Some pretty mind-burning movies

Some pretty mind-burning movies

Triangle

Release Date 2009
Rating : 6.9 Production Companies: Triangle Films, Triangle Film Corporation Director: Christopher Smith, Ian Kenny, Karen Mansfield Stars: Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung

Summary: When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

Memento

Release Date 2001
Rating : 8.4 Production Companies: Summit Entertainment, Newmarket Capital Group Director: Christopher Nolan, Steve Gehrke, Chris Edmonds Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Summary: Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Identity

Release Date 2003
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Konrad Pictures, Columbia Pictures Corporation Director: James Mangold, Sheila Waldron, Rick Avery Stars: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet

Summary: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Shutter Island

Release Date 2010
Rating : 8.2 Production Companies: Paramount, Appian Way Director: Martha Pinson, Martha Pinson, Joseph P. Reidy Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Summary: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Pulp Fiction

Release Date 1994
Rating : 8.9 Production Companies: Miramax, A Band Apart Director: Martin Kitrosser, Francis R. Mahony III, Quentin Tarantino Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Summary: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

The Butterfly Effect

Release Date 2004
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: New Line Cinema, FilmEngine Director: J. Mackye Gruber, Betty Bennett, Susan Lambie Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters

Summary: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

The Prestige

Release Date 2006
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Newmarket Productions, Warner Bros. Director: Steve Gehrke, Alan B. Curtiss, Christopher Nolan Stars: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine

Summary: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

The Sixth Sense

Release Date 1999
Rating : 8.2 Production Companies: Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company Director: Claire Cowperthwaite, John Rusk, Scott Robertson Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Summary: Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Following

Release Date 1999
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Syncopy, Next Wave Films Director: Christopher Nolan Stars: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell

Summary: Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

Inception

Release Date 2010
Rating : 8.8 Production Companies: Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros. Director: Christopher Nolan, Paula Turnbull, Steve Gehrke Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe

Summary: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.