Top Paranoia Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Tom Cruise

Colin Farrell

Samantha Morton

Max von Sydow

Minority Report (2002)

7.4 9.7K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: washington dc, usa, dystopia, police chief, precognition, hologram, futuristic, murder, ...

Time: 2050s

Cast

Rufus Sewell

William Hurt

Kiefer Sutherland

Jennifer Connelly

Dark City (1998)

7.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: beach, amnesia, experiment, paranoia, dystopia, sleep, manipulation, mad scientist, ...

Cast

Emma Stone

Jesse Plemons

Aidan Delbis

Stavros Halkias

Bugonia (2025)

7.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Ireland, South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Plot: saving the world, capitalism, kidnapping, paranoia, delusion, symbolism, dark comedy, satire, ...

Cast

James Woods

Debbie Harry

Sonja Smits

Peter Dvorsky

Videodrome (1983)

7.2 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Style: surreal

Plot: suicide, virtual reality, radio presenter, black market, insanity, paranoia, dystopia, toronto, ...

Cast

Emily Baldoni

Maury Sterling

Nicholas Brendon

Lorene Scafaria

Coherence (2014)

7.2 3.5K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

Plot: clone, paranoia, time travel, comet, alter ego, reunion, friends, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Sam Neill

Julie Carmen

Ju00fcrgen Prochnow

David Warner

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

7.2 1.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

Plot: small town, insanity, paranoia, diner, new hampshire, disappearance, author, church, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Johnny Depp

Benicio del Toro

Tobey Maguire

Michael Lee Gogin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

7.2 5.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Style: absurd

Plot: journalist, casino, based on novel or book, paranoia, cocaine, dark comedy, lsd, hallucination, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Robert Francis

Van Johnson

Fred MacMurray

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

7.2 369 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Plot: mutiny, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), war ship, paranoia, mental breakdown, cowardice, military court, u.s. navy, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Florence Pugh

Jack Reynor

William Jackson Harper

Will Poulter

Midsommar (2019)

7.1 8.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: Sweden, United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Plot: loss of loved one, ritual, paranoia, cult, hallucinogenic drug, magic mushroom, anthropology, human sacrifice, ...

Place: sweden

Cast

Sean Gullette

Mark Margolis

Ben Shenkman

Pamela Hart

Pi (1998)

7.1 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Style: absurd

Plot: new york city, hacker, ark of the covenant, insanity, paranoia, mathematics, mathematician, delusion, ...

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ethan Hawke

Albert Finney

Marisa Tomei

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

7.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Plot: daughter, career, sibling relationship, office, drug addiction, greed, investigation, hold-up robbery, ...

Cast

James McAvoy

Mackenzie Davis

Scoot McNairy

Aisling Franciosi

Speak No Evil (2024)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: husband wife relationship, paranoia, remake, weekend getaway, europe vacation, children in danger, psychological horror, dangerous escalation, ...

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Romain Guillermic

Souheila Yacoub

Kiddy Smile

Climax (2018)

7.0 2.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Music

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

Plot: dancing, child abuse, sexual abuse, drug abuse, pregnancy, paranoia, orgy, imprisonment, ...

Cast

Christos Stergioglou

Michele Valley

Hristos Passalis

Angeliki Papoulia

Dogtooth (2009)

7.0 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Greece

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Plot: hostage, paranoia, dysfunctional family, incest, mental illness, tooth, sexual awakening, fantasy world, ...

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Tim Robbins

Joan Cusack

Hope Davis

Arlington Road (1999)

7.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

Plot: army, washington dc, usa, bomb, wife, politics, professor, fbi, ...

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Juliette Binoche

Annie Girardot

Bernard Le Coq

Caché (2005)

7.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, Austria

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Plot: dreams, paris, france, upper class, suppressed past, paranoia, anonymous letter, confidence, ...

Cast

Ralph Fiennes

Angela Bassett

Juliette Lewis

Tom Sizemore

Strange Days (1995)

7.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Plot: new year's eve, pornography, prostitute, police brutality, dreams, rape, police, virtual reality, ...

Time: future

Cast

Mark Fischbach

Caroline Kaplan

Troy Baker

Elsie Lovelock

Iron Lung (2026)

7.0 333 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

Style: claustrophobic, slow burn, intimate, suspenseful, tense, ...

Plot: moon, submarine, expedition, post-apocalyptic future, hallucination, gore, space, underwater, ...

Time: future

Cast

John Goodman

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

John Gallagher Jr.

Douglas M. Griffin

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

7.0 8.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

Plot: kidnapping, paranoia, bunker, basement, survivalist, apocalypse, car accident, captive

Cast

Stephen Graham

Andrea Riseborough

Anson Boon

Kit Rakusen

Good Boy (2026)

7.0 154 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, Poland

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

Plot: kidnapping, paranoid, family life, toxic relationship, toxic family, dramatic, complicated, harsh, ...

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