The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Heartbeat Detector (2007), Midnight Express (1978), Bent (1997), The Invisible Man (2020), The Anniversary (1968), Closet Land (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Torture movies.
Storyline: Giovanna is taken to the Inquisition court. . After the accusation of blasphemy continues to pray in ecstasy . A friar thinks that Giovanna is a saint, but is taken away by the soldiers. Giovanna sees a cross in the shadow and feels comforted. She is not considered a daughter of God but a daughter of the devil and is sentenced to torture. Giovanna D 'Arco says that even if she dies she will not deny anything. The eyes are twisted by terror in front of the torture wheel and faint. Giovanna is taken to a bed where they are bleeding. Giovanna feels that she is about to die and asks to be buried in a consecrated area. Giovanna burns at the stake while devoted ladies cry.
Plot Keywords: silent film, historical drama, biography, french film, black and white, classic film, trial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.
Plot Keywords: prison, rebellion, american south, classic, paul newman, 1960s, escape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A psychiatrist, Simon, uncovers Mathias Jüst, and he discovers that his unhinged target may have Nazi ties.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, corporate corruption, mind control, workplace stress, moral dilemma, identity crisis, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert ...
Plot Keywords: prison, drugs, true story, escape, law, injustice, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp, he falls in love with fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.
Plot Keywords: gay, nazi germany, holocaust, concentration camp, persecution, love, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex-boyfriend's suicide. She begins to re-build her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is not actually dead.—Max
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, horror, psychological, suspense, crime, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the celebration of the anniversary of Mrs. Taggart, her three dominated sons come to her house for the party. Terry, Henry and Tom Taggart work in construction, in a business that belonged to their father and is presently managed by their manipulative mother. Tom brings his pregnant fiancée Shirley Blair to tell his mother that they will marry each other; Terry brings his wife Karen Taggart and they secretly intend to emigrate to Canada; and Henry is gay and loves to wear women's underwear. During the night, the mean Mrs. Taggart uses the most despicable means and tricks to get rid off Shirley and Terry and keep her sons close to her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, black comedy, psychological thriller, family, drama, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, psychological, suspense, drama, political, interrogation, power ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cynical and skeptical writer Mike Enslin writes books evaluating supernatural phenomena in hotels, graveyards and other haunted places, usually debunking the mystery. While writing his latest book, he travels from Los Angeles to New York to spend one night in the Dolphin Hotel's posessed room 1408, which is permanently unavailable for guests. The reluctant manager Mr. Gerald Olin objects to his request and offers an upgrade, expensive booze and finally relates the death of more than fifty guests over decades in the cursed room. However Mike threatens Mr. Olin, promising to sue the hotel, and is finally allowed to check into the room. Later in the night, he finds that guests of room 1408, once they have checked in, might never leave the room alive.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, psychological horror, mystery, adaptation, stephen king ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, exorcism, religious, courtroom drama, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After kidnapping and torturing two innocent teen girls, a group of people seek refuge in the home of the parents of one of the victimized girls. When the parents find out what happened to their daughter, they plot and carry out revenge on those that hurt her.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, revenge, violence, gore, remake ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Robert Eastwood is an innocent, brought up in a world of Born Again Christianity that's taught him to look for signs and to believe evil in waiting just outside the front door. When he goes to school he's shocked to discover that no one else thinks the world was made in 7 days or that Jesus will be returning. Caught between his Mother, who's determined to bring Jesus' love to a dead mining town, and his best friend Marcus who's introduced him to teenage rebellion Robert becomes the centre of a spiritual tug of war as he tries to escape his religious beliefs. It's then that he discovers a dead body in the woods and realises God has sent him a sign. The Devil Outside is a story of everyday madness.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, demonic, exorcism, religious, cult ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cab driver Bob lives a double life as a serial killer who abducts the young women he picks up and murders them at his house. But when he picks up Sarah Fittler and her nine-year-old son, Bob forces the boy to live with him as his personal slave. The boy, renamed "Rabbit" by Bob, grows up witnessing the suffering and death that Bob causes almost every day. As Rabbit becomes a man, Bob seeks to make him his protégé. Will Rabbit carry on the legacy?
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, psychological, mystery, violence, kidnapping, serial killer ...
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: A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, mystery, thriller, cult, monster, forest ...
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