100 Best Psychological Thrillers Movies To Watch (List)

In my psychological thrillers movies I always try to put that little bit more, do not limit myself to play with the mystery.

Because what I love (both in books and in the movie thriller ) that is something special . The one key that makes you want to re-read the book, or relate to the movie, to find out what has not yet been discovered. To enjoy the mystery in mystery .

In this top best post, therefore, I present a list of psychological thriller movies that is worth reviewing again. And, for each of them, instead of the usual "plot more review," I am giving you an alternative reading . I'll show you the hidden side that maybe you never noticed. The mystery in the mystery , of course .

An item reserved only for true lovers of the thriller , in fact.

You are among those? You will come to an end?


What a wonderful invention, the thriller , wow! The psychological thriller , then, I love them. So much paper as the cinema. And many times, especially in the evenings of winter, I said to myself: "I would like to see a good psychological thriller, tonight, what should I choose?".

And so, after much investigation, I managed to compile a list of films that I consider  the best, ever. And you offer them, so that you do not find yourself in some dreary winter evening, to bring out my own question.;

I will start from Identity to get to Cape Fear – 1962 , but are not listed in order of rating. I want to clarify. I love them all equally. Other small clarification: if you follow me for a while ', you know that I am tired of the various psychological thriller that aim to analyze the mind of mad serial killer . For this reason I have avoided inserting Seven , Silence of the Lambs and their imitators

100 Best Psychological Thrillers Movies To Watch

1. Identity (2003) 
2. The Machinist (2004) 
3. Secret Window (2004) 
4. Mindhunters (2005) 
5. The Skeleton Key (2005) 
6. Retroactive (1997) 
7. Triangle (2009) 
8. Frailty (2001) 
9. Primal Fear (1996) 
10. Spider (2002) 
11. Flightplan (2005) 
12. Unknown (2011) 
13. The Prestige (2006) 
14. The Butterfly Effect (2004) 
15. Donnie Darko (2001) 
16. The Vanishing (1993) 
17. The Jacket (2005) 
18. Stay (2005) 
19. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 
20. The Fountain (2006) 
21. Session 9 (2001) 
22. Primer (2004) 
23. Memento (2000) 
24. Open Your Eyes (1997) or its English remake Vanilla Sky (2001) 
25. Mulholland Drive (2001) 
26. Shutter Island (2010)
27. Inception (2010) 
28. Fight Club (1999) 
29. Memento (2000) 
30. The Butterfly Effect (2004) 
31. Twelve Monkeys (1995) 
32. Limitless (2011) 
33. The Cell (2000) 
34. Taking Lives (2004) 
35. Donnie Darko (2001) 
36. The Prestige (2006) 
37. Oldboy (2003) 
38. Total Recall (1990) 
39. The Game (1997) 
40. Se7en (1995) 
41. Vanilla Sky (2001) 
42. Source Code (2011) 
43. The Box (2009) 
44. Requiem for a Dream (2000) 
45. eXistenZ (1999) 
46. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 
47. The Jacket (2005) 
48. Inside (2007) 
49. Dark City (1998) 
50. The Descent (2005) 
51. Triangle (2009) 
52. Unknown (2011) 
53. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): 
54. In Cold Blood (1967): 
55. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975): 
56. Taxi Driver (1976): 
57. The Breakfast Club (1985): 
58. Fatal Attraction (1987): 
59. The Stepfather (1987), 
60. Pacific Heights (1990), 
61. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992), 
62. Fear (1996). 
63. Silence of the Lambs (1991): 
64. The Prince of Tides (1991): 
65. The Fisher King (1991): 
66. The Shawshank Redemption (1994):
67. 12 Monkeys (1995) 
68. Donnie Darko (2001) 
69. Jacob's Ladder (1990) 
70. The Butterfly Effect (2004) 
71. The Prestige (2006) 
72. The Thirteenth Floor (1999) 
73. Vanishing on 7th Street (2011) 
74. Triangle (2009) (the one directed by "Christopher Smith") 
75. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (Spanish)
76. Psycho (horror/thriller) 
77. The Exorcist (horror/thriller) 
78. Insomnia – 2002 remake (thriller) 
79. The Talented Mr. Ripley (thriller) 
80. Don’t Look Now (horror/thriller) 
81. The Conversation (thriller) 
82. The Stepford Wives – 1975 original (horror/thriller) 
83. The Silence of the Lambs (horror/thriller) 
84. The Pelican Brief (thriller) 
85. JFK (thriller) 
86. The Sixth Sense (horror/thriller) 
87. Rosemary’s Baby (horror/thriller) 
88. The Omen – 1976 original (horror/thriller) 
89. Duel (thriller) 
90. The Birds (horror/thriller) 
91. Repulsion (horror/thriller) 
92. The Night of the Hunter (thriller) 
93. The Da Vinci Code (thriller) 
94. The Manchurian Candidate – 1962 original and 2004 remake (thriller) 
95. Invasion of the Body Snatchers – 1956 original and 1978 remake (horror/thriller) 
96. A Place in the Sun (thriller) 
97. Strangers on a Train (thriller) 
98. The Wrong Man – 1956 film (thriller) 
99. Angels and Demons (thriller) 
100. Cape Fear – 1962 original (thriller)