MindFuck movies are basically the movies that just blow your mind. The movies that make you think what the hell did you just watch or what the hell happened there. These are the movies that leave you mesmerised,stunned and speechless and at the Same moment confuse you on how to perceive the movie and makes you think hard to understand the Movie. Also MindFuck movies are those movies which you need to watch more than once to understand completely and sometimes even after watching the movie hundreds of times you still won’t be able to understand it completely.





To make it a fair list we exclude Nolan’s movies,since they are pretty much on a different level(In terms of budget and starcast) and since most of us have watched them already.

5) Primer (2004)

Imbd rating- 6.9/10

Primer is a story of two engineers- Abe and Aaron- Who while doing their Day jobs also conduct funky experiments on Tech works at Aaron’s garage.And one day while doing such experiments they accidentally create a time machine.

So they decide to take advantage of it and go and send themselves ahead in time by 6 hours, look at the stock prices, come back to original time i.e 6 hours behind again and make investments to earn money. After coming back from future to present timeline,they decide to stay in a hotel room for those 6 hours to avoid meeting their parallel future doubles.

But things begin to go south when at a party a girl(who they know) is threatened at gun point and both of them decide to revisit the event again and again so that they can disarm the attacker and impress the women. But they come up with some huge problems of time travel i.e meeting their future and past parallel doubles. What happens next- who manages to impress the girl?,does anyone die? and what happens to timelines when the meet their parallel doubles? is for you to find out. I won’t ruin it for you by giving away too much, but I’ll say the movie will surely give you a headache and baffle your mind. And kudos to you if you manage to understand the movie completely on the first try.

4) Mr.Nobody (2009)

Imdb 7.9/10

Film begins in 2092 where humanity has finally been able to reach immortality. The world watches in excitement as the 118 year old Mr Nemo Nobody the last mortal on earth edges towards death. They conduct an interview of him to Know the life before immortality but the psychiatrist also uses hypnosis to help him recall some of his memories. The movie goes to 3 major events at age 9 when his parents got divorced, at age 15 when he fell in love and at age 34. All 3 unfold into their many many possible outcomes and takes us through each of them. But to make things interesting he has the ability to go back in past and correct his mistakes and as the story goes to age 34, their are at least three versions of Nemo with 3 different wifes,kids and stories existing simultaneously.

What are the possible outcomes?, Which outcome is reality and which outcome is just a possiblity? And how they affect him? To get these answers you’ll need to watch the movie. The movie has been narrated and crafted beautifully by Van Dormael. And the movie will surely entertain you.

3) Pi (1998)

Imdb 7.5/10

This movie directed by Darren Aronofsky is a work of genius.

Max Cohen the story’s narrator is a number theorists who believes that everything in nature can be studied and understood by numbers. He suffers from heavy headaches, extreme hallucinations and paranoia.

Max tries to program his computer,Euclid so that it can predict stock market.

While printing out the picks the computer prints out a random 26 digit number and a single pick at 1/10th of its current value and crashes. He gets irritated and throws away the printout. The next day he checks the financial page and finds out the predictions made by euclid were accurate. He searches for the printout but cant find it anywhere.

The next day at coffee shop he meets Lenny Meyer, a Jew who does mathematical research on the Torah and explains how Torah is a string of numbers that form a code sent by God. At the same time Max is approached by a Wall Street Firm who gives him a chip called ‘Ming Mecca’ in exchange of results of his work.

Using the chip Max has Euclid analyse mathematical patterns in Torah. The machine again comes up with 216 digit number before crashing. While writing down the numbers Max realises he knows the Pattern and suddenly passes out.

What happens next when he gets back up is for you to find out.

Pi is a mind bending, thought invoking THRILLER about a man and his obsession with numbers. The movie is totally worth your time and will surely give you a few headaches due to the style of direction and representation.

2) Predestination (2014)

Imdb rating 7.5/10

The mind goes numb at the thought of writing a review kinda recommendation on this movie due to the complexities involved in the movie and the risk of giving away the spoilers. So I’ll try to give a brief idea about the movie but you have to watch this movie to understand what I’m talking about.

I’ll try to keep the details minimum,coz the less you know about the movie,the better it’ll be for you coz it involves tonnes of time travelling and all the paradoxes involved with it.

So this movie is basically about a man who is a Temporal agent i.e a person in charge to travel in time and prevent certain events from occuring. In the movie the Lead character is in charge to catch the Fizzle Bomber(a terrorist wrecking havoc with bombs in the 70’s) and how and to what extent the lead character goes to catch him. In the process he travels through time a number of times creating certain paradoxes to help him catch the Fizzle Bomber.

You need to watch the movie to understand what happens next- whether he manages to catch Fizzle Bomber and prevent attacks? Who is the Fizzle Bomber? And a tonnes of other questions.

PS: The Climax of the movie is Epic and will smoke your brain. You’ll be like what the fuck did I just saw.

The film has been crafted smartly and they have figured out a way to portray the movie in a straightforward way for most attentive viewer’s to understand and at the same point complex enough to make you watch the movie again and again to understand more.

1) Donnie Darko (2001)

Imdb Rating 8.1/10

The movie begins on October 2 1998, with Donnie Darko(Jake Gyllenhaal) a teenager who sleepwalks outside and is woken up by a figure in a huge rabbit costume who introduces himself as “Frank” and tells Donnie that the World will end in 28 Days, 6 Hours, 42 Minutes and 12 Seconds. After that at dawn as Donnje returns to his home, he finds a jet engine crashed into his Bedroom. But fortunately all of his family is safe.

Frank tells Donnie to do do certain things to prevent the world from ending and tells Donnie about the Time Travel. I won’t give away too much coz it might ruin your experience of watching the Movie.

What happens next- Does the World end? Is Donnie able to save the World? Who is Frank? To get answers to these and a few other questions you need to watch the movie for yourself.

The movie contains theories and parts related to Time Travel, Parallel Universe and Fate.

The movie is a bit dark and slow but probably a must watch for all.

All of the above Mentioned movies are probably the most underrated and the best Mind F*#K Movies of all time.





– Yash R Shah

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