Upstream Color-the same writer/director/star of Primer. This movie requires utmost attention (don't try to watch it with a rowdy group). It's strange and beautiful and disturbing and never, ever condescending to the audience.
Eden Log-This one has a weird ending and it's very ambiguous in its story, but it's neat to look at. I have mixed feelings about this film because it's more like interesting photography than visual story telling.
Martyrs-If you like horror films, this one is a must see. Don't watch the American remake, watch the original. It's gory so if you don't like gross movies stay away, but if you can handle that then Martyrs is interesting and unforgettable.
Anything directed by David Lynch. Based just on your list, I'm not sure you'll like his films because they're very ambiguous. His films are more like dreams than cohesive story telling. Try Blue Velvet and if you like it watch some others. Mulholland Drive is pretty much his critical masterpiece, but I'd definitely start at Blue Velvet.
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A Tale of Two Sisters ~ a fantastic and terrifying ghost movie from Korea. I don't want to say too much about it, because the plot unfolds in incredible and unexpected ways!
EDIT: Some additional ones I discussed with my wife since posting
The Guest - especially if you go into it unaware of the overall trajectory of the movie.
I would definitely recommend the aforementioned Martyrs movie, if your tolerance for gore and/or torture movies is high. Crimson Peak - I personally felt the ending of this movie was a bit predictable, but the aesthetics and visuals were quite good.
Also along the Del Toro lines, if you haven't seen The Orphanage I would consider to be an awesome ghost/mind bender movie. The Creep was pretty good for a strange mind-f of a movie.
My tastes in "mind bending" movies definitely ere on the horror and thriller side...
The most mind bending movie I have ever seen is What Dreams May Come. While sad and downright depressing at times it is one of the best movies I've seen and will totally blow your mind.
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All of these films Bent My Mind in one way or another. Whether it was Philosophically, Visually, Structurally or Spiritually. Each one challenged and amazed me on some level.
I’m going to respond on a different take of “cinema” and add “Now and Then, Here and There”, a short 13 episode anime series by Akitaro Daichi and Hideyuki Kurata. While it has all the typical trappings of weird anime, and the tropes, it deals ostensibly with forced child soldiers fighting wars and the damage caused. Instead of being something we read about in a far off land in a Time article, the writer and director put you on the front lines as they pull no punches with the kids while they are forced to commit atrocities on innocents, other combatants, their own ranks, and you ultimately see their lives collapse as the blood on their hands mounts. The first piece of cinema I cried as I watched at a time of my life when I was unable to cry about anything. Haunting, it’s probably the saddest and most tragic anime or movie I’ve watched. Definitely not easy material.
1. Coherence
2. Primer
3. Triangle
4. Predestination
Eden Log-This one has a weird ending and it's very ambiguous in its story, but it's neat to look at. I have mixed feelings about this film because it's more like interesting photography than visual story telling.
Martyrs-If you like horror films, this one is a must see. Don't watch the American remake, watch the original. It's gory so if you don't like gross movies stay away, but if you can handle that then Martyrs is interesting and unforgettable.
Anything directed by David Lynch. Based just on your list, I'm not sure you'll like his films because they're very ambiguous. His films are more like dreams than cohesive story telling. Try Blue Velvet and if you like it watch some others. Mulholland Drive is pretty much his critical masterpiece, but I'd definitely start at Blue Velvet.
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I think that counts as mindbending?
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EDIT: Some additional ones I discussed with my wife since posting
The Guest - especially if you go into it unaware of the overall trajectory of the movie.
I would definitely recommend the aforementioned Martyrs movie, if your tolerance for gore and/or torture movies is high.
Crimson Peak - I personally felt the ending of this movie was a bit predictable, but the aesthetics and visuals were quite good.
Also along the Del Toro lines, if you haven't seen The Orphanage I would consider to be an awesome ghost/mind bender movie.
The Creep was pretty good for a strange mind-f of a movie.
My tastes in "mind bending" movies definitely ere on the horror and thriller side...
"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
Persona
Hard to be a God
Southland Tails
Fountain of Youth
Passion of Joan of Arc
Solaris
All of these films Bent My Mind in one way or another. Whether it was Philosophically, Visually, Structurally or Spiritually. Each one challenged and amazed me on some level.
The Fountain
Inception
Pan's Labyrinth
Interstellar
A Beautiful Mind
The Prestige
The Illusionist