Terribly Happy (2008), Diabolique (1955), Dead of Night (1945), Night of the Demon (1957), Scream of Fear (1961), 36 Hours (1964), Mirage (1965), Peppermint Frappe (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Mystery movies.
Storyline: After a terrible accident, a psychiatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks, we learn that his family had to flee from New York City, after his father uncovered a large case of corruption. Bruce didn't know this for most of his life, until he found a passport with a different name in it. After the first shock, he tries to continue living like a normal teenager. Unknowingly, his cute little girlfriend "Patrick" brings them in danger.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, drama, french film, amnesia, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Holly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with his career on the way up. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world. The insomnia. The medication for the insomnia. The dreams from the medication for the insomnia. (Are they even dreams?) And then there's the mouse that appears in her home. Upsetting her already delicate balance, it sends her spiraling out of control. Writer/director Dean Kapsalis' feature debut explores a week in the life of a woman on the verge in this haunting meditation on mental illness.—Epic Pictures Group
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, family breakdown, mental health, hallucinations, midlife crisis, oppression, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, espionage, conspiracy, mind control, assassination, military, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, psychological, film noir, crime, drama, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturnal train trip. He suddenly sees another train ahead, speeding toward his... Is George indeed cracking up, or is there a plot to discredit him? The mystery grows murky with shadowy menace...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, amnesia, conspiracy, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash the sordid details of his life.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, psychological, mystery, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological, murder, mental illness ...
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: John Klein (Richard Gere) is involved in a car accident with his wife, but while he is unharmed, his wife mentions a moth-shaped creature appearing. After her death, John begins to investigate the secrets behind this mentioned Mothman. It takes him to the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he discovers a connection with the same problem. Here he meets Connie Mills (Laura Linney), while he continues to unravel the mystery of what the Mothman really is.
Plot Keywords: supernatural, mystery, thriller, horror, psychological, urban legend, prophecy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, mystery, drama, gothic, surreal, dark fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, drama, thriller, detective, snow, denmark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Via Tubitv on the Roku; Jeff Daniels (Traitor) plays a man left devastated by the sudden disappearance of his wife begins to suffer from insomnia which leaves him confused and with a loose grip on reality. From the year 2000 1 hour and 44 minutes rated R—Chris Hakim
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, horror, mental breakdown, surreal, film noir, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fighting with husband Stephen, Jan storms out with a suitcase. Meanwhile, Stephen gets drunk, picks up Grena and brings her back to their apartment. But a fight leads to a dead body, and soon, Stephen's landlord wants money to remain silent.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: crime, murder, thriller, mystery, film noir, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barney teaches chemisty, and is planning to abduct a woman. Despite methodical planning and countless trial runs he always manages to mess things up. Then Diane, who is traveling with her boyfriend Jeff, unwittingly makes herself an easy target. The story is mainly from Jeff's viewpoint, as he searches for Diane. Barney watches him.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, psychological, kidnapping, disappearance, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an F.B.I. Agent comes to ask for a desperate favor. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose method of operation is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about forty hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, psychological, crime, mystery, horror, dream ...
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