Top Ten Mind-Game Movies
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Top Ten Mind-Game Movies

Some movies are so full of deception and unexpected twists that they're liable to get inside your head and stay there. How would you rate these crafty flicks?

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1 The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal Lecter is one of cinema’s most maniacal manipulators. To play him, Anthony Hopkins channeled his scary childhood dentist. 496 1142
2 Fight Club
Rosie O’Donnell was so disturbed by this Brad Pitt film that she gave away the ending on TV. 431 1171
3 The Usual Suspects
Criminals raid a cocaine shipment on the orders of Keyser Soze, a mythical criminal mastermind. But nothing is as it seems. 410 1006
4 Memento
When an amnesiac (Guy Pearce) tries to track down his wife’s killer, he remembers his clues by leaving himself Polaroids and tattoo notes. 404 962
5 Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly’s enigmatic cult flick is impossible to summarize, but it involves time travel, alternate universes, and a freaky man-rabbit. 82 892
6 The Manchurian Candidate
In this Cold War thriller starring Frank Sinatra, the Soviets brainwash a U.S. soldier into becoming a Communist assassin. 50 752
7 The Truman Show
The plot seemed far-fetched in 1998, but today's psychologists encounter actual people who think they're stars of their own reality shows. 46 872
8 Jacob's Ladder
A soldier (Tim Robbins) suffers trippy hallucinations, but they’re nothing compared with the movie's final revelation. 37 691
9 Arlington Road
A professor (Jeff Bridges) cracks up because nobody seems to care that his suburban neighbors are terrorists. -54 654
10 Basic Instinct
The sex and violence in this Sharon Stone movie was so shocking that Paul Verhoeven recut it several times to get an R rating. -56 790