Some films are not suitable for everyone: their elegant and meaningful plots are understandable only to true intellectuals. To understand such a film, you need to focus on the details: usually it is in them that the true meaning is hidden.
Consider 10 films that people who value stories with meaning especially enjoy.
10. The Patrol of Time | 2014
Scientists managed to create a time machine, and this allowed mankind to enter another stage of development. This device gave people the opportunity to prevent various crimes, and for such work, police officers who proved themselves to be the best were chosen.
In the center of the plot is a temporary agent, who always did a great job of fulfilling his duties.
However, one day he encounters great difficulties: he does not succeed in catching the famous demolition criminal. Due to a bomb explosion, the face of the agent is disfigured, and it has to be restored surgically.
9. The Matrix | 1999
Thomas Anderson lives a double life: at night he becomes Neo, a talented hacker who can reach anywhere on the network, and during the day turns into an ordinary office worker. However, one fine day everything is turned upside down: Thomas learns that everything around is just a Matrix, an illusion.
Mankind has enslaved artificial intelligence, and humans are only meant to nourish it. Around the ruins, the planet is in eternal dusk. Suddenly, the world became intimidating and alien, but Neo has the opportunity to rectify the situation.
8. The Devil's Advocate | 1997
The young lawyer Kevin Lomax is going to New York: he was called by the head of a well-known legal concern. Prior to this, Kevin gained popularity because he won all the processes, while protecting only villains.
Everything suits the new lawyer: he is surrounded by interesting colleagues, he lives with his wonderful wife in a nice apartment.
However, Lomax's wife is tormented by strange visions, and he does not pay attention to this, since he is very passionate about his affairs. In addition, he becomes attracted to a colleague.
7. The beginning | 2010
Cobb specializes in stealing the innermost secrets of people during sleep: it is at this time that a person is most vulnerable. Because of this gift, Cobb lost everything that was of any value to him, and in the end he had to become a fugitive.
However, he got the opportunity to fix it. To do this, Cobb will have to introduce a certain thought, not steal. If he does not have any problems, the crime will approach the ideal. However, Cobb and his people did not have the opportunity to prepare for a meeting with a dangerous enemy, foreseeing every step of his opponents.
6. Planet Ka-Pak | 2001
An unusual person appears at the Institute of Psychiatry who claims to have arrived from Ka-Pak, a distant planet. His name is Prot.
Dr. Powell does not succeed in figuring out who this strange man really is. Very soon, the psychiatrist begins to doubt that Prot is crazy, although he tries not to take these thoughts seriously.
The mysterious patient says exactly when he is going to return to his home planet, and gives evidence of his extraterrestrial origin.
5. Best offer | 2012
The head of the auction house, Virgil Oldman and his partner, mislead buyers and sellers, manipulate them with dexterity, and turn cunning scams in front of the eyes of the whole world. He collects valuable paintings that he keeps in a secret room.
One fine day, a mysterious woman turns to Oldman who wants him to sell family antiques. Virgil finds parts of a mechanism that has long been lost. It used to be that he worked with the help of higher powers.
4. Mr. Nobody | 2009
Waking up, Nemo Nobody discovers that he has become a weak old man. In the distant future, he is the last person to be mortal.
The rest of the people no longer die. They watch with interest the show in which No one is inexorably approaching death. A decrepit old man is visited by a journalist who hears the story of Nemo.
No one manages to lose his life several times in history, he jumps from one reality to another. It is not entirely clear what actually happened and what is only one of the possible scenarios.
3. Remember | 2000
Leonard Shelby wears expensive and sophisticated clothes, drives a new car, but spends her days in inexpensive motels. He seeks to attack the trail of a man who took the life of his spouse.
However, Shelby is very much disturbed by a problem such as amnesia: he is able to remember only what was less than fifteen minutes ago. In order not to miss anything important, Leonard makes reminiscent of tattoos, photographs, leaves numerous notes for himself.
Two people help investigate Shelby's murder, but he does not trust any of them.
2. Gattaka | 1997
In Gattak, all people are genetically programmed, and those who were born not in laboratory conditions, but in love, have a truly difficult fate. “Unsuitable” was recognized and the young man Vincent Freeman. He does not cease to believe that dreams have the property to come true.
Freeman is an emotional and passionate person, and such people have no place in Gattack. He tries to deceive the power and acquires a personality that previously belonged to another person. However, it is very likely that Vincent’s own identity will eventually be revealed.
1. Mulholland Drive | 2001
After a car accident, the girl loses her memory, comes up with a new name and tries to start living differently. However, she is constantly haunted by the mysteries of the past. Rita had a bag with her, in which she and her new acquaintance Betty find a mysterious blue key and a large amount of money.
As a result, a dream intertwines with reality, and it becomes unclear what really happened and what never happened.