Psychological Thriller Films
The psychological thriller does not show the danger, it lets it grow inside your head. A house that seems to be lived in by someone, a man who doubts his own memory, a past that comes knocking again: fear is born from what the characters believe they see, and from what we cannot be sure we saw.
Here you will find a selection of psychological thriller films to stream, from silent-era classics to independent films that work on paranoia, guilt and obsession. There are broken families, cracking identities, nights when something does not add up. Few effects, plenty of tension, and endings that leave you uneasy.
It is a genre for those who prefer suspicion to shock and love films that keep working after the credits. Less blood, more doubt: the mind is the most dangerous place to enter.
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A Better Life
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2007.
Rome: Andrea Casadei is a young investigator specializing in audio wiretapping who conducts investigations commissioned by husbands betrayed by their wives, or by parents worried about what their children are doing outside the home. But what inter... -
Ancestral
Movie
Documentary, by Lumar Brothers, Italy, 2023.
“Ancestral: Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur” is a documentary that explores the life and art of Algerian painter Massinissa Askeur. The film follows Askeur on his creative journey, showing his artistic process and his commitment to the preservation o... -
Arte
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Stefano Scala, Simone Arcidiacono, Italy, 2023.
In a secret and fascinating world, four people meet every week at the mysterious "The Circle" for a gripping game, knowing nothing about each other. However, fate has a different plan for them. As the game progresses, their lives... -
Darkness, This Is my Revenge
Movie
Thriller, by Giuseppe Di Giorgio, Italy, 2022.
The film tells the story of a mysterious killer who begins murdering women, leaving a message behind: "This is my revenge." Commissioner Soavi investigates, but is unable to find any clues that point him in the right direction. One thing that all the... -
Mystery of an Employee
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar... -
Return to Planet Underground
Movie
Drama, Thriller, by Gideon Homes, Netherlands, 2025.
A former underground techno DJ working in a large and famous law firm delves into the dark side of society. With one eye on the past and one on the future, he stirs up the ashes of the true underground. The demand of society to function superfi... -
Scarlet Street
Movie
Thriller, by Fritz Lang, United States, 1945.
Lang reprises the cast and the ambiguous triangle from "The Woman in the Portrait" and makes one of his best films, telling a story of guilt and degradation. A senior bank employee, Christopher Cross, has an insufferable wife and only one pastime: pai... -
Self Defence
Movie
Documentary, by Olaf de Fleur, Iceland, 2025.
Self-Defence follows the story of Imma Helga, a self-defence instructor in Iceland who turned her teenage struggles with prejudice, homophobia, and depression into a mission of empowerment. Together with her brother Jón Viðar, she teaches a practical,... -
Silent night, bloody night
Movie
Horror, by Theodore Gershuny, United States, 1972.
1972 American Slasher, is a forerunner horror genre several years before Carpenter's Halloween, with a complex script and first person shooting of the killer, which inspired many subsequent films. Its originality and its narration are what manage... -
The Passenger
Movie
Documentary, by Tommaso Valente, Christian Poli, Italy, 2022.
The territory of Ravenna, suspended between its centuries-old history and recent industrial development, is a land of conflicts and rarefied landscapes. It is here that the action of "Housing First" develops, an association that focuse... -
The Red House
Movie
Thriller, noir, by Delmer Daves, United States, 1947.
A young girl named Meg lives with her adoptive brother Pete and her elderly father on an isolated farm. The house is surrounded by woodland and seemingly inaccessible land known as 'The Red House'. The house is shrouded in mystery and local le... -
The Sands
Movie + 1 extra
Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o... -
The stranger
Movie
Thriller, by Orson Welles, United States, 1946.
Orson Welles, a filmmaker who has always been against the Hollywood system, did not like this film made inside the studios, but strangely he managed to create a commercial product beyond his own expectations, managing to insert his unmistakable styl... -
Walk Cheerfully
Movie
Drama, crime, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1930.
The plot of the film follows the story of Kenji, a low-ranking gangster, who decides to give up his life of crime and settle down. He falls in love with Yasue, a young car mechanic, and the two plan to get married. However, Kenji's past catches up with ... -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie
Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The... -
Dementia
Movie
Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...