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Last film added: May 10, 2012. There are currently 1151 films in the database (since 1996).

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Mind-blowing Films (1996-2012)


Search returned all potentially mind-blowing movies out of 1151 total rated films.



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MASTERPIECES

1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) 10  
   A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, using intelligent robots with real feelings.
   
2. Adaptation. (2002) 10  
   A screenwriter writes himself into the screenplay he's trying to adapt from a nonfiction book.
   
3. Being John Malkovich (1999) 10  
   Spike Jonze directs puppeteer John Cusack who discovers a portal into John Malkovich's mind.
   
4. Dark City (1998) 10  
   Rufus Sewell struggles to recover his memories in a nightmarish world run by telekinetic beings.
   
5. Eraserhead 2000 (2001) 10  
   David Lynch's restored first feature film. A nightmarish 1977 masterpiece of grotesque, eerie postindustrial life.
   
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 10  
   Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories.
   
7. Fight Club (1999) 10  
   This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. Edward Norton stars.
   
8. Happy Accidents (2000) 10  
   Marisa Tomei wonders if her boyfriend Vincent D'Onofrio is really a time-traveler, or just delusional.
   
9. Inception (2010) 10  
   Brilliant concept and direction by Christopher Nolan. A dream within a dream within a dream.
   
10. Inland Empire (2006) 10  
    Lynch examines Hollywood and its artistic constraints in a bizarre/long jumble of movies within movies.
    
11. Lost Highway (1997) 10  
    David Lynch's brilliant cinematic Möbius strip of paranoia, adultery, murder and Freudian psychology.
    
12. Memento (2000) 10  
    A man with no short-term memory uses tattooed notes to hunt down his wife's killer.
    
13. Midnight in Paris (2011) 10  
    A surreal, inspired masterpiece by Woody Allen about the importance of living in the present.
    
14. Moon (2009) 10  
    One man and a computer run a lunar base that supplies Earth with energy. Meditative.
    
15. Mulholland Drive (2001) 10  
    David Lynch directs a dark Hollywood conspiracy about the psychosis of becoming someone else.
    
16. Pi (1998) 10  
    A paranoid mathematician searches for a number to unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
    
17. Scanner Darkly, A (2006) 10  
    Richard Linklater, Philip K. Dick, Keanu Reeves, Radiohead and interpolated rotoscoping animation. Brilliant.
    
18. Stay (2005) 10  
    The desperate psychological nightmare of a dying man. A visually rich, ghost-inhabited alternate reality.
    
19. Tree of Life, The (2011) 10  
    Terrence Malick's insightful, gorgeous and bold vision. Sincerely explores the meaning of life and love.
    
20. V for Vendetta (2006) 10  
    The Wachowski Brothers present the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, starring Natalie Portman.
    

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EXCELLENT

21. Another Earth (2011) 9  
    A second Earth from a parallel universe appears in the sky. A meditation on destiny.
    
22. Cube (1998) 9  
    Seven complete strangers awaken one day in a cubical Kafkaesque maze filled with deadly traps.
    
23. DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) 9  
    Strassman and Hancock explore connections between human spirituality and neuroscience through psychedelics.
    
24. Donnie Darko (2001) 9  
    A complex chain of events determine the fate of a teenager and a giant bunny-rabbit.
    
25. eXistenZ (1999) 9  
    Game designer Jennifer Jason Leigh creates a virtual-reality experience indistinguishable from real life.
    
26. Jacket, The (2005) 9  
    Military veteran Adrien Brody can foresee his own death and possibly change Keira Knightley's future.
    
27. Man from Earth, The (2007) 9  
    Set in a single room, this thoughtful, philosophical play might blow your mind a little.
    
28. Matrix, The (1999) 9  
    Déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
    
29. Minority Report (2002) 9  
    An excellent futuristic thriller with irrelevant distractions, including vomit, snot and anthropomorphic plants.
    
30. Open Your Eyes (1999) 9  
    The brilliant Amenábar film, starring Penélope Cruz, that Tom Cruise turned into Vanilla Sky.
    
31. Others, The (2001) 9  
    Nicole Kidman lives in a darkened and haunted old house with her two photosensitive children.
    
32. Paprika (2007) 9  
    An insane anime that blurs the separation between reality, dreams, memory, cinema and the Internet.
    
33. Prestige, The (2006) 9  
    A rivalry of deadly stage illusions escalates between Victorian-era magicians. David Bowie is Nikola Tesla!
    
34. Primer (2004) 9  
    This puzzle film of time-travel paradoxes and loopholes begins with four inventors in a garage.
    
35. Requiem for a Dream (2000) 9  
    Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, and orange in the evening.
    
36. Sex and Lucía (2002) 9  
    Julio Medem directs a convoluted dreamlike narrative, starring a novelist, an island and Paz Vega.
    
37. Sixth Sense, The (1999) 9  
    Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment star. I see dead people.
    
38. Source Code (2011) 9  
    An ingenious and exciting thriller with some gaps in logic. Profound filmmaking by Duncan Jones.
    
39. Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 9  
    Will Ferrell tries to figure out who's narrating his unraveling life. Maggie Gyllenhaal is adorable.
    
40. Synecdoche, New York (2008) 9  
    Charlie Kaufman blends self-referential existence with a living play inside a New York City warehouse.
    
41. Take Shelter (2011) 9  
    Tense, haunting film about a father being driven mad by apocalyptic visions. Paranoid or prophetic?
    
42. Through the Wormhole - Season 1 (2010) 9  
    Compelling TV series that explores the deepest mysteries of human existence. Hosted by Morgan Freeman.
    
43. Timecrimes (2008) 9  
    Like Primer, this is a film of time-travel paradoxes, but with more voyeurism and nudity.
    
44. Triangle (2010) 9  
    Passengers aboard a yacht are struck by mysterious weather conditions. Time runs in terrifying circles.
    
45. Truman Show, The (1998) 9  
    Insurance salesman Jim Carrey discovers his entire life is actually a TV show.
    
46. Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition (2007) 9  
    David Lynch's groundbreaking 1990-91 TV series. It's a paranormal murder mystery set in northern Washington.
    
47. Waking Life (2001) 9  
    Richard Linklater presents a uniquely animated universe that explores dream life and real life.
    

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VERY GOOD

48. Adjustment Bureau, The (2011) 8  
    Politician Matt Damon and a ballerina are affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
    
49. Birth (2004) 8  
    Jonathan Glazer references Kubrick in this film about the possibility of reincarnation, starring Nicole Kidman.
    
50. Fountain, The (2006) 8  
    Three stories of love/mortality that weave in the legendary quest for the Fountain of Youth.
    
51. K-PAX (2001) 8  
    Kevin Spacey is either extraterrestrial or delusional. And he eats a banana without peeling it.
    
52. Nothing (2005) 8  
    Vincenzo Natali, the director of Cube, presents a film about nothing with his two friends.
    
53. Shutter Island (2010) 8  
    Leonardo DiCaprio investigates a disappearance from a hospital for the criminally insane. Chilling and clever.
    
54. Solaris (2002) 8  
    Soderbergh's remake is quite good, with much credit due to George Clooney and Natascha McElhone.
    
55. Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) 8  
    Important, incendiary exploration of global societal control through religion, 9/11, foreign wars and central banks.
    

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GOOD

56. Unbreakable (2000) 7  
    A mystery thriller about unrealized supernatural powers. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star.
    

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FAIR

57. Thirteenth Floor, The (1999) 6  
    A sci-fi thriller about computer-simulated universes where people only believe they are real.
    
58. Vanilla Sky (2001) 6  
    Tom Cruise's useless remake of Open Your Eyes. Penélope Cruz reprises her role, in English.
    

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Statistical ratings distribution of these 58 films (5% of total rated films):
With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
(especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
Average rating for these 58 films: 9.1.



10:

34.5%




9:

46.6%




8:

13.8%




7:

1.7%




6:

3.4%




5:

0%




CRAP:

0%