A good thriller can turn watching a movie into one big and never-ending tickling of nerves. We present you the top 20 best psychological thriller movies of the last decades according to the site PsSovet24.ru. We are sure that their viewing will give you a lot of pleasure.
So, let's go:
20. Photos per hour
Say Parrish - the unfortunate, not beloved chief of the photo salon. He fully devoted his life to his beloved work, and has neither relatives nor close friends. Say is highly appreciated by numerous clients, especially the Yorkin family, who trust him with his pictures for development from year to year.
During this time, showing their photos, Parrish got to know the members of the family closer, became attached to them, especially to their son Jacob. And one day this attachment goes beyond all limits when he decides to intervene in their lives.
19. The Departed
Is there something in common between the two graduates of the Boston Police Academy? Both have to lead a double life full of dangers. But one was sent under cover to a terrifying mafia group, and the second, being a member of the mafia, works in the police.
Both agents face the same task: to detect the "mole" and eliminate it. But the people around them, constant stress and life in distorted realities change the inner world of men. Now they are not so easy to substitute their new colleagues under attack.
18. Nightmare on Elm Street 
Recently, in the town of Springwood on Elm Street something ominous is happening. High school student Nancy Thompson, from night to night, has a frightening dream about a mysterious man with a burned face and a glove on his right hand with sharp blades instead of fingers trying to kill her.
It turns out that not only her, but also her friends are tormented by the same nightmare. The worst thing is that the one who dies at the hands of a maniac in a dream actually dies ...
17. Buried alive
According to the plot of this psychological thriller, Paul Conroy works on contract in Iraq. After his convoy is ambushed and almost all Americans die, he loses consciousness. Waking up, Paul finds himself in a dark and cramped place. He finds a cigarette lighter and a mobile phone in his pants. After he lit the fire, he caught his breath - no doubt, he was in a coffin buried deep underground.
And then an unknown number rings on the phone, and Paul Conroy finds out that he was the victim of a terrorist act. He will have to go through terrible, physically and psychologically difficult hours of struggle for his own life.
16. Law abiding citizen
The life of Clyde Shelton, a respectable Philadelphia resident, changes overnight when a criminal gang attacks his house. His wife and daughter are killed, and soon the criminals fall into justice.
Clyde expects them to face the harshest sentence, but prosecutors are making a deal and sentencing only one of them to the highest degree. Then the person who has lost the most valuable thing in his life decides to take revenge on the criminals and the prosecutor, and takes justice into his own hands ...
15. Psycho
Classic creativity Alfred Hitchcock. Psychological thriller tells of a woman named Marion, who spontaneously decides to commit a crime. She steals 40,000 dollars to start a new life in another city with her lover.
But on the road, tired of escape and stress, she turns off to a secluded motel, located away from the highway. There she meets a young master, Norman, and does not suspect that in this quiet place she faces a much more serious danger than the persecution of the police.
14. Thirteenth floor
A group of scientists is developing a unique program that allows you to create a virtual reality and connect people's brains to it. This world is able to completely simulate even the consciousness of the people inhabiting it. The creator of the project, Hanon Fuller, restored the Los Angeles of the thirties - the city of his childhood.
His sudden mysterious death leads to a shock of all employees, and suspicions fall on his colleague Douglas Hall, who does not remember anything. To figure out what happened, Hall will have to plunge into virtual reality, where the truth may be much more frightening than it seemed at first ...
13. Remember
The main character of this psychological thriller is Leonard, who is obsessed with one goal - to find Johnny G, the man who raped and murdered his wife. However, its main difficulty lies in the rare form of amnesia obtained after a severe head injury. He remembers everything that happened before the murder, but is not able to remember what was 15 minutes ago.
To remember where his house is, what kind of car he has, who is his friend and who is the enemy, he has to keep reminding himself every time - in the form of notes, photos and even tattoos. Are all Leonard's comrades trying to help him, or do some of them want to use his illness for their own purposes?
12. Disappeared
The day before the start of the celebration of the five-year anniversary of married life, the unexpected happens - the culprit of the solemn event disappears. In the house everywhere there are traces of stubborn struggle and bloodstains that they were obviously trying to wipe. The main suspect in the death of Amy Dunn immediately becomes her husband Nick.
Following the "keys" that his inventive wife might have left, he will try to shed light on the disappearance of his wife. What secrets of Nick will be revealed during this investigation?
11. Oldboy
The protagonist of this psychological thriller, an ordinary businessman, Oe De Soo, becomes a victim of abduction. He wakes up in a completely unknown place - a room without windows and the possibility of leaving it. Soon he realizes that he was in a private prison cell. Infinitely asking himself the question "For what?", But not finding the answer, he begins to train hard.
It takes many years ... Anger is replaced by melancholy, melancholy - indifference. And when the memories started to seem like a dream, Odhe Soo suddenly turns out to be free.
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10. Eyes wide shut
Christmas Eve - a mysterious, magical time. You can dream about the unreal, to think the impossible ... Perfect on the surface of the relationship Alice and Bill Harfordov suddenly subjected to a test of strength, when Eli decides to dedicate a spouse to their uncomplicated sexual fantasies.
Bill lacks a sense of humor to cope with the approaching rodent jealousy, and he decides to act in reality. A visit by the protagonist of a mysterious country house and the introduction to the intoxicating secrets are unlikely to help restore the familiar flow of family life ...
9. The Sign
Catastrophe is a global way for an indifferent Universe to point out the mistakes of mankind. But sometimes it shows mercy and allows you to notice signs of an approaching disaster ... So this time. Professor Koestler becomes the owner of the message laid by schoolchildren in the "time bomb" in the distant fifty-ninth.
An unpleasant discovery awaits the scientist: the numbers covering the sheet from top to bottom coincide with the cataclysms of the last 50 years. It turns out that everything is going according to plan, only now this plan has an end ...
8. Identification
Without stopping, gushing rain. In a god-forgotten roadside motel, ten travelers hide from the weather. Ten individuals will not, of their own will, happen to cross in a confined space, and not everyone is destined to survive this night ...
Heroes lose their lives one by one; can the survivors unite to see the dawn? The central idea of the film does not appear immediately, but the events are developing so rapidly that it is not easy for even the attentive viewer to figure out whose diabolical plan begins to be consistently implemented.
7. The Prophet
The protagonist of this psychological thriller, Chris, has long been accustomed to his gift, and even managed to adapt to it, earning a living with uncomplicated tricks, impressive only random acquaintances in a casino. He is able to foresee the future, but only for a couple of minutes.
Chris is not looking for world fame at all, but somehow he manages to attract the attention of the special services. Agent Callie is confident that only Chris can help save the country from a major catastrophe. It remains only to convince Chris himself of this ...
6. Pit
Is it possible to justify with love any act? Two young men and two girls decide to replace the trip with classmates for the weekend in an underground bunker abandoned since the war. Three days in a fully equipped and isolated from the world of the dungeon - what else can so fill with adrenaline bored mind?
Only now the ending of the fun adventure turned out to be blurred - at the appointed time no one released them into the wild. Now the experiment begins to move in a different, unforeseen scenario ...
5. Pandorum
Crew members of an interstellar spacecraft awaken from anabiosis at a bad time. They discover that the starship equipment is not working, and the memory returning to scraps cannot help. The heroes decide to restart the reactor to begin with, and then take control of the system, reaching the captain's bridge.
The technical operation is quickly becoming a deadly enterprise when it turns out that they are not alone on the ship. And now, to understand what happened on the ship, first you need to survive in this madness of Pandorum ...
4. partner
For Max, a taxi is a temporary occupation, and the dream of life - to open your business - has warmed the soul for 12 years now. And his taxi decides to take advantage of an ordinary office clerk Vincent. The positive impression of a pleasant passenger spoils when the first victim of Vincent falls on the roof of a taxi from a window.
Now the driver becomes a hostage of a professional murderer who forces him to submit to his conditions. Max is trying to disrupt the plans of the killer, relying on the feds who have appeared not far off, but Vincent follows a strictly planned plan ...
3. Double castling
To bring the enemy to clean water - which goal can be nobler? And the mole from the police, working for the mafia, and the spy from the mafia, embedded in the police, every day go on the razor's edge. Yen, the undercover cop, is tired of his work and desperately wants to regain a normal life.
A mafia agent in a police unit wants to do away with dark deeds, but this does not prevent him from passing on his information, due to the leakage of which people are dying. Both circumstances are not allowed to take the final step, and they continue the deadly game, risking exposure ...
2. Prestige
The friendly competition of two illusionist magicians who were competing with each other at the turn of two centuries gradually turned into a merciless war. Which of them is a villain, and who is the victim, when each has taken possession of the desire to surpass the opponent and become the best, even if for this you have to disrupt the opponent's performance?
What sacrifice is each of them ready to make in pursuit of the secret of the enemy that is so desired? Both had a chance to stop senseless enmity, but both are ready to take extreme measures to win.
1. Cube
A very heterogeneous company somehow finds itself inside an unusual cube-shaped construction.
Closed space begins to put pressure on unwitting prisoners, forcing them to look for a way out. The room has exits, a lot. But behind each hatch only other rooms are hidden, concealing not only deadly riddles, but also clues.
Will five personalities with such different life experiences be able to combine their efforts to solve the puzzle of an unknown experimenter and return freedom?
