20 best movies like Psycho (1960)


List of the best movies like Psycho (1960): The Boston Strangler, Secret Window, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Foxcatcher, They Look Like People, Enemy, Klute, Spellbound, Session 9, Kafka.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

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.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, Spain
    Duration01:28

    A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

    Duration01:37

      Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryIndia

      Khalid, is entrusted with the task of eliminating Kabir, a former soldier turned rogue, as he engages in an epic battle with his mentor who had taught him everything.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:56

      Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration02:14

      A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:29

        On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

        Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:32

        Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantasy, drama, crime
        CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
        Duration02:27

        Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, fantasy, crime
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:42

        Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
        Duration01:39

        A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:25

        As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Australia, USA
        Duration01:49

        A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrethriller
        CountryCanada, USA

        After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrethriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, Spain, USA
        Duration01:41

        Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, crime, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:31

          Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:14

          Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

          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: 6.7
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryItaly, Spain, United Kingdom

            The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrehorror
            CountryCanada
            Duration02:10

            Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:39

            A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.




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