Strange Vs John Constantine: Who Would Win? A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses. They’ve long used the television show as a platform for critical satire, and Bigger, Longer & Uncut is some of their best work. | Gross: $69.95M, R For some though they are just a bit too scary but still have some intrigue to them. 96 min Fight Club is an endlessly quotable film, and many of those lines of dialogue are the same ones that would have made anyone squirm in their seat while simultaneously sending them into rapturous laughter; one particular line from Carter’s Marla illustrates this perfectly. Adrien Brody, Director: A great plot twist doesn't just shock, it can make a movie truly unforgettable. | Gross: Director: Stars: 103 min Chazz Palminteri, Natalie Mendoza, Roman Polanski | Gross: 99 min Tom Cruise, Drama, Thriller. Lucy Liu, Votes: | There’s something inherently fun about watching an already emotionally tested family with a bevy of rocky relationships continue to gloriously sink further into the rabbit hole. His almost childlike lack of a filter is delightful, and for some, perhaps even quite enviable. Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. BuzzFeed Staff. Share This Article TV and Movies. | William Penix (@wilhelmphoenix) is a William & Mary alum, list writer for ScreenRant and film reviewer for Cut Print Film. by Spencer Althouse. Though, without Deadpool’s peculiar personality, Deadpool would have just been any other superhero movie, underscoring his importance in not just the Marvel canon, but also the superhero genre. Holmes Osborne, Votes: Between the fumbling Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) and the criminal odd couple of Carl (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear (Peter Stormare), the film’s antagonists hardly make for something intimidating, beside from those moments when Gaear takes charge. Odessa Rae, Votes: In any of the films listed, it doesn’t take long for a least one character to demonstrate an acerbic wit that appropriately suspends belief. There are many that are avid enthusiasts when it comes to this type of movie. Drama, Horror, Mystery. | | Gross: | Horror. Action, Crime, Drama. Naomi Watts, $26.02M, R Whether that be because the film actually pushes the boundaries too much, like A Serbian Film, or the formula becomes tired, like the Saw franchise, that pleasure wears thin. Yes, we all love unexpected surprises in good quality movies. 181,798 Saskia Mulder, Votes: Keira Knightley, The comical degree to which the accent is highlighted may be enough to make anyone feel slightly bad about chuckling – especially if they are from the northern central states – but Buscemi and Stormare are an equally rich source of non-regretful entertainment. Stars: Kevin Spacey, ... 10 Greatest Dark Comedy Movies To Watch Again and Again. 20 unromantic movies with a surprise romantic twist. One of the most popular movie genres is horror movies. | | $29.00M, R Stars: Director: What’s probably most significant about the film is its poking fun at Middle Eastern people, a bold and potentially moronic comedic move considering the anti-Islamic sentiment that began to boil even in the earliest years of the war in the Middle East. $52.16M, R Jena Malone, Mark Boone Junior, Votes: Stars: | Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Both are worth your time if you're looking for a dark chuckle. | Secondly, if you try foisting Poultrygeist onto Troma virgins, there are only two possible outcomes: either your friends will carry you out on a throne and sing your graces, or they will forever judge your movie choices and you’ll have to work to regain their trust. $3.63M, R I did NOT see that coming. Chris Cooper, Stars: Soylent Green is a processed food ration … | Gross: Director: Adventure, Horror, Thriller. 30 Movies With Brilliant Plot Twists. Mystery, Thriller. Cécile de France, Viggo Mortensen, What did we miss? Zee’s (Wendy Glenn) proposition to her boyfriend right next to his dead mother, in particular, is a riot. | Seinfeld: 10 Times The Main Characters Should Probably Have Gone To Jail, Two and a Half Men: 10 Funniest Celebrity Appearances, Ranked, 3rd Rock From The Sun: Dick's 10 Best Quotes, Ranked, Grey's Anatomy: 10 Storylines The Show Dropped. Almost every film that comes out now has at least one twist or another, but some really stand out for their brilliance or shock value. John Turturro, $1.01M, R Darren Aronofsky Ever since M. Night Shyamalan invented the twist ending in 1999, it's been a staple of action, thriller, and horror movies. | Thora Birch, Adrian Lyne Sam Mendes Now this was the Deadpool fans had been screaming about for so long, not that poor representation – although still played Ryan Reynolds – of Wade Wilson who made an appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Stars: Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Votes: 120 min Bryan Singer | Hollywood Pictures. Action, Drama, Mystery. | 139 min In McDonagh’s film, it all comes down to strong characterization. 182,093 Director: | | Gross: To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death. John Cusack, Christopher Nolan Zach Grenier, Votes: These are the films that revel in pitch-black tones and making light of very serious and often taboo themes, delighting in each shamefaced chuckle and every giggle flavored by tinges of cringing. Winona Ryder, Votes: | $48.32M, PG-13 A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. | Ewan McGregor, In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. His boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) is a bit more ruthless in his insults, but he still possesses the same painful honesty. | Laughing here is permitted, assuming you perform at least three acts of goodwill afterward. 344,192 Yoo Ji-Tae, | 130 min Vincent Cassel, Daniel Craig, Drama. Some comedies, however, will intend to make you feel guilty about why you’re laughing. | | Gross: | | Drama. 124 min 116 min Many movies broadcast their twists like weather forecasts, but there are those whose dramatic u-turns leave us giddy to the bone after being usurped by the unexpected. $130.10M, R Director: Orphan (2009) - great twist, I never would've guessed that ending. Mystery, Thriller. 153,455 Otherwise, you are anxiously waiting for their demise, which might sound like a dreadful experience, but it’s a nice change of pace compared to the rest of the genre. $37.03M, PG-13 First of all, miraculously, almost no one here can be considered a sympathetic character. Martin McDonagh may be only two feature films into his directorial career, but with Seven Psychopaths, it’s clear that his narratives and dialogue involve an eclectic mix of personalities and spot-on characterization, which isn’t a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. Amanda Peet, Jack Nicholson, Stars: Elliot Page, | | They're worth it, and a lot of fun, but that can't be stressed enough. Besides, for the most part, the genre is more lifeless than the victims its films rack up. Important note : I didn't checked what peoples most like, it's my personal opinion. 286,318 Instead of distracting the viewer from the pure rage of his murderous tendencies, the nerdy, sometimes academic façade he puts up accentuates his psychotic nature. Cameron Crowe Deborah Kara Unger, | Leave it to the creators of South Park to make light of any taboo or timely subject and reduce their audience to tears at the same time. What starts out as a simple holiday for a young couple (Lowe and Oram) devolves into something more foul as they commit a murderous rampage against fellow tourists. Stars: For example, a small group of characters will interact for a reason that might normally be over in the blink of an eye, but then one character says or does something nonsensical, and they’re all stuck talking about it for a minute or two. Ray takes no prisoners in his seemingly constant verbal abuse, as can be seen in his remarks to Ken about Bruges compared to Dublin and in his encounter with a heavy-set group of strangers. Stars: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Director: Let Me In (Original Swedish Let The Right One In) (2010)- vampire movie with a twist. 299,240 227,296 | While anyone might normally see that tactic as intentional meandering and padding the runtime, in a way, it’s an effective method of pastiche that reduces the glamor of the scene. The satire is abundant and yet there are no frills, a commendable quality indeed. In addition to Mean Girls’s Tina Fey, Clueless’s Amy Heckerling, Diablo Cody for Juno and Jennifer’s Body, and Kevin Williamson of the Scream franchise, Waters used dialogue to tap into how high schoolers feel about themselves in their fantasies. | | $5.01M, PG-13 98,597 A psychiatrist attempts to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality. David Cronenberg Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Ray Liotta, | Gross: | While most great examples occur in a movie’s final moments, there are also several compelling twists which take place […] Michael Ealy, Votes: 178,138 Stars: Stars: 100 min Director: $1.08M, R | | Gross: Ryan Reynolds, A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. With such titles as Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, his delirious mind found its prime during the 70s, but it all started with his first directorial feature, The Producers. Dr. It’s certainly a creepy setup, undercut by stylish fantasies and an almost awkwardly youthful performance from Spacey, but then it’s made even creepier – and thereby funnier – when Angela sheepishly tries to seduce Lester by the film’s end. Director: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. 1,067,546 Meat Loaf, 108,373 Christian Bale, Carrie-Anne Moss, Stars: | | Much like his brother Martin, who directed Seven Psychopaths, the dialogue in McDonagh’s films – especially this one – carries the same appeal. | There are plenty of such movies to choose from. $22.25M, R | | Gross: January 31, 2019 April 21, 2020 - by Ricky Rodrigues. | A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism. | | Director: | Gross: Palahniuk’s material thrives on perversity and active rebellion against convention and Fincher provides the grimy, pessimistic visual and narrative tone to match. Below are a bunch of movies that go beyond a mere Scooby Doo-like unmasking of the killer. Director: 19 Shocking Movie Plot Twists That'll Honestly Mess You Up A Bit. 136 min Ryan Gosling, Thankfully, there is so much more to this movie, just what you would expect from a movie lampooning the film industry in general and specifically, superstars looking to reshape their image with serious roles. Based upon previous releases like Kill List, Wheatley is a fan of brutal violence, and while Sightseers certainly fills that check box, it has the added benefits of some well-written pitch black humor from its two lead stars and writers, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram. Fantasy, Mystery, Romance. | 113 min Director: Soon after the execution, the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style. The “twist ending” has long been a Hollywood staple. A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. Josh Hartnett, Still love him! | Gross: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. 115 min As the decade draws to a close, EW has rounded up the best twists in films that came out between 2010 and 2019. Tilda Swinton, Votes: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. I also rated about how i liked and not how hard the twist are to find. $0.71M, R R Chan-wook Park By injecting humor within and around of the margins of graphic violence, the film, for the most part, takes away the occasional discomfort of watching something like torture porn. | Menu. Brooks’s pen is scathing, if also celebratory in numerous respects, as the actors both revel in material that takes Broadway business and personalities down a notch and gleefully take part in convention. There are no spoilers in descriptions. Brad Pitt, John Maybury Jennifer Jason Leigh, 106 min Somehow, it seems only fitting that Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters is the older brother of Mean Girls director Mark Waters. Comedy, Drama. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. Director: For them, they may be content watching a horror movie that has a comedy twist to it. | Finally, as if it couldn’t get any better, it’s a decently catchy musical filled with songs as bewildering and vulgar as any of the jokes made at the expense of the fast food industry or the American dream. | Action, Drama, Mystery. Woody Harrelson, The eccentric personalities who inhabit this story, especially Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), represent that rebellion against storytelling, which carries over into the film’s – and novel’s – non-conformist rhetoric. It’s just one scene among many in this Mary Harron that thoroughly dissects alpha male business culture and 1980s yuppie-ism. After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. | Philippe Nahon, Director: 1,186,660 There are your archetypal corrupt cops and then there’s Gerry Boyle. James Mangold After you look through the best funny zombie movies of all time, you’ll see it’s impossible to kill the zombie movie because right when you think it’s dead, someone infuses a new twist into it, bringing it back to life. A list for Josh Horneman. Its two leads, Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle may exhibit strong chemistry, but it all comes together through Gleeson’s performance as Sergeant Gerry Boyle. Guy Pearce, Sam Rockwell, He's in for a surprise. | Gross: Ridley Scott The following list of twenty collates just a few of those movies that may not, for all intents and purposes, seem to contain any romantic content, but if you look carefully, you will find it there. Which movie fan does not like a good movie with a completely surprising ending? Shauna Macdonald, Everything from everyday conversation, to routine investigation of a multiple homicide is presented as purposefully dull, but the prominence of the regional accent in dialogue prevents proceedings from being entirely bland. The film features the talents of Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as Max Bialystock and Leopold Bloom, respectively. | Gross: Maïwenn, Stars: Director: What seemed like a movie about a barbaric science fiction world ruled by chaos is revealed to be the inevitable outcome of mankind’s penchant for destroying itself. 123 min Drama, Thriller. 101 min Let us know in the comments! | 110 min Meryl Streep, A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. Additionally, like many other Troma films, Poultrygeist possesses some poignant social commentary that just happens to be nearly shrouded by farce. Stephen Tobolowsky, Votes: The film has had a peculiar history of adaptations, having been adapted for Broadway by Brooks, using Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick for the leads, and then remaking his film based upon the adaptatio. 104 min Movies in IMDB's "Top 250" that I havent seen. | | A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen. | Gross: Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Boundaries are there to be tested, not to confine us. Colin Farrell, whom he had previously worked with on In Bruges, is game for a different sort of role – playing the straight man while new collaborators Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken provide the zany pizazz. | Richard Kelly An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Gabriel Byrne, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Enjoy, sir. $3.68M, R Director: Moviemakers lover to blow away their audiences with an unexpected and surprising plot turn that forces viewers to reassess everything they thought they knew about the story. Scorsese may not like Marvel movies, but he has another highly acclaimed movie coming soon to Netflix in The Irishman, twist ending or not. Director: Flight Plan (2005)- I didn't see that coming, great twist. Director: | 129 min | Gross: What’s remarkable about Oram and Lowe’s performances as Chris and Tina, respectively, is the subtle way in which they express victimization and victimhood in spite of the predicaments that they, to put it mildly, create for themselves. Kevin Spacey, | Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Many TV shows— Game of Thrones immediately comes to mind—have mastered the … Director: | Stars: Johnny Depp, Not all movies and … Additionally, while it alienates him from his colleagues, that alienation highlights the absurdity of their behavior, which is more reminiscent of business-style machismo. 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