Unreliable Narrator Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 44 films told by an unreliable narrator, spanning 1944–2023. 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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• 1984

  Amadeus

  Vienna — 1700s
  Urbandir. Miloš Forman
• 2000

  American Psycho

  New York City — 1980s
  Urbandir. Mary Harron
• 2023

  Anatomy of a Fall

  Grenoble — 2010s
  Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet
• 1987

  Angel Heart

  New York City · New Orleans — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alan Parker
• 2007

  Atonement

  London — 1930s · 1940s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright
• 1967

  Belle de Jour

  Paris — 1960s
  Urbandir. Luis Buñuel
• 2003

  Big Fish

  Alabama — 1950s · 2000s
  Ruraldir. Tim Burton
• 2010

  Black Swan

  New York City — 2010s
  Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky
• 1985

  Brazil

  Near Future
  Urbandir. Terry Gilliam
• 2018

  Burning

  Seoul — 2010s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong
• 2005

  Caché

  Paris — 2000s
  Urbandir. Michael Haneke
• 1944

  Double Indemnity

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 2014

  Enemy

  Toronto — 2010s
  Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve
• 1999

  eXistenZ

  Near Future
  Ruraldir. David Cronenberg
• 1999

  Fight Club

  1990s
  Urbandir. David Fincher
• 2014

  Gone Girl

  2010s
  Suburbandir. David Fincher
• 2002

  Hero

  China — Ancient
  Rural · Urbandir. Zhang Yimou
• 1990

  Jacob's Ladder

  New York City · Vietnam — 1970s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Adrian Lyne
• 2019

  Joker

  1980s
  Urbandir. Todd Phillips
• 2012

  Kahaani

  Kolkata — 2010s
  Urbandir. Sujoy Ghosh
• 2012

  Life of Pi

  Pondicherry · Montreal — 1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee
• 1997

  Lost Highway

  Los Angeles — 1990s
  Urban · Desertdir. David Lynch
• 2000

  Memento

  Los Angeles — 2000s
  Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1968

  Memories of Underdevelopment

  Havana — 1960s
  Urbandir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• 2009

  Mother

  South Korea — 2000s
  Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho
• 2001

  Mulholland Drive

  Los Angeles — 2000s
  Urbandir. David Lynch
• 1998

  Perfect Blue

  Tokyo — 1990s
  Urbandir. Satoshi Kon
• 1966

  Persona

  1960s
  Coastal Seadir. Ingmar Bergman
• 2004

  Primer

  2000s
  Suburbandir. Shane Carruth
• 1950

  Rashomon

  Kyoto — Ancient
  Wildernessdir. Akira Kurosawa
• 2010

  Shutter Island

  Boston — 1950s
  Islanddir. Martin Scorsese
• 1950

  Sunset Boulevard

  Los Angeles — 1950s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 2000

  The Beach

  Thailand · Bangkok — 1990s
  Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Danny Boyle
• 2020

  The Father

  London — 2010s
  Urbandir. Florian Zeller
• 2016

  The Handmaiden

  South Korea — 1930s
  Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook
• 2019

  The Lighthouse

  New England — 1800s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Eggers
• 2001

  The Others

  1940s
  Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 2006

  The Prestige

  London — 1900s
  Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1999

  The Sixth Sense

  Philadelphia — 1990s
  Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan
• 1976

  The Tenant

  Paris — 1970s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1995

  The Usual Suspects

  Los Angeles · New York City — 1990s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Bryan Singer
• 1990

  Total Recall

  Near Future
  Off World · Underground · Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven
• 1958

  Vertigo

  San Francisco — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1983

  Videodrome

  Toronto — 1980s
  Urbandir. David Cronenberg