10 Mind-Bending Thrillers That Will Melt Your Brain

4. The Usual Suspects

Bryan Singer's superbly twisted thriller follows the interrogation of a crippled con-man named Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), who is one of two survivors of a mass murder aboard a boat. The film revolves around his testimony to U.S. Customs Agent Dave Kujan (Chaz Palminteri), where he tells a wildly contrived, even confusing story about what caused him and four other criminals to end up on the boat that night, and the shadowy, fearsome crime boss Keyser Soze, who served as their backer.

The chicanery of this story is revealed as a smoke-screen at the end of the movie, when Kint is let go, only for Kujan to have a last-minute realisation, that Kint has been fabricating the story on-the-fly, using various items pinned to Kujan's notice-board to quickly come up with something. A fax appears identifying Kint as Keyser Soze, but by the time Kujan gets outside, Kint, who had been faking a limp for the entire movie, has sped off into the night. "And like that, he's gone."