Scott Turow's Innocent (2011), Sybil (1976), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Pressure Point (1962), Born to Kill (1947), The Sniper (1952), Cul-de-sac (1966), Mine Own Executioner (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Suspense movies.
Storyline: After a judge (Bill Pullman) is accused of murdering his wife, an affair from his past threatens to destroy his defense.
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, courtroom drama, murder mystery, crime investigation, moral dilemma, power struggle, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tale of child abuse and and its deep psychological scars, based on a true story, follows Sybil (Sally Field), an introverted student living alone in New York City who suffers from multiple personality disorder. Haunted by nightmares of her past, Sybil starts seeing a psychiatrist named Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur (Joanne Woodward). When Dr. Wilbur discovers Sybil has over a dozen different personalities, she becomes obsessed with uncovering her patient's tortured childhood in order to heal her.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, schizophrenia, based on true story, trauma, female protagonist, psychological drama, tv movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Major Ben Marco (Frank Sinatra) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Iselin (Angela Lansbury). She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have had nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond...
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, brainwashing, conspiracy, espionage, mind control, assassination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, race relations, psychoanalysis, black and white, american film, 1960s, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies then decides not to become involved. The two meet next day on the train to San Francisco unaware of this link between them. They are attracted to each other, and the relationship survives his marriage to her half-sister for money and status. It even survives the woman discovering that he was the murderer, though she may not realize how easily someone who has killed this way before can do so again.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, murder, greed, betrayal, femme fatale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes up with some ideas.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, sniper, murder, police, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, drama, british film, 1960s, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison camp, Adam proves to be on the verge of severe schizophrenia. In his risky struggle to help Adam, Felix finds his none-too-functional home life deteriorating, and is unable to help himself as he helps others. The situation rushes headlong to a suspenseful climax.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, film noir, psychoanalysis, trauma, suspense, mental illness, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective story, murder mystery, novel adaptation, 1940s, crime thriller, complex plot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After escaping an abusive husband Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she witnesses the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered she fears it is her own. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.—Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager
Plot Keywords: thriller, revenge, single mother, crime, mystery, family crisis, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, mental illness, marital crisis, independent film, emotional struggle, realistic theme ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue...or to stalking, obsession and madness.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, social media, cyberbullying, crime, teenagers, virtual world ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, social media, dark, modern technology, cyberbullying, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A schizoid Victorian (Anton Walbrook) tries to drive his wife (Diana Wynyard) mad; a Scotland Yard detective (Frank Pettingell) figures out why.
Plot Keywords: mystery, psychological thriller, film noir, crime, drama, classic, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being frightened by a peeping Tom at her mansion in the suburbs, the beautiful Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes) calls the police for help. When a policeman, Webb Garwood (Van Heflin), arrives, he becomes infatuated with Susan, and the two engage in an affair. Susan soon ends their relationship, choosing to remain with her husband, John (Sherry Hall). However, Webb's obsession with her continues to grow, until he begins plotting to kill John and cash in on his life insurance policy.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, thriller, murder, police, veteran, romance ...
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