The lists are in alphabetical order. This is not a comprehensive collection.
Movies
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2003): Psychological horror about two sisters returning home to their stepmother after psychiatric treatment, experiencing disturbing supernatural events revealing dark family secrets.
- Avatar (2009): James Cameron's sci-fi epic about a paraplegic marine discovering Pandora and the Na'vi.
- Carry-On (2024): Thriller about a flight security guard blackmailed into smuggling dangerous goods on a flight, forcing him to make difficult moral choices.
- Christopher Nolan's films: Mind-bending narratives with complex time structures exploring themes of memory, perception, and reality through stunning visuals and innovative storytelling.
- Coherence (2013): Mind-bending sci-fi where dinner party guests experience strange phenomena after a comet passes, creating parallel realities and identity crises.
- Escape from Pretoria (2020): Based on true story of two political prisoners who ingeniously craft wooden keys to escape South Africa's Pretoria Prison during apartheid.
- Fight Club (1999): An insomniac office worker and soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into a destructive anti-consumerist movement.
- Flightplan (2005): A mother desperately searches for her missing daughter on a transatlantic flight, while crew members claim the child was never onboard.
- Front of the Class (2008): Front of the class is about the true story of a kid with tourettes who's lifelong goal is to become a teacher but has to overcome his obstacles with tourettes.
- Get Out (2017): A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's family estate, uncovering a disturbing conspiracy involving hypnosis and body swapping.
- Gone Girl (2014): When his wife disappears, a husband becomes the prime suspect as media frenzy reveals their troubled marriage and shocking secrets.
- In Time (2011): Dystopian thriller where time is currency and the wealthy live forever, following a man wrongly accused of murder who kidnaps a tycoon's daughter.
- Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022): Retired couple exploits a mathematical loophole in the lottery system to win millions and revitalize their small town.
- Looper (2012): Sci-fi thriller where hitmen kill targets sent from the future until one confronts his future self, creating a paradoxical chase.
- Nobody (2021): Seemingly ordinary family man reveals his violent past skills when thieves target his home, unleashing brutal vengeance against Russian mobsters.
- Non-Stop (2014): Air marshal receives threatening messages demanding money while airborne, racing to identify the blackmailer before passengers are killed.
- Oldboy (Korean) (2003): Man imprisoned for 15 years without explanation seeks revenge after release, uncovering a devastating conspiracy and forbidden relationship.
- Papillon (1973): Based on Henri Charrière's autobiography about his repeated escape attempts from the brutal French Guiana penal colony.