In this list, I'm going to include mainly science fiction movies which are difficult to understand. Full of paradoxes with imaginary science, I've excluded Interstellar and Inception from this list as both of them are highly rated and everyone knows about them. We'll talk about slightly less famous but great paradox sci-fi movies.
10. Source Code
Director: Duncan Jones
IMDb Rating: 7.5
Synopsis: Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a commuter-train explosion. The purpose of Colter's mission is to learn the identity of the bomber and prevent a similar catastrophe. As Colter lives Sean's final moments, he becomes more certain that he can prevent the first tragedy from occurring -- as long as he doesn't run out of time.
9. Edge of Tomorrow
Director: Doug Liman
IMDb Rating: 7.9
Synopsis: When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the same brutal fight -- and his death -- over and over again. However, Cage's fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him and a comrade (Emily Blunt) ever closer to defeating the alien
8. Upstream Colour
Director: Shane Carruth
IMDb Rating: 6.7
Synopsis: A woman (Amy Seimetz) unwittingly undergoes a series of bizarre experiments, then meets a kindred spirit (Shane Carruth) who may have experienced the same ordeal.
7. Primer
Director: Shane Carruth
IMDb Rating: 6.9
Synopsis: Intellectual engineers Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan) build and sell error-checking technology with the help of their friends Robert (Casey Gooden) and Phillip (Anand Upadhyaya). But when Aaron and Abe accidentally invent what they think is a time machine, Abe builds a version capable of transporting a human and puts the device to the test. As the two friends obsess over their creation, they discover the dark consequences of their actions.
6. Butterfly Effect
Directors: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
IMDb Rating: 7.7
Synopsis: College student Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) is afflicted with headaches so painful that he frequently blacks out. While unconscious, Evan is able to travel back in time to difficult moments in his childhood. He can also alter the past for friends, like Kayleigh (Amy Smart), who was molested by her father (Eric Stoltz). But changing the past can drastically alter the present, and Evan finds himself in nightmarish alternate realities, including one where he's locked away in prison.
5. Coherence
Director: James Ward Byrkit
IMDb Rating: 7.2
Synopsis: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film whose tension intensely ratchets up as its numerous complex mysteries unfold.
4. Shutter Islands
Director: Martin Scorsese
IMDb Rating: 8.1
Synopsis: The implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located on a remote, windswept island. The woman appears to have vanished from a locked room, and there are hints of terrible deeds committed within the hospital walls. As the investigation deepens, Teddy realizes he will have to confront his own dark fears if he hopes to make it off the island alive.
3. Mr. Nobody
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
IMDb Rating: 7.9
Synopsis: In 2092 the last mortal human (Jared Leto) on Earth reflects on his long past and thinks about the lives he might have led.
2. Predestination
Directors: Michael Spierig
IMDb Rating: 7.5
Synopsis: A temporal agent (Ethan Hawke) embarks on a final time-traveling assignment to prevent an elusive criminal from launching an attack that kills thousands of people.
1. The Matrix (1999)
Director: Lana Wachowski
IMDb Rating: 8.7
Synopsis: Neo (Keanu Reeves) believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, can answer his question -- What is the Matrix? Neo is contacted by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), a beautiful stranger who leads him into an underworld where he meets Morpheus. They fight a brutal battle for their lives against a cadre of viciously intelligent secret agents. It is a truth that could cost Neo something more precious than his life.
As the title suggests, this is my list hence arranged irrespective of IMDb ratings. For new users, imdb links are hyperlinked hence you can click on them to find IMDb page of the respective movie.
I know some of the synopsizes are very short but, these are movies manly based on Mystery Thriller hence I don't really want to reveal all of it. Believe me, these are great movies and they won't let you
down.
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