The Last Duel and 3 Other Most Mind-Bending Movies if You Still Miss Fight Club
Cunning criminal plots, mind games, and time loops – try to figure it out.
Do you like mystery movies with unexpected plot twists, where everything is not what it seems?
We have chosen four movies with unexpected endings so that you can enjoy exciting stories of different genres, from classic thrillers to suspenseful detective stories.
1. Predestination, 2014
In the future, an organization called the Temporal Bureau appears and sends its agents into the past to prevent crimes and terrorist attacks. The main character is about to retire, but first he has to recruit a new agent. From the moment they meet in a bar, a very complicated story begins.
It may seem that this is a traditional science fiction action movie about time travel. But in fact, it is literally the apotheosis of stories about loops and cause-and-effect relationships.
2. Secret Window, 2003
Divorced writer Mort Rainey lives in a secluded beach house. Suddenly, a man arrives to accuse him of plagiarism. Mort is sure he has done nothing of the sort, but then he begins to notice a strange and dangerous connection between himself and the guest.
The movie is based on the book by Stephen King, and it is not hard to guess that Johnny Depp plays a kind of alter ego of the author.
3. Rashomon, 1950
A woodcutter and a monk hide from a thunderstorm in the ruins of the Rashomon Gate. They are joined by a random passerby to whom they tell their story. They testify at the trial and are surprised that each participant interprets the events differently.
The film, by the great director Akira Kurosawa, is one of the first examples in cinema of a story told from multiple points of view. Each new witness reveals additional details, and only in the end does the full picture of what happened emerge.
4. The Last Duel, 2021
Former friends Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris fall out and begin to compete for land. Then it turns out that the latter raped his friend's wife while he was away. Carrouges challenges the culprit to a duel. If he loses, his wife will be burned for adultery and perjury.
Ridley Scott based the movie on a true story from the 14th century, but built the narrative with a reference to Rashomon: the action is presented from three different points of view. At the end, however, the author makes it clear whose version of events is the truth.