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Psychological Thriller Movies

Name: Psychological Thriller Movies
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Psychological thrillers that mess with your mind — unreliable narrators, gaslighting, and twisted reveals.

Psychological thrillers work on dread instead of gore. The threat is usually a person, the weapon is usually information, and the best ones leave you rewinding scenes to catch what you missed. Gone Girl, Prisoners, Shutter Island, Memento — this is the genre where endings matter.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Parasite	2019	Bong Joon Ho	8.5	Comedy, Thriller, Drama	South Korea	133	All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Se7en	1995	David Fincher	8.4	Crime, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	127	Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside th...
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock	8.4	Horror, Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	109	When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme	8.3	Crime, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	119	Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have i...
Perfect Blue	1998	Satoshi Kon	8.3	Animation, Thriller	Japan	82	Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenz...
Shutter Island	2010	Martin Scorsese	8.2	Drama, Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	138	World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick	8.2	Horror, Thriller	United Kingdom	144	Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan	8.2	Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	113	Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard ca...
Joker	2019	Todd Phillips	8.1	Crime, Thriller, Drama	Canada	122	During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock	8.1	Mystery, Romance, Thriller	United States of America	128	A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
M	1931	Fritz Lang	8.1	Drama, Thriller, Crime	Germany	110	In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and ...
Gone Girl	2014	David Fincher	7.9	Mystery, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	149	With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
No Country for Old Men	2007	Joel Coen	7.9	Crime, Thriller, Western	United States of America	122	Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
The Sixth Sense	1999	M. Night Shyamalan	7.9	Mystery, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	107	Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton	7.9	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	93	In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
I Saw the Devil	2010	Kim Jee-woon	7.8	Thriller, Horror	South Korea	144	Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
The Chaser	2008	Na Hong-jin	7.8	Crime, Thriller, Action	South Korea	125	Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting wi...
Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky	7.7	Drama, Thriller, Horror	United States of America	108	A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".
The Batman	2022	Matt Reeves	7.7	Crime, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	177	In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Nightcrawler	2014	Dan Gilroy	7.7	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	118	When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Misery	1990	Rob Reiner	7.7	Drama, Thriller	United States of America	107	After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Primal Fear	1996	Gregory Hoblit	7.7	Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	130	Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the ...
Strangers on a Train	1951	Alfred Hitchcock	7.7	Crime, Thriller	United States of America	101	A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Get Out	2017	Jordan Peele	7.6	Mystery, Thriller, Horror	United States of America	104	Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoverie...
Blue Velvet	1986	David Lynch	7.6	Mystery, Thriller, Crime	United States of America	120	The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The Tenant	1976	Roman Polanski	7.6	Thriller, Mystery, Drama	France	126	A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
We Need to Talk About Kevin	2011	Lynne Ramsay	7.5	Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	113	After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
American Psycho	2000	Mary Harron	7.4	Thriller, Drama, Crime	Canada	102	A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Promising Young Woman	2020	Emerald Fennell	7.4	Thriller, Crime, Drama	United States of America	114	A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Dirty Harry	1971	Don Siegel	7.4	Action, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	102	When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Split	2017	M. Night Shyamalan	7.3	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	117	Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all o...
Hereditary	2018	Ari Aster	7.3	Horror, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	128	Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
Cape Fear	1991	Martin Scorsese	7.3	Drama, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	128	Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client ...
Battle Royale	2000	Kinji Fukasaku	7.3	Drama, Thriller, Action	Japan	113	In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Funny Games	1997	Michael Haneke	7.3	Drama, Horror, Thriller	Austria	109	Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
The Housemaid	2025	Paul Feig	7.3	Drama, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	131	Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.
The Menu	2022	Mark Mylod	7.2	Comedy, Horror, Thriller	United States of America	107	A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Identity	2003	James Mangold	7.2	Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	90	Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Speak No Evil	2024	James Watkins	7.2	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	110	When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
Marathon Man	1976	John Schlesinger	7.2	Thriller, Crime, Drama	United States of America	125	A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

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