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Movies that feel twisty

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Trust nothing. The kind of plotting that makes you rewatch the first act. Ranked by how strongly each film carries the mood, then by quality. Every film links to its kindred spirits.

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Get Out
2017 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 98%★ 7.8mystery · thriller · horrorPeacock

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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Citizen Kane
1941 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 99%★ 8.2mystery · drama

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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The Sixth Sense
1999 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 86%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaNetflixHulu

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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Vertigo
1958 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 94%★ 8.2mystery · romance · thriller

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaHulu

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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Blue Velvet
1986 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 87%★ 7.7mystery · thriller · crime

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 8mystery · romance · thriller

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

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The Maltese Falcon
1941 · dir. John Huston
🍅 99%★ 7.9mystery · crime · thrillerMax

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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Game Night
2018 · dir. John Francis Daley
🍅 85%★ 6.9mystery · comedy · crimeMax

Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

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Burning
2018 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · drama · thrillerRent or buy

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%★ 7.3mystery · drama · thrillerPrime Video

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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The Guest
2014 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 92%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · action

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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The Big Sleep
1946 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 96%★ 7.9mystery · crime · thriller

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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Dark City
1998 · dir. Alex Proyas
★ 7.5mystery · science fiction

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

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The 39 Steps
1935 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.6mystery · thrillerPrime VideoMax

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

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Watchmen
2009 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 64%★ 7.6mystery · action · science fictionMax

In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

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Rear Window
1954 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 99%★ 8.4thriller · mystery · drama

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Juliano Dornelles
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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Se7en
1995 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 84%★ 8.6crime · mystery · thrillerParamount+

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 90%★ 8.3science fiction · mystery · adventureMax

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%★ 6.7mystery · thrillerMaxStarz

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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L.A. Confidential
1997 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 99%★ 8.2crime · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

twisty + tense

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White knuckles, held breath. Every scene wound one turn tighter.

twisty + unsettling

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Nothing jumps out, and that's the problem. The kind that gets under the skin and stays.

twisty + dread

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Something is wrong and it's getting closer. Slow, creeping, inevitable.

twisty + contemplative

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Quiet, patient, unhurried. Room left to think.

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