Like Inception, but grounded
The mind-bending structure and cerebral pleasures of Inception — told with a fraction of the budget and twice the restraint.
Memento
2000Nolan himself — a fractured timeline that makes you rebuild the truth
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Primer
2004Time travel for engineers — bewildering, rigorous, $7,000 budget
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Enemy
2013Villeneuve's spider-threaded doppelgänger film — dense and unsettling
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Coherence
2013One dinner party, one strange night — small-scale but genuinely uncanny
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Predestination
2014The most elegant time-loop paradox ever committed to film
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