The Guilty (2018), 36 Hours (1964), Coherence (2013), The Andromeda Strain (1971), Table No.21 (2013), Tenet (2020), Buried (2010), Trance (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best High Concept movies.
Storyline: Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation.
Plot Keywords: thriller, action, crime, suspense, kidnapping, political conspiracy, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick) falls in love with a schoolmate (Patricia Arquette) and works on the Manhattan Project.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, psychological, supernatural, time travel, mathematics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the ability to travel through time is perfected, a new type of law enforcement agency is formed. It's called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Max brings him back for sentencing but not after telling Max that Senator McComb, the man in charge of TEC, sent him. Max has his eye on McComb.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, time travel, crime, thriller, future, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive...
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, horror, escape room, mathematics, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Homicide detective Sean Nault, a cop on a parallel Earth whose technology is powered exclusively by magic. Sean investigates a baffling series of murders committed by a means he's never seen before: science. With the aid of Lenoir, a member of the ridiculed subculture of "pragmatists" who believe science is more than the stuff of myths & children's stories, and the 130-year-old sorcerer Winston Churchill, Sean uncovers an ominous plot that will lead him to another dimension and the realization that, unless he prevents it, both earths could well be destroyed.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, time travel, parallel universe, experiment, disaster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple's door.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, serial killer, time travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: MATT and ANNA are a young couple living in London. Anna is starting her career and knows what she wants, whilst Matt is still struggling to find his purpose in life. On the surface they are happy but tensions are beginning to mount. Then one morning masked thugs break into the flat and kidnap Anna before assaulting Matt, locking him into a mysterious vest and leaving him a mobile phone. Matt is told the vest contains a package which he must deliver by following instructions issued to him via the mobile phone. If he fails, tries to seek help, or deviates from their instructions, they will kill Anna. Over the course of one day Matt has to make his way across London in a desperate bid to save his girlfriend as a host of characters attempt to derail him from his mission.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, adventure, video game adaptation, virtual reality, survival game, futuristic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a stunning dual role, international star Jet Li portrays Gabriel Yulaw, a police officer confronted with a sinister form of himself escaped from an advanced, parallel universe and intent on killing Gabriel. His alter ego's hunt culminates in a fateful battle between good and evil that changes Gabriel's perception of reality and forces him to examine the evil hidden within himself.
Plot Keywords: action, sci-fi, thriller, parallel universe, martial arts, superpowers, villain ...
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