There is best narrators in films who lied and twisted the facts of their story when recounting it to us. We think we could trust them. But, They are untrustworthy or their personal bias changed; how we saw their events unfold.
1. The Usual Suspects (1995) -
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
2. Shutter Island (2010) -
Mystery, Thriller
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
3. Fight Club (1999) -
Drama
An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soapmaker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.
4. The Sixth Sense (1999) -
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
5. A Beautiful Mind (2001) -
Biography, Drama
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
6. American Psycho (2000) -
Crime, Drama
A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
7. Life of Pi (2012) -
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
8. Gone Girl (2014) -
Crime, Drama, Mystery
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -
Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When their relationship turns sour, a young couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories
10. The Machinist (2004) -
Drama, Thriller
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
These are films in which unreliable movie narrators are who lied to us throughout the film most surprised us.
- Bonus: More Notable Movies featuring unreliable narrator.
- Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis
- Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan
- Hero (2002), directed by Zhang Yimou
- Big Fish (2003), directed by Tim Burton
- Joker (2019), directed by Todd Phillips
