Mind-bending movies and web series to stream in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
Twisty plots, unreliable narrators and endings you'll argue about.Every title on KyaDekhu carries an 8-part taste profile (suspense, twistiness, warmth, darkness, pace, humour, family-friendliness and spectacle); this list is the closest match to the “mind-bending movies & series” mood, nudged by rating.
40 titles across 7 languages, average IMDb rating 8.3.
2. The Godfather Part II (1974)
Movie · English · 3h 22m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 9.0 (15L votes)
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
3. Twin Peaks (1990)
Web series · English · 58m/ep · A · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.7 (2.5L votes)
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
4. Donnie Darko (2001)
Movie · English · 1h 54m · UA · Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.0 (9.2L votes)
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
5. Severance (2022)
Web series · English · 1h 20m/ep · A · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.6 (4.1L votes)
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
6. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
Web series · Japanese · 25m/ep · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation · IMDb 8.5 (1.2L votes)
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
7. True Detective (2014)
Web series · English · 1h 16m/ep · U · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.8 (7.8L votes)
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
8. Undone (2019)
Web series · English · 23m/ep · Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.2 (27K votes)
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
9. Monster (2004)
Web series · Japanese · 24m/ep · A · Animation, Drama · IMDb 8.8 (77K votes)
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + edge-of-seat suspense
10. The Prestige (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 10m · U · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.5 (16L votes)
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
11. Shutter Island (2010)
Movie · English · 2h 18m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.2 (17L votes)
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
12. The OA (2016)
Web series · English · 43m/ep · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · IMDb 7.8 (1.3L votes)
Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
13. Mr. Robot (2015)
Web series · English · 51m/ep · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (4.8L votes)
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld o
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
14. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Web series · English · 1h 12m/ep · A · Mystery, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (3.4L votes)
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
15. Memento (2000)
Movie · English · 1h 53m · Mystery, Thriller · IMDb 8.4 (15L votes)
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happ
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
16. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Movie · Japanese · 1h 27m · Animation, Science Fiction · IMDb 8.1 (80K votes)
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
17. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Movie · English · 2h 9m · UA · Science Fiction, Thriller · IMDb 8.0 (6.9L votes)
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
18. Lost Highway (1997)
Movie · English · 2h 14m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.6 (1.7L votes)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
19. Fight Club (1999)
Movie · English · 2h 19m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.8 (27L votes)
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
20. Watchmen (2019)
Web series · English · 1h 7m/ep · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.2 (1.5L votes)
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
21. Inception (2010)
Movie · English · 2h 28m · UA · Action, Science Fiction · IMDb 8.8 (29L votes)
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
22. Fringe (2008)
Web series · English · 44m/ep · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (2.7L votes)
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and t
Feels like: mind-bending twists + edge-of-seat suspense
23. Sardar Udham (2021)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 42m · UA · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.3 (52K votes)
A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to ave
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
24. The Sopranos (1999)
Web series · English · 1h 1m/ep · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.2 (6L votes)
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
25. Carnivàle (2003)
Web series · English · 54m/ep · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · IMDb 8.4 (50K votes)
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology wit
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
26. Vada Chennai (2018)
Movie · Tamil · 2h 46m · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.4 (25K votes)
Anbu, a young carrom player in North Chennai becomes inadvertently involved in an ongoing conflict between two local gangsters.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
27. Black Mirror (2011)
Web series · English · 1h 30m/ep · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.7 (7.5L votes)
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
28. The Leftovers (2014)
Web series · English · 1h 13m/ep · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.3 (1.4L votes)
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
29. PLUTO (2023)
Web series · Japanese · 1h 8m/ep · U/A 16+ · Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.1 (22K votes)
When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
30. Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)
Web series · English · 1h 7m/ep · Drama · IMDb 8.1 (47K votes)
In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers — Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne — the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago's Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the t
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
31. Virumaandi (2004)
Movie · Tamil · 2h 55m · A · Drama, Action · IMDb 8.4 (9.9K votes)
Angela, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages. As tensions mount wi
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
33. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Movie · French · 2h 31m · UA · Thriller, Mystery · IMDb 7.6 (2.4L votes)
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + edge-of-seat suspense
34. Better Call Saul (2015)
Web series · English · 1h 10m/ep · A · Crime, Drama · IMDb 9.0 (8.7L votes)
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
35. Big Little Lies (2017)
Web series · English · 50m/ep · Drama · IMDb 8.4 (2.5L votes)
The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
36. I'm No Longer Here (2019)
Movie · Spanish · 1h 52m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (11K votes)
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
37. 3 Body Problem (2024)
Web series · English · 57m/ep · A · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · IMDb 7.5 (1.9L votes)
Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
38. Arrival (2016)
Movie · English · 1h 56m · UA · Drama, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.9 (8.8L votes)
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
39. Atonement (2007)
Movie · English · 2h 3m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 7.8 (3.3L votes)
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
40. Death Note (2006)
Web series · Japanese · 22m/ep · U/A 16+ · Animation, Mystery · IMDb 8.9 (5L votes)
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + edge-of-seat suspense
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