# Mind-bending movies like Inception

Dreams, loops and unreliable realities: the films most recommended after Inception, from BuddyTV, Ranker and Tasteray.

- 723 votes · 15 items
- Jun 3, 2025 · Rachel Brown
- https://even.best/en/l/3883/mind-bending-movies-like-inception

## Top 15

1. **Memento (2000)** (65 · ▲74 ▼9) — A story told backwards, from Christopher Nolan.
2. **The Prestige (2006)** (60 · ▲69 ▼9) — Two rival magicians and their obsession.
3. **Shutter Island (2010)** (52 · ▲57 ▼5) — Reality and delusion on an asylum island.
4. **The Matrix (1999)** (51 · ▲54 ▼3) — Neo learns what the Matrix is.
5. **Paprika (2006)** (41 · ▲45 ▼4) — Satoshi Kon's dream-machine anime.
6. **Tenet (2020)** (36 · ▲42 ▼6) — Time inversion and a spy plot.
7. **Source Code (2011)** (35 · ▲38 ▼3) — Eight minutes on a train, again and again.
8. **Primer (2004)** (30 · ▲40 ▼10) — Two engineers build a time machine in a garage.
9. **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)** (28 · ▲39 ▼11) — Erasing a relationship from memory.
10. **Ghost in the Shell (1995)** (28 · ▲30 ▼2) — Mamoru Oshii's cyborg classic.
11. **Coherence (2013)** (24 · ▲29 ▼5) — A dinner party on the night a comet passes.
12. **Interstellar (2014)** (23 · ▲30 ▼7) — Time, gravity and a father's love, from Nolan.
13. **Looper (2012)** (23 · ▲29 ▼6) — A hitman meets his future self.
14. **Dark City (1998)** (20 · ▲29 ▼9) — A city where night never ends.
15. **The Truman Show (1998)** (5 · ▲17 ▼12) — A man whose life is a TV show.

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