Luckily, there have been plenty of movies throughout the years that deliver just that.

There truly is no finer and more authentic visionary director than Guillermo del Toro.

Without giving anything away, count on these films to evoke shock and awe in their conclusions.

Ridley Scott in the center and scenes from Blade Runner and Gladiator in the other frames.

The twist paints a haunting and realistic portrait of loneliness that will stay with you.

The Spierig Brothers' Predestination offers the best of both worlds when it comes to meeting that criteria.

Explore the filmography of one of the most influential and artistically driven auteurs to have ever worked in cinema.

Best Stanley Kubrick Movies Feature Image with Matthew Modine in Full Metal Jacket, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove.

The goal is to escape through gruesome methods that threaten each other’s survival.

The movie flips non-linearly through their past and puts the pieces together of why they ended up there.

Both Get Out and his follow-up, Us, are highly representative of just that.

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They also both offer some of the most mind-blowing “I did not see that coming” twists.

The plot, cinematography, performances, and raw and brutal tone make it a memorable masterpiece.

Talented filmmaker Darren Aronofsky always lets his unparalleled creative vision shine in all of his projects.

Get Out, Oldboy and Saw.

Little does he know, his captor has also been plotting disturbing revenge.

Once you see it, you’ll remember it forever.

It’s disturbing, devastating, and profound.

Three-image collage of the main art for The Shape of Water and Crimson Peak and The Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth.

Jesse Plemmons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis’s character sitting around the dinner table in I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

A close-up of Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave.

Amy Adams' character approaching the aliens in Arrival as Jeremy Renner’s character stays behind.

The main art for 2003’s Identity featuring a handprint and characters tattooed into it.

A close-up of Ethan Hawke’s character with a fedora in Predestination.

Cary Elwes’s character looking at the presumed dead body of John Kramer on the bathroom floor in Saw.

Oh Dae-su wielding a hammer before the hallway fight in Oldboy.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo’s detective characters in Shutter Island.