Hollywood has been quite generous when it comes to offering movies on a vast range of topics relevant to today’s times and epic stories from the past. While some are entertaining and leave you smiling, many flicks grip and shock you, and by the time the film ends you are left with a hangover of the subject. Here are 5 such mind-blowing Hollywood movies that literally will blow your mind now available on leading OTT platforms.
Inception on Netflix/Prime Video
Inception released in 2010 is a science fiction action-oriented movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. The movie directed and written by Christopher Nolan is about a professional thief who has the knack for hacking information from a person by infiltrating his subconscious. The twist in the movie comes when the hero is given a chance to get his criminal history deleted against implanting an idea of another person into the subconscious of a target.
Shutter on Netflix/Prime Video
This American supernatural horror movie released in 2008 was a remake of a Thai film and is about a newly married couple Ben and Jane who shift to Japan after they get a lucrative job offer. Things turn ugly after a girl dies in a car accident, Ben starts spotting blurs in his fashion shoot photographs, and Jane starts believing that it is the spirit of the dead girl.
A Beautiful Mind on Netflix/Prime Video
Released in 2001, this movie has Russell Crowe in the lead as a young man called Nash who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and often gets delusional episodes. The burden that it brings on his family and friends especially his wife Alicia and how the couple finds a solution to this problem is the focus of this movie.
Enemy on Prime Video
Inspired by the novel The Double Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a double role of two men physically identical but having completely different personalities. The movie was internationally produced by companies from France, Canada, and Spain.
Donnie Darko on Prime Video
This sci-fi psychological thriller from the US has a big star cast including Drew Barrymore and Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, and Seth Rogen. The movie is about a troubled teenager with visions of a mysterious figure Frank wearing a rabbit costume. Frank tells the teenager that the world is coming to an end in 28 days and expertly manipulates the young boy who has a habit of sleepwalking to commit crimes.