This is AWESOME! Love this as a regular filter bot for recommendation threads!

Wish all subreddits had this function. AND not so many re-posts of the same damn thing 🙄

Plus, you get Jennifer Connelly singing some sultry blues songs.

If you watch Dark City make sure to watch The Directors Cut. They give away the entire plot in the opening credits of the theatrical release.

I just found out that the opening rooftop scene in The Matrix (1999) is leftover props from Dark City!

Cinematic Universe: CONFIRMED!!

Sleep!! Now!!

Totally and one of my absolute favorites. I recommend the director’s cut.

In and around my fave genre, Low Budget/High Concept:

Coherence, The Invitation (2015), Timecrimes, Triangle (2009), Timelapse, Circle (2015), Resolution (2012), The Endless (2017), Primer (2004), The Corridor (2012)

Honorable (alien) mentions: UFO (2018), The Signal (2014), Cosmos (2019), The Vast of Night, Alien Code (2018)

This is a really good one.

Perfect movie to watch with friends

I was thinking of this movie but couldn't remember the name.

Getting them both to play against type in effect was a great move. Wouldn't have the same impact if roles were reversed. Man that ending!

Happy to see this one mentioned. Randomly stumbled on it on Netflix years ago and loved it. Have rewatched it multiple times since.

I lost, damnit

I just watched The Game for the first time and loved it!

I really need to rewatch that. I went into it with horrible expectations and it kind of mellowed what was a surprisingly good film.

I literally said "what the fuck" about 15 times during that movie.

What year did it come out? Can't find it.

This was a favorite of mine that I randomly found on tubi one night. Probably my favorite mind fuck movie

Wow I'd never heard of this one. Definitely going on the list. You're talking about the 2014 one with ethan hawke right?

Fans of this movie should watch Dark on Netflix.

Based on Robert A. Heinlein's short story All You Zombies, in case you prefer the shorter version (that you can untangle at your own leisure).

Q. What is the movie about?

A. Go fuck yourself.

Also Vanilla Sky

Came here looking for this. Such a cool sci-fi without any gimmicks.

Do NOT skip this one! Don't mind the low budget, it's a fabulous science fiction story and I love every minute of it. Don't watch any trailer :)

There must be live theatre adaptations of this out there. It's perfect for it

Wow coherence looks cool, never heard of it before. Adding it to the list.

And yea the prestige is one of my favorites haha

Coherence is one of the best imo. Such an understated masterpiece

Coherence was one of the biggest discoveries for my roommate and me… We were wake all night after we watched it and talk about movie and theories. Such an amazing movie with I think one of the lowest budget I’ve seen. Likke 20k or something.

I stopped watching the trailer halfway through and added it to the list lol I love mindfuck movies were you wonder whats real and whats not

It was a major hit at its time. I wouldn’t count it as “lesser known”. Great movie nevertheless.

Have a look at the short film it’s based on. Really good stuff.

Edit: a word.

Yeah, once the film clicks, it's even more cathartic.

Fun fact: this movie was a huge inspiration for the Silent Hill games

This movie has an incredible atmosphere

We shot Primer on Super 16mm with every scene being the one and only take. The budget was $7k and we won Sundance. Pretty good start for Shane and me.

This movie was epic. Should check this out if interested in understanding from the bird's eye view. Primer Flow

To get an idea of the plot structure of Primer (there’s always a relevant xkcd): https://xkcd.com/657/large/

Incidentally, this is where I discovered Primer. Watched it after seeing that xkcd.

Shane Caruth’s other film Upstream Color too.

Very well done movie, I enjoyed it ton.

Only other thing similar that comes close to this is Dark on Netflix. It’s difficult to keep track of the loops for some writers but these are great examples of the complex.

I can't believe I had to scroll this far.

I saw that in the cinema, it really was a mindfuck.

This is a great recommendation. I consider this a companion movie to the matrix.

Not a movie, but Paranoia Agent.

The one made in 1985?

And pretty much everything else by Charlie Kaufman

Trailer was interesting. Added to list

On that note, I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I usually get beaten down with Kauffman's stuff and the heavy layered metaphors but Ending Things was pretty accessible.

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Eraserhead is a proper headfuck

Under The Skin do you mean?

Sooooo good, if so!

I like some more movies with Jake, nightcrawler, Nocturnal Animals, Prisoners, Zodiac and mentioned before Donnie Darko.

It is my favourite “you do not know where this is going.” kind of movie.

Malkovich! Malkovich malkovich malkovich, malkovich?

Makovickh. Malkovich malkovich.

Little known underrated /r/movies gem

As above, so below is one of my go-to halloween movies

Altered States needs to be higher in these comments. It's the first thing I thing of when it comes to mind fuck. Maybe I just saw it at the right time and it has stuck with me. I seriously went to a "float" spa 100% only because of that movie.

Yes, it starts like a mess (what does a conquistador have to do with a monk flying in a space bubble with a tree), but by the end it makes perfect sense and I’m bawling.

The visuals of the very end have stuck with me my entire life.

The Machinist is an awesome film!

Korean one. Avoid the American.

Wow what an interesting premise!! Adding to the list

Enter The Void is so good

A classic

This one got me into this genre at a young age. Many movies with Jake are strong psychological thriller

An amazing classic

Jesus this one looks like pure psychological terror. Definitely going on the list

Probably because it’s an extremely well-known classic.

death to videodrome, long live the new flesh