5 Amazing Movies That Suddenly Shift Genres Halfway Through

We love movies for the immersive experience they provide, but sometimes it's too hard to sit through a movie patiently. In that case, you might want to watch something that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time.

Here are five movies that change genres along the way.

Vanilla Sky (2001, 6.9 on IMDb)

Featuring an all-star cast including Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz, the movie centers on David Aames, the heir to a large publishing fortune who lives a lavish lifestyle. One day, he gets into a car crash and ends up mutilated, his face irreversibly disfigured in the accident. As David learns to live with this, all kinds of strange things happen to him until he realizes that he isn't really alive.

The movie begins as a romantic drama, turns into a mystery thriller, and finally becomes a full-fledged sci-fi. Vanilla Sky is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.

Audition (1999, 7.1 on IMDb)

This Japanese horror film about Shigeharu Aoyama, a widower whose movie executive friend helps him stage an audition to meet a new girlfriend, begins as a romantic drama as it portrays the character's attempt to move on with his life. After interviewing several women, Aoyama becomes interested in Asami, but her dark past gets in the way of their relationship, turning the entire movie into a dark thriller.

You can stream Audition on Amazon Prime Video.

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, 7.2 on IMDb)

Like many of Quentin Tarantino's scripts, this action-horror is full of twists and turns. Focusing on Tarantino and George Clooney's characters, two brothers who take a family hostage in order to cross the Mexican border, From Dusk Till Dawn follows them on a journey that ends abruptly when they are trapped in a saloon full of vampires.

The movie is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.

Sunshine (2007. 7.2 on IMDb)

Danny Boyle's sci-fi drama, starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne and Michelle Yeoh, follows the crew of a spaceship on a mission to the sun to revive the dying star. As their mission nears success, there's a sudden change of plans that causes a major conflict among the astronauts and changes the tone of the movie to a psychological thriller.

Sunshine is available on Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and Apple TV+.

Full Metal Jacket (1987, 8.3 on IMDb)

This war drama by Stanley Kubrick is divided into two parts. The first half focuses on privates J.T. Davis and Leonard Lawrence in their training under the harsh instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, at boot camp at a Marine Corps facility in South Carolina. The second part follows the two characters in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, depicting the horrors of war. The tones of the two parts of the film are so different that they feel like two separate movies.

You can watch Full Metal Jacket on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.