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Psychological Thriller

A thriller with an emphasis on the psychological state of the protagonists, often common people who, either by accident or their own curiousness, are dragged into a dangerous conflict or situation that they are not prepared to resolve.
Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1931 M   Fritz Lang
  9 Stars 1966 Blow-Up   Michelangelo Antonioni
  9 Stars 1953 The Wages of Fear   Henri-Georges Clouzot
  9 Stars 1958 Vertigo   Alfred Hitchcock
  9 Stars 1988 The Vanishing   George Sluizer
  9 Stars 1951 Strangers on a Train   Alfred Hitchcock
  9 Stars 1991 The Silence of the Lambs   Jonathan Demme
  9 Stars 1940 Rebecca   Alfred Hitchcock
  9 Stars 1954 Rear Window   Alfred Hitchcock
  9 Stars 1960 Psycho   Alfred Hitchcock
  9 Stars 1960 Peeping Tom   Michael Powell
  9 Stars 1955 The Night of the Hunter   Charles Laughton
  9 Stars 1962 The Manchurian Candidate   John Frankenheimer
  9 Stars 1944 Laura   Otto Preminger
  9 Stars 1954 Diabolique   Henri-Georges Clouzot
  9 Stars 1974 The Conversation   Francis Ford Coppola
  8 Stars 1943 Shadow of a Doubt   Alfred Hitchcock
  8 Stars 1968 Rosemary's Baby   Roman Polanski
  8 Stars 1965 Repulsion   Roman Polanski
  8 Stars 1976 Marathon Man   John Schlesinger
  8 Stars 1987 House of Games   David Mamet
  8 Stars 1944 Gaslight   George Cukor
  8 Stars 1987 Fatal Attraction   Adrian Lyne
  8 Stars 1973 Don't Look Now   Nicolas Roeg
  8 Stars 1988 Dead Ringers   David Cronenberg
  8 Stars 1962 Cape Fear   J. Lee Thompson
  8 Stars 1970 Le Boucher   Claude Chabrol
  7 Stars 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley   Anthony Minghella
  7 Stars 1999 The Sixth Sense   M. Night Shyamalan
  7 Stars 1997 Insomnia   Erik Skjoldbjærg
  7 Stars 1997 Genealogies of a Crime   Raúl Ruiz
  7 Stars 1983 Mortelle Randonnée   Claude Miller
    7 Stars 1976 Cadaveri Eccellenti   Francesco Rosi
  7 Stars 1996 Primal Fear   Gregory Hoblit
  7 Stars 1994 Nightwatch   Ole Bornedal
  7 Stars 1944 The Woman in the Window   Fritz Lang
    7 Stars 1937 Night Must Fall   Richard Thorpe
  7 Stars 1960 Purple Noon   René Clément
  7 Stars 1958 Chase a Crooked Shadow   Michael Anderson
  7 Stars 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing   Otto Preminger
  7 Stars 1948 The Big Clock   John Farrow
    7 Stars 1949 The Window   Ted Tetzlaff
  7 Stars 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?   Robert Aldrich
  7 Stars 1967 Wait Until Dark   Terence Young
  7 Stars 1989 Twin Peaks: Pilot   David Lynch
  7 Stars 1984 Tightrope   Richard Tuggle
  7 Stars 1969 Que la Bête Meure   Claude Chabrol
  7 Stars 1987 The Stepfather   Joseph Ruben
  7 Stars 1946 The Spiral Staircase   Robert Siodmak
  7 Stars 1945 Spellbound   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1948 Sorry, Wrong Number   Anatole Litvak
  7 Stars 1989 Sea of Love   Harold Becker
  7 Stars 1948 Rope   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1970 Rider on the Rain   René Clément
    7 Stars 1951 The Prowler   Joseph Losey
  7 Stars 1971 Play Misty for Me   Clint Eastwood
  7 Stars 1974 The Parallax View   Alan J. Pakula
  7 Stars 1952 The Narrow Margin   Richard Fleischer
  7 Stars 1990 Misery   Rob Reiner
  7 Stars 1986 Matador   Pedro Almodóvar
  7 Stars 1986 Manhunter   Michael Mann
  7 Stars 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1926 The Lodger   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1943 Le Corbeau   Henri-Georges Clouzot
    7 Stars 1979 The Last Embrace   Jonathan Demme
  7 Stars 1938 The Lady Vanishes   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1947 Kiss of Death   Henry Hathaway
  7 Stars 1985 Jagged Edge   Richard Marquand
  7 Stars 1941 I Wake up Screaming   H. Bruce Humberstone
    7 Stars 1940 Gaslight   Thorold Dickinson
  7 Stars 1957 Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud   Louis Malle
  7 Stars 1947 Fear in the Night   Maxwell Shane
  7 Stars 1980 Dressed to Kill   Brian De Palma
  7 Stars 1954 Dial M for Murder   Alfred Hitchcock
  7 Stars 1989 Dead Calm   Phillip Noyce
  7 Stars 1949 D.O.A.   Rudolph Maté
  7 Stars 1965 The Collector   William Wyler
  7 Stars 1981 Blow Out   Brian De Palma
  7 Stars 1992 Basic Instinct   Paul Verhoeven
  7 Stars 1983 The Fourth Man   Paul Verhoeven
  6 Stars 2000 With a Friend Like Harry...   Dominik Moll
  6 Stars 1998 Pi   Darren Aronofsky
  6 Stars 1997 Open Your Eyes   Alejandro Amenábar
  6 Stars 1995 Dolores Claiborne   Taylor Hackford
  6 Stars 1994 Mute Witness   Anthony Waller
  6 Stars 1994 Blink   Michael Apted
  6 Stars 1964 Blood and Black Lace   Mario Bava
  6 Stars 1975 Deep Red   Dario Argento
  6 Stars 1982 Tenebre   Dario Argento
  6 Stars 1941 Suspicion   Alfred Hitchcock
  6 Stars 1972 Sleuth   Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  6 Stars 1992 Single White Female   Barbet Schroeder
  6 Stars 1990 Presumed Innocent   Alan J. Pakula
  6 Stars 1952 Niagara   Henry Hathaway
  6 Stars 1960 Midnight Lace   David Miller
  6 Stars 1964 Marnie   Alfred Hitchcock
  6 Stars 1965 Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte   Robert Aldrich
  6 Stars 1972 Frenzy   Alfred Hitchcock
  6 Stars 1988 Frantic   Roman Polanski
  6 Stars 1982 Deathtrap   Sidney Lumet
  6 Stars 1946 The Dark Mirror   Robert Siodmak
  6 Stars 1929 Blackmail   Alfred Hitchcock
    5 Stars 1978 Le Dossier 51   Michel Deville
  5 Stars 1997 The Game   David Fincher
  5 Stars 1997 Dead Silence   Daniel Petrie, Jr.
  5 Stars 1996 Thesis   Alejandro Amenábar
  5 Stars 1995 Copycat   Jon Amiel
    5 Stars 1994 Angel Dust   Toshihiro Ishii
  5 Stars 1994 The Client   Joel Schumacher
  5 Stars 1956 A Kiss Before Dying   Gerd Oswald
    5 Stars 1989 Gospodin Oformitel   Oleg Teptsov
    5 Stars 1944 When Strangers Marry   William Castle
  5 Stars 1952 Sudden Fear   David Miller
    5 Stars 1946 So Dark the Night   Joseph H. Lewis
    5 Stars 1976 Police Python 357   Alain Corneau
    5 Stars 1944 Phantom Lady   Robert Siodmak
    5 Stars 1948 Night Has a Thousand Eyes   John Farrow
    5 Stars 1945 My Name Is Julia Ross   Joseph H. Lewis
  5 Stars 1937 Young and Innocent   Alfred Hitchcock
    5 Stars 1982 Still of the Night   Robert Benton
  5 Stars 1950 Stage Fright   Alfred Hitchcock
  5 Stars 1973 Sisters   Brian De Palma
  5 Stars 1971 The Blind Terror   Richard Fleischer
  5 Stars 1981 Road Games   Richard Franklin
    5 Stars 1974 Reflections of Murder   John Badham
  5 Stars 1983 Psycho II   Richard Franklin
  5 Stars 1985 Péril en la Demeure   Michel Deville
    5 Stars 1966 Mirage   Edward Dmytryk
  5 Stars 1988 Masquerade   Bob Swaim
  5 Stars 1962 Experiment in Terror   Blake Edwards
  5 Stars 1987 Dead of Winter   Arthur Penn
  5 Stars 1969 L'Uccello dalle piume di cristallo   Dario Argento
  5 Stars 1987 The Bedroom Window   Curtis Hanson
  4 Stars 1987 Opera   Dario Argento
  4 Stars 1990 Flatliners   Joel Schumacher
  4 Stars 1992 Afraid of the Dark   Mark Peploe
 
 
 
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