Watching a movie with a boring and predictable plot is like reading a detective story in which it is clear from the first pages that the butler is the killer. It seems possible, but - why? To save you time and nerves, we have compiled top 20 most interesting films with an exciting plot.
The list includes both recognized classics and recently released films that are highly rated at KinoPoisk and IMDb.
20. The Triangle (2009)
Genre: thriller, horrors.
Country: Australia, UK.
Movie Search Rating: 6.8.
IMDb Rating: 6.9.
Opens a selection of the most interesting films with an unpredictable plot of the thriller "Triangle". A group of young people goes on a yacht to the open sea, to swim, sunbathe, get to know each other - in general, breathe the joys of life with full breasts. However, the storm suddenly bursts into its own. The yacht crashes, but, fortunately (although, rather, unfortunately) a ship passes nearby, on which the survivors get.
Of course, the ship is not simple (it's still a thriller and horrors) - it is clearly not from the present time, it is abandoned by its crew and is very sinister in appearance. “Aha!” - a sophisticated viewer will think and turn out to be wrong - the denouement is much more unpredictable than it seems at the beginning.
19. Off (2017)
Genre: thriller, horror, detective story, comedy.
Country: USA, Japan.
Movie Search Rating: 7.0.
IMDb Rating: 7.7.
Venue: America of our day. Protagonist: African American. Outset: his white girl wants to introduce her boyfriend to her parents. The Russian audience is already starting to yawn, waiting for a production drama - the American people heroically crush the hydra of racism. However, the plot will go in a completely different direction.
It is difficult to determine the genre of a novelty - whether it is a black comedy, or a comedy thriller, or horror with an absurd bias. In any case, watching it will be interesting.
18. The Night of Memories (2017)
Genre: thriller, detective.
Country: South Korea.
Movie Search Rating: 7.2.
IMDb Rating: 7.3.
Enrolling in a university is not easy both in Russia and in South Korea. Preparing for exams, the young Korean Chin-sok even takes pills to maintain a high concentration of attention. It is because of the pills, according to the parents and the adored older brother, that he sees strange sounds and rustles in a room where you can’t go. However, the truth about what is happening will be much more shocking than at first it seems to him - and the viewer.
17. The Mysterious Forest (2004)
Genre: melodrama, thriller.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 7.2.
IMDb Rating: 6.5.
The reason this film has not received enough popular love is the viewer's expectations. Accustomed to famously twisted thrillers like “Invulnerable” and “Sixth Sense”, fans of Indian director M. Night Shyamalan’s creativity expected another picture in this style. And got a melodrama. True, in a mysterious and slightly frightening surroundings, plus a signature Shyamalan twist at the end.
16. Moon 2112 (2009)
Genre: science fiction, detective, drama.
Country: Great Britain.
Movie Search Rating: 7.6.
IMDb Rating: 7.9.
Who said that a monopoly on a tangled end is the sole prerogative of detectives and thrillers? Fiction also wants and can, as the dystopian film “Moon 2112” proves. Everything begins quietly and peacefully - the miner astronaut, alone serving the lunar mining station, looks forward to a quick return to earth, to his wife and little daughter. But three years of loneliness do not pass without leaving a trace for his psyche - shortly before day D and 1:00 p.m. Sam gets into an accident. He wakes up in the medical compartment, but why doesn’t he remember the moment of the accident?
15. Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: thriller, mysticism.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 7.6.
IMDb Rating: 8.1.
Like many good films, the fate of “Donnie Darko” was not given at the box office - he barely recaptured his own budget. However, after the release on DVD, the picture slowly but surely acquired almost cult status. An elegant and frightening mystical thriller has found its way to the heart of the viewer. And then it is true, who will remain indifferent to the appearance of an ominous giant rabbit on the lawn under the windows of an ordinary American teenager?
It’s difficult to solve the ending of the film - the director scatters hints in abundance in the picture, which in fact is still more confused than it seemed at the beginning.
14. Heart of an angel (1987)
Genre: detective, thriller, horror.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 7.6.
IMDb Rating: 7.3.
New York, fifties. A private detective with the surname “Angel” (well, that is, Angel) is approached by a client with a request to find a famous musician who disappeared during the war. It all starts as a classic noir detective story with all the signs of the genre, including fedora hats and a fatal woman. Here are just streaks of fog crawling over the sidewalk, and sinister music hinting that everything is not as simple as it seems.
13. Ideal Strangers (2016)
Genre: drama, comedy.
Country: Italy.
Movie Search Rating: 7.6.
IMDb Rating: 7.8.
Giving others the ability to peek into your cell phone is always a bad idea. And when are these seven others? At a dinner party, to have fun, seven friends decide to play an interesting game - to answer sms and calls to each other. Of course, the whole experience of mankind suggests that this venture will not turn out as fun as it seemed to them at first.
From a measured arthouse cinema with signature witty dialogues, the film gradually grows into a wave of benign and peppy drama with an abundance of plot changes.
12. Planet of the Apes (1968)
Genre: fantastic
Country: USA
Movie Search Rating: 7.7
IMDb Rating: 8.0
The Burton remake of the original 1968 was not very successful (a rare critic gave him more than 5-6 points on a ten-point scale), so let's turn to the original source. Although the plot of the film has long been the property of the mass culture, however, in those days it produced a shocking effect. Who would have thought that no one could escape the laws of evolution?
11. Saw: a game of survival (2004)
Genre: thriller, horrors.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 7.8.
IMDb Rating: 7.6.
The film, which began the victorious procession of the franchise around the world, is the best of the whole series. Two people find themselves in an empty room, chained to pipes. Between them lies a corpse. To be saved, they will have to play a terrible game - otherwise not only they, but other people will suffer.
A great example is how a low-budget film, thanks to a strong script and an unexpected ending, won not only high marks from critics, but also the popular love of connoisseurs of the most terrible horror films around the world.
10. Disappeared (2014)
Genre: detective, thriller.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 7.9.
IMDb Rating: 8.1.
An ideal family lives for itself, does not live in trouble, both are young, healthy, financially secure, even a little famous. The wife once served as the prototype of the heroine of the popular books for teenagers that her parents wrote. On the fifth anniversary of their life together, the husband returns home and discovers that his wife has disappeared. A police investigation begins, and the ideal facade is broken into small fragments - it turns out that both spouses lost their jobs, began to scandal, the family has problems, there is less money and more debts.
Does this mean that the husband (as others begin to think) killed his wife? Or is the truth even worse than it seems at first?
9. Others (2001)
Genre: horrors, mysticism, drama.
Country: USA, Spain, France, Italy.
Movie Search Rating: 7.9.
IMDb Rating: 7.6.
In an old mansion on Jersey, a mother lives with two children. They are waiting, albeit without much hope, for the return of their missing father from the war. Children suffer from a rare disease - an allergy to bright light, so the windows in the house are always curtained, and the electric lighting is replaced by candles and kerosene lamps. Perhaps it is because of this that one day all the attendants leave the house. True, a replacement is quickly found for them - three servants are shown at the door, who, they say, once worked in this house and will gladly begin to work in it again. But are they exactly who they seem?
8. Remember (2000)
Genre: detective thriller
Country: USA
Movie Search Rating: 7.9
IMDb Rating: 8.5
One of the first Nolan films in which the director’s signature emphasis is already felt - the original composition, coupled with completely unexpected plot twists and an ending. The main character of the film is looking for the killer of his wife. But only after the injury, he does not remember anything that happened more than fifteen minutes ago. He has to leave notes for himself, slander texts on the recorder and even capture what happened on his own skin.
In addition to the purely detective story, the film also has a special subtext - Nolan wanted to look at the world through the eyes of a person whose worldview is completely different than ours. Whether he succeeded - decide for yourself.
7. Best offer (2013)
Genre: thriller, melodrama.
Country: Italy.
Movie Search Rating: 8.0.
IMDb Rating: 7.8.
One of the most interesting and stylish films about art. It begins with the fact that the auctioneer who is not too clean at hand receives an offer to evaluate works of art in the mansion of an eccentric lady who has not been exposed to sunlight for many years. Reality turns out to be even more bizarre than expectations - in addition to the masterpieces themselves, on which you can warm your hands pretty well, each canvas is fraught with a mystery, and parts from the mysterious mechanism are scattered in abundance.
Pleasure to view add chic interiors, expensive restaurants and other attributes of a beautiful life. However, its underside is far from being as luxurious as it seems at first glance.
6. Dizziness (1958)
Genre: detective, drama, thriller.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 8.0.
IMDb Rating: 8.3.
One of the best and most famous films with a twisted plot from a recognized classic is Alfred Hitchcock. A stylish, beautiful and exciting movie with indispensable attributes of the genre - a detective in a fedora hat and a fatal blonde. Scottie Ferguson, the main character, suffers from a mental illness - after a partner collapsed from the roof before his eyes, he became afraid of heights. Scotty resigns, but there is no rest for law enforcement. An old friend asks to track his wife, who, he fears, suffers from a kind of obsession. It turns out that a beautiful blonde believes that she is the embodiment of a great-grandmother who once committed suicide. Will Scotty be able to save the beauty he has already fallen in love with?
5. Oldboy (2003)
Genre: drama, detective, thriller.
Country: South Korea.
Movie Search Rating: 8.1.
IMDb Rating: 8.4.
An unremarkable Korean businessman lives his quiet, boring life. However, in one unlucky moment everything changes abruptly and irrevocably - he is being abducted directly from under the nose of friends. The hero awakens in a small apartment consisting of only one room and a bathroom. It is impossible to contact the outside world - in the room there is not only a telephone, but even windows. Did he think that in captivity he would have to spend as much as fifteen years?
The second and most famous part of the trilogy of South Korean director Pak Chan Uk, which caused tears in the eyes of Quentin Tarantino (the director himself admitted that he sobbed while watching a film at the Cannes Film Festival).
4. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: thriller, horror, drama.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 8.2.
IMDb Rating: 8.1.
A world-renowned specialist in child psychiatry is in crisis after one of his former patients kills himself before his eyes. He headlong into himself, trying to find out exactly where he made the mistake that caused the tragedy, but his obsession does not bear the fruits of which he hoped. The wife moved away from him, colleagues no longer try to contact him. Suddenly, however, another small patient appears in the doctor’s life, whose symptoms of illness resemble the symptoms of a dead boy to their horror. And the doctor is trying to fix the mistake of his life.
"The Sixth Sense" is one of the best works of director M. Knight Shyamalan, long grabbed for quotes (who does not know "I see dead people?").
3. Prestige (2006)
Genre: thriller, drama.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 8.5.
IMDb Rating: 8.5.
What is a person ready to do for the sake of the work of his whole life? To an eternal acting game - only for the sake of a two-minute trick, capable of invoking joyful amazement in front of the public? Or the killing of countless small birds, so that the previously hidden other could joyfully fly to freedom?
Christopher Nolan shows viewers the inner kitchen of magicians, magicians and sorcerers, masters of illusions and overlords of the imagination. However, when life itself enters into this closed world, everything becomes even worse - and even more wonderful.
2. Island of the Damned (2009)
Genre: thriller, drama.
Country: USA.
Movie Search Rating: 8.5.
IMDb Rating: 8.1.
Another work from a recognized master of cool films with an unexpected ending - Christopher Nolan. The US Marshal and his partner are trying to investigate the disappearance of a dangerous criminal from a place that is impossible to escape from. A hospital for dangerous crazy is located on the island and is guarded around the clock. In addition to the desire to complete the task, the marshal has another goal - to find the killer of his wife. However, the ominous atmosphere of the prison and the ongoing flashbacks of the main character's memories say that the movie is not as simple as it seems.
1. Fight Club (1999)
Genre: thriller drama
Country: USA
Movie Search Rating: 8.7
IMDb Rating: 8.8
In the first place in the list of the most interesting films with a tense plot is Fight Club, which has long and firmly received the status of a cult. He is in the top ten of the best films of all time. In addition to a strong script, an unexpected twist at the end, an excellent game of the main characters in the picture there are:
- a postmodern game with meanings;
- protest against consumer society;
- the search for his masculine self in the world of confidently conquering feminism;
- rebellion against parental figures and capitalist society;
- and much, much more, including excellent camera work and rich and stylish footage.
A cool movie in which everyone will find something for himself. Perhaps this is the reason for its wild popularity.
