
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

The Reflecting Skin
›R1990 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

Someone's Watching Me!
›1978 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

The Other
›PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 108m · Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.

I Am the NightSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays
Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist connected to the legendary Black Dahlia murder.

Isle of the Dead
›1945 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 72m · Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
›PG1971 · Horror · 97m · Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

The Lodger
›1944 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Fortress
›1985 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Elaine Cusick
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

Svengali
›NR1931 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 81m · John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

The LochSeries
›TV-142017 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, Don Gilet
The search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for detective Annie Redford, who is trying to cope with her first murder case.

Twisted Nerve
›PG1968 · Thriller, Horror · 112m · Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

Black Friday
›1940 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 70m · Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

Apartment Zero
›R1989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 124m · Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.

Dead Mail
›2024 · Crime, Thriller, Music · 102m · Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Tomas Boykin
An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.

The Beast with Five Fingers
›1947 · Mystery, Horror · 88m · Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

Point PleasantSeries
›TV-142005 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show, Sam Page
A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.

See No Evil: The Moors MurdersSeries
›2006 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Maxine Peake, Sean Harris, Joanne Froggatt
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of the Moors Murders, which were committed during the 1960s by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, from the view of Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David.

The Swerve
›2018 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 96m · Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.

In Vitro
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 88m · Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman, Daniel Ciurte
On an isolated cattle farm, a couple experimenting with biotechnology have their lives upended when they discover a disturbing presence on their property.

Breathing In
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 105m · Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie-Lee Money
1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General seeks refuge in the small home of a woman and her young daughter. As the hurt man settles in, he begins noticing that something is off about the two women, particularly the daughter, and before long, he’ll learn the real reason for why they’ve invited him and for how they’ve survived on their own for so long.

The Capture of the Green River KillerSeries
›2008 · Drama · 1 season · Tom Cavanagh, Currie Graham, Amy Davidson
Detective David Reichert begins a relentless search for a serial killer in Washington state.

Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New YorkSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Matt Foreman, Michael Ferreri, Bea Hanson
In the early 1990s, with homophobia and hate crimes on the rise as the AIDS crisis worsens, a serial killer preys upon gay men in New York City, infiltrating queer nightlife to find his victims.

Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseSeries
›1984 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.

Sea of SoulsSeries
›2004 · Drama, Mystery · 4 seasons · Bill Paterson
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
