Some movies will leave you laughing. Some will make you mad. And others will have you walking around in a daze for a few days after you watch them.

Here are 1o of those movies.

1. Nocturnal Animals

A wealthy art gallery owner, played by Amy Adams, is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale. Also starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Asks probing questions with few answers.

Photo Credit: Focus Features

2. The Lobster

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they must find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Dark and mind boggling.

Photo Credit: Film 4

3. We Need to Talk About Kevin

A mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up.

A story about parenting a master manipulator.

Photo Credit: BBC Films

4. Ex Machina

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.

Not for light-hearted viewing.

Photo Credit: A24

5. Funny Games

Two young male psychopaths take a family hostage in their cabin. A mother, father and son are forced to play sadistic games with each other.

What would you do?

Photo Credit: Celluloid Dreams

6. Cloud Atlas

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Everything is connected.

Photo Credit: Xfilme Creative

7. Nightcrawler

A con man, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism and blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

A unique thriller.

Photo Credit: Bold Films

8. The Skin I Live In

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Dark and sad.