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Step into the twisted world of psychological thrillers, where the lines between reality and madness are blurred. From mind-bending plot twists to chilling atmospheres, these movies and TV shows will keep you on the edge of your seat. Explore the best of the genre and uncover the secrets that lie within.

The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act

Cast

Lizzie Freeman

Alex Rochon

Michael Kovach

Amanda Hufford

The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (2026)

8.8 219 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Australia

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: With Caine gone and the circus dark, the cast are left with only the mistakes and traumas of their pasts to keep them company. As the prospect of eternity closes in around them, they discover the truth about the Digital Circus and its history. Will they come to terms with what they uncover, or will they make... the other choice? Also, presumably at some point someone says something funny, because this ending can’t be THAT depressing, can it? A theatrical screening of episode 8 and the all new, hour-long episode 9.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), circus, trauma, psychological thriller, trapped, jester, frantic, candid, ...

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Shido Nakamura

Aya Hirano

Kappei Yamaguchi

Death Note (2006) TV Show

8.6 5.0K votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 37

Audience: TV-14

Story: Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, journalism, secret identity, police, supernatural, sociopath, rivalry, murder, ...

Cast

Joe Locke

Kit Connor

William Gao

Yasmin Finney

Heartstopper (2022) TV Show

8.6 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.

Plot: coming out, friendship, high school, love, growing up, romance, coming of age, based on graphic novel, ...

Place: england

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Lee Sun-kyun

Cho Yeo-jeong

Choi Woo-shik

Parasite (2019)

8.5 20.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: dark comedy, con artist, social commentary, working class, infiltration, psychological thriller, class differences, family, ...

Place: south korea, seoul, south korea

Cast

Anthony Perkins

Janet Leigh

Vera Miles

John Gavin

Psycho (1960)

8.4 11.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: hotel, clerk, detective, shower, arizona, motel, halloween, stolen money, ...

Cast

Nobunaga Shimazaki

Aya Hirano

Parasyte -the maxim- (2014) TV Show

8.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A species of parasitic aliens descends on Earth and quickly infiltrates humanity by entering the brains of vulnerable targets; insatiable beings that gain total control of their host and are capable of transforming themselves to feed on unsuspecting prey. High school student Shinichi Izumi falls victim to one of these parasites, but the creature fails to take over his brain and ends up in his right hand.

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, affectation, high school, romance, alien, gore, tragedy, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Junko Iwao

Rica Matsumoto

Shiho Niiyama

Masaaki Okura

Perfect Blue (1998)

8.3 3.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe 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 frenzied paranoia.

Style: intense

Plot: career, rape, based on novel or book, paranoia, stalker, celebrity, singer, stalking, ...

Cast

Jodie Foster

Anthony Hopkins

Scott Glenn

Ted Levine

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

8.3 18.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Plot: prison, based on novel or book, kidnapping, psychopath, fbi, scientific study, murder, serial killer, ...

Cast

Rami Malek

Christian Slater

Carly Chaikin

Mr. Robot (2015) TV Show

8.3 5.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 45

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

Plot: hacker, secret society, childhood trauma, psychological thriller, social anxiety, nature of reality, complex

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Hugh Dancy

Laurence Fishburne

Caroline Dhavernas

Hannibal (2013) TV Show

8.3 3.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

Plot: based on novel or book, symbolism, fbi, manipulation, murder, serial killer, psychological thriller, cannibal, ...

Cast

Michael C. Hall

Jennifer Carpenter

Geoff Pierson

David Zayas

Dexter (2006) TV Show

8.2 5.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 96

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

Style: dark

Plot: based on novel or book, double life, homicide, vigilante, murder, serial killer, psychological thriller, killer, ...

Place: miami, florida

Cast

Jack Nicholson

Shelley Duvall

Danny Lloyd

Scatman Crothers

The Shining (1980)

8.2 19.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, halloween, ...

Cast

Eiji Okada

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Ku014dji Mitsui

Woman in the Dunes (1964)

8.2 521 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Plot: based on novel or book, insect, sand, art house, water shortage, psychological thriller, black and white, held captive, ...

Cast

Shiki Aoki

Junya Enoki

Akira Sekine

Yuuichirou Umehara

High-Rise Invasion (2021) TV Show

8.2 747 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to survive this bizarre world, find her beloved brother, and escape becomes her top priority, but she is beset by danger not just from the mysterious Masks, which possess both inhuman strength and cruelty, but other survivors turned cruel or desparate by the insanity of the high-rise world.

Plot: gore, survival, school, psychological thriller, based on manga, ecchi, shounen, anime, ...

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Mark Ruffalo

Ben Kingsley

Max von Sydow

Shutter Island (2010)

8.2 26.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: island, based on novel or book, concentration camp, hurricane, investigation, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, escaped patient, ...

Time: world war ii, 1950s

Cast

Guy Pearce

Carrie-Anne Moss

Joe Pantoliano

Mark Boone Junior

Memento (2000)

8.2 16.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Plot: drug dealer, amnesia, insulin, tattoo, waitress, motel, manipulation, flashback, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

James Stewart

Kim Novak

Barbara Bel Geddes

Tom Helmore

Vertigo (1958)

8.1 6.4K votes

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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.

Plot: plan, love of one's life, sense of guilt, san francisco, california, suicide attempt, obsession, bachelor, ...

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Robert De Niro

Zazie Beetz

Frances Conroy

Joker (2019)

8.1 27.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: society, based on comic, social commentary, psychological thriller, criminal mastermind, mental illness, anarchy, character study, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Gleipnir (2020) TV Show

8.1 708 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his back. He saves the girl’s life, sharing his secret with her. But she’s searching for the sister who killed her family, and she doesn’t care how degrading it gets: she will use Shuichi to accomplish her mission…

Plot: fire, monster, supernatural, romance, psychological thriller, creature, based on manga, combat, ...

Cast

Hugh Jackman

Jake Gyllenhaal

Viola Davis

Maria Bello

Prisoners (2013)

8.1 13.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 153 min.

Audience: R

Story: After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Plot: pennsylvania, usa, kidnapping, detective, symbolism, investigation, father, vigilante, ...

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