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

The Absent One (2014), Trainspotting (1996), Purple Noon (1960), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), The Wrong Roommate (2016), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Ripley's Game (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sociopath movies.

#2. Trainspotting (1996)

Storyline: A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...

Plot Keywords: drug addict, friend, student, girlfriend, drug dealer, sociopath, amusing ...

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#3. Purple Noon (1960)

Storyline: Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf to fetch his spoiled, playboy son, Philippe, and bring him back home to the States. In return, Tom will receive $5,000. Philippe toys with Tom, pretending he will go back home, but has no intentions of leaving his bride to be, Marge, and honoring his father's wishes. After some time passes, Mr. Greenleaf considers the mission a failure and cuts Tom off. However, he will need all his conman abilities to keep afloat.

Plot Keywords: sociopath, friend, girlfriend, father, cool, gripping, italy ...

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#4. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Storyline: Eva Khatchadourian's a mother to piece together her life following an incident cause by her strange child, Kevin. Once a successful travel writer, s she's forced to take whatever job comes her way, and in spite of the increasingly bizarre and dangers things Kevin says or does. But Kevin's behaviours is only getting worse.

Plot Keywords: writer, husband, son, sociopath, daughter, solemn, intricate ...

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#5. The Wrong Roommate (2016)

Storyline: The inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year quest to become his apprentice and eventually, his equal.—Alistair Audsley

Plot Keywords: roommate, sister, professor, stranger, niece, young man, engaging ...

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#6. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Storyline: The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.

Plot Keywords: sociopath, playboy, expatriates, father, friend, detective, thrilling ...

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#7. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Storyline: Two friends on a fishing trip pick up a stranded motorist who turns out to be a psychotic escaped convict. This sociopath has already murdered other good Samaritans in his efforts to evade authorities. He sadistically taunts and threatens the two men and perversely delights in telling them that he has them both marked for death sometime before the end of the trip. His destination is a ferryboat in Baja, California, which he hopes will help him get to the mainland. The hostages hope to stay alive long enough to escape or be rescued by Mexican authorities.—duke1029

Plot Keywords: hitchhiker, sociopath, victim, hostage, escaped convict, creepy, suspenseful ...

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#8. Ripley's Game (2002)

Storyline: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.

Plot Keywords: sociopath, mobster, wife, singer, police officer, suspenseful, intricate ...

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#9. The Good Son (1993)

Storyline: Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin, Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry begins to show signs of violent behavior that worry Mark.

Plot Keywords: young boy, father, uncle, aunt, cousin, sociopath, chilling ...

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#10. Fear (1996)

Storyline: Nicole walker is the average 16 year old girl; wants to have fun, and dreams of her Prince Charming. When her and her best friend Margot appear at a party, she meets older bad boy David. Everything seems to be going so well and Nicole and David become a couple. Nicole's family like David and she decides she loves him enough to give herself to him one night after a date. However, as soon as they became official, David has become a possessive and jealous boyfriend. He even beats up one of Nicole's close male friends when he is seen giving her a hug at the end of school. After this dark event Nicole never wants to see David again but he tries his hardest to make sure Nicole will take him back. Soon enough she forgives him and things seem to be going well again until a sick situation involving Nicole's best friend Margot turns to her and David breaking up again. This time David is not taking any chances with not being with Nicole so him and his friends go into her family home and attempt ...

Plot Keywords: teen girl, young man, father, sociopath, high-school student, mother, brutal ...

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#11. Bad Influence (1990)

Storyline: Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Within a matter of days, Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down, and Michael doesn't realize that Alex is a dangerous sociopath until it's too late.—Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu>

Plot Keywords: businessman, fiancé, stranger, sociopath, thrilling, hedonistic, dark ...

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#12. The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Storyline: Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?

Plot Keywords: prostitute, sheriff, sociopath, tense, uneasy, striking, shocking ...

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#13. The Snowman (2017)

Storyline: When an elite crime squad's lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit, the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.

Plot Keywords: detective, snowman, serial killer, murder suspect, murder victim, sociopath, brutal ...

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#15. Rosewood Lane (2011)

Storyline: One year after the death of her father, psychiatrist and radio talk show host Dr. Sonny Blake, returns to Rosewood Lane in Stillwater to live in his house. Sonny who was abused by her father is a traumatized woman receiving therapy from Dr. Cloey. Sonny's boyfriend DA Barrett Tanner helps her move to a new home. On her arrival, the next door neighbor advises Sonny that the paperboy is a dangerous weirdo. Sonny finds that the paperboy has broken into her house and might be the person who killed her father. Detectives Briggs and Sabatino don't believe Sonny, thinking that it is her imagination. When Tanner is attacked and goes missing Sonny and her friend Paula Crenshaw call the police, but he is not found in the house. Is Sonny freaking out or is the paperboy an evil being?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro,

Plot Keywords: sociopath, psychiatrist, suspenseful, talk show, childhood home, battle, death ...

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