20 Mind Blowing Conspiracy Movies You Must Watch

15. The Spanish Prisoner

This is David Mamet€™s masterpiece. It€™s a mesmerising, compelling experience where trying to appear clever and second guess it is an absolute impossibility. As Empire magazine said in their four-star review of the flick, you have to €œjust sit back and let the movie take you for a ride€. You know those movies where Trailer-Voice-Man tells us that €œnothing is what it seems€ and €œnobody can be trusted€ but then you go to see the movie and within minutes you€™re shouting out who the bad guy is and why. Well this is the movie that those bad versions go to bed at night and dream of being. Joe Ross (the always excellent Campbell Scott) is a man on the brink of something big. He has designed a process €“ a process to what and involving what we are never told and the movie is all the more infuriatingly brilliant for it €“ that will make his company millions and him a very wealthy man. Unnerved by a lack of enthusiasm and commitment from his boss (Ben Gazzara), a chance meeting with Dell (Steve Martin, in an unbelievably assured and impressive €˜straight€™ role), a wealthy jetsetter, causes him to further suspect the true intentions of his colleagues and come to realise that, with a process this good, everybody wants to obtain it but does anyone actually want it by legal and wealth-inducing methods? And, if nothing else, this film teaches us that we should never, never, never disregard those Japanese tourists we always see floating around our favourite landmarks!