Best psychological thriller films

Thrillers where the danger is in someone's head. Obsession, paranoia, unreliable narrators and slow reveals, from Hitchcock to the present. Every pick has a TMDB rating of 7.0 or more from at least 1,000 votes, and new releases wait until their ratings settle. The order follows the Boxlist quality score, and we checked the list by hand to remove obvious misfits.

1
Rear Window (1954)
Film8.4
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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2
Psycho (1960)
Film8.4
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious...
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3
Vertigo (1958)
Film8.2
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming...
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4
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Film8.3
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy.
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5
Memento (2000)
Film8.2
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife.
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6
Get Out (2017)
Film7.6
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend.
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7
Gone Girl (2014)
Film7.9
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that...
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8
Rebecca (1940)
Film7.9
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...
9
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Film7.7
A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.
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10
Misery (1990)
Film7.7
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road.
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11
Black Swan (2010)
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A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes...
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12
The Lighthouse (2019)
Film7.5
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
US Cinemax, HBO, UK Amazon Prime, Chili (rent)
13
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Film7.9
Following an unexpected tragedy, a child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe meets an nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
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14
The Prestige (2006)
Film8.2
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy...
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15
Take Shelter (2011)
Film7.1
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
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16
Deep Red (1975)
Film7.8
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their...
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17
Shutter Island (2010)
Film8.2
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but...
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18
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Film7.5
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter.
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19
Cape Fear (1991)
Film7.3
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney.
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20
Funny Games (1997)
Film7.3
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another...
US HBO, Kanopy, UK Amazon Prime (rent), Curzon (rent)