The best psychological thrillers of all time
The top 3 according to 272 votes from people: Vertigo (1958) · Les Diaboliques (1955) · Gone Girl (2014). (Updated Jul 14, 2020.)
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.
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Top 15
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1
Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock: a detective's obsession with a woman who seems to be someone else.
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2
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Henri-Georges Clouzot: a wife and a mistress plot a murder at a boarding school.
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3
Gone Girl (2014)
David Fincher from Gillian Flynn: a wife vanishes on their anniversary.
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Repulsion (1965)
Roman Polanski: Catherine Deneuve, alone in a London flat, loses her grip on reality.
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5
The Conversation (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola: Gene Hackman, a surveillance expert who thinks he has overheard a murder plot.
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6
Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher: an insomniac office worker and Tyler Durden.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Alfred Hitchcock from Patricia Highsmith: two strangers and a swap of murders.
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8
Dead Ringers (1988)
David Cronenberg: twin gynaecologists, Jeremy Irons twice over.
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9
Thesis (1996)
Alejandro Amenábar: a student investigates snuff films.
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10
Shutter Island (2010)
Martin Scorsese: a federal marshal investigates at an island asylum.
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11
Blue Velvet (1986)
David Lynch: a severed ear in a field and a town's dark side.
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12
Lost Highway (1997)
David Lynch: a saxophonist accused of killing his wife becomes another man.
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13
Tell No One (2006)
Guillaume Canet: a doctor gets an email from his wife, murdered eight years earlier.
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14
Timecrimes (2007)
Nacho Vigalondo: a man caught in a one-hour time loop.
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15
Cape Fear (1962)
J. Lee Thompson: Robert Mitchum stalks the family of the lawyer who jailed him.
Candidates
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16
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Juan José Campanella: a 25-year-old case that won't close; Oscar for best foreign-language film.
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17
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Robert Siodmak: a mute maid and a killer in a mansion.
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18
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Charles Laughton: a false preacher pursues two children.
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Comments (1)
La conversación es muy infravalorada, Gene Hackman desmontando su piso al final... brutal