Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Inception · The Dark Knight · Interstellar · Memento
medium
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Blade Runner 2049 · Dune · Sicario · Prisoners
hard
Set almost entirely in a single confined location
Buried · Locke · Phone Booth · Rope
Each film takes place almost entirely within a single confined physical space: a buried coffin (Buried), a moving car on a night motorway (Locke), a Manhattan phone booth (Phone Booth), and a penthouse apartment filmed in near-real-time (Rope).
tricky
English-language remakes of acclaimed foreign films
The Ring · The Departed · Let Me In · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Each is an English-language remake of a non-English original: The Ring from Japan's Ringu (1998), The Departed from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs (2002), Let Me In from Sweden's Let the Right One In (2008), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo from Sweden's Män som hatar kvinnor (2009). Players see the remakes, not the originals.