12 Movies That Made You Work Out The Answer Yourself

1. Rashomon

The Question: Who is telling the truth?

Akira Kurosawa's 1950 drama is the ultimate cinematic statement about the flimsy reliability of eyewitness testimony and the fleeting quality of truth.

In regard to the central case of the murdered samurai, the stories of the bandit, the wife, the samurai (as told through a medium) and the woodcutter are all subject to their fair share of scrutiny, and the entire point seems to be that, due to their own agendas, none of the witnesses can bring themselves to deliver a truthful rendition of events.

The fun of the movie is in trying to figure out whose story is the correct one - or the most correct, at least - but if Kurosawa had concluded the film with a concrete answer, it would have torpedoed the film's brilliant meditation on the elusiveness of supposed "truth".

If nothing else, it provokes a fascinating discussion afterwards, and remains fiercely provocative almost 70 years later.

Which of these ambiguous movies left you most desperately scrambling for answers? Got any other suggestions? Shout them out in the comments!