A workout for the mind. Top 7 puzzle movies

7. "Exam"

• 2009
• Great Britain
• Detective, horror, thriller, crime
• Director: Stuart Hazeldine
• Starring: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Natalie Cox, John Lloyd Fillingham, Chukwudi Iwuji
• IMDb Rating: 6.8

A giant pharmaceutical corporation is looking for an employee to fill a vacant position with very attractive terms and great growth prospects. There are eight people applying for the job. The specialists have reached the final stage of selection and are waiting for the last interview. But it will not be one-on-one, but for all at once. Candidates are placed in a room, each is given a pencil and a piece of paper. They have 80 minutes at their disposal. The applicants are surprised to find their sheets of paper empty.

"Awesome chamber movie! Playing the whole period of watching a real detective, dragged from the ending, give it a 10", — Sprogis.

"Very interesting thriller, keeps you in suspense and amazes you with its ending", — severinalina.

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6. "The Silence" / Das letzte Schweigen

• 2010
• Germany
• Thriller, drama, crime
• Director: Baran bo Odar
• Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg, Burghart Klaußner
• IMDb Rating: 7.0

In the summer of 1986, 11-year-old schoolgirl Pia is murdered in a wheat field. The perpetrator stuffs the girl's body into the trunk of a car and leaves her bicycle at the scene. 23 years later, another child goes missing, whose bicycle is found at the same spot where Pia's bicycle was found. Senior detective Krischan Mittich (Burghart Klaußner), who investigated the first murder, has to take up the case again. This time he will be assisted by young detective David Jahn (Sebastian Blomberg).

The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Jan Costin Wagner. "The Silence" received positive reviews from movie critics: a Rotten Tomatoes the picture has a rating of 87%, and on the site Metacritic the movie has a score of 72 out of 100.

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5. "Cube"

• 1997
• Canada
• Fantasy, thriller, horror
• Director: Vincenzo Natali
• Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nikki Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings
• IMDb Rating: 7.2

Five strangers find themselves inside a strange 8 by 8 meter cube with no windows or doors. They soon realize that they are in a giant maze of conjoined cube rooms with no food or water. The only way to get out of the room is through one of the hatches located in the center of each face, but this hatch leads to the exact same room.

The movie was shot in just 20 shooting days. With a very modest budget of about $300k, it paid off and grossed $500 million at the worldwide box office.

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4. "Burning" / Beoning

• 2018
• Korea
• Detective, thriller, drama
• Director: Lee Chang-dong
• Starring: Yoo Ah-in, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven Yeun, Soo-Kyung, Choi Seung-ho
• IMDb Rating: 7.5

An aspiring writer Lee Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) is in love with his model girlfriend Shin Hae-mi (Jeon Jeong-seo), who one day introduces him to his new boyfriend Ben (Steven Yeon). The mysterious guy turns out to have a strange hobby — he sets greenhouses on fire. Jong-su wants to save Hae-mi from Ben's influence, but doesn't have time because the girl disappears without a trace. She leaves no parting message or promise to return.

The movie did not win any awards from the Cannes Film Festival jury, but it became the most discussed among critics and was awarded the FIPRESCI prize.

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3. "Who Am I" / Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher

• 2014
• Germany
• Fantasy, thriller, drama, crime, detective
• Director: Baran bo Odar
• Starring: Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Moehring, Antoine Monot Jr, Hanna Herzschprung
• IMDb Rating: 7.5

Benjamin (Tom Schilling) has no equal in virtual reality. He is the true king of hacking and hacker attacks. One day he meets a group of hackers led by Max (Elyas M'Barek). They all dream of having the world talking about them. The cybercriminals take on the collective alias CLAY and commit increasingly daring crimes. At some point, Europol becomes seriously interested in them.

"Elias M'Barek is one of my favorite actors. A great movie that is best watched carefully", — Mayer_E.

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2. "Ex Machina"

• 2015
• United Kingdom
• Drama, sci-fi, thriller
• Director: Alex Garland
• Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson
• IMDb Rating: 7.7

A young programmer, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), gets the opportunity to participate in a test of a new artificial intelligence. For a week, he must communicate with the robot Ava (Alicia Vikander), who has the body of an attractive girl. During the experiment, they get closer, and one day Ava declares that her developer is lying to Caleb and cannot be trusted.

"Ex Machina" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay, the movie also won a statuette for Best Visual Effects

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1. "The Best Offer" / La migliore offerta

• 2013
• Italy
• Thriller, Drama, Crime
• Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
• Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Jackson
• IMDb Rating: 7.8

Auctioneer Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a true professional in his business. He is able to instantly distinguish a work of art from a fake and sell it for a fortune. Oldman is hired by a young heiress, Claire (Sylvia Hoeks). She wants a professional to help her sell a large art collection she inherited from her parents. Among the collection of paintings and figurines, the auctioneer finds strange mechanical parts, which he begins to piece together.

"Great movie! I recommend to watch it", — Yulka9408.

"Really liked it!" — id570893671.

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