37 Movies That Are So Clever, They'll Have You Thinking For Days

What it's about:"A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It’s raw and real, and it left me with a weird feeling about this already messed-up world."

—leahsbz

What it's about:“在反乌托邦的未来，根据城市法律，单身人士被带到酒店，在那里他们有义务在45天内找到一个浪漫的伴侣，或者被转变为野兽并被送入树林。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"Even though the plot is pretty simple, the movie is the weirdest freaking thing I have ever seen."

—Florencer4CAD972DC

What it's about:“尽管他说的越来越危险的话并在他长大时做了，但凯文的母亲努力地爱着她陌生的孩子。但是凯文才刚刚开始，他的最后一幕将超出任何想象的东西。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"I've watched this movie multiple times, and just seeing how everything unfolds is so unnerving. It'll make you think for days."

—EmilyTheIt

What it's about:"A young programmer is selected to participate in a groundbreaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid AI."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It's a little creepy, but it draws you in. I was thinking about it for days after I first watched it."

—oliviab4e8e85370

What it's about:"Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic 'games' with one another for their own amusement."

Why it'll melt your mind:"This movie messed me UP! I tried to watch it a second time later on, but I couldn't take it anymore. I had to turn it off. It's just so real and disturbing and will make you think about what you'd do if you were in similar situations."

—朱利安纳拉姆

What it's about:"An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It's soooo intriguing, and part of you will leave completely baffled."

—rachelc77

What it's about:"When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of LA crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It realllllly messed with me, and it made me look differently at the people I trust."

—JACOBG48CF95235

What it's about:"A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession."

Why it'll melt your mind:"This one made me feel so many things. It's dark, sad, and moving."

—reneenicolem

What it's about:"An Eastern European woman travels to the United States with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film."

Why it'll melt your mind:“我在剧院上映时在剧院里看到了它。二十年后，我还没有足够勇敢地再次观看它。它绝对是辉煌的，但在情感上耗尽了。比约克很棒，她的音乐数字的对比散布在一个令人沮丧的情节是神奇的。”

—Amanda Lee B

What it's about:"A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham."

Why it'll melt your mind:"I got into the habit of watching documentaries while at the gym. I had to turn this one off and restart it at home because it was so bizarre and deserved my undivided attention. It was so wild. It was like a last-call drink that I regretted having."

—jcantu

What it's about:“从他们在精神病院开始的残酷父母回家后不久，两个姐妹的生活被一个幽灵的存在打断了。”

Why it'll melt your mind:“这真是令人恐惧，诚实地恐怖，射击了，而且结局如此出色，这确实会让您思考。”

—和rewm440ca664e

What it's about:"In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It'll make you question whether or not you truly know the people around you."

—Rockchick19

What it's about:"A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien life-forms after 12 mysterious spacecraft appear around the world."

Why it'll melt your mind:“我完成了这部电影，静静地坐着，试图拼凑出我刚刚看的东西。只要相信我，这就是。”

—JazzyCatsinDisneyland

What it's about:"Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It's amazing. I watched it for the first time with some friends at around 4 a.m., and it completely fucked all of us. Nothing gets to you quite like the possibility of infinite alternate universes."

—katz4lyfe

What it's about:“宇航员山姆·贝尔（Sam Bell）在他在月球上的三年结束时进行了典型的个人接触，在那里他与计算机吉蒂（Gerty）一起工作，将其寄回了一种资源的地球，这有助于减少我们星球的力量问题。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"I still can't work out if it scared me or amazed me. Either way, it has stayed with me for years."

—d4979c43

What it's about:“一个家庭的宁静海滩度假会变成混乱，当时他们的doppelgängers出现并开始恐吓它们。”

Why it'll melt your mind:“这很令人兴奋，会吓到你。你必须一遍又一遍地重新观看它，以弄清楚你错过了什么。”

—pattiecolvin23

What it's about:"Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit."

Why it'll melt your mind:“这真是令人心碎，情节扭曲使它更加搞砸了。电影结束后，我震惊地坐在那里。”

—Megan.

What it's about:“一个男孩在火车即将离开时站在车站平台上。他应该和母亲一起去还是和父亲在一起？从这个决定中产生无限的可能性。只要他不选择，任何可能的事情就是可能的。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"It takes place in the future and is about the last immortal man on Earth who lives out every possible outcome of his life. It made me have weird dreams about parallel universes and made me question my existence."

—marleypirochta

What it's about:"A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him."

Why it'll melt your mind:"This is one of those occasions when the actors are wayyyy too good at their job (especially Juliette Lewis). It'll make you question everything."

—CreativeMummy

What it's about:“选举前不久，一名旋转医生和好莱坞制片人加入了制造战争的努力，以掩盖总统性行为丑闻。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"It stars Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, and it completely messed me up at a young age."

—crysta.

What it's about:"A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted."

Why it'll melt your mind:"I sat there for an hour, thinking,Okay, where is this going?Then everything completely flipped, and it all clicked into place. I was telling people about that movie for the whole year after I first watched it."

—lorencandace

What it's about:"The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption."

Why it'll melt your mind:“这是两天后的电影类型，使您想到，OH! THE TWO SCENES ARE HAPPENING SIMULTANEOUSLY, and you get to untangle the mess on your own."

—batrxsyxa

What it's about:"Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps."

Why it'll melt your mind:"How people respond in a crisis is terrifying, as is the realization that there is no master plan. The Cube exists simply because it does."

—Skellycog

What it's about:"A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: Some people return no longer human. Can two college dropouts save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?"

Why it'll melt your mind:"I watched it over a year ago and still don't really understand what happened, but it was so fantastic."

—lilbeanhead

What it's about:"A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's天鹅湖。”

Why it'll melt your mind:“看着它几个月后，我的脑海就搞砸了。我什至谷歌搜索了发生的事情，但仍然无法完全抓住它！”

—maryj487055765

What it's about:"A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It's an amazing, dreadful indie drama. It explores a grieving teen's relationship with his distant father, his best friend who's an underage sex worker, and one of the friend's pedophile clients. It's nuanced without becoming abuse apologia, well acted, and majorly unsettling."

—taelors

What it's about:"A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for three years."

Why it'll melt your mind: "It's a really freaky documentary about a random guy who claimed to be a family's missing son. Somehow he tricked the family and lived with them for several years. The wildest part? It's a true story."

—nms124

What it's about:“一个模仿，是一位雄心勃勃的电视网络高管，试图制作一个有争议的真人秀节目，参赛者演奏俄罗斯轮盘赌。”

Why it'll melt your mind:“我无法停止思考这部被低估的电影的结束数周！这完全令人痛苦。”

—thebmass

What it's about:"Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one question. It seems simple yet confusing, and tensions begin to unravel."

Why it'll melt your mind:"It will make you doubt who's on your side for the rest of your life."

—EGOfficial

What it's about:"A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking, and deflowering virgins."

Why it'll melt your mind:"I grew up in a very small and sheltered town, and after seeing this movie, I was in shock for a couple of days. The story is so real and plausible, even though it scared me. All young people should watch it."

—Lynne236

What it's about:"A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon."

Why it'll melt your mind:“这是一部令人毛骨悚然的惊悚片。请相信我。”

—mnsea

What it's about:"The story of a family in Waco, Texas, in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings."

Why it'll melt your mind:"I've watched this film several times. It always raises more questions than answers, and I am always left thinking about the expansiveness of the universe and the complexity of faith and death and family. It always leaves me in wonder."

—picassopizza

What it's about:"An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep."

Why it'll melt your mind:"You think you know what the twist is, and then they blow your freaking mind!"

—sierrah43af12414

What it's about:"After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other."

Why it'll melt your mind:“最后的多个情节扭曲使我陷入困境。我坐在沙发上，凝视着太空10分钟，而积分滚滚。”

—autumnm451930e01

What it's about:"After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality."

Why it'll melt your mind:“这么多的曲折将使您在整部电影中猜测。这将使您绝对质疑一切。”

—Ashley S.

What it's about:“一个有抱负的模特杰西（Jesse）对洛杉矶来说是新手。但是，她的美丽和青年在时装界引起了强烈的迷恋和嫉妒，可能会证明自己是险恶的。”

Why it'll melt your mind:"It still has me feeling uneasy. Beautifully shot, fantastic soundtrack, and worth sticking around to the last shocking shot."

—alia41929a2ef

What it's about:“双胞胎男孩在改变面部的整容手术后与母亲一起搬到新家，但在绷带下，孩子们不认识。”

Why it'll melt your mind:“这让我震惊。这是一部带英文字幕的奥地利电影，但不要让你把你拒之门外。这是关于这些不相信母亲的双胞胎男孩真的是他们的母亲。”

—mackenziea47aeadecf