Psychological
see all genres ›Fear itself isn't always the only thing to fear. But the human mind's reaction to real or imaginary peril can often be just as compelling (if not more so) than an external threat. While there's mayhem aplenty in many of these thrillers, it's the characters' panic, paranoia and denial that most often impels primary attention.
Discover Psychological Films
Genres / Suspense / Psychological
SUB-GENRES · Compulsion · Dissociative Identity · Somnambulist
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Alexandra's Project
It's Steve's birthday and he's just been promoted at the office. In a good mood, he goes home to his family expecting to celebrate. Instead, he finds an empty suburban home and videotape labeled "Play Me." The tape begins with his loving wife providing birthday wishes and quickly segues, to his pleasant...Start your free trial to watch -
Alice, Sweet Alice
Also known as COMMUNION and HOLY TERROR, this very Catholic horror movie won little attention upon its original release and then a bit more when re-released to cash in on child-model-turned-actress Brooke Shields' success in 1978's big- budget PRETTY BABY. But it took longer still to be appreciated as one...Start your free trial to watch -
Among Brothers
Based on real events, AMONG BROTHERS retells the story of the mysterious death of a college girl. While the police determined her death was an accident, the autopsy and other evidence, compiled by her family, tell a different story. On November 9th 1994, Jennifer Matthews, a senior at Bergan State University, was found dead...Start your free trial to watch
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The Avenging Conscience
D.W. Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in this ambitious amalgam of the writer’s poetry and prose: “Annabel Lee” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” flavored with shades of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Conqueror Worm." Poe’s tales are interwoven in one...Start your free trial to watch -
Beast Stalker
Ace action director Dante Lam is in top form once again with this raw, nail-bitingly intense action thriller and with award-worthy emotional performances by Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung. Tse is Tong, a take-no-prisoners police sergeant who accidentally kills a girl during his relentless pursuit of armed robber Cheung (Ho-man...Start your free trial to watch -
Benny's Video
Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities, daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom television, Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swine. Staying alone in his parents' apartment, Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl, immediately exposing her to the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer (Tony Musante) traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has witnessed and the police's...Start your free trial to watch -
Black Night
Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days indulging his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a...Start your free trial to watch -
Black Rat
From Kenta Fukusaku (BATTLE ROYALE II, X-CROSS) comes a twisted tale about the lives and deaths of several high schoolers. They receive a message from their friend Asuka telling them to go back to their classroom in the middle of the night. This ordinarily wouldn't be an issue, except for the fact that Asuka was supposed to...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Revenge
A famous eccentric author, blinded in a horrific accident, hires a female assistant to help him write his final opus, only to discover she has another agenda. As the story unfolds, her secret is revealed and both of their pasts could cost them their future.Start your free trial to watch -
Blonde Ice
Thought lost since the early 1970s, BLONDE ICE tells the bizarre tale of a beautiful society columnist with a desire for money and position that turns her into a serial killer, a story most Hollywood studios of the 1940s wouldn't touch! The tagline, "ice in her veins, icicles in her heart" perfectly describes Claire Cummings...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house with exotic models running sexual favors, cocaine dealings and blackmail, becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend, a known addict...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement known as German expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI is a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and...Start your free trial to watch -
Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch
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Castle of Blood
When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager. Not believing Poe’s assertion that all of his macabre stories have been based on actual experience, Foster accepts a bet from Poe and his friend Sir Thomas Blackwood that he...Start your free trial to watch -
The City of the Dead
THE CITY OF THE DEAD is an extraordinarily good chiller which still has the power to frighten fans of the horror genre. A college student, Nan Barlow is researching the history of witchcraft. Taunted by her brother and fiance, who have voiced their concern over her silly notions, Nan arms herself with...Start your free trial to watch -
The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three decades later, Albers again starred...Start your free trial to watch



