Top Psychological Thriller Movies (The Most Watch List)

Be ready for journey deep into the darkness of your mind. For this list we are looking for  the most dramatic, intense and emotionally draining films in the phychological thiller genre. 

1. Inception

     This film stars Leonardo Dicaprio who is a professional thief who steals valuable information by infiltrating the subconscious of the targeted mind. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious mind. The sequence with the characters riding the synchronized kick is a thing of filmmaking beauty complete with some of the finest editing of Christopher Nolan's career. The movie opens with the tear ducts when he reunites with his children it's a rollercoaster of emotion especially with the spinning top which continues to spin as the film cuts to black.

IMDb=8.8/10

Rotten tomatoes=87%

96% like this film

Directed by=Christopher Nolan

Cast= Leonardo Dicaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine

2. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

   Directed by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is a 2004 science fiction romantic drama film written by Charlie Kaufman which follows an estranged couple who have erased each other from their memories. Joel Barish (Jim Carry) meets an eccentric woman Clementine (Kate Winslet) on a train from Montauk New York and they hit it off. After two years together their relationship begins to unravel in a series of dreamlike sequences which culminates in Clementine having her memories of their relationship erased. Eventually Joel decides to have the procedure done as well. The dreamlike bulk of the film consists of Joel's memories as they're being erased upon learning of their previous relationship in the present Joel and Clementine decide to try again.

 

    

IMDb=8.5/10

Rotten tomatoes=93%

94% like this film

Directed by= Michel Gondry

Cast=  Jim Carry, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo

3. Shutter Island

Shutter Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogardis, based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 Novel. Leonardo Dicaprio, in a leading role as deputy US Marshal Edward "Teddy" Danniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on the shutter island after one of the patient goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner and fellow deputy Marshal. 

 

IMDb= 8.2/10

Rotten tomatoes=68%

98% like this film

Directed by= Martin Scorsese

Cast= Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle williams

4. Fight Club

Fight Club is 1999 American psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 Novel by Chalk Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a fight club with shop salesman Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). 

IMDb=8.8/10

Rotten tomatoes=79%

93%  like this film

Directed by= David Fincher

Cast= Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf.

5. The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is 1999 American supernatural psychological thriller film, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient (Haley Joel Osment) can talk to the dead people. The Sixth Sense has one of the most shocking surprises in the history of cinema. The twist in the movie helped the film to grow in popularity and motivated audiences to come back for multiple viewings

 IMDb=8.1/10

Rotten tomatoes=86%

94% like this film

Directed by= M. Night Shyamalan

Cast= Bruce willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Donnie Wahlberg.