Mystery and suspense movies that will make you wonder if his story was real

Like anyone who has seen many stories on screen, you will have come across one where what happens to the protagonists seems to be happening in their heads. Well, that same feeling is what those mystery and suspense movies try to evoke that will make you wonder if everything was real or a figment of the imagination.

The cinema has hundreds of examples of mystery and suspense movies that ask what is reality, and one of the most intriguing is “Donnie Darko”. Richard Kelly’s masterpiece with Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, alongside Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone and others. He talks about a boy who hallucinates a rabbit that warns him of the end of the world. Available on Amazon Prime Video and Claro.

The Truman Show

Disguised as a hilarious sci-fi comedy, “The Truman Show” is a mysterious film that plays with the limits of reality. Directed by Peter Weir, the story follows Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, an insurance agent who thinks he’s leading a normal life, until he discovers he’s part of a reality show where he’s being watched 24 hours a day. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

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Jordan Peele is another one of those directors who stars in his own suspense and horror films with reality itself. The best example is ‘Get Out’, a story starring Daniel Kaluuya, in which he brings to life a boy who is about to meet his girlfriend’s parents for the first time, and when he arrives at the place, he realizes the true intentions of them in-laws due to their skin color. Available on Star+.

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Twelve monkeys

In a more sci-fi environment, we have “Twelve Monkeys”, a film by Terry Gilliam in which Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt participate. The story follows an inmate from the future who is sent to the 21st century, where he must get help finding and preventing the source of a plague that could spell the end of humanity for years to come. Available on Netflix.

Shutter Island

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams, we have “Shutter Island”. It is a mystery story set in the 1950s, in which Sheriff Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of an escaped killer inside a sanatorium on a remote island, where she finds clues to his grisly crimes. Available on Netflix.

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Finally, a sci-fi mystery film, directed by Alex Garland and starring Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson, “Ex-Machina”. It is about a young programmer who wins a competition to participate in an experiment of a company that wants to test its new model of intelligent robot, to find out if he is able to reproduce human emotions. Available on HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video.