Aside from intermissions for longer movies, it's extremely uncommon for films to interrupt their own story at any point, unless the filmmaker has a very particular reason for doing so.
These 10 films, then, all stopped the narrative trajectory in its tracks, whether to give audiences a moment to breathe ahead of a big reveal, to experiment with some surreal filmmaking techniques, or to straight-up break the fourth wall.
Whatever the reason, these films all derailed their own sense of time and place, pushing the pause button on the typical movie format in favour of something a little more unexpected.
In some cases the results were certainly divisive, perhaps even controversial, but in each example the director clearly wanted to break from the norm and do something audiences wouldn't soon forget - for better or worse...
