Puzzle Box Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 171 films built like a puzzle box, spanning 1931–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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127 Hours
Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle - 2019
1917
Undergrounddir. Sam Mendes - 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey
Off World · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick - 2007
300
Mountaindir. Zack Snyder - 2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Rural · Islanddir. John Krasinski - 2011
A Separation
Urbandir. Asghar Farhadi - 1993
Alive
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Frank Marshall - 1950
All About Eve
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 2013
All Is Lost
Coastal Seadir. J.C. Chandor - 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ruraldir. Edward Berger - 1984
Amadeus
Urbandir. Miloš Forman - 1998
American History X
Urbandir. Tony Kaye - 2000
American Psycho
Urbandir. Mary Harron - 2000
Amores Perros
Urbandir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet - 1987
Angel Heart
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 2018
Annihilation
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Alex Garland - 1979
Apocalypse Now
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1969
Army of Shadows
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 2022
Babylon
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 1967
Belle de Jour
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Urbandir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2010
Black Swan
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1985
Blood Simple
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 2021
Boiling Point
Urbandir. Philip Barantini - 1945
Brief Encounter
Suburbandir. David Lean - 2018
Burning
Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 2005
Caché
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 1995
Casino
Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2024
Challengers
Urbandir. Luca Guadagnino - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rural · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg - 1990
Close-Up
Urbandir. Abbas Kiarostami - 2008
Cloverfield
Urban · Undergrounddir. Matt Reeves - 2011
Contagion
Urbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 1982
Creepshow
Rural · Suburbandir. George A. Romero - 2009
District 9
Urbandir. Neill Blomkamp - 1989
Do the Right Thing
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1995
Dolores Claiborne
Island · Ruraldir. Taylor Hackford - 2001
Donnie Darko
Suburbandir. Richard Kelly - 1944
Double Indemnity
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2004
Downfall
Urban · Undergrounddir. Oliver Hirschbiegel - 1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2024
Dune: Part Two
Desert · Off Worlddir. Denis Villeneuve - 2017
Dunkirk
Coastal Seadir. Christopher Nolan - 1999
Election
Urban · Suburbandir. Alexander Payne - 2014
Enemy
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1999
eXistenZ
Ruraldir. David Cronenberg - 1996
Fargo
Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1999
Fight Club
Urbandir. David Fincher - 2018
First Reformed
Ruraldir. Paul Schrader - 2013
Fruitvale Station
Urbandir. Ryan Coogler - 1987
Full Metal Jacket
Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 2014
Gone Girl
Suburbandir. David Fincher - 2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Urbandir. George Clooney - 2005
Grizzly Man
Wildernessdir. Werner Herzog - 1995
Heat
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 1963
High and Low
Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa - 2019
Hotel Mumbai
Urbandir. Anthony Maras - 2007
I Am Legend
Urbandir. Francis Lawrence - 2010
Incendies
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 2010
Inception
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2002
Infernal Affairs
Urbandir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai - 2006
Inside Man
Urbandir. Spike Lee - 1990
Jacob's Ladder
Urban · Wildernessdir. Adrian Lyne - 1991
JFK
Urbandir. Oliver Stone - 2000
Joint Security Area
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 2019
Joker
Urbandir. Todd Phillips - 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Urbandir. Shaka King - 2012
Kahaani
Urbandir. Sujoy Ghosh - 2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese - 2019
Knives Out
Ruraldir. Rian Johnson - 1965
Kwaidan
Rural · Wildernessdir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1997
L.A. Confidential
Urbandir. Curtis Hanson - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 2005
Lady Vengeance
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 2024
Late Night with the Devil
Urbandir. Cameron Cairnes - 1998
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Urbandir. Guy Ritchie - 2012
Looper
Urban · Ruraldir. Rian Johnson - 1997
Lost Highway
Urban · Desertdir. David Lynch - 1931
M
Urbandir. Fritz Lang - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 1999
Magnolia
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2000
Memento
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2007
Michael Clayton
Urbandir. Tony Gilroy - 2023
Monster
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2009
Mother
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 2003
Mystic River
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2021
Nightmare Alley
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 2021
Nobody
Suburban · Urbandir. Ilya Naishuller - 2022
Nope
Ruraldir. Jordan Peele - 2003
Oldboy
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Desert · Ruraldir. Sergio Leone - 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2023
Oppenheimer
Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1998
Perfect Blue
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 1966
Persona
Coastal Seadir. Ingmar Bergman - 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir - 1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 2014
Predestination
Urbandir. Michael Spierig - 2004
Primer
Suburbandir. Shane Carruth - 2013
Prisoners
Suburbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1960
Psycho
Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1994
Pulp Fiction
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2000
Requiem for a Dream
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1992
Reservoir Dogs
Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino - 2008
RocknRolla
Urbandir. Guy Ritchie - 1998
Run Lola Run
Urbandir. Tom Tykwer - 1998
Saving Private Ryan
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 1973
Serpico
Urbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1996
Shine
Suburban · Urbandir. Scott Hicks - 2010
Shutter Island
Islanddir. Martin Scorsese - 2005
Sin City
Urbandir. Robert Rodriguez - 2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 1972
Solaris
Off Worlddir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1977
Sorcerer
Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin - 1950
Sunset Boulevard
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 2002
Talk to Her
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ruraldir. Andrew Dominik - 1966
The Battle of Algiers
Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo - 2000
The Beach
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean - 2004
The Butterfly Effect
Urban · Suburbandir. Eric Bress - 1994
The Crow
Urbandir. Alex Proyas - 2008
The Dark Knight
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1978
The Deer Hunter
Urban · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino - 2006
The Departed
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 1971
The French Connection
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 2015
The Hateful Eight
Mountain · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2021
The Last Duel
Rural · Urbandir. Ridley Scott - 2019
The Lighthouse
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Eggers - 1986
The Name of the Rose
Ruraldir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 2001
The Others
Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar - 2000
The Perfect Storm
Coastal Seadir. Wolfgang Petersen - 2006
The Prestige
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 1939
The Rules of the Game
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir - 2016
The Salesman
Urbandir. Asghar Farhadi - 1956
The Searchers
Wilderness · Desertdir. John Ford - 2009
The Secret in Their Eyes
Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella - 1999
The Sixth Sense
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 2010
The Social Network
Urbandir. David Fincher - 1976
The Tenant
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Urbandir. Aaron Sorkin - 1995
The Usual Suspects
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Bryan Singer - 2009
The White Ribbon
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke - 2014
Timbuktu
Desertdir. Abderrahmane Sissako - 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Urbandir. Tomas Alfredson - 1997
Titanic
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 1990
Total Recall
Off World · Underground · Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 2000
Traffic
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2007
Trick 'r Treat
Suburban · Ruraldir. Michael Dougherty - 1995
Twelve Monkeys
Urban · Undergrounddir. Terry Gilliam - 1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. John Landis - 2018
Utøya: July 22
Island · Wildernessdir. Erik Poppe - 2012
V/H/S
Urban · Rural · Desertdir. David Bruckner - 1958
Vertigo
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2015
Victoria
Urbandir. Sebastian Schipper - 1983
Videodrome
Urbandir. David Cronenberg - 2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Suburbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 2007
Zodiac
Urbandir. David Fincher
Frequently asked
How many movies are built like a puzzle box?
Kinora's catalogue lists 171 films built like a puzzle box, spanning 1931–2024.
What are some movies built like a puzzle box?
Films built like a puzzle box in our catalogue include 127 Hours (2010), 1917 (2019), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 300 (2007), and A Quiet Place Part II (2021).
What is the oldest movie built like a puzzle box?
M (1931) is the earliest film built like a puzzle box in our catalogue; the most recent is The Bikeriders (2024).