Movies by Lists - Mind Opening Movies (75 [77]) 
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| Adjustment Bureau, TheThe affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart. | 2011 | George Nolfi | Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (253.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Another EarthOn the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident. | 2011 | Mike Cahill | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (94.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| ArrivalA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world. | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (656.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| AvatarA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. | 2009 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (1.2M votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| AwakeningsThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. | 1990 | Penny Marshall (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.8 (135.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | 2001 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama | 8.2 (897.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Bothersome Man, The [Den brysomme mannen]In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions. | 2006 | Jens Lien | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (17.3K votes) | 95 | 20220731 |
| BugAn unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation. | 2006 | William Friedkin (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (34.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Butterfly Effect, TheEvan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. | 2004 | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (474.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| City of GodIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin. | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Crime, Drama | 8.6 (733.1K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Cloud AtlasAn 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. | 2012 | Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (356.9K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| CoherenceStrange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead. | 2013 | James Ward Byrkit | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (121.2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| CometSet in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship. | 2014 | Sam Esmail | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (18.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Dark CityA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from. | 1998 | Alex Proyas | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (196.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Dead ManOn the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange aboriginal American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western | 7.6 (94.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Deja VuAfter a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims. | 2006 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (304.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| DemolitionA successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew. | 2015 | Jean-Marc Vallée | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (97.9K votes) | 101 | 20220415 |
| DemonA bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. | 2015 | Marcin Wrona | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (5.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Demon Inside, TheA bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. | 2015 | Marcin Wrona | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (5.7K votes) | 94 | 20220415 |
| Departures [Okuribito]A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. | 2008 | Yôjirô Takita | Drama, Music | 8.1 (51.1K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| DogvilleA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price. | 2003 | Lars von Trier (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.0 (145.4K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Donnie DarkoAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. | 2001 | Richard Kelly | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (774.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Enter the VoidAn American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection. | 2009 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 7.3 (76.9K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| EraserheadHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. | 1977 | David Lynch (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 (111.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless MindWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. | 2004 | Michel Gondry | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (966.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Ex MachinaA young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I. | 2014 | Alex Garland | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (515.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Eye for Beauty, An [Règne de la Beauté, Le]A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I. | 2014 | Alex Garland | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (512.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Fateless [Sorstalanság]14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish. | 2005 | Lajos Koltai | Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (6.8K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Fight ClubAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. | 1999 | David Fincher (*) | Drama | 8.8 (2M votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| FilthA corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons. | 2013 | Jon S. Baird | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (106.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Fountian, TheAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (238.1K votes) | 97 | 20220723 |
| GerryA friendship between two young men is tested when they go for a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them. | 2002 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (18.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Gift, TheA fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared. | 2000 | Sam Raimi (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 6.7 (67K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Gift, TheA married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old classmate. Things take a turn when Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts. | 2015 | Joel Edgerton | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (150.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Gran TorinoDisgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. | 2008 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama | 8.1 (753.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| HerIn a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. | 2013 | Spike Jonze (*) | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (580.4K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| I OriginsA molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it. | 2014 | Mike Cahill | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (122.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| In The Mouth of MadnessAn insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational. | 1994 | John Carpenter (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (67K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| InceptionA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster. | 2010 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.8 (2.2M votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Inland EmpireAs an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. | 2006 | David Lynch (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (56.2K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| InterstellarA team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. | 2014 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.6 (1.7M votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Into The WildAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, C | 2007 | Sean Penn | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 8.1 (604.2K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Jacket, TheA Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. | 2005 | John Maybury | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (113.3K votes) | 103 | 20220723 |
| K-PAXPROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. | 2001 | Unknown | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (180.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| LucyA woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic. | 2014 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (476K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Man From Earth, TheAn impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine. | 2007 | Richard Schenkman | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (183.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| MartyrsA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | Horror | 7.1 (90.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Matrix, TheWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. | 1999 | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (1.8M votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| MelancholiaTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. | 2011 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (177.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| MementoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. | 2000 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (1.2M votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Men Who Stare at Goats, TheA reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions. | 2009 | Grant Heslov | Comedy, War | 6.2 (130.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mr. NobodyA boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. | 2009 | Jaco Van Dormael | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (227.6K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Only God ForgivesJulian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death. | 2013 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (111K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Peaceful WarriorDan, a college student and a world-champion gymnast, is disturbed and wants to add some meaning to his life. A chance encounter leads him to discover an enlightened way ahead. | 2006 | Victor Salva | Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.2 (29.9K votes) | 120 | 20240511 |
| PossessionA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Drama, Horror | 7.4 (29.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| PowderAn off the charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit. | 1995 | Victor Salva | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (29.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| PredestinationFor his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos. | 2014 | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.5 (271.9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Prestige, TheAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. | 2006 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (1.3M votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| PrimerFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. | 2004 | Shane Carruth | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (104.1K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| PrometheusFollowing clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone. | 2012 | Ridley Scott (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (592.7K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| RevolverGambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences. | 2005 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (93.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Robot And FrankIn the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. | 2012 | Jake Schreier | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (63.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Shutter IslandIn 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. | 2010 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (1.2M votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Solaris [Solyaris]A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| StayA psychiatrist attempts to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality. | 2005 | Marc Forster | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (78.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Synecdoche, New YorkA theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play. | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | Drama | 7.6 (88.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Thirteenth Floor, TheA computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered. | 1999 | Josef Rusnak | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (70.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| TranceAn art auctioneer becomes mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting. | 2013 | Danny Boyle (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (112.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| TranscendenceA scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program. | 2014 | Wally Pfister | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (224.5K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Truman Show, TheAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. | 1998 | Peter Weir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (1M votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [Loong Boonmee raleuk chat]Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm. | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 (15.9K votes) | 1 | 20220912 |
| Under the SkinA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery. | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (138.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Upstream ColorA man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. | 2013 | Shane Carruth | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (33.3K votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| Vanilla SkyA self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover. | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (259.3K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Waking LifeA man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. | 2001 | Richard Linklater (*) | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 7.8 (63.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Instinct | 2018 | nan | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Being There | 2011 | Filip Christensen | Documentary, Adventure, Sport | 8.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |