Top Paranoia Movies & TV Shows

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Jake Johnson

Anna Kendrick

Natalie Morales

Andy Samberg

Self Reliance (2024)

5.9 326 votes

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.

Plot: isolation, boredom, paranoia, dark comedy, satire, social commentary, homeless, dark web, ...

Cast

Joel Edgerton

Christopher Abbott

Carmen Ejogo

Riley Keough

It Comes at Night (2017)

5.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

Plot: fire, nightmare, nihilism, darkness, homicide, door, paranoia, post-apocalyptic future, ...

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Maika Monroe

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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Mileiah Vega

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)

5.8 218 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Suburban couple Caitlin and Miguel hire the seemingly sweet Polly to take care of their newborn baby. But Polly's true motives have little to do with singing lullabies.

Plot: nanny, remake, psychological thriller, paranoid, newborn baby, baffled, callous, cliché

Cast

Ariana DeBose

Chris Messina

John Gallagher Jr.

Masha Mashkova

I.S.S. (2024)

5.7 409 votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.

Style: provocative

Plot: alcohol, paranoia, space, astronaut, zero gravity, thoughtful, international space station (iss), inspirational, ...

Time: world war

Cast

Caitlin Gerard

Ashley Zukerman

Julia Goldani Telles

Miles Anderson

The Wind (2018)

5.7 365 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.

Plot: based on novel or book, isolation, pregnancy, paranoia, supernatural, frontier, remake, madness, ...

Time: 19th century

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Sylvie Testud

Stanislas Merhar

Olivia Bonamy

Liliane Rovu00e8re

The Captive (2000)

5.7 68 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 119 min.

Story: Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she goes out, asks questions all the time, even in the most intimate moments. Ariane seems to take it all in stride, but Simon realises that she's hiding something.

Plot: hotel, friendship, paris, france, based on novel or book, love triangle, self-destruction, sexuality, ...

The Hole in the Ground (2019)

5.7 762 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Belgium, Finland

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Plot: nightmare, paranoia, son, supernatural, forest, mistrust, folk horror, mother son relationship, ...

The Box (2009)

5.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.

Plot: research, husband wife relationship, experiment, sacrifice, library, nasa, homicide, paranoia, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Jodie Foster

Daniel Auteuil

Virginie Efira

Mathieu Amalric

A Private Life (2025)

5.6 218 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Plot: suicide, paranoia, suspicion of murder, private investigator, psychiatrist

The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

5.6 67 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

Plot: blackmail, sequel, revenge, film noir, murder, arson, fugitive, mad doctor, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Emma Watson

David Thewlis

Lothaire Bluteau

Regression (2015)

5.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Canada, Spain

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

Plot: nightmare, cemetery, paranoia, minnesota, investigation, memory loss, hospital, church, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Susan Sarandon

Sam Neill

Emily Blunt

Charles Tingwell

Irresistible (2006)

5.5 136 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.

Plot: infidelity, obsession, paranoia, seduction, stalker, fear, husband, woman director

Cast

Frank Grillo

Bojana Novakoviu0107

Iko Uwais

Yayan Ruhian

Beyond Skyline (2017)

5.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, China

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

Plot: rescue, mind control, martial arts, self sacrifice, resistance, paranoia, invasion, sequel, ...

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Courtney Lercara

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Raymond Carbone

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Bruce Paquette

Killing Spree (1987)

5.0 26 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Newly wed Tom Russo suspects his wife is having sexual encounters with their suburban neighbors, and launches a methodical campaign to murder the lovers.

Plot: cheating, paranoia, serial killer, slasher, zombie

Cast

Jason Cottle

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Casey Curran

Cara Buono

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Hunter Stroud

Cthulhu (2008)

5.0 51 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

Plot: small town, paranoia, climate change, seattle, washington, cult, male homosexuality, cthulhu, ...

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

4.4 934 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of college students decide to take part in a witch hunt tour inspired by a horror movie. As the adventure goes awry, the students realise that an evil being has followed them home.

Plot: witch, forest, sequel, vision, paranoid, folk horror, sinister

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