10. Stonehearst Asylum
IMDb Rating: 6.8
A young doctor becomes infatuated with one of his patients after he takes up a new post at a mental asylum. Eliza Graves is at the asylum for the attempted murder of her abusive husband, but the young doctor soon sees that there’s something much more sinister going on than first meets the eye.
9. The Tree of Life
IMDb Rating: 6.8
This experimental epic drama intersperses the life of a middle-aged man and his family living in 1950s Texas with images of the Creation. It also depicts the loss of innocence of the main character’s eldest son as he struggles with his parents’ conflicting teachings.
8. In the House
IMDb Rating: 7.4
Claude sits alone at his desk in class, unnoticed by anyone. The thing is that he’s the type to notice everything, and manages to become a trusted friend of a certain family, and writes down all his observations. He shows his written notes to a teacher, who at first thinks that their contents are fictional, but in fact aren’t…
7. Avril and the Extraordinary World
IMDb Rating: 7.4
This animated movie, which is set in a dystopian France in 1941, sees the country governed by Napoleon V, the Bonapartist pretender. It’s still stuck in the 19th Century, and major scientists vanish mysteriously, nor has electricity been invented. Avril, the lead character, tries to continue work on an immortality elixir that her disappeared parents had been trying to create when she was a small girl.
6. Unbreakable
IMDb Rating: 7.2
David Dunn is the sole survivor of a horrific train crash, but what’s even stranger is that he made it out completely unscathed. A man by the name of Elijah Prince, also known as Mr. Glass, is the only person who knows the real reason for the accident.
5. The Imposter
IMDb Rating: 7.5
A boy that went missing three years ago suddenly turns up in Spain. Although his Texan family is happy that he has been found, his hair and eyes are a different color, he speaks with an accent, and doesn’t seem to recognize anyone. It turns out that the boy is an impostor, which leads to an attempted expose by an FBI agent and a private detective, but this only leads to even darker secrets beings revealed.
4. A History of Violence
IMDb Rating: 7.5
Two bandits attempt to rob a restaurant in a small provincial town, but Tom, the owner, ends up killing them, becoming a local hero in the process. In the immediate aftermath, some mysterious men come to town, calling Tom by the name of Joey, and ask him questions about Philadelphia. It soon becomes apparent to Tom’s wife and children that they don’t seem to know everything about their husband and father.
3. The Invisible Guest
IMDb Rating: 8.1
A businessman named Adrian wakes up in a hotel room, only to find his dead lover by his side. In light of the circumstances, proving his innocence is a tall order, so he calls in a specialist named Virginia Goodman to help him resolve the complicated situation. Together, they set out to prove his innocence of committing murder.
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
IMDb Rating: 8.3
The relationship between Joel Barish and his girlfriend, Clementine, turns sour. She decides to undergo a procedure to erase him from her memory. Heartbroken by Clementine’s actions, he decides to undergo the same procedure. As his memories of her begin to fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, but it might already be too late to correct his mistake.
1. Interstellar
IMDb Rating: 8.6
Somewhere in a distant, dystopian future, three astronauts attempt to navigate through a wormhole in space in order to reach an area of the galaxy using a spacecraft with 5,000 frozen human embryos onboard. Their mission is to colonize a habitable planet located in that area of the galaxy due to life on earth beginning to fail. Things, however, soon begin to go awry…
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