Highest-Rated Movies about 'Psychopath', Sort by Popularity

A Short Film About Killing (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Onion Field (1979), Halloween (1978), Confessions (2010), Blue Velvet (1986), Road to Perdition (2002), Dirty Harry (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychopath movies.

#16. The Medusa Touch (1978)

Storyline: John Morlar (Richard Burton) is watching a British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlar's room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly. His blood splatters the television screen. French Detective-Inspector Brunel (Lino Ventura) arrives at Morlar's apartment to begin an investigation. At first he thinks Morlar is dead, but soon he hears him breathe. At the hospital, Morlar is hooked up to life support systems, one machine in particular monitors the activity of his battered brain. Brunel discovers that Morlar has been in psychological analysis because of his history of being witness to many disasters, other people's disasters. Dr. Zonfeld (Lee Remick), Morlar's analyst, explains that Morlar's delusions had begun when he was a child. He believed that he had caused a hated nanny's death. Morlar's childhood delusions were reinforced at a resort when he overheard his parents discussing him with disapproval. When his parents strolled on top of a cliff, Morlar watched as the family car suddenly pushed them off the cliff to their deaths. One evening, Brunel pores over the mysteries of Morlar's diary and through his scrapbook of disastrous events. Gradually, Brunel begins to develop an opinion of what Morlar was like and begins to wonder if he is chasing a murderer or a victim.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: detective, murderer, novelist, frenchman, psychopath, bleak, disturbing ...

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#17. No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Storyline: Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: serial killer, psychopath, overbearing parent, police detective, mother, victim, suspenseful ...

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#18. Big Bad Wolves (2013)

Storyline: A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

Plot Keywords: psychopath, vigilante, powerful, suspenseful, basement, united states, persecution ...

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#19. The Stepfather (1987)

Storyline: A family-values man named Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine (Shelley Hack), who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.

Plot Keywords: stepfather, wife, stepdaughter, young man, police officer, chilling, tense ...

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#20. One Hour Photo (2002)

Storyline: Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specifically Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state.

Plot Keywords: clerk, boss, psychopath, guard, child, wife, dark ...

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#22. Ich seh ich seh (2014)

Storyline: In the heat of the summer, a lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields, lives nine-year-old twin brothers who are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

Plot Keywords: young boy, brother, twin, mother, sibling, psychopath, bleak ...

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#23. Hardcore Henry (2015)

Storyline: Waking inside a laboratory on an airship, a man recalls bullies from his childhood. A scientist, Estelle, greets him and tells him his name is Henry, she is his wife, and that he has been revived from an accident that left him amnesiac and mute. After she replaces a missing arm and leg with cybernetic prostheses, mercenaries led by the psychokinetic Akan raid the ship, claiming all of Estelle's research is Akan's corporate property. He kills Estelle's scientists before attempting to murder Henry, but Henry and Estelle flee in an escape pod, landing in Moscow. Estelle is abducted by the mercenaries, who try to kill Henry..

Plot Keywords: amnesiac, woman, thug, psychopath, assassin, scientist, brooding ...

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#24. Merantau (2009)

Storyline: In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta. After a series of setbacks leave Yuda homeless and uncertain about his new future, a chance encounter results in him defending the orphaned Astri from becoming the latest victim of a European human trafficking ring led by the wildly psychotic, Ratger and his right-hand man Lars. With Ratger injured in the mêlée and seeking both his "merchandise" and bloody retribution, Yuda's introduction to this bustling city is a baptism of fire as he is forced to go on the run with Astri and her younger brother Adit as all the pimps and gangsters that inhabit the night hound the streets chasing their every step. With escape seemingly beyond their grasp, Yuda has no choice but to face his attackers in an adrenaline charged, jaw-dropping finale.—PT. Merantau Films

Plot Keywords: fighter, orphan, enemy, psychopath, gang leader, brutal, suspenseful ...

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#25. Halloween (2018)

Storyline: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers (Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney), the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Plot Keywords: victim, serial killer, murderer, rival, creepy, uneasy, tense ...

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#26. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

Storyline: Peyton Flanders (Rebecca De Mornay) seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage due to the stress caused by the death of her husband, Dr. Victor Mott (John de Lancie), and blamed it on Claire (the mother, played by Annabella Sciorra),. Claire suspects nothing, having never met Peyton before.

Plot Keywords: psychopath, nanny, wife, husband, daughter, handyman, creepy ...

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#27. Retribution (2015)

Storyline: 2015. A Coruña, Galicia (northwest to Spain). Carlos, a bank executive happily married with Marta and father of two children, older Sara and younger Marcos, starts the day as any other ready to work in the bank after to take the children to the school. But when the three up in the car, a cell phone left in the car rings. Receiving the call, an unknown voice tells Carlos that there is a bomb under the car and demands him a great amount of money under the menace to explode it if any of the three down the car, marking the end of the workday as time to receive the money. Hiding the danger to the children, Carlos starts a race across the city calling Víctor, his friend and job partner, to get the money. When Carlos meets in the city by chance with Victor's wife Julia while he is in negotiations with the own Víctor, Carlos learns that "The Unknown" too is blackmailing Víctor, who rejects to pay the money get after an illegal bank operations. Trying to save her, Carlos and the children watch as Julia's car explodes killing her, forcing Carlos to runaway quickly. With his car identified as possible suspect of the explosion, chief of police Espinosa starts an investigation while Marta tries to discover where is Carlos and why the children aren't in the school. At the same time Alejandro, Carlos and Victor's boss from the Madrid's central office, calls Carlos to force him to keep silence about the illegal operations, more worried by a possible leak to the public eye instead Carlos' life. Prosecuted by the police, Carlos finally is trapped in a public park, being surrounded by the police and Espinosa, who taking wrongly Carlos as a criminal who is menacing his children with a bomb calls Belén, chief of explosives squad, to try dismantle the bomb. Revealing Sara and Marcos the danger they face, Carlos will have not only to find the way to convince Espinosa that he is not the enemy, but to find the way to deceive The Unknown to reveal his true identity and stop him before he does explode the car.—Chockys

Plot Keywords: banker, father, child, blackmailer, son, suspenseful, thrilling ...

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#28. Kiss the Girls (1997)

Storyline: Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later Kate, one of his victims, escapes and tries to help Cross find his niece.

Plot Keywords: forensic expert, psychologist, doctor, psychopath, criminal, police detective, creepy ...

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#29. Funny Games (2007)

Storyline: In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, son, psychopath, young man, hostage, suspenseful ...

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