Shutter Island — 10 similar films for fans of unexpected endings
For those who like to disrupt the plot with unexpected endings, I suggest you familiarize yourself with our selection of films. The films are real puzzles and can confuse even the most attentive viewers. Each story immerses you headlong. By the end you don”t know how it will end, but the ending will definitely surprise you.
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Movies with unexpected endings, similar to Shutter Island
- The Cursed Monastery (USA, 2014).
Dr Edward Newgate was an Oxford graduate who studied psychiatry at the university. In 1899, he ended up in an orphanage called Stonehurst. The clinic”s patients come from wealthy British families. The director of the institution is Cyrus Lamb. His working methods seem strange, but this evil is insignificant compared to what happens in the hospital.
- HouseGrood (USA, Canada, 2011).
Will Eitenten is the editor of a famous magazine. A man dreams of writing a new novel, so he leaves his job and moves into a cozy, beautiful house with his wife and two daughters. At first glance, their life seems happy and carefree, but everything changes when strange events begin to occur in the house, and the behavior of the neighbors begins to be alarming.
- Driver” (Spain, USA, France, UK, 2003).
Trevor Resnick suffers from insomnia throughout the year, which affects his psychological state. The man works as an operator at a factory, lives alone in a modest apartment and looks like a living skeleton. He is quiet, reserved and strange. For this reason, his colleagues often reprimand him. Trevor”s condition is deteriorating, and he no longer understands where reality is and where his dreams are.
- Health Medicine (USA, Germany, 2017).
In the Swiss Alps, Lockhart is sent to a wellness center where employees of a large New York company accompany their boss to resolve important business issues. Arriving at the sanatorium, the man realizes that strange things are happening here. He decides to understand what is happening and find out what secrets this place holds.
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- Fatal Number 23 (USA, 2006).
For his wife”s birthday, Walter Sparrow gave her a novel called Number 23. The man begins to read the book and gradually begins to understand that the intrigue of the novel is very similar to his life. At first these parallels amuse him, but then they begin to frighten him. A person falls into force number 23, which follows him everywhere. To understand what is happening, he begins his own investigation.
- The Beginning (USA, UK, 2010).
Dominic Cobb has a rather specific job — to penetrate people”s minds while they sleep and steal valuable information. This man has carried out orders all over the world and succeeded in his business, but at the same time he is a loss to everyone who is dear to him. He has the opportunity to fix everything, but to do this he needs not to obtain information, but to implement it, which is impossible.
- Sucker Punch (USA, Canada, 2011).
A twenty-year-old girl named Doll and her sister lose their mother and send Doll to a mental hospital to set up and get her treacherous stepdaughter, who loses her mother and leaves him a large inheritance. He forges documents to get his stepdaughter to have a lobotomy. In the hospital, the girl plunges into an imaginary world, where she begins to plan her escape.
- Black Swan (USA, 2010).
A position as a prima ballerina has become available at the Lincoln Center Ballet. When planning a new production of the legendary ballet Swan Lake, Tom LeRoy”s choreographers must choose a new prima ballerina. Several ballerinas applied for this role at once, but the choice still remained with Nina Sayers. Soon after accepting the role, strange things begin to happen to the girl, but could this not be an accident?
- Identification (USA, 2003).
At night, people who do not know each other stop at a roadside hotel to hide from the heavy rain. Everyone is going about their business, but the travelers themselves, trying to hide from the rain, undoubtedly fell into a trap. The hotel guests begin to die one by one. There is clearly a killer among them, but he cannot be identified. Who and why gathered in this place and started a rat race?
- Trans (UK, France, 2013).
Simon is an employee of an auction house and, together with an accomplice, plans to lure expensive photographs to auction. During a robbery, a man suffers a brain injury and comes to his senses, realizing that he cannot remember where he hid valuable trophies. Since he is the only one who knows where the photographs are, the bandits hire a female hypnotist to help Simon reconstruct the events of that day.
