Best psychological thrillers - Charts
Best psychological thrillers
3. Memento (2000)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss
4. Prisoners (2013)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal
6. Falling Down (1993)
USA / France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall
7. Phone Booth (2002)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland
8. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Japan, Animation / Thriller
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Cast: Akio Ōtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka
9. Perfect Blue (1997)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Cast: Rica Matsumoto, Shin'ichirō Miki
11. Confessions (2010)
Japan, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura
12. Black Swan (2010)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis
13. Spellbound (1945)
USA, Film-Noir / Psychological
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
14. The Insider (1999)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe
15. Requiem for a Maiden (1991)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Filip Renč
Cast: Aňa Geislerová, Barbora Hrzánová
16. Funny Games (1997)
Austria, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Cast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe
17. Paprika (2006)
Japan, Animation / Mystery
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ōtsuka
18. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench
20. Divisé (2016)
USA / Japan, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy
21. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Hiroyuki Okiura
Cast: Tamio Ōki, Kōsei Hirota
22. Side Effects (2013)
USA, Psychological / Crime
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jude Law, Rooney Mara
23. La Peau que j'habite (2011)
Spain, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya
25. Repulsion (1965)
UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry
26. Take Shelter (2011)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain
27. Nocturnal Animals (2016)
USA, Psychological / Thriller
Directed by: Tom Ford
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal
28. Rules of Lies (2006)
Czech Republic, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Robert Sedláček
Cast: Jiří Langmajer, David Švehlík
29. The Fallen Idol (1948)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson
30. Walking Too Fast (2009)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Radim Špaček
Cast: Ondřej Malý, Kristína Tormová
31. Lantana (2001)
Australia / Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Ray Lawrence
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush
32. The Cage (1975)
France, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Cast: Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin
33. Sister My Sister (1994)
UK, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Nancy Meckler
Cast: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson
34. Deadly Maria (1993)
Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Nina Petri, Katja Studt
35. One Hour Photo (2002)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen
36. Hansel & Gretel (2007)
South Korea, Thriller / Psychological
Directed by: Pil-sung Yim
Cast: Jeong-myeong Cheon, Won-jae Eun
38. The Gift (2015)
USA / Australia, Psychological / Mystery
Directed by: Joel Edgerton
Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall
39. Funny Games (2007)
USA / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth
41. The Occupant (2020)
Spain, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Àlex Pastor, David Pastor
Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Mario Casas
42. Safe (1995)
UK / USA, Psychological / Drama
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Cast: Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley
44. He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
USA, Drama / Psychological
Directed by: Frank A. Cappello
Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert
46. Savage (2009)
Ireland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Brendan Muldowney
Cast: Darren Healy, Nora-Jane Noone
49. Alice in Borderland (2014)
Japan, Animation / Horror
Directed by: Hideki Tachibana
Cast: Tsubasa Yonaga, Yoshimasa Hosoya
50. Reflections (1987)
Yugoslavia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Goran Markovic
Cast: Anica Dobra, Bogdan Diklic
51. Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991)
Sweden / Finland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Jan Troell
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Antti Reini
52. Pin (1988)
Canada, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: Sandor Stern
Cast: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston
53. Secret Window (2004)
USA, Psychological / Mystery
Directed by: David Koepp
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Turturro
54. Mandragora (1997)
Czech Republic, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Wiktor Grodecki
Cast: Miroslav Čáslavka, David Švec
56. Red Road (2006)
UK / Denmark, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran
57. Nightcap (2000)
France / Switzerland, Mystery / Psychological
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc
58. Antarctic Journal (2005)
South Korea, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Pil-sung Yim
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Ji-tae Yoo
59. Hereditary (2018)
USA, Horror / Psychological
Directed by: Ari Aster
Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne
61. Mindscape (2013)
Spain / USA, Psychological / Thriller
Directed by: Jorge Dorado
Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Mark Strong
62. Vyděrač (1937)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Ladislav Brom
Cast: Vítězslav Boček, Adina Mandlová
63. The Divide (2011)
Germany / USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Xavier Gens
Cast: Lauren German, Michael Biehn
64. Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Japan, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Cast: Hideaki Itō, Takayuki Yamada
65. The Beasts (2022)
Spain / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Cast: Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs
66. To Kill a Man (2014)
Chile / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Cast: Daniel Candia, Alejandra Yañez
67. Tom à la ferme (2013)
Canada / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Xavier Dolan
Cast: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal
68. Faceless Beauty (2004)
South Korea, Thriller / Romance
Directed by: In-sik Kim
Cast: Hye-soo Kim, Tae-woo Kim
69. Enemy (2013)
Canada / Spain, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent
70. Mise à mort du cerf sacré (2017)
Ireland / UK, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman
71. The Stepfather (1987)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Joseph Ruben
Cast: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen
72. Strangled (2016)
Hungary, Psychological / Horror
Directed by: Árpád Sopsits
Cast: Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi
73. Don't Look Now (1973)
UK / Italy, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland
74. The Experiment (2010)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Paul Scheuring
Cast: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker
75. Over the Edge (2012)
Denmark, Thriller / Psychological
Directed by: Laurits Munch-Petersen, Jacob Ditlev
Cast: Jonatan Spang, Anne Louise Hassing
77. The Bait (1995)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk
79. Scenic Route (2013)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz
Cast: Josh Duhamel, Dan Fogler
80. The East (2013)
USA / UK, Psychological / Action
Directed by: Zal Batmanglij
Cast: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård
81. A Patch of Fog (2015)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Lennox
Cast: Lara Pulver, Stephen Graham
82. The Top Floor (2013)
Poland, Thriller / Psychological
Directed by: Tadeusz Król
Cast: Janusz Chabior, Joanna Orleanska
83. Hounds of Love (2016)
Australia, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Ben Young
Cast: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings
85. Stoker (2013)
USA / UK, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode
86. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Austria, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Cast: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz
87. The House Among the Cactuses (2022)
Spain, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Carlota González-Adrio
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Daniel Grao
89. The Unsaid (2001)
Canada / USA, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Tom McLoughlin
Cast: Andy Garcia, Vincent Kartheiser
90. Angel (1982)
Ireland / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea
92. Monument (2018)
Poland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Jagoda Szelc
Cast: Zuzanna Lit, Anna Biernacik
93. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Italy / Spain, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Mario Bava
Cast: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander
94. I, Anna (2012)
UK / Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Barnaby Southcombe
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne
95. Dark Skies (2013)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Scott Charles Stewart
Cast: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton
97. Five Fingers (2006)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Laurence Malkin
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe
98. Lakeview Terrace (2008)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
99. Everybody Knows (2018)
Spain / France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem
100. The Housemaid (2010)
South Korea, Drama / Erotic
Directed by: Sang-soo Im
Cast: Do-youn Jeon, Jung-jae Lee