Films where the story seems clear… until it suddenly isn’t

Memento: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior. A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.

Total Recall: Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox. When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

The Cabin in the Woods: Directed by Drew Goddard. With Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz. A group of kids go to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Directed by Charlie Kaufman. With Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis. Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.

The Sting: Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

One Cut of the Dead: Directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda. With Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya. Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Bodies Bodies Bodies: Directed by Halina Reijn. With Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la, Rachel Sennott. When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly.

Strange Darling: Directed by JT Mollner. With Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty, Bianca A. Santos. Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree.