How long does it take to solve a riddle or puzzle? Usually it all depends on the complexity. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, months, and sometimes years. But what if this time is gone? When is any delay or wrong action fraught with serious consequences? Imagine that someone is given only one and a half to two hours. The article will describe the best films with riddles and puzzles. The list will be presented below.
1. The Game (1997)
So, let's begin. Nicholas Van Orton is a successful businessman tired of life. He is calm, smart, prudent, he always has everything under control. But these character traits will not help him when the game begins, the certificate for which he received from his brother on his birthday.
A certain "Entertainment Service" offers its customers a game, and in order to start it, you must visit their office. Nicholas does so, and when he comes home, he discovers a clown, from whose mouth he takes out a key. According to the rules of the game, a man will continue to expect surprises. But will they turn out to be just as harmless.
2. “Remember” (2000)
Movies with riddles and puzzles are interesting in that they can keep the intrigue until the very end. The detective thriller tells about Leonard Shelby - a former insurance agent. Now he is unemployed, but there are reasons for this. He recently lost his wife, and now his goal is to find her killer. But everything is complicated by the presence of a head injury, due to which he is not able to remember events for more than ten minutes.
In order to at least somehow remember the places where he was already looking, Leonard constantly leaves notes for himself in the form of notes, photographs and even tattoos. Fortunately, he is not alone in the investigation. He is assisted by an unfamiliar man named Teddy and girlfriend Natalie. True, Leonard is a little embarrassed, because he does not know whether they can be trusted.
3. “Outland” (2006)
By the way, movies with riddles and puzzles in the fantasy genre are no less interesting. The film directed by Tarsem Singh tells about the famous Hollywood stuntman, Roy Walker, who ends up in the hospital with a broken leg after an unsuccessful stunt. And his girlfriend left him for the sake of another more successful actor. And now he is in the hospital, suffering from severe pain and begins to think about suicide.
But one day a visitor comes to him - a little girl named Alexandria, who is also a patient of this clinic. To at least have some fun, Roy begins to tell her tales of his own composition. And over time, she begins to notice that the girl does not just listen carefully to them, but somehow influences the story.
4. “Exam” (2010)
They probably would have refused if they knew how dangerous the exam could be. The film tells about a large company that uses a very unusual way of selecting personnel. Happy candidates do not even imagine what tests they will have to pass for the sake of a career. And the most difficult thing is the final test, after which the best applicant will be determined. But how to complete the task, no one knows.
What do they really want from those who come for the exam? The film does not make this clear for a long time. Candidates are simply locked in a room where they must answer a question within 80 minutes. In this case, you can not contact the guard, leave the room and even write on the sheet, which for some reason lies there. And the most difficult thing is to answer a question that no one has asked so far.
5. The Source Code (2011)
This picture is a great example of the fact that director Duncan Jones is able to make the best films with riddles and puzzles. When Colter Stevens woke up, he immediately realized that he was in a strange body. But he did not manage to figure out what the matter was, as a powerful explosion completely destroyed the train in which he was traveling. Having regained consciousness, he receives answers to his questions and finds out that he has become an involuntary participant in a secret government program that allows him to enter the bodies of other people eight minutes before their death.
It turns out that the train was mined, and the bomb had already exploded. But the good news is that victims can be avoided. For this, the "Source Code" program was launched. But when Captain Stevens gets on the train again, he realizes that defusing a bomb and finding a terrorist is not enough for him.
6. “Trans” (2013)
The next list, which includes films with riddles and puzzles, will replenish the thriller Danny Boyle. It’s bad to lose memory, especially when you don’t remember where you hid a picture worth several million dollars. Such an incident happened with an employee of the auction house, who, together with accomplices, planned, and then committed this crime.
True, during the theft he received a blow to the head, and now no one knows where the picture of Francisco Goya lies. Then the gang leader hires Elizabeth, a hypnosis specialist. She spends several days with him, trying to awaken memories in his head, and, ultimately, she succeeds. Only everything begins to develop not as intended by employers.
7. “Medicine for health” (2017)
Concluding the list of films with riddles and puzzles, let us dwell on the new thriller Mount Verbinsky. An employee of a large company, by order of management, goes to the Alps to visit a local hospital for wealthy people. The institution is managed by his boss, who once left, and no one else saw him. And now Lockhart has been instructed to return the boss, because without his participation, many transactions are under the threat of disruption.
The clinic makes a good impression on the guest, but only the first. Around is clean and tidy, but patients do not look happy, although they say the opposite. And the procedures that they attend have little to do with the healing ones. What is the secret of so many customers? For Lockhart, this is a mystery, the solution of which can cost him his life.