Mind Blowing Movie Plot Twists

Twisting Plots

If you are a movie buff you definitely enjoy a big plot twist. Plot twists can leave you shocked, breathless, stunned or even with your heart pumping. Often having to reanalyze every part of the movie before it happened. It changes everything you thought throughout the movie. You almost feel like you have been lied to or cheated. In some movies nothing really makes sense until the twist then you are able to put all the pieces together. It’s almost like a puzzle that you need to solve. There are many movies out there with plot twists but these have mind blowing movie plot twists (No Spoilers).

1. The Prestige (2006)

Two stage magicians engage in competition to one up each other. They both attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. Starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson.

2. Shutter Island (2010)

In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley.

3. The Sixth Sense (1999)

A boy who communicates with spirits that don’t know they’re dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. Starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment,

4. The Machinist (2004)

An industrial worker who hasn’t slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. Starring Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

5. Seven Pounds (2008)

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson.

6. Hard Candy (2005)

A teenage girl raids a man’s home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with pedophilia. Starring Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page and Sandra Oh.

6. Matchstick Men (2003)

A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly. Starring Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman and Sam Rockwell.

7. Hide And Seek (2005)

As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife’s suicide, his daughter finds solace — at first — in her imaginary friend. Starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning and Famke Janssen.

8. Orphan (2009)

A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a nine year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. Starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and Isabelle Fuhrman.

9. The Departed (2006)

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.

10. Seven (1995)

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his method of killing. Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey.

11. The Others (2001)

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted. Starring Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston and Fionnula Flanagan.

12. Memento (2000)

A man juggles searching for his wife’s murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.

13. Primal Fear (1996)

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. Starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Edward Norton.

14. The Game (1997)

Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday his brother Conrad gives him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS).

15. The Usual Suspects (1995)

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which begin when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police lineup. Starring Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Benicio Del Toro and Stephen Baldwin. 

16. Fracture (2007)

An attorney, intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn.

17. The Skeleton Key (2005)

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house’s dark past. Starring Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant.

18. The Village (2005)

A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village. Starring Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, and Joaquin Phoenix.

19. Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl’s kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally. Starring Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Casey Affleck.

20. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

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.