15 best psychological thriller about mind games and maniacs

1. Joker

Joker

• USA, Canada, 2019.
• Drama, Thriller, Crime.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,9.

Shy Arthur Fleck earns a clown and dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. That's just it happen uncontrollable fits of laughter, which greatly complicates life for him and the others. Gradually the case of Arthur are getting worse, and he begins to lose touch with reality. Only one way out - to be transformed into a clown Joker.

Directed by Todd Phillips, who became famous thanks to the comedy "The Hangover", based his famous villain from the comics, but completely changed his story. The result is a very dark drama about loneliness. The author left the audience an opportunity to solveWhat is shown in the screen was real and what was happening only in the mind of the protagonist.

2. Fight club

Fight Club

• USA, Germany, 1999.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 139 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,8.

The protagonist spends his life on the hated work and can not relax even in a dream. But everything changes when he meets Tyler Durden merchant soap. He convinces him that the main and only purpose of life - self-destruction. Friends open up "

Fight club"- a secret place where anyone can come to fight. But then he realizes that the trader plans soap is much more difficult.

Cult film by David Fincher is based on the famous book by Chuck Palahniuk. Taking on the main role of Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, the director was able to show a great contrast between the characters: one always looks tired and increasingly thinner, and the second - pumped up handsome.

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3. Psycho

Psycho

• United States, 1960.
• Psychological horror.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Mary Crane breaks up a divorced man who steals money at work and leaving town. Along the way she stopped at the motel, managed by a nice young man, Norman Bates. But, as it turns out, he had a very strange relationship with his mother. And the woman in the picture does not appear.

This movie Alfred Hitchcock It has long been a standard thriller. A charming madman Norman Bates repeatedly found himself in the lists of the most famous screen maniacs with a personality disorder.

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4. Remember

Memento

• United States, 2000.
• Thriller, a detective drama.
• Duration: 113 min.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Leonard Shelby is trying to find the murderer of his wife. The only problem is that he has broken the short-term memory. Leonard remembers the events prior to the death of the beloved, but forgets everything that happened more than 15 minutes ago. To help yourself, he does his own body tattoos with tips.

Picture Christopher Nolan It built very unusual: one storyline develops in a straight chronology, and the second is shown in reverse order. And yet, in order to surprise the viewer an unexpected finale.

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5. Shutter Island

Shutter Island

• United States, 2010.
• Psychological thriller, detective.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Bailiffs are sent to the private island, where there is a mental hospital. They must investigate the disappearance of a patient, but faced with a whole web of lies and concealment of evidence. In addition, the island falls hurricane that cut off from the rest of the heroes of the world. But then it all becomes even more strange.

The famous Martin Scorsese in his work very successfully catches the viewer. Action begins as an gloomy intricate detective. But as a result of all the theories evert almost inside out. A special advantage of the picture - a great game Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo.

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6. Donnie Darko

donnie Darko

• United States, 2001.
• Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 133 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

One night, high school student Donnie Darko, in obedience to the orders of the human mind's in a rabbit suit, left the house. The next morning, he found that had fallen from the sky aircraft engine was exactly in his room. From that moment on Donnie remarks that could either foretell the future, or to change time itself.

Unusual movie retroatmosfere reminiscent of the work of David Lynch. And his story is interesting on the verge of an intricate thriller and psychedelic fantasy.

7. Black Swan

Black Swan

• United States, 2010.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Nina Sayers became the new prima ballet. She is very talented, but lacks self-confidence and looseness. Before production of "Swan Lake" in the company of its competitor appears, which can take away from all the party heroine.

In film Darren Aronofsky hardly be able to distinguish reality from unhealthy fantasies of the protagonist. But that's the whole point, because she herself is not sure what is happening.

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8. Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

• United States, 2001.
• Thriller, Drama, Detective.
• Duration: 147 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

Woman trying to shoot at the car, but it saves the accident. Amnesiac, she meets with aspiring actress Betty. That helps the stranger, and together they try to understand her past, becoming closer to each other. But gradually, the events are still surreal.

Most movies David Lynch They do not have a clear explanation of isolation. But in "Mulholland Drive" everything a little bit easier, the main thing - to separate the real actions of the main character of her dreams.

9. Driver

el Maquinista

• USA, Spain, 2004.
• Thriller.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Trevor Reznik has not slept for a year. It turned into a living skeleton and no longer distinguish dream from reality. His nightmares in reality, but in recent years they have increasingly affect the daily events. Trevor realizes that gradually goes insane.

For the role in this film Christian Bale I lost 30 kilograms, so that the protruding ribs and fell face - no computer graphics and real physical shape of the actor at the time. And it also helped him better get used to the image of the hero, who is so exhausted that poorly distinguishes reality from a dream.

10. American Psycho

american Psycho

• USA, Canada, 2000.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Patrick Bateman is considered almost perfect. He is energetic at work, watching them and trying to help people. But one day meets a homeless and impulsively kills him. It awakens his hidden passion for violence, which can not be stopped.

Bateman also played Christian Bale - another famous cinematic psychopath. The combination of good looks and extremely perverted mind is very memorable to the audience. Although until the end and it is not clear what kind of crimes committed in the character of reality, and what - just invented.

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11. Jacob's-ladder

Jacob's Ladder

• United States, 1990.
• Thriller, Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Jacob Singer served in Vietnam and was wounded. After returning home, he began to pursue the horrible vision. And this time around are beginning to argue that he was lying about his military past. James feels that he no longer knows where the truth lies.

In the wake of an epidemic remakes and restarted in 2019. The new version of the cult film. But it was much worse than the original and has failed in all respects.

12. Split

• USA, Japan, 2017.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

Stranger lulls and kidnapped three girls directly to the car park. They come to life in a basement. And it soon becomes clear that the body of the thief Kevin Crumb live together 23 personalities. But all the characters are waiting for the most terrible, the 24th.

James McAvoy in this movie put all his acting talent to play the main villain. After all, the character personality disorder, and it appears in the form of a low-key business man in a violent maniac. And sometimes even she thinks like a woman or a child.

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13. opacity

A Scanner Darkly

• United States, 2006.
• Fiction, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

Robert Arktor - Police are embedded in the environment of addicts and, under the guise of excluding any personal contacts with connected. Gradually, he himself becomes a victim of drug addiction and begins to suspect himself of treason.

Unusual visual imagery of this film allowed to transfer all the madness of the hero, which is under the influence of drugs: its sides can be transformed into insects and objects change shape. But best of all is transferred to the atmosphere of doubt in his own mind, because the hero from a certain moment watching himself.

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14. Enemy

Enemy

• Canada, Spain, 2013.
• Thriller, detective.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Taking one day at the box office movie disc, a history teacher sees on the screen actor, surprisingly similar to themselves. He decides to find his double, but it gradually turns into a real obsession that leads to the hero's mystical events and dips it in metaphysical darkness.

Producer Denis Villeneuve in this film he is clearly referring to David Lynch. And so it is a psychological thriller rather closer to the arthouse than the traditional cinema. The plot here does not give clear answers, and the final is still open.

15. Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky

• USA, Spain, 2001.
• Horror, thriller, fantasy.
• Duration: 130 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

Rich handsome David Ames meets Sophia at the party, and immediately falls in love. But after a car accident, rigged his jealous lover, the hero turns into a disabled mutilated face. After plastic surgery everything seems to be normal, but still David feels that with him there is something strange.

The plot of this partly overlaps with the famous book of Philip K. Dick, "Ubik", where the question "What is reality," there is the main character repeatedly. But the "Vanilla Sky" gives yet more romantic, not a philosophical interpretation.

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