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psychological thriller

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Following

A 1998 black-and-white debut feature by Christopher Nolan about a young writer who follows strangers and becomes entangled with a manipulative burglar.

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Inception

A 2010 film by Christopher Nolan about a thief who enters people's dreams to steal or plant ideas, culminating in a four-level nested dream heist.

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Insomnia

A 2002 film by Christopher Nolan about a guilt-ridden Los Angeles detective who accidentally shoots his partner while hunting a killer in the perpetually sunlit Alaskan wilderness.

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Memento

A 2000 film by Christopher Nolan told in reverse chronological order about a man with no short-term memory hunting his wife's killer.

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Moon Knight

Marvel Studios' Disney+ limited series starring Oscar Isaac as a mercenary with dissociative identity disorder who becomes entangled with the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.

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Performance

A 1970 British film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg in which a violent gangster hides in a reclusive rock star's London house and undergoes a dissolution of identity.

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The Prestige

A 2006 film by Christopher Nolan about two rival Victorian magicians whose obsessive competition leads to sacrifice, deception, and a Faustian technological bargain.

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