Movies with Plot Twists

I'm bored too, OP.

The classic modern example would be "Mulholland Drive."

[quote] No Night Too Long

That’s my song, Hussy!

I watched The Sixth Sense today for the second time, the first being when it was released. It's quite a remarkable film. I agree with it being nominated for Best Picture and think it was much better than American Beauty that won. Bruce Wills was excellent in a restrained performance which was rare for him and the kid Haley Joe Osment was surperb.

For about three days in May 1980, there was no bigger plot twist than:

[quote] "No, I am your father."

On the flip side, the French film Haute Tension was fantastic until the non-sensical “twist.” I guess they felt they needed to add one as audiences expected it but it ruined an otherwise intense and scary movie

I saw The Sixth Sense once, when it was first released.

It was apparent to me in the first five minutes that Bruce Willis was killed and throughout the movie - in the most stilted way possible - that no one in the film was talking to him. This was most poorly handled when he shows up for dinner in a restaurant I think and his wife doesn’t talk to him.

I thought it was the stupidest movie I’d ever seen which just capitalised on people’s lack of attention to detail. Shrewdly, I suppose. It’s success wasn’t because it was clever, it was that audiences were the opposite.

There is a series called "Sugar" (and starring Colin Farrell) which might whet your appetite for plot twist. I found the genre-bending reveal cheap and half-baked, but any time spent watching Farrell is never time wasted.

R7 is lying. And about as much fun as a root canal.

The Others.

Of course, R7 figured it out during the previews.

Malice - I really did not see that coming. Good roles for Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, and Bill Pullman.

The original Murder on the Orient Express. Perhaps the best reveal of any murder mystery movie I've seen.

For my fellow horror fans, I didn't see the ending of the first Saw movie coming. That did surprise me in a WTF way.

Guys? Try "Una Noche" (2012). There's a gay element, and the ending will break your heart.

While I disagree with the general analysis and supercilious tone of R7, I would concede that the dinner scene was a little clumsy and was the only moment in the movie when I stopped to ask myself if maybe he was a ghost. Nonetheless, I set that aside and decided to just watch the movie and enjoy the storytelling and marvelous acting (Willis, Osment, and Collette). I felt the movie was overall well done and did subvert people's expectations.

I also enjoyed The Others, but figured it out as soon as the husband reappears out of the mist about halfway through.

One not yet mentioned, and largely forgotten, would be the 1972 thriller The Other starring the incomparable Uta Hagen and based on the fabulously gay-boy writer Thomas Tryon's novel.

The ending of the original Planet of the Apes was one of the greatest jaw-dropping cinematic moments.

Blood Simple

House of Games (forgotten masterpiece, in my opinion)

The moment in the final Act of Wait Until Dark when the phone rings and we (and Audrey) know who the bad guy is was a big one, and I didn't see it coming.

To quote the advice column I read this morning regarding disliked topics: “I can’t stand movie plots!”

When a Stranger Calls

A now-iconic plot twist, although it happens early in the movie, has to be the "The calls are coming from inside the house!" moment from When a Stranger Calls. I remember seeing this as a kid in the theater and the entire audience erupted at that moment. Now it's a cliche.

Usual Suspects

R7 don’t be a jerk. The movie is awesome

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Watching 1953 Niagara right now. Plot twist ahead!

What a beautifully shot film

The Crying Game. I never suspected. I also saw it when it was first released and the big secret hadn't gotten out yet.

"Les Diaboliques" a 1955 French film which has had several remakes in English (which I saw first) but the original is a masterpiece.

R10, I did not guess the ending of The Others - which I love - because it is a very well made film with an Oscar-worthy performance from Kidman. One of two that year.

The Crying Game but only to straights.

Yeah, Jaye Davidson's Adam's apple jumped out at me as if I were wearing 3-D glasses in his first scene.