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Movies Most Difficult to Understand

Sometimes films are so challenging and mysterious that they haunt us for weeks, sometimes months, and in some refined times they haunt us forever. These films have some elements that puzzled us and that we never really understand. Much of the time, filmmakers craft these film in order to create this sensation of mystery that cannot really be deciphered. When the movie is well crafted rather than only producing frustration for not understanding the film, it becomes the object of our "will to know" as much as life, as an endlessly mysterious subject, is.There are many ways to make a film hard to understand, and the most obvious and most used is to break some narrative conventions the most films follow. Since these conventions are used to communicate clearly with the audience, when the conventions are broke or subverted it then becomes confusing. Some films do this by not giving a clear plot.
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The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
2
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
3
Lost Highway (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   62%
4
Inland Empire (2006)
Inland Empire (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes®   72%
5
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
6
Persona (1966)
Persona (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
7
Blow-Up (1966)
Blow-Up (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
8
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes®   69%
9
Run Lola Run (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
10
The Fountain (2006)
The Fountain (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes®   52%
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes®   68%
12
Coherence (2013)
Coherence (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
13
Primer (2004)
Primer (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes®   72%
14
Pi (1998)
Pi (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
15
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   66%
16
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes®   42%
17
Under the Skin (2014)
Under the Skin (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
18
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
19
Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   53%
20
Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
21
Mirror (1975)
Mirror (1975)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
22
Donnie Darko (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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Death in Venice (1971)
Death in Venice (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   70%
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La Jetée (1962)
La Jetée (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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