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Ranking 99 Mind f*ck movies

Didier Rodrigues Lopes
2 min readAug 15, 2021

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During the Christmas holidays, me and my girlfriend, after watching The Office [US] twice in a row, and knowing most of Dwight’s pranks off by heart, decided that it was time to find something worth watching.

Although there’s lots of tempting series out there, we didn’t want to follow that path as we don’t like the “addiction” effect that a series has. Also, we have the same taste regarding movies, where we both enjoy complex thriller plots, that leave your mind to resonate about them long after being done with it. Personally, I consider a movie great when it still crosses my mind when trying to sleep or the day after. So, thriller movies it was.

After doing a little research work I came across this list of movies on Reddit: 99 mind f*ck movies. I knew this list was good because most of my favourite movies were there, e.g. The Prestige, Inception, The Usual Suspects, Primal Fear, and Ex Machina.

So, the movie list was decided, and with that, also our new year’s resolution.

However, this list had 2 issues:

  1. The list didn’t have any particular order. We would like to have the list ranked from best to worst, so that watching the best ones first will keep our motivation levels up to finish the list.
  2. The movie title didn’t have the released year. Although we don’t…

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