50 Movies That Expand Your Mind

The movies that creep into our minds as a mere thought or as flashes generally have short lives. But movies that keep hanging on to our conscience and hovers above us throughout the day is what we call a ‘hard knock on the skull’ that we’re talking about here at Fresh Box Office. These latest Hollywood movies are the reason why we see everything around us in a slightly different way now and can finally know how it is to be in the shadow of infinity.    

So are you down for a ride into our own minds to test how far we can go till we breakthrough?

1.     Inception (2010):

Inception 

A movie that blurred the fine lines between our dreams &reality, is perhaps why we now understand deja-vu better! A keeper line from the movie: “An idea is like a virus. Resilient.Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.”

2.     Coherence (2013):

Coherence 

Another movie that makes us fall for Quantum Physics Theories, despite of being unexplainably complicated in terms of the definition of Schroedinger’s Cat &Decoherence. A keeper of a line from the movie: “That’s the Door to Nowhere!” Guess Beth was right throughout the time!

3.     Lucy (2014):

Lucy 

From the evolution of synthetic CPH-4 (an actual plausibility in future) to the ability of using one’s brain to its complete efficiency, this movie pars all limits of imagination that mankind has been struggling to find definitions. A Keeper from the movie? Well, how about: “Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what to do with it.”

4.     I Origins (2014):

I Origins 

A film that isn’t only a pair of beautiful eyes having central heterochromia (spikes of different colours radiating from the pupil) this movie touch you the untouched paradigms of spirituality & science that somehow merge at the horizon. A keeper line that practically makes you marvel at the perception of Leonardo Da Vinci & the truth of science: “Maybe truly, the eyes are a window to our soul…” and when Ian goes on explaining about the Iris design.

5.     Exam (2009):

Exam 

A movie that is a remake of the French movie under the same name, this movie reveals the dark sides of us hidden under crisply pressed corporate grey suits and neatly tied bowties. A keeper line from the movie would be: “What is the Question?” which keeps popping up from different people at different scenarios and with completely different intensities.

6.     Under the Skin (2013):

Under The Skin 

The movie which literally sticks into your head weeks after you’ve watched it because of its weird-at-first-but-fascinating-at-end concept, Scarlett Johansson’s craft in this movie is a feast to the eyes. Even though the entire movie has very few required dialogues (making you literally dwell over the fact that how cool it would be to have silent movies now?) there’s a keeper line: “Come with me” will literally give you goosebumps at all the right & wrong places at the same time.

7.     Primer (2004):

Primer 

A movie that literally made fans, scientists and critics draw flowcharts & diagrams at the same table to fully understand the movie and the concept, this movie is the most excellent in its class that talks about time travel. A keeper would be: “What if it works?”

8.     Cube (1997):

Cube

Another movie that made even the math-nerds run haywire while the rest fall straight away for this complex yet gripping theory and learn the exciting possibilities of equations. The Keeper has to be: “The walls are closing in.”

9.     Memento (2000):

Memento 

An epic that gives you everything you could have asked from a psychological thriller, it is yet another Christopher Nolan’s signature movies which keeps your heart pumping loud in your ears throughout. A keeper line would be: “I can’t remember to forget you.”

10.                        Room (2015):

Room 

This movie gives you the after feeling of having an Oreo, that would keep you longing for more at the same time knowing to be in limits (else it would turn into an addiction) and a grief settling in as acceptance. A psychological inspirational that literally changes your heart to be more kind and alert to everyone & everything around you. A keeper is: “When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I'm five, I know everything!”