10 Most Disturbing Plot Twists In Non-Horror Movies

Christopher Nolan is no stranger to cliffhanger endings and deceptive rug-pulls, but after all this time, The Prestige still features his greatest - and most disturbing - plot twist.

The film follows rival magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale), who continuously try to one-up each other with increasingly dangerous tricks and sabotages.

In their feud, Borden creates a trick called the Transported Man, which sees him move instantly between two wardrobes on stage. Desperate to figure out the trick, Angier finds himself aligned with Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) and concocting a trick of his own making.

The first twist is pretty simple - at least at first - as Angier debuts his own Transported Man trick and Borden finds his rival dropped below the stage and drowning to death. Borden is accused of murder by Angier's partner Cutter (Michael Caine) and is hanged.

But at the end of the film, the rug-pull is revealed: Borden was able to do the trick by using his identical twin, Fallon, to make it look as though he was moving seamlessly between the wardrobes.

Fallon appears and kills the somehow still-alive Angier, and whilst he dies the audience learns that Angier had been cloning himself using Tesla's machine, killing his clones each time he did the trick, and that Borden died for nothing.