Movies have developed into an essential component of our existence, which is otherwise comprised of to-do lists, deadlines, jobs to be completed, education, and a great number of other things. Movies have a calming effect on us and help our minds take a break from the thoughts that are occupying them. When you need to take your mind off of work and enjoy some downtime, it will be of great assistance to you. The following is a selection of some of the most mind-blowing movies that you can watch right now on Netflix or schedule to watch later this weekend on Netflix.
Top 5 Mind-blowing Movies to Watch this weekend:
- Forgotten
- Mirage
- The Platform
- The Call
- Fractured
Forgotten:
The South Korean mystery-thriller film Forgotten, which also stars Kang Ha-neul, Kim Mu-yeol, Moon Sung-keun, and Na Young-hee, was written and directed by Jang Hang-jun. The publication date is November 29, 2017.
Synopsis: When his abducted brother returns seemingly a different man with no memory of the past 19 days, Jin-seok chases after the truth behind the kidnapping.
Plot: Jin-seok, a young man, relocates with his mother, father, and elder brother Yoo-seok to a new home. Jin-seok notices that something is wrong in their new home. He watches Yoo-seok being kidnapped and carried into a car one rainy night. Yoo-seok reappears after a period of nineteen days.
Jin begins to notice differences in his family’s personalities. He suddenly finds that these are not his family at all, but rather people impersonating his family. He flees the residence and reports to the police. When he informs them he is 21 years old, the doubtful officer inquires as to the year. He responds that it is 1997, but the officer informs him that it is actually 2017. Jin is actually 41 years old. To be Continued…
Mirage:
Mirage is a 2018 Spanish mystery-drama film directed and co-written by Oriol Paulo, starring Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darn, money heist fame – Álvaro Morte, Javier Gutiérrez, and Nora Navas.
Synopsis: A space-time continuum glitch allows Vera to save a boy’s life 25 years earlier, but results in the loss of her daughter, whom she fights to get back.
Plot: During the fall of the Berlin Wall and a 72-hour-long electrical storm in 1989, a child named Nico hears some noises and sees a fight scene at his neighbors’ house via a window while making a video in his house. When he arrives at the residence, he discovers the body of Ms. Weiss, the wife of the neighbor Angel Prieto. When Nico sees Mr. Prieto with a knife, he tries to flee but is hit by a car on the road. As Nico dies in the automobile crash, Prieto is apprehended with the murder weapon in his possession. To be Continued…
The Platform:
The Platform, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, is a twisted social allegory depicting mankind at its darkest and hungriest.
Synopsis: In a future dystopia, prisoners housed in vertically stacked cells watch hungrily as food descends from above — feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalized.
Plot: Goreng awakens in a concrete cell with the number 48 written on it. Trimagasi, his cellmate, says that they are in a “Vertical Self-Management Center,” also known as “The Pit,” a tower-style facility where food is provided on a platform that travels from the top-down, stopping for a set period of time on each floor. People on lower levels can only eat what others on higher levels leave and are killed if they keep the food. Every month, people are randomly allocated to a new level.
Goreng chose a copy of Don Quixote, and Trimagasi a self-sharpening knife, as each inhabitant is permitted to bring in one thing. Trimagasi reveals that when he and his old cellmate were assigned to level 132, they cannibalized a prisoner who had fallen down the shaft. Miharu, a bleeding woman, rides down the platform one day. Trimagasi explains that every month she descends the hole in quest of her child. To be Continued…
The Call:
The Call is a South Korean thriller film directed by Lee Chung-hyun and starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo. The Call, based on the 2011 British and Puerto Rican film The Caller, follows Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) and Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo), two women from different eras who connect via a phone call that transforms their destiny.
Synopsis: A phone call that connects two women from the past and present, starts a dangerous game to change the future…and their manic obsession begins.
Plot: Kim Seo-yeon, 28, loses her cellphone while traveling to see her ailing, estranged mother in a rural area in 2019. When she arrives at her decrepit childhood house, she discovers a decades-old cordless phone and receives calls from a terrified lady who claims her mother is torturing her. Seo-yeon investigates the residence and discovers that the woman on the phone, Oh Young-sook, lives in the same house but in 1999.
The two can converse across time via phone and exchange information about their lives. Young-sook is orphaned and lives with her shaman adoptive mother, but Seo-yeon lost her father in a fire that she blames on her mother, Eun-ae. To be Continued…
Fractured:
Fractured is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson, based on Alan B. McElroy’s screenplay. Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Adjoa Andoh, and Lucy Capri feature in it.
Synopsis: After his wife and injured daughter disappear from an ER, a man conducts a panicked search and becomes convinced the hospital is hiding something.
Plot: Ray Monroe is heading home from a Thanksgiving visit to Joanne’s parents with his wife Joanne and their daughter Peri. Ray and Joanne have a disagreement regarding the state of their relationship. Peri’s music player stops working in the car owing to dead batteries, and Ray promises to buy some for her at the next gas station. Soon after, Peri claims she needs to use the restroom, so they stop at a gas station.
The cashier informs Ray that they only accept cash, so Ray foregoes the batteries but purchases two tiny bottles of whiskey in addition to a coke for Joanne and a coffee for himself. He lies to Joanne after returning to the car that the store did not have batteries. Joanne rushes to check the restroom as Ray searches the rear seat for Peri’s compact mirror. Peri begins to stroll towards a vacant construction site while Ray is fascinated by a balloon hooked on a rebar. She is threatened by a stray dog and begins to back away from an uncovered pit. To be Continued…
