
Sub-genre
Psychological
🧠 Every psychological title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
3196 titles

Are You Afraid of the Dark?Series
›TV-Y71992 · Mystery, Kids, Drama · 7 seasons · Daniel DeSanto, David Deveau, Vanessa Lengies
This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

The Fly
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror, Drama · 94m · David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

Carnival of Souls
›NR1962 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 78m · Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

AbsentiaSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Neil Jackson
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.

The Pit and the Pendulum
›1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 80m · Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

The PassageSeries
›TV-142019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 1 season · Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saniyya Sidney, Caroline Chikezie
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

CrossSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Aldis Hodge, Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.

Quatermass and the Pit
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

ChapelwaiteSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›NR1920 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 79m · John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

While the City Sleeps
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama · 100m · Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Based on a True StorySeries
›TV-MA2023 · Comedy, Drama · 2 seasons · Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman
The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the slow-close toilet seat.

The Honeymoon Killers
›R1970 · Crime, Drama, Romance · 108m · Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.

The Dark Mirror
›1946 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 85m · Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

The Twilight ZoneSeries
›TV-PG2002 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Forest Whitaker
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

Blood TiesSeries
›TV-142007 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Kyle Schmid
Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a vampire assists police in dealing with crime. It premiered in the United States on March 11, 2007 on Lifetime Television, and during fall of 2007 on Citytv and Space in Canada. In May 2008, Lifetime declined to renew the series.

To Catch a Killer
›1992 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.

No Way to Treat a Lady
›NR1968 · Comedy, Thriller · 108m · Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

The Living and the DeadSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama · 1 season · Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer, David Oakes
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?

Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
›2019 · Documentary, Horror · 99m · Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund
Mark Patton sets the records straight about the controversial 1985 sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended his acting career, just as it was about to begin.

The Killing SeasonSeries
›TV-142016 · Crime, Documentary · 1 season · Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills
Follow documentarians Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time – the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island.

MarchlandsSeries
›2011 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Alex Kingston, Denis Lawson, Anne Reid
The gripping story of three different families living in the same house in the 1960’s, 1980’s and present day. The families are linked by the spirit of a young girl – the 1960’s family’s daughter who died in mysterious circumstances.

Wolf LakeSeries
›TV-142001 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Kirshner, Sharon Lawrence
"There are those among us who can move at will between the world of the wolves and the world of the humans. My people call them skin walkers." Seattle police detective John Kanin has a problem. He's in love, but shortly after agreeing to marry him, his girlfriend disapears. His search leads to her home town, where people are clearly hiding information from him. One of the things they are hiding is the fact that they are all werewolves, as is John's girlfriend, Ruby.
