Movie plot twists account for some of the most iconic moments in movie history. The whole ATRM crew are here to count down through the best narrative twists of all time.
A well-timed narrative plot twist can make a movie. And, when not so well-judged, it can be a film ruiner. Reliant on causing surprise, awe, and/or shock in the viewer, the best plot twists linger long in the memory and are the basis of some of the most iconic and historic moments in film. This episode of Screen 10 counts down the greatest movie plot twists of them all.
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About the episode
Our movie plot twists episode came on the back of countless hours of research, with the team poring through the archives to come up with a list of the 50 greatest movie plot twists. This video references all 50, and we talk in detail about the Top 10. Horror, science fiction, drama, comedy and more are all featured as genres, and some names feature more than once. The likes of David Fincher and M. Night Shyamalan have created filmmaking identites partly based on plot twists, and are both experts at delivering narrative shocks.
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The Top 50
The video counts down the official Top 10 Greatest Movie Fights and along the way drops the other movies that made up our 50. You can find the full 50 listing below:
1. Planet of the Apes (1968)
2. The Usual Suspects (1995)
3. Se7en (1995)
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Chinatown (1974)
6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. The Sixth Sense (1999)
8. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
9. The Wicker Man (1973)
10. Friday the 13th (1980)
11. Primal Fear (1996)
12. Memento (2000)
13. Fight Club (1999)
14. Citizen Kane (1941)
15. Oldboy (2003)
16. Saw (2004)
17. Les Diaboliques (1955)
18. The Others (2001)
19. Arrival (2016)
20. Don’t Look Now (1973)
21. Shutter Island (2010)
22. The Mist (2007)
23. Parasite (2019)
24. The Crying Game (1992)
25. The Prestige (2006)
26. Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978)
27. Scream (1996)
28. 12 Monkeys (1995)
29. Incendies (2010)
30. Kill List (2011)
31. Gone Girl (2014)
32. Unbreakable (2000)
33. La Jetèe (1962)
34. Get Out (2017)
35. Moon (2009)
36. The Village (2004)
37. Coco (2017)
38. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
39. Us (2019)
40. The Departed (2006)
41. Knives Out (2019)
42. American Psycho (2000)
43. Ex Machina (2014)
44. The Game (1997)
45. Atonement (2007)
46. L.A. Confidential (1997)
47. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
48. Identity (2003)
49. Million Dolar Baby (2004)
50. Iron Man 3 (2013)
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