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- Clinical (2017) Director: Alistair Legrand. Cast: Vinessa Shaw, Kevin Rahm, William Atherton. Rating: TV-MA. Run time: 1 hour 44 minutes. You may want to watch this one with the lights on.
- Tau (2018) Director: Federico D’Alessandro. Cast: Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein, Gary Oldman. Rating: R. Run time: 1 hour 37 minutes. A young woman named Julia (Maika Monroe) falls asleep at home and wakes up to find herself in a jail cell with a glowing implant in her neck.
- Fractured (2019) Director: Brad Anderson. Cast: Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe, Stephen Tobolowsky. Rating: R. Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes. After his wife, Joanne (Lily Rabe), encounters a stray dog and suffers injuries, Ray (Sam Worthington) and their daughter decide to take her to the hospital.
- Steel Rain (2019) Director: Yang Woo-seok. Cast: Jung Woo-sung, Kwak Do-won, Kim Gap-soo. Rating: TV-MA. Run time: 2 hours 19 minutes. An attempted coup triggers a war between North and South Korea.
- 'I Care A Lot'
- 'Don’T Worry Darling'
- 'Missing'
- 'The Strays'
- 'The Good nurse'
- 'The Platform'
- 'Hypnotic'
- 'The Devil All The Time'
- 'I’m Thinking of Ending Things'
- 'The Woman in The Window'
Rotten Tomatoes: 78% | IMDb: 6.4/10
Rarely does a female antihero come along where you feel tension for rooting for her schemes. Such is the case with the black comedy thriller, I Care A Lot, where a con woman makes her living by becoming the court-appointed guardian to vulnerable elders, convincing the courts that they’re unable to take care of themselves and seizing their assets. However, she finds herself in dangerous waters after she hijacks guardianship over a crime lord’s mother. The cat-and-mouse chase keeps you on the e...
Rotten Tomatoes: 38% | IMDb: 6.3/10
Run by the mysterious Frank (Chris Pine), the company town of Victory, California, is not what it seems, with Florence Pugh’s Alice starting to suspect there may be sinister acts brewing under the town’s calm surface. Don’t Worry Darling, directed artfully by Olivia Wilde, finds all the eerie tension one may expect from a horror without ever leaning into that genre. Patient in its build-up, the film thrives in the captivating performances of its strong ensemble, including the likes of Pugh,Ge...
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% | IMDb: 7.1/10
Anyone who hasn’t heard from someone for just longer than expected knows the dread and panic that flows through your veins until you get in touch, and Missing, directed by Will Merrick and Nicholas D. Johnson, manages to capture that feeling in a singular film like lightning in a bottle. The story puts you in the POV of June Allen (Storm Reid), a teen girl who can’t wait to party with her friends while her mom is out of town. But when her mom doesn’t return, she has to lead the search herself...
Rotten Tomatoes: 54% | IMDb: 4.8/10
They say the past never stays buried for long, and now a woman’s past comes back to try to bury her. Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) plays Neve, a Black woman who meticulously crafts her life to fit into the white suburbs by rejecting every aspect of Blackness and assimilating into the life of an upper-middle-class housewife. Unfortunately, two strangers show up to unravel her tightly wound fabric of her persona. They position themselves in and around her children’s school and stalk her every move....
Rotten Tomatoes: 74% | IMDb: 6.8/10
Jessica Chastain(The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars opposite Eddie Redmayne in the dark and thrilling film The Good Nurse from director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter). Based on horrific true events, The Good Nurse follows an ICU nurse (Chastain) who begins to suspect her colleague (Redmayne) of causing deaths within the hospital where they work. Written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, The Good Nurse maintains a foundation in reality, even as the high stakes of these two medical professionals are ultimately...
Rotten Tomatoes: 80% | IMDb: 7.0/10
The Platform is a unique and utterly terrifying thriller that offers biting (pun intended) societal commentary about class in the vein of Squid Game. The film revolves around people living in a concrete tower, either as punishment for a crime or as volunteers. Everyone in the tower is fed via a platform that begins at the top of the building and slowly descends. Those at the top of the building have their choices of delicious cuisine, while those at the bottom are left with scraps. Every mont...
Rotten Tomatoes: 24% | IMDb: 5.3/10
From The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor to Hush, Kate Siegel is a master horror actor, and Hypnotic is no different. A young woman named Jenn (Siegel) is on a mission to improve her life, including doing sessions with a hypnotherapist (Jason O’Mara). After a few sessions, however, she beings to experience dangerous consequences that could prove deadly for herself and those around her. Though the plot can veer towards the silly and predictable at times, Hypnotic is a fun thriller to watc...
Rotten Tomatoes: 56% | IMDb: 7.1/10
A bleak vision of life in America from 1950 to the mid-1960s, director Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time is about the most perpetually painful film that you could imagine. Made up of a strong ensemble cast whose lives all end up intersecting, it is based upon the novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock who also serves as a fitting narrator for the increasingly dark events of the film. Central to this is Tom Holland as Arvin, a traumatized young man who is trying to make things right...
Rotten Tomatoes: 82% | IMDb: 6.6/10
It might be time to end that relationship. Based on the 2016 novel of the same name byIain Reid, Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a wonderfully maddening psychological thriller that will leave you with many questions, theories, and concerns. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is having second thoughts about her fledgling relationship with Jake (Jesse Plemons). She agrees to go on a trip with him to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) at their remote cabin, but upo...
Rotten Tomatoes: 25% | IMDb: 7.5/10
Nothing good can come from spying on your neighbors. Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window shows life from the perspective of Anna Fox (Amy Adams) a reclusive, agoraphobic woman who, aside from her basement tenant David (Wyatt Russell) lives by herself in a massive Manhattan brownstone. She passes the time by drinking, checking in with her estranged husband and their daughter, and keeping a watchful eye on her neighbors. She has a clear view into the h...
- 796 votes. Hush. Hush masterfully invades the psyche by utilizing a deaf protagonist whose vulnerability amplifies the terror of her circumstances. Ingeniously adapting the home invasion thriller format, this film illustrates how one's psychological strength can be more critical than physical ability when facing danger.
- 593 votes. Gerald's Game. Gerald's Game takes viewers on a harrowing journey into the tormented mind of a woman trapped both physically and emotionally. Adapted from Stephen King's novel, the film uses the protagonist's haunting past to ratchet up the psychological intensity, providing a visceral thrills that linger long after the screen fades to black.
- 44 votes. Fractured. Fractured deftly blurs the lines between reality and delusion, spinning a web of paranoia and suspense. This psychological thriller places the viewer squarely in the shoes of its desperate protagonist, Ray, as he embarks on a frantic quest for truth and sanity.
- 189 votes. Cam. Cam dives headfirst into the increasingly blurred boundaries between online personas and reality. This spine-chilling thriller meticulously explores the psychological implications of sacrificing one's identity for digital validation, as the protagonist Alice encounters a sinister doppelgänger who takes over her online life.
Oct 25, 2022 · Here are the 30 best mind-bending psychological thrillers on Netflix to stream online for free right now including 'YOU', 'Fractured,' and 'Spiderhead.'.
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Dec 16, 2023 · Netflix offers a plethora of intriguing psychological thrillers waiting to be explored. Within the realm of thrillers and suspense, it could be said the psychological thriller subgenre...
