24 unmissable movies that make you think and help train the mind

A good film is made up of a brilliant setting, a good plot and an exceptional staging. These characteristics pretty much sum up the magic of cinema from its beginnings to the present time. But if a masterpiece invites the viewer to think and traps him in its plot, flooding his mind with different possible paths while his eyes don’t leave the screen, the anxiety until the “End” in the credits has no limits and it’s as if no another puzzle was as exciting as the one in front of us.

For those who love this kind of movies and complex logic, the awesome.club selected 24 movies that will make your brain work while you enjoy the session!

Despite the seemingly burgeoning complexity of the beginning, Leonardo DiCaprio and his team’s adventures into other people’s dreams are extremely structured and organized with incredible logic. Even so, it is still possible to get confused. That’s why we recommend that you “activate” your gray matter throughout the movie, pay attention to the details and enjoy.

We believe that what Terry Gilliam has created is beyond explanation: taking as a starting point a seemingly banal conspiracy for a science fiction film, he produced a film that seems to be out of the “fiction” genre. The plot conquers the viewer from the first moment and, despite the general slowness of the narrative, makes you want to watch until the end. Bravo, Terry!

In this paranoia-filled thriller, we can see director David Fincher’s famous style preparing reality layer after layer. It is not clear what the reality itself is. That’s exactly what Michael Douglas’ character is dedicated to in the film: a reality “simulator” created at the behest of his brother (Sean Penn) to discover what he’s capable of and how strong this world is. It is worth paying attention to the messages from start to finish.

The film has the ability to make the viewer tense in each dialogue, in each sound, as if touching the depths of the soul, reaching the most sensitive places, giving sensations of tension and chills. And when there is that feeling that, apparently, everything is clear and the ending is predictable, events change dramatically and repeatedly.

A fantastic thriller, brimming with vitality, spectacular and incredibly dynamic. With an intense level of action, it is capable of having the viewer literally walk towards the screen and really be moved by its dramatic notes and its beautiful romantic line.

On the one hand, great science fiction and, on the other, a moving drama. The film has facts like family, love, pain and betrayal. But at the same time, it deals with the mysterious depth of space. The director managed to convey his idea of ​​the infinite, before which we are nothing. Combining these opposites, Christopher Nolan created something indescribable and purely beautiful.

A group of illusionists, under the alias of the “Four Horsemen”, withdraw money and rob banks in front of a surprised audience, play “cat and mouse” with the FBI and Interpol, hypnotize the audience and make them look at the screen without blinking, trying to guess what will happen the next moment. In general, the range of tricks here is much greater than just a coin tucked behind the ear or a trick up your sleeve.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Fincher managed to make an excellent film, worthy of the highest grade. The story that tells about a man who was born as an old man and died as a baby touches our soul in the most sensitive way and forces us to reflect. An incredibly moving and human work whose beauty is impossible to describe with words. Need to watch.

A magnificent plot opens before the audience like a curtain at a slow pace. A brilliant mathematician is trying to understand himself, while the spectator who follows his trajectory makes his own conjectures and immerses himself in the atmosphere of what happens on the other side of the screen. Is there a line between reality and imagination? What is a human mind really capable of? All these questions remain in our consciousness throughout the plot.

At the beginning of the film, the main character, an engineer, works on complex and secret projects, but completely harmless and short-lived: he does the work, his memory is erased, he receives his salary and he lives his life normally. But everything changes when he is offered a project that will last three years of his life. Accept or not? A big temptation, especially when there’s a lot of money at stake.

The boy Evan inherited a strange illness from his psychopathic father, who is now admitted to a clinic for people with mental problems: he does not remember certain episodes of his life. In addition, in these “blackouts” quite strange and even horrible events took place. Growing up and entering college, Evan makes an incredible discovery. After reading the diaries he wrote as a child, he discovers that he is able to return to his childhood and, with his actions, change the future.

It is considered a masterpiece of science fiction, one of the cult movies of the cinema that gave rise
to several new ideas and improved old ones. A plot in which the viewer is able to remember all the moments, even having seen it only once. After all, every scene leaves a deep impression.

Many people have déjà vu. It’s that feeling that a certain moment has already happened in your life. Each person explains this in their own way. But whatever it is, after watching the movie we want to believe that it’s possible to go back to any bad moment in our lives and fix it, even if it forms another story.

This film never loses its relevance. Tyler’s philosophy sounds incredible. Apparently, we started to think: maybe, really, it might be worth leaving everything that has become habitual and starting to enjoy life…

There are films that seem capable of opening our eyes, and for a while, under their influence, we look at things differently. Sometimes we spend the whole day thinking that we have discovered some kind of truth that always seemed to be in front of us, but that we hadn’t noticed before. Fountain of Life is exactly that kind of movie.

The most pleasurable feeling comes when, when we realize it, we start talking about what is happening in the film, long before the end. And when each piece of the puzzle makes sense in our minds and we realize that everything was connected all along.

The film is composed of pieces, fragments, small parts that end up forming a whole. A viewer with little or no preparation to watch this type of work can get lost, for not taking into account each clue to build a big picture. This production holds us back because it keeps us tense from beginning to end, generating doubts from the moment an accident occurs.
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Emotions take over the mind, the soul looks for something beautiful in a higher place, the spectator starts to feel a kind of enthusiasm and doesn’t know why, but feels comfortable and calm, without thinking about before, without wondering what what will happen later. A feeling like this is what you’re left with after watching Straightjacket.

Leonard Shelby is looking for his wife’s killer. The case is complicated by the fact that, due to a trauma to his head, he suffers from short-term memory loss. The young man remembers everything until the day of the murder. The rest is able to be stored in his memory only for 15 minutes. He must then resort to a variety of tricks to somehow preserve his thoughts while at the same time moving forward with his quest.

In the middle of the action is a rich dad’s son, a typical playboy called David. He likes to drink, spend money and have fun with women. He’s used to having everything he wants in his hands. But fate or, for those who believe, God, decided to test him and teach him that life is not just about that. Thus, after being the victim of a terrible accident, the protagonist (played by Tom Cruise) must face a new life, with a new face. But things are not so simple: poor David begins to be plagued by nightmares and then realizes that something is wrong…

It is a true cinematic dilemma, whose main idea is a matter of choice. Any step, any action must be chosen. What would happen to each person if he didn’t say the right words at the right time, if he did something one way and not another, a second later or a second earlier? And that would be a completely different life…

The film constantly surprises the viewer. Although the plot moves stably through time, it doesn’t freeze or advance too quickly. But every five minutes, we discover more and more new plot secrets.

This work is similar to a complex puzzle: almost impossible to solve and, at the same time, impossible not to solve it. The images have an extraordinary naturalness, which, together with the most powerful load of the plot, lead the film to provoke an infinity of sensations and does not allow the spectator to detach himself from the screen, from the first to the last scene.

In Christopher Nolan’s film, the story of two magicians is presented. Both are young, talented, determined and know how to flatter the public. Both were able to succeed in their tasks. But the competition, the attention of the respectable public and the fight for the first place do not allow them to live in peace or to continue with their work. Alfred Borden and Robert Angier begin a fierce battle for the right to the title of best magician in England.