# Movies With a Good Twist \*Please, no spoilers\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927 "2015-09-04T19:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/21 "2015-09-04T20:28:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Dogs of War** (1980) has a twist, but I don’t find it satisfying. It’s the last of the movies based on Frederick Forsyth’s origin al troika of thrillers-with-a-twist, the other two being the aforementioned _Day of the Jackal_ and _The Odessa File_. The novel is infinitely superior. I think any faults in the storyline or twist are due to it being a little to close to Forsythe’s reality. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/22 "2015-09-04T20:30:42Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I don’t think you can call this a twist movie, they are very open the entire time about what is going on. Not based on the trailers tho - ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/23 "2015-09-04T20:32:09Z")
I submit that just knowing a movie has a twist is a spoiler and can lessen your enjoyment of the film because it makes it now a puzzle you try to figure out rather than just enjoy the story. I did a thread about whether others agree a long time ago that went pretty long. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/24 "2015-09-04T20:35:48Z")
While that is true, the title of this thread clearly states that these are movies with twists. Anyone opening the thread does so with that understanding. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/25 "2015-09-04T20:58:13Z")
[The Sting (1973)](http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sting-1973) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/26 "2015-09-04T20:58:41Z")
For me, it was **No Way Out**. As we were watching it, I was \*certain \*I knew who the bad guy was. I didn’t know. I loved the ending. Unfortunately for me, I heard some bozo on the radio spoil **The Sixth Sense** , but because of what I then knew, I watched it differently. I’m pretty sure had I not known, I’d have never guessed. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/27 "2015-09-04T21:27:54Z")
I walked into **The Game** knowing nothing about it. Thought it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/28 "2015-09-04T21:32:05Z")
The Life and Times of Chubby Checker. mmm ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/29 "2015-09-04T21:37:57Z")
Errrgh. As I have frequently pointed out many, many times. _The Sixth Sense_ does _not_ have a twist. It is not canonical, it is anti-canonical. Anyway. Let’s see. _The Third Man_ is a really good movie. Have no idea why I’m thinking about it right now.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/30 "2015-09-04T22:02:16Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > **The Prestige**. Brilliant film. > > Eta: Ninja’d! Terribly unappreciated and underrated. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/31 "2015-09-04T22:14:19Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Terribly unappreciated and underrated. Yeah, _The Prestige_ deserves more attention and respect than it generally gets. A couple more movies with This Changes Everything reveals: _The Thirteenth Floor_ and _Dark City_. (As to whether a This Changes Everything reveal is the same thing as a Twist: it’s debatable, I guess. But presumably if someone enjoys movies having one, they’d also enjoy movies having the other.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/32 "2015-09-04T22:40:31Z")
Many film noir movies had a twist at the end. In fact, it was one of the genre’s main plot devices. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/33 "2015-09-04T22:52:08Z")
I’ll go with this one: **The Other** , 1972 (not to be confused with The Others).Also, a strong second for **The Last of Sheila**. On the other hand, **Sleuth** didn’t fool me for more than about a minute. nm, don’t want to put in unwanted spoiler ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/34 "2015-09-04T22:54:19Z")
**The Tenant**. Something you’d never expect, since Polanski is such an expert filmmaker. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/35 "2015-09-04T23:11:44Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The Sixth Sense Gah! That’s one film I really would have liked to have seen knowing absolutely nothing about. All I _did_ know that there was a twist, and from there it’s not hard to figure out from the beginning of the film. I still really liked it, the mood, cinematography, acting etc - but goddammit the character interactions should only have made complete sense at the end of the film, or on a second watch. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/36 "2015-09-04T23:17:09Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’ll go with this one: > > **The Other** , 1972 (not to be confused with The Others). The Others had a twist too. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/37 "2015-09-04T23:27:20Z")
**Frailty** was another this changes everything for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/38 "2015-09-04T23:30:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The Others had a twist too. For that matter, so did _Carnival of Souls_ and _Jacob’s Ladder_–the same twist. (And of course there’s the original appearance of the idea, the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce. It was made into a short film and shown as a Twilight Zone episode.) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-good-twist-please-no-spoilers/729927/39 "2015-09-04T23:55:45Z")
I like **The Prestige** , but the twist was telegraphed all the way from… the pile of hats on the hillside. I believe that’s within the first quarter of the film. Subsequently, I didn’t find it very twisty. I liked the twist at the end of Akira Kurosawa’s **Heaven and Hell** (AKA High and Low). Obviously, there’s the twist (of the knife) at the end of **Old Boy**. I’m not sure that the exact nature of the twist is revealed in either of **Abre los Ojos** or **Vanilla Sky** , but they are good films and I feel like they belong in this list anyways. ---
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