Psychological Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
The Quiet
2005 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter losing her father, deaf and mute teen Dot moves in with her dysfunctional godparents and their daughter. Soon each is entrusting Dot with shameful secrets they assume will stay private. But little do they know that Dot has a secret of her own.
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As Good as Dead
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen left-wing extremist Ethan Belfrage murders white supremacist cult leader the Rev. Kalahan, Kalahan's wife goes on the warpath with two members of the cult to hunt down Belfrage and subject him to torture.
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Red White & Blue
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen aloof bed-hopper Erica (Amanda Fuller) takes a job at a hardware store in Austin, she crosses paths with Frankie (Marc Senter), a struggling musician, and Nate (Noah Taylor), a mysterious stranger with an ominous past. But their lives don't intersect in the way you might expect. British writer-director Simon Rumley steers this intense psychological revenge thriller that packs a surprising plot twist.
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Beneath the Dark
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsOn a road trip through the Mojave Desert, contented couple Paul (Josh Stewart) and Adrienne (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) stop at a time-forgotten motel to rest, but their peace is disturbed when nocturnal visits with ominous fellow guests stir a frightful secret that looms between them. As the walls begin to speak and the grim truth closes in on unsuspecting Adrienne, Paul is driven to desperate and violent action in this psychological thriller.
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Legacy
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsTaking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
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Under Still Waters
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhile sorting out their relationship problems at a remote lake house, married couple Charlie (Lake Bell) and Andrew (Jason Clarke) cross paths with a mysterious stranger named Jacob (Clifton Collins Jr.), whose unexplained presence threatens to derail their progress and puts their lives at risk. Writer Carolyn Miller also directs this psychological thriller with a surprising twist. Frankie Ingrassia co-stars.
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Blood River
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsScratch beneath their smooth yuppie surface and a wealth of secrets emerges after husband and wife Clark (Ian Duncan) and Summer (Tess Panzer) encounter car trouble and find themselves injured and stranded in the Nevada desert. Salvation -- they think -- comes in the form of a ghost town named Blood River and the gospel-spewing itinerant they encounter there. But soon they realize that the helpful stranger might not be so helpful after all.
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Agnosia
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfflicted with agnosia -- a neuropsychological disorder that disrupts her perception of outside stimuli -- Joana attempts to protect a valuable secret that only she knows from mysterious forces conspiring to exploit her unreliable senses.
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Brake
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSecret Service agent Jeremy Reins awakens in the trunk of a car driven by terrorists who are hunting for the president's secret bunker. For Reins, escaping means more than just his own survival: The nation's future hangs in the balance.
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Kiss of the Damned
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsStyled after the glossy vampire flicks of the 1960s, this thriller finds undead Djuna giving in to her lust for screenwriter Paulo. Enter Djuna's sister Mimi, whose own hunger for Paulo's blood turns the local vampire community on its pointed ear.
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Everybody Has a Plan
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsViggo Mortensen stars in this thriller as twin brothers Agustín, a doctor living a comfortable but mundane life, and Pedro, who has a criminal past. When Pedro dies, Agustín adopts his identity and gets a taste of Argentina's underworld.
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Blood Pressure
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDiscontent with her family life and career, a woman begins receiving letters from a secret admirer. Intrigued by this mystery figure, she agrees to continue accepting the correspondence, which contains increasingly strange messages and instructions.
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Obsession
1976 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile vacationing in Italy, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robinson) spots a mysterious woman (Genevive Bujold) bearing an eerie resemblance to his late wife -- who, along with his daughter, was killed 15 years earlier. Blinded by grief, Michael pursues the beautiful doppelganger, but winning her heart turns out to be a dubious prize. Brian De Palma helmed this unabashed homage to director Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo.
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House of 9
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsNine unsuspecting victims are trapped in a mansion and their every move is being filmed. Promising $5 million to the player who emerges victorious, their unseen captor uses them as pawns in a horrifying and demented "game."
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Dark Mirror
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter moving into a strange old house with her husband and son, Deborah (Lisa Vidal) discovers a mysterious mirror that does more than just cast a reflection. A door to an alternate reality, the mirror awakens a dark side in Deborah that she can't control. Co-starring David Chisum, Christine Lakin, Joshua Pelegrin and Lupe Ontiveros, this psychological thriller is directed and co-written by Pablo Proenza.
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Deadline
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen Alice, a fragile scribe, seeks peace so she can complete her screenplay before a deadline, she moves to a remote country house. Soon, baffling noises ignite her imagination and and she tries to discover the force behind the mind games.
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Tell Tale
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA single father is kept alive by another man's heart, which suits him fine until he discovers that the organ's original owner was murdered. Worried that he might come to a similar end, he embarks on a desperate search for the donor's killer.
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The Tiger's Tail
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker John Boorman captures the uneasy mood of turn-of-the-millennium Dublin in this darkly comic thriller about a real-estate tycoon (Brendan Gleeson) whose life begins to unravel when a doppelganger steps in and takes over parts of his world. Liam O'Leary's wife (Kim Cattrall) and son (Briain Gleeson) think he's breaking down from a business deal gone sour, but when he confronts his double, O'Leary learns a secret that changes everything.
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Buried
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile on a job in Iraq, civilian contractor Paul Conroy is attacked and kidnapped, then awakens to find himself buried alive in the middle of the desert with nothing but a lighter, a candle, a cell phone and a knife.
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Sound of My Voice
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this psychological thriller, journalists Peter and Lorna undergo an elaborate preparation process in order to infiltrate a cult, leading from a desolate road to an unmarked location, but the mystery only deepens when their blindfolds are removed.
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Kill List
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this white-knuckle crime flick, out-of-work hit man Jay teams with his partner, Gal, for a three-contract job that rapidly turns from routine to obscene as the call of duty takes a twisted toll on Jay's sanity and sense of control.
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Retreat
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a young couple visiting a remote Scottish island finds an injured man at their door claiming that a lethal virus has spread through Europe, they must decide whether to believe the stranger -- and figure out how to survive.
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True Nature
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThe Pascal family has it all-- wealth, power, privilege-- but their lives change forever when their daughter disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened but haunted by strange visions.
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Anamorph
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsNYPD detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is obsessed with catching a serial killer whose slayings resemble a case Aubray solved years earlier. But the bizarre crime scenes require Aubray to study everything -- including his own dark past -- in a new light. The intricately plotted psychological thriller also stars Scott Speedman as a young maverick detective and Clea DuVall as a woman with a mysterious history.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsBrad McCullum begins to have visions that make him believe he's living in a Sophocles play in this psychological thriller inspired by true events. The events he thinks he experiences lead him to commit a brutal, bloody crime with a sword.
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