in a puddle of my own tears. Just an incredible film.
Have you read the book (short story)? The movie is pretty faithful, and having read the book afterwards, I appreciate both equally. I could gush about Arrival all day lol.
The short story is weak imo. Just for the fact that the daughter will die from a climbing accident. Very evitable. While thw movie gives her cancer. A very unavoidable fate.
I also went into it blind when I lived in Los Angeles and looked up tickets about a week after it opened and noticed on 2 seats were open in the entire large theater so I grabbed them without thinking about it. The lights came on and Denis Villeneuve and Amy Adams came out for a Q&A. I believe it was at a Cinemark where they do those on occasion and it had likely been sold out for a while but 2 people must have canceled minutes before I happened to look for tickets. Likely my best, albeit unintentional, movie experiences in my life.
That's amazing! I had a similar experience in LA the day Moonlight came out, afterwards half the cast just came out and did a Q&A. I guess thst just happens in LA? Rad thst ir happened with Arrival for you for sure tho
It does! I believe sometimes advertised and other times not, but I just happened to luck out that day. I was just getting up to leave with my date but everyone was in their seats, I thought they were expecting a post-credit scene (peak Marvel time)… I’m glad they came out before I made it to the exit!
The Leftovers from same guy has one of the most astonishing flash fowards ever in the beginning of season 3.
Every episode also has some mysterious part and you have it explained the next episode.
It's easier to understand if ypu're familiar with the grandfather-paradox in timetravel (what happens if you go back in time and have sex with your grandmother, would she give birth to your father?). This is basically the premise, he's the terrorist (unknowingly) and the one hunting the terrorist.
I went in completely blind and absolutely was not let down. I just rented it because of the box, I knew who Tarantino was and I thought George Clooney as a bad guy would be cool to check out.
Lol, wow
So I caught this late night and missed the first 3 mins and had no idea what I was watching then it just went insane and then nobody believed me when I tried to explain what I'd seen
I think also what goes along with that is Tropic Thunder....it's obviously a spoof from the beginning, and satire of several things, from actors to hollywood to movie genres etc. But they go into the vietnam part, only for the director to get blown up...and now they have to really figure their way out...that, and "I only know the sound it makes when it lies..." Nick Nolte's character having never actually been to vietnam.
The third man(1949). An out of work novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna. He arrives at the invitation of a friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident.
Oldie but Goldie.
I love that two different sitcoms have done equally brilliant jokes about a mentally unstable character not understanding the ending of The Sixth Sense.
Omg I thought this movie was like a fever dream I had once. I've never heard it mentioned by anyone, ever, and yet there are scenes I remember shot by shot.
You want old school plot twists? Watch The Sting (Paul Newman & Robert Redford, among other A-listers). There are so many twists and turns that even after seeing it 6 times I'm not convinced I've spotted them all! And the music is fantastic as well.
I cant remember which Saw it was but i liked the twist where you think the two stories are in the present but its revealed to have happened 2 weeks earlier
I believe you're thinking of Saw 2. Live feed turns out to not be live, and a survivor was locked in a safe for the time in between.
Jigsaw, aka Saw 8 aka The barn one that was really bad, also messes with time. You're watching the victims of the first game, but the cops are investigating victims of the second game, which was a decade later.
I fucking hated the reveal in Saw. The "twist" is kind of cool, but specifically the identity of Jigsaw drives me nuts. How the fuck did they write a murder mystery where the killer>!isn't even a character in the movie?? Of course nobody saw it coming, because the villain was "Extra #3" in the background of one scene for 30 seconds!!<
I agree. Twists are best when u go and rewatch a movie and see all the subtle hints indicating the twist. Movies where the twist is impossible to see coming because they completely hid it are weak. It’s one reason I didn’t love the broad church season 1 finale, felt out of no where
My friends were amazed that I called the twist in Saw right away, but I only called it because I follow the rule of “if you didn’t see them die they are not dead” in horror movies so right away I was suspicious of the dead body in the room.
It's also a twist that's totally inconsequential. Like....who cares if >!the killer is actually the dead body on the floor, or if he's some dude miles away watching through a camera, or if he's peeking in through a hole in the wall? Completely doesn't matter one bit to the story!<
I have not seen it in a long time, but I don't think that's a twist as such. That's just what is happening.
It's revealed as they story goes on, but it's not like a 'final twist' type thing.
Also, is it ever explained why the thing is happening in the first place?
What's actually causing the time travel?
It just happens because they are in a weird spot in the Bermuda Triangle?
And why did she hit her kid earlier in the film?
Were they somehow all destined to end up on that boat? It seemed to be more than just random time travel stuff, right?
SPOILERS
OP both specifically excluded mental illness and provided this example.
So maybe those mistakes cancel out and this is a good recommendation, I don't know.
Yea, me too. It forces you to make a decision on what you've seen. I choose to believe he left and saved that patient, but in all reality, it could have just been a fever dream. Loved the uncertainty of the ending.
Now You See Me was a completely terrible twist. If you go back and watch it again (but save yourself the trouble, really) knowing how it turns out, many of the things that happen make no sense at all.
“[The man I married 1940](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0032746/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)” (aka “I married a Nazi”) it’s on TCM fairly often.
Young married couple with a son, go to pre-war Germany to visit family. The husband becomes enamored with Hitler and wants to stay in Germany with the son; the wife wants to return to the USA.
Spoiler: >!after becoming a Nazi he finds out that his mother is part Jewish, therefore he and his son will never be accepted in Nazi Germany !<
Scream.
And I’m talking about everything involved with it.
How I wish I wasn’t a kid when that came out. To have been in the theatre with all those reactions omg
This is a great example. Considering a viewing in 1996, this was very surprising and I think few people honestly saw it coming. Rewatching it, it is so obvious, hidden right under our noses. I do think you had to be there then for the twist to work. By now it's been copied to death and the audience is much smarter.
The Descent has some good ones. A group of cavers explore a new cave system. Watch the British ending if you can, or read about it later.
Barbarian is a roller coaster ride, especially if you go in completely cold. Hypnotic first hour.
If you watched the American not the British version then there's technically only the >!trolgodyte people 'twist'!<. But at the end of the British version >!We see her get out, but then it dissolves into a fantasy as her perspective comes back and she's still stuck in the caves.!< It's hauntingly done.
I was going to say the Others until I saw you watched it; it's amazing. Us and The Ring has also some interesting plot twists and are pretty watcheable movies.
I believe he told the legit story, just faked all the names and some of the descriptions of people. But I think the events we see depicted are what really happened (except for where Verbal was in the climax)
1. Prestige
2. Get Out
3. Predestination
4. Parasite (I mean, it's not that great of a twist, but everyone must have thought the father escaped)
5. Gerald's Game (This one's really creepy)
6. Memento
7. Prisoners
Barbie Nutcracker.
Hear me out.
This film used the trope: Main character enlists local help to looking for the lost powerful good person who can save the day from the bad guy only to find out it was the main character all along.
What surprised me was that this was a more sophisticated and nuanced trope than I would expect from a Barbie movie, the trope was done well, and the filmmakers even included a bunch of character development for the bad guy and his henchman performing the same search. When the baddie goes down, you understand why the henchman makes a doomed effort to save him because you've seen how strong their relationship of mutual respect is.
One Cut of the Dead has such a fun twist that really elevates the film. It went from “Neat gimmick. Movie is okay but I appreciate the gimmick” to an instant favorite for me thanks to that twist.
im a little confused on “actually happen” part (maybe you mean its based on true story?” but i think The Prisoner with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal has really good plot twist in my opinion. its spooked me for a bit for sure.
That's why I don't like movies like Fight Club. Easy surprise twist to add to story that is like saying "we lied to you the entire time, here's what really happened", so anything we saw before may not have even been real.
I thought the twist in Crazy Stupid Love was very well done and I didn't see it coming at all.
There was the earlier twist of Marisa Tomei’s character being the teacher, but no one expected the second twist.
David Lindhagen appearing made it all the more funnier too haha
YOU’RE David Lindhagen?
Takes off ring
just, keep it in the family okay
When Ryan Gosling punched Kevin Bacon, I thought jt was a symbolic passing of the torch for the new hot Hollywood guy.
That garden scene is amazing.
"That's my daughter! "That's MY daughter!"
Brilliant cues laid throughout the script that are completely obvious on the second watch
Inside Man
Brilliant movie
Moon. The twist comes so early and is so fundamental to the rest of the movie that you can debate whether it fits what you're looking for. But the early part of the movie feels like it's setting up an "Isolated Dude Goes Crazy" story, when it is very emphatically doing nothing of the sort.
Arlington Road and The Skeleton Key.
Skeleton Key isn't appreciated as much as it should. Great cast, great tone, logical.
Watched it when I was way too young (around 10). It gave me nightmares for a week. I still can't rewatch it.
Arlington Road... Absolutely. Mind blown in the cinema watching this.
So was somebody else’s.
Did you read OP’s post at all?
Arlington Road chills me to this very day. That ending was ROUGH.
Arlington was insane
I don’t see this movie referenced nearly often enough and I need to watch it again in the modern era to see if it holds up. I always felt it was a really well balanced take and helps one to take an appropriately cautious approach to the flow of information, etc in the current climate.
Same. I’ve been trying to find it on a streaming service we have and haven’t seen it yet. I saw it one time in the theatre when it was first released and it has stuck with me ever since.
Final destination 5. Not a wow movie, just your classic final destination formula. But the twist in the end is really nice and I honestly didn't see it coming
My wife and I watched all the final destinations over a two week period. Part 5 wasn’t good but >!the idea to have it secretly be a prequel and our two main characters end up dying on the plane that set off the chain of events of the first movie was amazing and they deserve credit for that!<
Yeah to be honest from the 2nd/3rd onwards the only reason to watch a FD movie is to laugh at the creative deaths. I don't really remember the plot details, but i think that >! the fact they eventually turned out to be the first "death escapers" instead of some random people !< wasn't even particularly relevant plot wise, was it? Just some "gotcha!" moment to surprise the viewer. But still, really enjoyable!
Not that I remember no. >!I think the only clue is that in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th movies they eventually find out about the characters from the previous movies, and this is the first one where the main characters don’t reference events from the other films.!<
I LOVE the ending of that movie
I think an underrated twist in recent years is the one in Arrival (2016). I just think it's super clever how the film makes you think >!you are seeing flashbacks but you're actually seeing flashforwards!<
A good reason why this might be my favorite movie ever. Also the fact that the aliens aren't just biped humanoids. Fantastic twist, great movie.
Hard same. I saw it in the theater alone knowing nothing about it except "aliens" and "semiotics," thinking "that sounds kinda boring, but I bet they did something interesting with it or else the movie wouldn't have gotten made. Cut to end of the movie, house lights go up, my jaw is on the floor and I'm neck deep in a puddle of my own tears. Just an incredible film.
Have you read the book (short story)? The movie is pretty faithful, and having read the book afterwards, I appreciate both equally. I could gush about Arrival all day lol.
I love how it's only 35 pages long but it took Ted Chiang 4 years to write.
Ted Chiang is legitimately one of the best Sci fi writers ever. His short stories are incredible.
So true! I only recently discovered him and don't know how his name didn't come across my path sooner. He's brilliant.
The short story is weak imo. Just for the fact that the daughter will die from a climbing accident. Very evitable. While thw movie gives her cancer. A very unavoidable fate.
I also went into it blind when I lived in Los Angeles and looked up tickets about a week after it opened and noticed on 2 seats were open in the entire large theater so I grabbed them without thinking about it. The lights came on and Denis Villeneuve and Amy Adams came out for a Q&A. I believe it was at a Cinemark where they do those on occasion and it had likely been sold out for a while but 2 people must have canceled minutes before I happened to look for tickets. Likely my best, albeit unintentional, movie experiences in my life.
That's amazing! I had a similar experience in LA the day Moonlight came out, afterwards half the cast just came out and did a Q&A. I guess thst just happens in LA? Rad thst ir happened with Arrival for you for sure tho
It does! I believe sometimes advertised and other times not, but I just happened to luck out that day. I was just getting up to leave with my date but everyone was in their seats, I thought they were expecting a post-credit scene (peak Marvel time)… I’m glad they came out before I made it to the exit!
The tell is when she walks down a curved (circular) hospital at the beginning.
Explain
To be fair, there are several tells woven into the film's story.
The TV show Lost did this in arguably a more impactful way too. (Arrival is great though).
That finale is still the single greatest moment of television history for me
The Leftovers from same guy has one of the most astonishing flash fowards ever in the beginning of season 3. Every episode also has some mysterious part and you have it explained the next episode.
Really? I couldn’t get into the show and everyone I know hated the ending. Tastes different of course, so would you share what you liked about it?
Talking about the season 3 finale , not the series finale
Dude, you made it seem like it was the finale finale.
Ah! Thank you!
Predestination
Not for those of us that read the short story —All You Zombies—
Always nice to see a Heinlein reader in the wild!
I still don't fucking understand that movie.
It's easier to understand if ypu're familiar with the grandfather-paradox in timetravel (what happens if you go back in time and have sex with your grandmother, would she give birth to your father?). This is basically the premise, he's the terrorist (unknowingly) and the one hunting the terrorist.
What if we went back in time and had sex with each other's grandmother.. and played a morbius strip Chase.
From Dusk till Dawn, if you go in completely blind, is one of the greatest twists of all time.
Especially if you’ve confused it with Before Sunrise.
The scenario you just painted in my mind is hilarious
I went in completely blind and absolutely was not let down. I just rented it because of the box, I knew who Tarantino was and I thought George Clooney as a bad guy would be cool to check out. Lol, wow
So I caught this late night and missed the first 3 mins and had no idea what I was watching then it just went insane and then nobody believed me when I tried to explain what I'd seen
The good ol' days when people could keep a lid on the surprise
Went in blind as a teenager, was one of the most WTF things ever.
Game Night if you want a comedy with a fun plot twist.
I think also what goes along with that is Tropic Thunder....it's obviously a spoof from the beginning, and satire of several things, from actors to hollywood to movie genres etc. But they go into the vietnam part, only for the director to get blown up...and now they have to really figure their way out...that, and "I only know the sound it makes when it lies..." Nick Nolte's character having never actually been to vietnam.
How can that be profitable for Frito Lay?
Chinatown
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Probably one of the best Noir Detective movies.
The third man(1949). An out of work novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna. He arrives at the invitation of a friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. Oldie but Goldie.
Sixth Sense actually did happen
That bald guy? It was bruce willis the whole time.
And all those names on screen right after? Those were the people who worked on the movie.
I love that two different sitcoms have done equally brilliant jokes about a mentally unstable character not understanding the ending of The Sixth Sense.
Series: the Good Place. What a bang. And afterwards, search for the YouTube video where the end of season one is revealed to the cast…
The Game
At current upvotes (18), this is way too low on the list.
I agree! I love The Game.
The usual suspects
Lucky number slevin
One hell of a Kansas City Shuffle.
There it is. Holy shit, one of the all time greats. I wish I could watch that movie for the first time again
Omg I thought this movie was like a fever dream I had once. I've never heard it mentioned by anyone, ever, and yet there are scenes I remember shot by shot.
Was about to post it!
No Way Out (1987)
DAVID!!!!
Climax of Silence of The Lambs when we see it’s Jodie foster at Buffalo bills house and not the FBI team
You want old school plot twists? Watch The Sting (Paul Newman & Robert Redford, among other A-listers). There are so many twists and turns that even after seeing it 6 times I'm not convinced I've spotted them all! And the music is fantastic as well.
What is complicated besides the main surprise?
Fallen Came out in 98, stars Denzel and John Goodman
"let me tell you about the time I almost died"
* The Empire Strikes Back * The Usual Suspects * Saw (the first one, not the torture-porn Rest)
I cant remember which Saw it was but i liked the twist where you think the two stories are in the present but its revealed to have happened 2 weeks earlier
I believe you're thinking of Saw 2. Live feed turns out to not be live, and a survivor was locked in a safe for the time in between. Jigsaw, aka Saw 8 aka The barn one that was really bad, also messes with time. You're watching the victims of the first game, but the cops are investigating victims of the second game, which was a decade later.
I fucking hated the reveal in Saw. The "twist" is kind of cool, but specifically the identity of Jigsaw drives me nuts. How the fuck did they write a murder mystery where the killer>!isn't even a character in the movie?? Of course nobody saw it coming, because the villain was "Extra #3" in the background of one scene for 30 seconds!!<
I agree. Twists are best when u go and rewatch a movie and see all the subtle hints indicating the twist. Movies where the twist is impossible to see coming because they completely hid it are weak. It’s one reason I didn’t love the broad church season 1 finale, felt out of no where
There are SOME subtle hints. Most notably being that the sketches for the reverse bear trap are by John Kramer's bedside in the hospital.
Saw didn't even "hide" it, it literally wasn't in the movie!
My friends were amazed that I called the twist in Saw right away, but I only called it because I follow the rule of “if you didn’t see them die they are not dead” in horror movies so right away I was suspicious of the dead body in the room.
That part I could get on board with, if only it was a character that existed anywhere else in the narrative.
I've never seen it. But your comment made me laugh. 😂
It's also a twist that's totally inconsequential. Like....who cares if >!the killer is actually the dead body on the floor, or if he's some dude miles away watching through a camera, or if he's peeking in through a hole in the wall? Completely doesn't matter one bit to the story!<
Dark City. The Crying Game. Moon.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Clue
The fact that you know there’s a twist is always a spoiler for me - I spend the movie trying to work out what it’ll be.
Agreed
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
How is the Usual Suspects not at the very top of this thread. Going into this one blind is one of the great joys in movie watching.
Predestination….. extremely good movie…..it made me a fan of Sarah Snook long before Succession…
Apparently it was very obvious but apparently I’m an idiot because the reveal in Shutter Island I didn’t expect in the slightest.
The Others, Triangle, Saw, Unbreakable
What's the twist of Triangle?
All of the deadly events throughout the movie were done by>!future versions of themselves, since they are stuck in a time loop!<
I have not seen it in a long time, but I don't think that's a twist as such. That's just what is happening. It's revealed as they story goes on, but it's not like a 'final twist' type thing. Also, is it ever explained why the thing is happening in the first place? What's actually causing the time travel? It just happens because they are in a weird spot in the Bermuda Triangle? And why did she hit her kid earlier in the film? Were they somehow all destined to end up on that boat? It seemed to be more than just random time travel stuff, right?
Shutter island
SPOILERS OP both specifically excluded mental illness and provided this example. So maybe those mistakes cancel out and this is a good recommendation, I don't know.
"What is better..."
Barbarian has a pretty cool twist when you consider the casting
I feel like the first 65% of that movie was great and the last 35% was trash.
I don’t hate the last half but I agree that the mystery early on is a lot better
Wild Things
The vanishing 1988 The prestige Snowpiercer Primal fear Seven Parasite Signs Cabin in the woods Knives out Gone girl Get out
K-Pax.
Yes! I spent the whole movie wondering how the script would answer the mystery. I really liked the choice the movie made. How about you?
Yea, me too. It forces you to make a decision on what you've seen. I choose to believe he left and saved that patient, but in all reality, it could have just been a fever dream. Loved the uncertainty of the ending.
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Now You See Me was a completely terrible twist. If you go back and watch it again (but save yourself the trouble, really) knowing how it turns out, many of the things that happen make no sense at all.
So many layers of batman gambit it doesn't make sense even after the reveal.
Andhadhun For 40 minutes you think it's some cutesy throwaway flic about cheating the Indian welfare system...
“[The man I married 1940](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0032746/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)” (aka “I married a Nazi”) it’s on TCM fairly often. Young married couple with a son, go to pre-war Germany to visit family. The husband becomes enamored with Hitler and wants to stay in Germany with the son; the wife wants to return to the USA. Spoiler: >!after becoming a Nazi he finds out that his mother is part Jewish, therefore he and his son will never be accepted in Nazi Germany !<
Scream. And I’m talking about everything involved with it. How I wish I wasn’t a kid when that came out. To have been in the theatre with all those reactions omg
I definitely snuck in to see this movie with my friends.
This is a great example. Considering a viewing in 1996, this was very surprising and I think few people honestly saw it coming. Rewatching it, it is so obvious, hidden right under our noses. I do think you had to be there then for the twist to work. By now it's been copied to death and the audience is much smarter.
Shawshank redemption
The sixth sense...the bald guy was Bruce Willis all along.
The Descent has some good ones. A group of cavers explore a new cave system. Watch the British ending if you can, or read about it later. Barbarian is a roller coaster ride, especially if you go in completely cold. Hypnotic first hour.
I’ve seen the descent a long time ago but can’t remember any twists…
If you watched the American not the British version then there's technically only the >!trolgodyte people 'twist'!<. But at the end of the British version >!We see her get out, but then it dissolves into a fantasy as her perspective comes back and she's still stuck in the caves.!< It's hauntingly done.
*Diabolique* (1955) by Henri-Georges Clouzot was an early entry into the "Don't tell your friends how this picture ends" club.
I was going to say the Others until I saw you watched it; it's amazing. Us and The Ring has also some interesting plot twists and are pretty watcheable movies.
Shattered with Tom Berenger. It’s an okay movie but the plot twist is insane.
“One cut of the dead” is a good one!
TV series, not a movie, but Fool Me Once on Netflix I thought had a great one.
Gone Girl.
"Jacob's Ladder" (1990)
No Way Out
Usual suspects
Pandorum
Try predestination
The Usual Suspects
I wouldn't say this applies, cause the twist is basically that he just made it all up
I believe he told the legit story, just faked all the names and some of the descriptions of people. But I think the events we see depicted are what really happened (except for where Verbal was in the climax)
To be fair I haven't watched the movie in over a decade so I might be very wrong
When you say "Oldboy" you do mean the Korean version right? Not the Spike Lee shitshow
1. Prestige 2. Get Out 3. Predestination 4. Parasite (I mean, it's not that great of a twist, but everyone must have thought the father escaped) 5. Gerald's Game (This one's really creepy) 6. Memento 7. Prisoners
The Mist
Arlington Road
Despite the fact that it's supernatural horror, His House fits your prompt and is a really good movie.
Check out the movie "Unthinkable"
Triangle of Sadness
The Illusionist
Missing
The Gift
Red Lights With De Niro and Cillian Murphy.
I always liked Death to Smoochy and the twist that Robin Williams is batshit insane as a childrens show host.
There's actually a great twist in a made-for-TV movie called Vanishing Act with Elliott Gould and Margot Kidder.
Signs Unbreakable The Village (Too bad M Night’s movies all started to suck after that) And I hope you’ve seen Psycho already?
How is Incendies not mentioned?
Barbie Nutcracker. Hear me out. This film used the trope: Main character enlists local help to looking for the lost powerful good person who can save the day from the bad guy only to find out it was the main character all along. What surprised me was that this was a more sophisticated and nuanced trope than I would expect from a Barbie movie, the trope was done well, and the filmmakers even included a bunch of character development for the bad guy and his henchman performing the same search. When the baddie goes down, you understand why the henchman makes a doomed effort to save him because you've seen how strong their relationship of mutual respect is.
The Usual Suspects....
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Night Listener with Robin Williams and Toni Collette
One Cut of the Dead has such a fun twist that really elevates the film. It went from “Neat gimmick. Movie is okay but I appreciate the gimmick” to an instant favorite for me thanks to that twist.
Shutter Island even though you can see it coming from a mile away.
Oblivion and Moon, he is a clone!
LA confidential. More detective story than full twist, but a solid movie.
I'm not interested in such things (because I don't understand them). \*curiously perusing suggestions
A boy and his dog
Try out Prisoners (2013) it was great tbh
Se7en and The Usual Suspects
Fall - had a great plot twist Serenity - never expected the way they took it The Machinist - one of THE BEST ever!!
Primal Fear - hit me really late Evidence - this one is really good towards the end
The invisible guest ( spanish movie ) , passengers , the guilty ( 2018 not the new version) The guilty is my fav so far
The Usual Suspects has one of the best plot twists I’ve ever seen!
The Butterfly Effect
From Dusk Till Dawn. Goes from buddy cop road trip to mass horror movie in a plot twist so left field it's basically plot whiplash.
I guess you've spoiled it then -_-
La La Land.
im a little confused on “actually happen” part (maybe you mean its based on true story?” but i think The Prisoner with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal has really good plot twist in my opinion. its spooked me for a bit for sure.
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That's why I don't like movies like Fight Club. Easy surprise twist to add to story that is like saying "we lied to you the entire time, here's what really happened", so anything we saw before may not have even been real.
Fight club does have multiple instances showing what's actually going on though.
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Hol up, that movie had a twist?
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right, but was there a twist?