Watching movies is one of the greatest activities one can do for entertainment. However, always watching comedies or action movies tends to get boring sometimes and this is when movies that pack a plot twist can come to rescue. Whether a wholesome, mind-boggling, or gruesome one, if the story is laid out well, a plot twist takes the movie-watching experience to a different level. So, let me bring you the 10 best movies with absolutely mind-boggling plot twists that you should most definitely check out in 2025.
1. The Truman Show
- Release Date- 5 June 1998
- Cast- Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Natascha McElhone, Noah Emmerich, Paul Giamatti, Peter Krause, Holland Taylor, Blair Slater, Joel McKinnon Miller
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.2/94%
- Director- Peter Weir
If movies featuring a plot twist are your jam but you don’t want things to take a dark turn, The Truman Show is the movie you should most definitely check out. This movie takes us to the life of Truman Burbank, a regular everyday man who is living his best life surrounded by people who love him. However, his world comes crashing down when he realizes that nothing in his life is real and it is all a part of a television show.
This movie is a commentary on the question of existence put out in one of the most beautiful ways one can imagine. So, if you have not watched The Truman Show, this is your sign to give it a shot.
2. Get Out
- Release Date- 24 February 2017
- Cast- Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, LaKeith Stanfield, Lil Rel Howery, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Stephen Root
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 7.8/ 98%
- Director- Jordan Peele
Get Out might not explicitly be a horror film but it will shake you up to your very core. This movie brings to light a young African-American photographer Chris who is finally going to meet the parents of his white girlfriend Rose. Even though her parents know of Chris, they don’t know that he is African-American. So, Chris was a bit skeptical about meeting them and staying with them for the weekend. However, he is received by them rather warmly but soon, he starts to feel something is off which ultimately stands to be true.
Get Out features one of the darkest plot twists I have ever seen. I’m not going to reveal a lot but if you think the parents turn out to be killers or are involved in human trafficking or are cannibals or something like that, trust me when I say it, it’s way worse than any of this.
3. Shutter Island
- Release Date- 4 June 2010
- Cast- Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Max von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Ruby Jerins
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.2/ 69%
- Director- Martin Scorsese
Shutter Island is often regarded as one of the best movies if you want to have your mind blown to bits. This movie introduces us to U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who has been sent to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient named Andrew Laeddis. However, his reason for going to the island also includes the personal agenda of finding out the man who killed his wife.
Throughout the movie, some revelations will make you feel like Teddy is getting closer to finding out the answers he seeks. However, then the plot twist hits you in the most unexpected of ways where it is revealed that someone is not who they have been pretending to be and you’re so not ready for it.
4. Fight Club
- Release Date- 15 October 1999
- Cast- Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Marvin Lee Aday, Holt McCallany, Zach Grenier, Eion Bailey, David Andrews, Richmond Arquette, Rachel Singer
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.8/81%
- Director- David Fincher
Fight Club is one of the most celebrated movies ever made. Even though Fight Club underperformed at the Box Office, the movie became a massive success after being released on DVD. This movie introduces us to an insomniac man who works a regular job and is greatly unsatisfied with his life. However, everything changes when he meets Tyler Durden, who is everything this man wishes to be. They become friends and start a men-only group where they fight each other bare-knuckled calling it the Fight Club.
Soon, fight clubs became a thing around the country and grew into an anti-capitalist domestic terrorist organization. While Tyler seems to see nothing wrong with it, the protagonist wants to bring an end to it and finds out something about Tyler that changes the whole narrative of the movie.
5. American Psycho
- Release Date- 14 April 2000
- Cast- Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Guinevere Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 7.6/68%
- Director- Mary Harron
American Psycho features one of the most mind-boggling endings you will ever witness. Based on a novel of the same name written by Bret Easton Ellis, this movie takes us to a 27-year-old man named Patrick Bateman. He is a successful investment banker making big money working on Wall Street. Even though he is rich, successful, and charming, Bateman moonlights as a serial killer by the night.
The movie is enough to make you sick to your stomach with the detailed murders and the unsettling personality of Patrick. However, the best part of the movie is the plot twist served by the end where the audience is left wondering what happened.
6. Memento
- Release Date- 16 March 2001
- Cast- Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss, Stephen Tobolowsky, Mark Boone JuniorJorja Fox, Larry Holden, Russ Fega, Harriet Sansom Harris
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.4/94%
- Director- Christopher Nolan
Living up to the fame of creating movies that are hard to decipher, Christopher Nolan brings us another movie that will drive you to use all your brain cells. Memento takes us to the life of a professional insurance claims investigator named Leonard Shelby. He is a victim of a rare condition called short-term memory loss. Even though he remembers everything about his life before the accident that caused him to have this condition, he cannot remember anything that happened 15 minutes ago.
According to him, he got short-term memory loss in an incident involving the death and sexual assault of his wife. Now, the only mission in his life is to find who killed his wife. According to the tattoo on his body, he blamed a man named John G for it. However, Leonard’s character is not as much of a victim as it seems, and if you want to know why, I recommend you watch Memento.
7. Saw (2004)
- Release Date- 29 October 2004
- Cast- Tobin Bell, Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Michael Emerson, Shawnee Smith, Danny Glover, Dina Meyer, Donnie Wahlberg, Ken Leung, Monica Potter, Alexandra Bokyun Chun
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 7.6/ 50%
- Director- James Wan
Saw has grown to be one of the most loved franchises of all time with an audience that still celebrates the movies that come out of this franchise. However, the first Saw movie features one of the best plot twists seen in the Saw franchise. In this movie, two men Adam Stanheight and Dr. Lawrence Gordon find themselves chained in a washroom and each of them has a tape in their pockets. In the room, there is also a corpse that is holding onto a tape player. When they play the tapes, one of them is threatened and one is not.
They have to play a “game” orchestrated by the Jigsaw Killer where one of them has to kill the other one before 6:00 PM or his wife and child die. Throughout the movie, we see flashbacks that tell us the stories of other victims of the killer, these two men being the latest of them. The plot twist in this movie will leave you baffled because it comes out of the most unexpected element in the frame.
8. The Sixth Sense
- Release Date- 6 August 1999
- Cast- Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Norris.
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating-: 8.2/ 86%
- Director- M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense was M. Night Shyamalan’s first big movie and in all honesty, it deserves all the praise it has gained for itself. The movie takes us to a child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe who narrowly escaped death after being shot by one of his former patients. After this, he fell in deep guilt for letting down his patient and saw a chance at redemption in a young boy named Cole Sear.
Cole claims that he can see dead people even those who don’t know that they are dead yet. However, Malcolm does not believe the little guy and thinks it’s a psychological condition. Over time they develop a bond and eventually, he realizes that Cole was not making it up. However, the way he comes to this realization is the whole plot twist of this movie which will blow you away with how fantastically it has been masked with impeccable camera work and direction.
9. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
- Release Date- 21 May 1980
- Cast- Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch,
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.7/ 95%
- Director- Irvin Kershner
In A Galaxy Far Far Away, a story unfolds that to this day, remains one of the most successful franchises ever made. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back is the highest-rated movie from the world of Star Wars and in my opinion, this one features one of the biggest plot twists we have ever seen on screen.
I think most of you might be familiar with what I am talking about and if you are not, you really ought to watch The Empire Strikes Back. However, if you are keen on learning the twist, all I can tell you is that it stems from a father-son relationship.
10. Se7en
- Release Date- 22 September 1995
- Cast- Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Andrew Kevin Walker, Leland Orser, R. Lee Ermey, John C. McGinley, Peter Crombie, Reg E. Cathey, Michael Reid MacKay, Daniel Zacapa
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes Rating- 8.6/84%
- Director- David Fincher
Se7en is easily one of the most gruesome crime movies you can find. This movie takes us to two homicide detectives who are trying to hunt down a serial killer named John Doe who justifies his killings as an account for the world that has completely forgotten the seven deadly sins. The killer takes down a person in gruesome ways as a representation of one of the seven sins.
The detectives try head and toe to find this killer but by the final act of the movie, we see that the serial killer kills someone that sends Detective Mills through the edge. I’m not going to reveal too much about the twist here since it will take the fun out of the movie so if you want to know who was this person you’ll have to watch this Se7en.
Shashank Shakya
