The Experiment (2001), Hannibal (2001), Apt Pupil (1998), Carny (1980), The Ghoul (1933), The Human Monster (1939), The Mad Room (1969), Fear Clinic (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dark Psychology movies.
Storyline: The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. The 'prisoners' are locked up and have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the 'guards' are told simply to retain order without using physical violence. Everybody is free to quit at any time, thereby forfeiting payment. In the beginning the mood between both groups is insecure and rather emphatic. But soon quarrels arise and the wardens employ ever more drastic sanctions to confirm their authority.—<armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, human experiment, moral dilemma, violence, group dynamics, psychological manipulation, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The final chapter of the Dr. Hannibal Lecter quadrilogy, the murdering cannibal. He is presently in Italy, and works as a curator at a museum. Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore), the F.B.I. Agent who he aided to apprehend a serial killer, was placed in charge of an operation, but when one of her men botches it, she's called to the mat by the Bureau. One high ranking official, Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) has it in for her. But she gets a reprieve because Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), one of Lecter's victims who is looking to get back at Lecter for what Lecter did to him, wants to use Starling to lure him out. When Lecter sends her a note, she learns that he's in Italy, so she asks the Police to keep an eye out for him. But a corrupt Policeman, who wants to get the reward that Verger placed on him, tells Verger where he is, but they fail to get him. Later, Verger decides to frame Starling, which makes Lecter return to the U.S., and the race to get Lecter begins.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, horror, mystery, psychological, cannibalism, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, crime, psychological, suspense, dark, nazi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. They earn their living by mercilessly taunting spectators to try to dump one of them into the water by throwing balls. Donna is tired of her work as a waitress and follows them through the South.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, thriller, mystery, film noir, psychological, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aga Ben Dragore, a knife-wielding, enigmatic Egyptian Arab, is seeking a sacred jewel which has been stolen from an ancient tomb. The thief tells him that he sold it to Professor Morlant, a fanatical Egyptologist who fervently believes in the pagan power of the ancient Egyptian gods. Dying from a mysteriously disfiguring ailment, Morlant entrusts his faithful manservant to bandage the jewel in his hand and warns him of dire consequences if his dying wishes aren't carried out. After his burial in an Egyptian-type tomb on his estate, an anonymous robber steals the precious stone from the corpse. Although the ghastly-looking dead man rises at the next full moon to seek revenge, neither he nor the audience know which member of the household possesses the powerful jewel.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, psychological horror, crime, murder, detective, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and they all have a link to a life insurance company run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, mystery, film noir, murder, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Remake of 1941's "Ladies in Retirement" has Stella Stevens playing companion to wealthy, loony widow and she soon brings her brother and sister to live with them after they are released from an asylum for brutally murdering their parents years before. Now there appear to be skeletons that Stevens has worked so hard to keep hidden, ready to tumble out of her closet.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, murder, family secret ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sara (Fiona Dourif) is one of five people that was attacked in a small diner by a masked shooter. Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a brilliant scientist and doctor that developed a new way of treating fear-related ailments by way of his "Fear Chamber", initially seemed to be the perfect cure but one by one the patients have all returned to the clinic due to their fears re-emerging worse than they had before. Sara returns to the clinic as well.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, trauma, hallucinations, mental illness, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her...
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, dark, mystery, nightmare, hallucination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, psychological, horror, crime, murder, delusion ...
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