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2 days ago · 12. Oldboy. Show East. Revenge is a key component of many psychological thrillers, forcing us to question how far is reasonable to go for the sake of vengeance. But few films manage to offer as ...
- 15 'Frailty'
- 14 'The Machinist'
- 13 'Se7en'
- 12 'Mulholland Drive'
- 11 'Black Swan'
- 10 'A Tale of Two Sisters'
- 9 'Zodiac'
- 8 'Vertigo'
- 7 'Don't Look Now'
- 6 'Memento'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
An underrated thriller from Bill Paxton in his directorial debut, Frailty was an arresting crime drama laced with mysterious intrigue as its violent and complex narrative unfolded. It revolves around Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey), a young man who reveals to an FBI agent that his recently deceased brother was an active serial killer known as the "God's Hand" killer. As he travels with the agent to where he suspects the victims are buried, Fenton sheds light on his and his brother's childh...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77%
One of the most underrated thrillers of the 2000s, The Machinist is famous for exhibiting Christian Bale at his committed best, but it also delivers a suitably pulsating mystery to boot. It follows Trevor Raznik (Bale), a machinist with a severe case of insomnia whose life is uprooted when he begins to suspect he is being stalked by a mysterious co-worker named Ivan (John Sharian) who only he seems to be able to notice. Bale's physical dedication to his roles has perhaps never been displayed...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Just the second feature film from David Fincher following his much-maligned debut with Alien 3, the now legendary crime thriller Seven (also stylized as Se7en) marked the genre maestro's defining career breakthrough. It follows two detectives, seasoned Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and rookie Detective Mills (Brad Pitt), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders based on the seven deadly sins. The killer, John Doe, meticulously plans and executes his crimes, pushing the detective...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
David Lynch's enigmatic masterpiece, Mulholland Drive follows aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) as she arrives in Los Angeles and befriends an amnesiac woman named Rita (Laura Harring). Together, they embark on a journey to uncover Rita's true identity, leading them through a dark and dreamlike web of mysterious events and strange encounters. As the lines between dreams, reality, and fantasy blur, the film explores the complexities of identity, desire, and the disturbing underbelly of...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
A gripping and twisted psychological thriller that also serves as a brilliant tale of the dangers of obsession, Black Swan displays director Darren Aronofsky at his mind-bending best. It follows Nina (Natalie Portman), a talented ballerina with a knack for perfectionism who gets the chance to lead her academy's production of 'Swan Lake'. However, as Nina finds herself in competition for the part with Lily (Mila Kunis), a new arrival in the company, she begins to lose her grasp on reality. Wit...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
Directed by Kim Jee-Woon, A Tale of Two Sisters is a South Korean psychological thriller that follows Bae Su-mi (Im Soo-jung) and Bae Su-yeon (Moon Geun-young), two sisters who return home from a mental institution to live with their distant father and cruel stepmother. Their new stepmother's presence brings tension and disturbing occurrences to their lives as the sisters struggle to cope with their haunting past. As dark secrets and supernatural occurrences transpire, the film unfolds with a...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
Another great David Fincher thriller, it would be easy to make the case that Zodiac is the esteemed director's single most underrated picture thus far. It is a breathtaking example of the brand of crime-mystery dread and suspense which Fincher truly excels at, with Zodiac functioning as an insightful and nuanced, yet undeniably epic depiction of the Zodiac killer's murderous spree, and the reign of terror it brought upon San Francisco through the 1970s. The film is primarily focused on Robert...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
An iconic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Vertigo is one of the most famous movie titles of all time and, quite impressively, it has lost little of its heart-pounding punch over the decades. It sees Jimmy Stewart star as John Ferguson, a former detective plagued by a debilitating fear of heights who is hired by an old friend to tail his wife who has been acting strangely. However, when the woman commits suicide, John begins to develop an acute obsession with her. The film found a great deal of awk...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Don't Look Now follows a grieving couple, John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie), who travel to Venice after the tragic death of their daughter. In Venice, they encounter two mysterious sisters, one of whom claims to be clairvoyant and communicates with their deceased daughter. As supernatural occurrences unfold, the couple becomes increasingly entangled in a web of danger and suspense. As the film blends elements of horror, mystery, and psychological tension, the haunting...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
As just the second film of his career, Memento marked the major breakout in Christopher Nolan's career, showcasing the filmmaker's trademark time-bending narrative structure and intense thrills. Ultimately a revenge thriller, it follows a man with anterograde amnesia as he strives to figure out the identity of the man who murdered his wife and kill him. Due to his condition, he relies on notes, tattoos, and Polaroid pictures to track his progress, and is revealed to be manipulated by those ar...
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- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Film. Thrillers. Film noir’s most unsettling nightmare ends in a flaming nuclear disaster – and if that anxiety weren’t enough, there’s also off-screen torture, ferocious desk-clerk slapping and the casual destruction of a beloved opera record.
- Les Diaboliques (1955) Film. Thrillers. A creepy boarding school, a monstrous headmaster, his quietly fed-up wife, another disgruntled lover – thrillers rarely come better stocked for suspense.
- Vertigo (1958) Film. Thrillers. Often regarded as cinema’s greatest achievement, ‘Vertigo’ presents the peak of Hitchcock’s psychosexual fixations in gloriously shot Technicolor.
- Taxi Driver (1976) Film. Drama. As a study of masculinity and alienation, Martin Scorsese’s most disturbing masterwork has taken on even greater relevance in the last few years, in ways that probably shock and frighten the director himself.
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Psychological Thrillers List. Considering my new found love for psychological thrillers, i felt it really easy to find the really great ones to watch first, and now i feel like ive watched all the grea Psychological Thrillers with great plot twisted endings, yet ive only watched like 10-15.
6.4 (111K) Rate. 40 Metascore. An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.
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Hilary Bonner (born 1949) is an English crime novelist, best known for her psychological thrillers. Almost all Bonner's novels are inspired by real life events, often drawing on her journalistic past.
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