origin story mystery

Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa

Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · Fritz Lang

Flowers of Shanghai
1998 · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Let the Right One In
2008 · Tomas Alfredson

My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer

Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman

Alphaville
1965 · Jean-Luc Godard

Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike

Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur

Dillinger Is Dead
1969 · Marco Ferreri

Great Expectations
1946 · David Lean

Memento
2000 · Christopher Nolan

The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer

Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Curse of Snake Valley
1988 · Marek Piestrak

Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer

The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Denis Villeneuve

Mr. Nobody
2009 · Jaco Van Dormael

The Others
2001 · Alejandro Amenábar

Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · Paul McGuigan

Perfect Strangers
2016 · Paolo Genovese

Poor Things
2023 · Yorgos Lanthimos

Lady Vengeance
2005 · Park Chan-wook

Love Me If You Dare
2003 · Yann Samuell

Marrowbone
2017 · Sergio G. Sánchez

3-Iron
2004 · Kim Ki-duk

Fantastic Planet
1973 · René Laloux

The Dressmaker
2015 · Jocelyn Moorhouse

The Hidden Face
2011 · Andrés Baiz

Andhadhun
2018 · Sriram Raghavan

The Absent One
2014 · Mikkel Nørgaard

The Return
2003 · Andrey Zvyagintsev

The Secret Agent
2025 · Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Vanishing
1988 · George Sluizer

A Chinese Ghost Story
1987 · Tony Ching Siu-Tung

A Writer's Odyssey
2021 · Lu Yang

Birds of Passage
2018 · Ciro Guerra

Children of the Sea
2019 · Ayumu Watanabe

Drishyam
2015 · Nishikant Kamat

In the Arms of an Assassin
2019 · Matías Moltrasio