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apartmentcat's "Reality-Bending Films"

Movies that really mess with your head. A combined version of two shorter lists. Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.
Update: I’ve added some more from Matthew Baldwin’s list, and put them in alpha order.
1. 12 Monkeys  
2.
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 Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) - 1997 - Alejandro Amenabar  
3.
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 Adaptation
by Spike Jonze
  
4. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Sub)
by Akira Kurosawa
  
5. Altered States
by Ken Russell
  
6. Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  
7. Arlington Road
by Mark Pellington
  
8. A Scanner Darkly
by Richard Linklater
  
9. Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
by Takashi Miike
  
10. Being John Malkovich  
11. Brazil  
12. The Butterfly Effect
by Eric Bress
  
13. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind  
14. Delicatessen  
15. Donnie Darko
by Richard Kelly (II)
  
16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
by Michel Gondry
  
17.
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 The Experiment (2001)
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  
18. eXistenZ
by David Cronenberg
  
19. Jacob's Ladder
by Adrian Lyne
  
20. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Fincher
  
21.
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 The Game
by David Fincher
  
22. I Heart Huckabees
by David O. Russell
  
23. Memento  
24.
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 The Machinist 1
by Brad Anderson
  
25. Mulholland Drive  
26.
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 Oldboy - 2003 - Chan-wook Park  
27. Pan's Labyrinth
by Guillermo del Toro
  
28. Pi
by Darren Aronofsky
  
29. The Quiet Earth
by Geoff Murphy
  
30. Rashomon
by Akira Kurosawa
  
31. Run Lola Run
by Tom Tykwer
  
32. The Science of Sleep
by Michel Gondry
  
33. Seven
by David Fincher
  
34. The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series)  
35. Solaris
by Steven Soderbergh
  
36.
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 Spellbound - 1945
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
37. Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
38.
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 Videodrome
by David Cronenberg
  
39. The Usual Suspects
by Bryan Singer
  
40. Vanilla Sky
by Cameron Crowe
  
41.
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 Vertigo (1958)
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
42. Waking Life  
43. Wild At Heart
by David Lynch
  
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Created by apartmentcat on Jan 18, 2009.