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
Brand New Cherry FlavorSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener, Eric Lange
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
The Bad Seed
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 129m · Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?Series
›TV-PG2019 · Mystery · 3 seasons · Conor Sherry, Telci Huynh, Luca Padovan
Each season of this horror anthology series follows a different group of kids, members of the Midnight Society, as they discover terrifying curses and creatures.
The Boston Strangler
›R1968 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 116m · Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy TapesSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Documentary · 1 season · John Wayne Gacy, Sam Amirante, Greg Bedoe
He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.
The Last Wave
›PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
The CurseSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie
An alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.
SwarmSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Crime, Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Dominique Fishback
Murder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.
The Seventh Victim
›1943 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 71m · Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Strait-Jacket
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
The RipperSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Alan Whitehouse, Keith Hellawell, Bruce Jones
For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.
The Pembrokeshire MurdersSeries
›TV-142021 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
SurrealEstateSeries
›TV-142021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Tim Rozon, Sarah Levy, Maurice Dean Wint
Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in “metaphysically engaged properties,” aka haunted houses. Together they investigate, clear and close the houses nobody else can.
The GatesSeries
›TV-142010 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rhona Mitra, Frank Grillo, Marisol Nichols
Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. There's something very different about this place, almost... haunting. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick Monahan is about to be tangled up in a mystery where he will begin to piece together the dark truth about their new home, and the supernatural elements that lurk behind the shadows of The Gates.
Eye CandySeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Victoria Justice, Casey Deidrick, Kiersey Clemons
Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.
ProfilerSeries
›TV-141996 · Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Jamie Luner, Robert Davi, Julian McMahon
Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.
The Horror of Dolores RoachSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Drama, Comedy · 1 season · Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike
After an unjust 16-year prison sentence, Dolores Roach returns to a gentrified Washington Heights, where she reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.
Catching KillersSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Documentary, Crime · 3 seasons
The investigators behind infamous serial killer cases reveal the harrowing, chilling details of their extraordinary efforts in this true crime series.
The Sadist
›NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Arch Hall Jr., Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
›1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price
Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Whistle and I'll Come to You
›1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Night VisionsSeries
›2001 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Henry Rollins
Horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.
Annihilation
›R2018 · Science Fiction, Horror · 115m · Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
The Ring
›PG-132002 · Horror, Mystery · 115m · Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
