Spoiler Alert: This list includes spoilers for multiple movies.
Plot twists have been employed in fiction since its earliest forms.
Some of the best plot twists arethe ones that change the entire movies that surround them.
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Like an awkward game of twister,these ten movies feature twists that change everything.
Marshal dispatched to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric hospital situated on the titular island.
The director’s greatest twist, though, came in one of hismost overlooked films,The Prestige.
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What was a mystery has now becomea compelling psychological thriller, and it only gets more twisted from there.
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
The movie features a twist ending that has become iconic in pop culture.
Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.
The protagonist is dead, and now they are left to follow Bates as he covers up her murder.
It was a daring marketing technique, but it worked beautifully andPsychocontinues to hold its place in cinematic history.
Astronaut Leo Davidson whips through space and time to a world where apes and gorillas rule the humans.
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After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
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With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent.
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An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense is a psychological thriller about a young boy who can see and communicate with ghosts. Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist who tries to help Cole, played by Haley Joel Osment, while grappling with his own personal demons. The movie features a twist ending that has become iconic in pop culture.
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A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Greed and class discrimination threatens the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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After the Rebels are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
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Astronaut Leo Davidson whips through space and time to a world where apes and gorillas rule the humans. Captured, he is nurtured by Ari and hunted by General Thade as he leads a rebel group of humans and chimpanzees in search of his downed craft. This is his only hope of escape and, ironically, the planet’s only hope of shaking off the tyranny of the gorillas, allowing peaceful humans and chimpanzees to co-exist.
