Ranker.com users have chosen these plot twists to be the best and most unexpected among all that cinema had to offer over the years of its existence.
24. April Fool’s Day
Nine college students staying at a friend’s remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool’s Day weekend.
23. Chinatown
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
22. Citizen Kane
Following the death of publishing tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; ‘Rosebud’.
21. The Crying Game
A British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier’s world.
20. Gone Baby Gone
Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl’s kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
19. The Village
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
18. American Psycho
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
17. Friday the 13th
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp where, years before, was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double +murder.
16. Jacob’s Ladder
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
15. The Game
After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality.
14. A Beautiful Mind
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
13. Unbreakable
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
12. 12 Monkeys
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
11. Planet of the Apes
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
10. Memento
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer.
9. Saw
Two strangers, who awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
8. The Prestige
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
7. Psycho
A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
6. The Others
A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
5. Primal Fear
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
4. Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.
3. The Usual Suspects
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
2. Seven
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
1. The Sixth Sense
A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
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