Psychological Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated May 12, 2024
Hard Candy
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter chatting online with a thirtysomething man, 14-year-old Hayley agrees to meet him in a coffee shop. Suspecting that he's a pedophile, she suggests they go back to his place, where she plans to teach him a lesson.
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The Skin I Live In
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBrilliant plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard seeks to overcome the grief of his late wife's disfigurement in a fiery car crash by inventing skin that's impervious to injury. But his experiments on a living woman hasten his descent into madness.
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Exam
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this psychological thriller, eight job applicants in a guarded, windowless room are given instruction, exams and 80 minutes to answer one discerning question that may win them a prime position. But they soon discover this is no ordinary test.
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Pi
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDarren Aronofsky's jarring black-and-white brain-bender is a haunting examination of one man's numerical obsession. The story follows a fragile number theorist who's on the trail of a 216-digit number that could unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Black Widow
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Bob Rafelson's superbly crafted thriller stars Debra Winger as Alexandra Barnes, an inquiring federal investigator who becomes intrigued -- then fixated -- when she stumbles across an unusual pattern of deaths by seemingly natural causes. The common bond among the victims? They're all rich, reclusive and leave behind the same sultry young widow (Theresa Russell). Can Alexandra crack the case without getting tangled in a web of murder?
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The Vanishing
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBarney (Jeff Bridges) is a deranged man who plans to abduct a woman, but despite his careful design and numerous run-throughs, things never go quite right. He's finally successful when Diane (Sandra Bullock) makes herself an obvious target after a fight with her boyfriend, Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland). Jeff spends years trying to figure out what happened to Diane, almost destroying his own life. Director George Sluizer remakes his own 1988 film.
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this remake of the 1962 political thriller, two U.S. soldiers are taken captive during the first Gulf War and brainwashed so they're programmed to rebel once they return home. Several years later, one of them lands on the vice presidential ticket.
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Breakdown
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) lets his wife, Amy (Kathleen Quinlan), hitch a ride with a trucker (J.T. Walsh) to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsCharming sociopath Tom Ripley maneuvers into the lush life of Dickie, a young heir vacationing in Italy. Hired to persuade Dickie to return to America, Tom embraces Dickie's posh lifestyle and takes extreme measures to hold onto it.
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Trapped
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this tense thriller, a young girl with asthma is kidnapped and held for ransom, but her captors tell her parents that they'll deprive the child of her medication unless they comply with their terms, one of which is not to contact the police.
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The Big Picture
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSuccessful Paris attorney Paul Exben (Romain Duris) has everything going for him, including power, wealth and a picture-perfect family. But the mirror suddenly cracks when Paul discovers that his wife, Sarah, is carrying on an affair with a photographer. After a tragic error closes the door on all that he's achieved, Paul makes a fateful decision to escape, fleeing abroad to try and begin a new life as someone else altogether.
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The Ninth Gate
1999 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAn international search for a rare copy of a demonic tome, "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship in director Roman Polanski's gothic mystery.
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Following
1998 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsChristopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a seedy young Brit (Jeremy Theobald) who's obsessed with following people -- albeit harmlessly at first. After meeting a like-minded bloke (Alex Haw), the twosome graduate to breaking and entering -- but meet their match in a tough blonde dame (Lucy Russell) who may have dubious plans of her own.
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Premonition
2007 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsHousewife Linda Hanson is devastated when her husband dies suddenly in a car crash. But when he reappears the next day as if nothing ever happened, she realizes the tragedy might have just been a premonition.
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Ticking Clock
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsCuba Gooding Jr. stars as Lewis Hicks, a crime reporter who's investigating a spate of gory serial killings -- a task that hits close to home when his new girlfriend is brutally murdered in this fast-paced thriller.
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Scenic Route
2013 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen car trouble strands old friends Mitchell and Carter in the California desert, friction surfaces as they try to deal with the situation, and a heated dialogue soon escalates into a violent struggle for survival.
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The Forgotten
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA desperate mother tries to prove the existence of her missing child in this chilling psychological thriller. Reeling from the loss of her 8-year-old son, she seeks counsel from a therapist -- who claims the boy was a figment of her imagination.
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Panic Room
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA woman and her daughter are caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with three burglars in their New York City home and are forced to retreat inside a vault. As the intruders try to breach the room's security, the embattled duo must stay one step ahead.
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Righteous Kill
2008 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOscar winners Robert De Niro and Al Pacino drive this taut thriller as New York City detectives tasked with investigating a rash of vigilante killings that are linked to an old case, suggesting they might have put an innocent man behind bars.
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Changing Lanes
2002 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBen Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star in this intense drama about an egocentric attorney and a recovering alcoholic salesman whose lives dangerously collide when their cars crash on a New York expressway. After the accident, corrupt lawyer Gavin Banek (Affleck) discovers he's left behind an important file with the other driver, Doyle Gibson (Jackson). But soon anger erupts, and a vengeful game of one-upmanship threatens to ruin them both.
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Red Eye
2005 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOn a red-eye flight bound for Miami, Lisa learns that a fellow passenger has plans to murder the deputy secretary of Homeland Security -- and that he wants to use her as part of the plot.
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The Fourth Kind
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Alaskan psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping her therapy sessions with clients, she uncovers petrifying evidence that they have experienced the fourth level of alien encounter: abduction.
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Mother's Day
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe new owners of a home pick the wrong day to host a birthday party when their bash is crashed by the house's previous occupants: three fugitive bank robber brothers; their sister; and their shrewd, protective and psychotic mother.
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Secret Window
2004 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMort Rainey (Johnny Depp), a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife (Maria Bello), is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe (John Turturro) who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity. Charles S. Dutton and Timothy Hutton co-star in this suspenseful drama based on a Stephen King novella.
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Jekyll
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn modern-day London, Dr. Jekyll's last living descendant believes he can control his dark side, but a secret society that's followed the Jekyll family line for a hundred years has plans for both halves of his personality.
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