Reverse corner // psychological thriller // movies with surprise endings 1. the ghoul (2016) A detective infiltrates psychotherapy under the pretext of a murder investigation, but the boundary between himself and the suspects becomes blurred. In the finale, you can't…devamıReverse corner // psychological thriller // movies with surprise endings
1. the ghoul (2016)
A detective infiltrates psychotherapy under the pretext of a murder investigation, but the boundary between himself and the suspects becomes blurred. In the finale, you can't distinguish who is sick, who is guilty, and who is an observer.
Catch Me Daddy (2014)
A runaway young girl and her boyfriend. but it's not just family who come after them. the theme of violence, oppression, identity and freedom. in the last scene you feel that nothing is “fair” in their bones.
3. in fear (2013)
A couple disappears in the countryside. The journey turns into a nightmare over time. A simple but psychologically narrowing movie that spoils the sense of reality. In the last scene, you lose your way.
4. exhibit a (2007)
Fiction consisting of a family's home video archive. Economic pressure and social image on the father collapse. These found footage, which looks ordinary to the end, turns into psychological destruction in the last 10 minutes.
5.a dark song (2016)
After the death of a woman's son, she begins rituals with a former occultist. The movie progresses slowly, seriously and introverted. However, there is an unexpected spiritual breakdown in the finale. Surprisingly peaceful but scary.
6/ Paranoia 1.0(one point o, 2004) – usa / Romania / Iceland
A digital paranoia in the atmosphere of Kafka. A young programmer becomes part of an experiment where advertising codes infiltrate his brain. You get lost between reality-observerations-surveillance. Udo Kier and Deborah Kara Unger are symbols of a great regimes.
7. the hidden face – la cara oculta(2011)
An orchestra conductor is destroyed by the sudden disappearance of his lover. but when you find out what happened to the woman, you have to read everything backwards. classic until the finale, then: bam!...
The Body – El Cuerpo (2012)
A woman's body disappears from the morgue. The detective starts researching, secrets are revealed. But in the final, a game is opened that every stone falls in place but sits like a slap.
9. sleep tight – mientras duermes (2011)
There is evil in the lead role in this movie. The apartment attendant ruins a woman's life. A silent, sneaky perversion. The last scene can make you sick to your stomach.
10. thesis – facility (1996)
A university student finds the images he is looking for inside the campus while preparing a thesis on snuff films. A dark, harsh and reverse thriller that also questions cinema. Alejandro Amenabar's debut film.
11. the other side of hope – toivon tuolla puolen (2017)
The typical black humor in aki kaurismaki, but this time it's about refugeeism and alienation. There is no turn wrong, but there is a final that destroys expectations and crushes pessimism with kindness.
12. dogs don't wear pants – koirat eivat kayta housuja (2019)
A man who lost his wife enters the world of bdsm. but what he is looking for is not pain, but grief itself. a psychologically destructive production. in the finale you realize that emotions are in the opposite corner.
The Good Son (2011)
The relationship between the mother and her young son, a famous actor, is very dependent. When a new boy appears, the son's jealousy turns into heresy. Cold, minimal, but internal affairs with the finale.
14. sauna (2008)
A story of sin and purification set in the 16th century. Two brothers arrive at a "sauna" in the swamp after the crime they committed. The kind of philosophical horror, the last scene is unforgettable.
15. euthanizer – armomurhaaja (2017)
The story of the inner collapse and revenge of a man who puts animals to sleep. A dirty, rotten aesthetic. A silent rebellion on the system and humanity. In the finale, he silently swallows the viewer.
16 -- retreat (2011) – carl tibbetts
A couple goes to their home on a remote island. but a man knocking on the door tells them that a deadly virus has spread in the outside world. the isolated environment, paranoia and tension are intertwined.
17//la influence(2019) –. denis rovira van boekholt
A woman faces her mother's cursed legacy when she returns home where she spent her childhood years later. gothic, dark, classic Spanish horror and surprise end.
18// hierro (2009) – gabe ibanez
The female lead, after a ferry ride in which her son mysteriously disappeared, she begins to look for him on the island of Hierro. The thriller dosage is very good, there is an unexpected dissolution in the finale.
19// . el habitante incierto(the uninvited guest) – 2004,. guillem morales
The drift of a man whose life is turned upside down after a stranger who comes to his house. striking, minimalist and psychologically disturbing.
20 the ape (apan, 2009) – jesper ganslandt
A man wakes up in blood in a morning but remembers nothing. As he approaches the dark truth while trying to do ordinary things during the day, the film slowly creates a feeling of madness.
21// what we become(2015) – bo mikkelsen
This epidemic-themed Danish film begins in a small town but gradually turns into an intense survival story. It offers a quiet but stunning finale.
22/ test (2014) – Alexander Kott
It is a movie set in the 1950s in the Kazak steppe, almost without dialogue. It fascinates with its simple visual language, and the ending destroys the viewer. An example of a Soviet "shock" cinema.
23// sunset (2018) – laszlo nemes (co-production of Hungary/Romania)
A production that progresses slowly but keeps it on edge at any moment. The female lead goes after family secrets. She is one of those who stunned people with its finale.
24// door lock (2018) – lee kwon
A woman notices strange scars on the door lock. She is braided with a feeling of tension, paranoia and loneliness. memorable with her last scenes.
25// the secret of sus ojos (2009) – juan jose campanella
A lawsuit file opens again after years. In this movie where love, crime and justice are intertwined, the last minutes are like a slap. It is literally a "reverse corner" finale.
27// “podela” (split) – Russia / 2021 –. andrey simonov
Set in an isolated facility after a nuclear war, this Russian-made film is exhausting both existentially and psychologically. A female scientist must fight a disordered not only from the outside but also from the inside. Tarkovsky is visually influential, but his story is closer to current dystopias.
28. “aniara” – sweden / 2018 – pella kagerman, hugo lilja
In this movie, which takes place on a spaceship fleeing the post-apocalyptic world, passengers are increasingly doomed to their own psychosis. A philosophical, slow-burning space dystopia that shows intrinsic collapse. The inner journey of female characters is intertwined with the concepts of god, hope and emptiness over time. striking and claustrophobic`.
29// the parecidos. ( the similars) – mexico / 2015 – isaac ezban
A retro-futuristic science fiction in the twilight zone atmosphere. The faces of foreigners trapped at a bus stop in 1968 Mexico begin to change. A wonderful mix of political allegory and mysterious science fiction. It draws attention with its reverse corner finale. absurd, single place, disturbing.
39 :/ suburban birds. (jiao qu de niao) – China / 2018 – qiu sheng
This film, which is based on both architectural and social losses, progresses in two different time levels. The dystopian reflection of urban transformation and the theme of the loss of innocence come together. Heavy-paced but atmospheric. An experimental piece that swings between reality and dream.
40 / les revenants– france / 2004 –. robin campillo
One day the dead will be resurrected... but without zombies. while life is trying to return to normal, the resurrected returns to their former roles. but everything becomes more and more bizarre and distorted. a melancholic, political and sneaky horror-dystopia. there is also a series version(2012), but this movie is more subtone and deep.
41,/ totul nu va fi bine. ( everything will not be fine) – romanya / 2020 –. adrian pirvu
The world where a disabled man born after Chernobyl lives... this half documentary, half experimental production tells about both nuclear paranoia and personal dystopia. A post-traumatic narrative that takes fear from reality. Realistic and exhausting ..
42 -// the survivalist (2015) –. stephen fingleton
A survival story that takes place in the post-apocalyptic countryside of England, creating maximum tension with minimal dialogue. Unexpected developments and cold atmosphere are at the forefront.
43// existenz (1999) – canada / david cronenberg
Simulation in simulation... a game designer who enters a virtual reality game becomes unable to distinguish reality. like the thirteenth floor, playing with layers of reality, body fear and technological philosophy intertwined. The “organic dystopia” that came out of Cronenberg's hand.
44---.possessor ( 2020) – canada / brandon cronenberg
An icy dystopia that was milled with the transfer of mind from brandon Cronenberg, who followed in his father's footsteps. A violent, stylized and unsolized journey combined with the dark city's atmosphere of the dark city. Whose mind is the mind, whose body?