10 Mind-Bending Thrillers That Will Melt Your Brain

2. Mulholland Drive

Without question David Lynch's crowning achievement in feature film, Mulholland Drive centers on an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a beautiful ingenue who arrives in Los Angeles and meets "Rita" (Laura Harring), a woman suffering from amnesia after surviving a brutal car accident. Amid their investigations to try and figure out what happened to Rita and her real identity, Lynch treats us to a number of surreal sequences, including a movie director (Justin Theroux) whose production is being controlled by the mob, a bungled series of assassinations, and a strange club called Silencio.

After a blue key is put in a box, the story shifts, with Watts now playing a failed actress called Diane Selwyn, who is obsessed with an actress called Camilla Rhodes (Harring). When she realises her love is rejected, she ends up shooting herself, bringing the tale to a barmy end as the mysterious blue box ends up in the hands of a homeless beast walking the streets.

Trying to make sense of the film is a challenge, but there's absolutely nothing like it out there, and it looks incredible.