Movies thrillers about crazy people

List of the best thriller films about crazy people according to the audience: Buried, Profile, Nightcrawler, The Guest, 127 Hours, Gone Girl, Sneaky Pete, Bridge of Spies, The Grey, The Trial of the Chicago 7.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
Duration01:35

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, detective
CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

    When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:35

      A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:33

      The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

        With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, history
        CountryUSA, Germany, India
        Duration02:39

          During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

            An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

            What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:04

            Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
            Duration02:18

            Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:14

              The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

                Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:43

                  The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:32

                  Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

                  Markimdb: 8.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:18

                  World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, France
                  Duration02:13

                    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA

                    In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:48

                    Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:35

                    Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
                    Duration02:01

                    Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:41

                      Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

                      Markimdb: 6.4
                      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:41

                      Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

                      Markimdb: 7.4
                      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                      CountryUSA, Mexico
                      Duration01:45

                      A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

                      Markimdb: 6.9
                      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:51

                      Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

                      Markimdb: 6.7
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:59

                      A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

                      Markimdb: 6.8
                      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA, Canada
                      Duration01:53

                      Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

                      Markimdb: 8.1
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:33

                        When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

                        Markimdb: 7.7
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:57

                        Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

                        Markimdb: 7.9
                        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:53

                        After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

                        Markimdb: 7.7
                        Genrethriller, drama
                        CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
                        Duration01:37

                        The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

                        Markimdb: 8.6
                        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:54

                        Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

                        Markimdb: 7.1
                        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
                        CountryUSA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom
                        Duration02:01

                          Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

                          Markimdb: 7
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA, France
                          Duration02:08

                          A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

                          Markimdb: 7.3
                          Genrethriller, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:31

                            Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

                            Markimdb: 6.8
                            Genreaction, thriller
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration01:34

                            A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

                            Markimdb: 6.9
                            Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                            CountryUSA, Germany
                            Duration01:52

                              Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'

                              Markimdb: 7.7
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:55

                              Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

                              Markimdb: 7.3
                              Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
                              CountryGermany, USA
                              Duration02:14

                              The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

                              Markimdb: 6.9
                              Genrethriller, drama
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:59

                              A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

                              Markimdb: 7.3
                              Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:49

                              Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

                              Markimdb: 6.6
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                              CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
                              Duration01:35

                              A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

                              Markimdb: 7.7
                              Genrethriller, drama, biography
                              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                              Duration02:00

                              As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

                              Markimdb: 7.3
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration02:20

                                A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

                                Markimdb: 6.5
                                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                                CountryUSA
                                Duration01:24

                                While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

                                Markimdb: 7.7
                                Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                                CountryUSA, Italy
                                Duration02:10

                                The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.

                                Markimdb: 7.3
                                Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
                                CountryUSA
                                Duration01:34

                                Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

                                Markimdb: 6.8
                                Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                                CountryUSA
                                Duration01:49

                                A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

                                Markimdb: 7.5
                                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                                Duration02:39

                                After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.




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