# The best psychological thrillers of all time

Films that make you doubt everything: from Vertigo and Les Diaboliques to Fight Club, The Secret in Their Eyes and Gone Girl. The psychological thrillers picked by EnFilme and Orange Pop TV.

- 272 votes · 18 items
- Jul 14, 2020 · Romina Costa Herrera
- https://even.best/en/l/4321/the-best-psychological-thrillers-of-all-time

## Top 15

1. **Vertigo (1958)** (30 · ▲30 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock: a detective's obsession with a woman who seems to be someone else.
2. **Les Diaboliques (1955)** (21 · ▲24 ▼3) — Henri-Georges Clouzot: a wife and a mistress plot a murder at a boarding school.
3. **Gone Girl (2014)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — David Fincher from Gillian Flynn: a wife vanishes on their anniversary.
4. **Repulsion (1965)** (15 · ▲18 ▼3) — Roman Polanski: Catherine Deneuve, alone in a London flat, loses her grip on reality.
5. **The Conversation (1974)** (13 · ▲15 ▼2) — Francis Ford Coppola: Gene Hackman, a surveillance expert who thinks he has overheard a murder plot.
6. **Fight Club (1999)** (13 · ▲15 ▼2) — David Fincher: an insomniac office worker and Tyler Durden.
7. **Strangers on a Train (1951)** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock from Patricia Highsmith: two strangers and a swap of murders.
8. **Dead Ringers (1988)** (9 · ▲13 ▼4) — David Cronenberg: twin gynaecologists, Jeremy Irons twice over.
9. **Thesis (1996)** (8 · ▲12 ▼4) — Alejandro Amenábar: a student investigates snuff films.
10. **Shutter Island (2010)** (7 · ▲11 ▼4) — Martin Scorsese: a federal marshal investigates at an island asylum.
11. **Blue Velvet (1986)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — David Lynch: a severed ear in a field and a town's dark side.
12. **Lost Highway (1997)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — David Lynch: a saxophonist accused of killing his wife becomes another man.
13. **Tell No One (2006)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Guillaume Canet: a doctor gets an email from his wife, murdered eight years earlier.
14. **Timecrimes (2007)** (5 · ▲10 ▼5) — Nacho Vigalondo: a man caught in a one-hour time loop.
15. **Cape Fear (1962)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — J. Lee Thompson: Robert Mitchum stalks the family of the lawyer who jailed him.
16. **The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Juan José Campanella: a 25-year-old case that won't close; Oscar for best foreign-language film.
17. **The Spiral Staircase (1946)** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — Robert Siodmak: a mute maid and a killer in a mansion.
18. **The Night of the Hunter (1955)** (-1 · ▲5 ▼6) — Charles Laughton: a false preacher pursues two children.

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