Here is what I got:
Ben Kingsley was the star. A boulder tumbled down a hill into a guy’s swimming pool. Don wouldn’t put his cig out on the plane. There was some kind of demon? devil? beast? out in the desert, or was it just a fantasy?
I must admit that I couldn’t make out a lot of what the actors were saying because the accents were heavy–to me, that is.
After about 2 minutes of struggling with the British accents in Sexy Beast I turned on the English subtitles. That’s an excellent film
I found Brazil to be a bit confusing at first, but better after the second viewing.
How about Jacob’s Ladder? I got it, but going by some of the reviews it received (Amazon & elsewhere), many did not. Great flick, always love Robbins.
Have ya seen The Double Life of Veronique? It one of those films that demands the question “Why are foreign films so…foreign?”
It was directed by a Polish director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and is thoroughly confusing. Here is a description off of the Rotten Tomatoes web site:
If you think that quote is remotely confusing, you ain’t seen nothin’ till you’ve seen the movie…
I was seriously confused by Purple Noon, the original French film that was remade into The Talented Mr. Ripley. The main confusion I had, though, was just trying to figure out which well-built, dark-haired French guy was which. It’s key to the entire plot that they look pretty similar (not a spoiler), but those guys looked totally identical to me. I suspect there were a lot of cultural cues from 1960s France (modes of dress, accent) that went straight over my head.
Of course, the remake starred Matt Damon and Jude Law, both of whom I’ve seen in many other films, so that helped me distinguish them.
I’ll second the vote for The Big Sleep as well. I’ve heard that even on the set Bogie and Bacall would ask Howard Hawks what was going on in particular scenes and he’d say, “I don’t know! Just act it!” or some such.
That was a great film.
I’m surprised that people didn’t get the film. The end pretty much explains whats going on.
Another film that is confusing, and intentionally so, but it doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t really effect what little of the plot there is is * Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas *. The book is perhaps more confusing, not less, but the voices are less slurred.
spoiler for Mulholland Drive:
I read a review after seeing this movie (I was confused, too) that explained Betty is Diane, and the whole first part was her sexual fantasy / dream of how she wished everything would have happened. After she had her lover killed , she fantasizes about her escaping and them having another chance b/c she has amnesia, and about being wildly successful acting, being adored, etc. Her fantasy is the whole first part of the film, then she deteriorates as she is hit with the truth. Details are sometimes changed / strange b/c it is her fantasy. It didn’t explain everything (like what exactly the box was about…her discovery of truth?) but it did make more sense looking at it this way.
I am still confused about the storyline in “Sex-Crazed Nymphos”. I’m beginning to wonder if there was a storyline at all! 
“He fixes her cable.”