These Psychological Thrillers on Netflix Are So Chilling, You'll Be Spooked For Days

Martin Scorsese's thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as US Marshals investigating the disappearance of a patient at an asylum. It's so scary, it might just make you sleep with the lights on. Good luck . . . you'll need it.

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Renée Zellweger stars as a social worker whose kind heart leads to her gaining custody of a young girl followed by evil. Zellweger's Emily will stop at nothing to protect the child in her care, no matter how terrifying things get.

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Based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, this drama follows a woman (Adams) who becomes obsessed with the threatening symbolism of her ex-husband's (Gyllenhaal) manuscript. Given that Fisher and Hammer are basically playing fictional doppelgängers to Adams and Gyllenhaal, you already know it's about to be good.

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This 2018 flick with Nicolas Cage is terrifying thriller, and damn, is it steamy. In Between Worlds, when a woman falls into a coma after an almost-fatal accident, she realizes that she's been possessed by a different woman who has loose ends to tie up on Earth.

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When Riley moves to a new school where her dad is an English teacher, she meets Kyla and they hit it off. That is, until Kyla starts to become obsessed with Riley's father.

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In this psychological thriller from Spain, a man who's left using a wheelchair after an injury decides to seek vengeance on those who turned their backs on him - including the woman who left him when he needed her most.

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A dying real estate agent discovers his only way to live is to transplant his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. He goes through with it, but he quickly learns that both the procedure and company that did it are not what they seem.

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Erik enjoys his peaceful rural life, which involves owning a motorcycle shop in the countryside. But his calm and comfortable lifestyle comes to a halt when a mysterious stranger who claims to know him comes to town.

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Another Spanish thriller, this time of the sci-fi variety, The Platform balances dark violence with scathing class commentary. It introduces us to a dystopian future where prisoners in higher cells are fed while those below starve with scraps.

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The Spanish thriller The Occupant tells the story of an out-of-work ad executive. He creepily follows the people living in his old home, which he can no longer afford to live in.

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Jacob's Ladder revolves around the titular Jacob, a Vietnam vet whose experiences during the war continue to haunt him in the form of weird dreams and hallucinations long after he returns home. If you've already seen the 1990 version of the film, don't worry: the 2019 remake on Netflix delivers a totally different twist ending than the original.

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Another film based on a Stephen King book, 1922 stars Thomas Jane as a farmer who confesses to the murder of his wife. But that's just putting it lightly.

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When a pregnant woman and her brother hear a young boy in the fields, they go out to try and find him. Once they are in the fields, they are disoriented by a sinister force and realize that being lost in the tall grass is the only thing better than being found.

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A secluded cabin by the lake sounds romantic, but when you add in a dead husband at the hands of some kinky bondage gone wrong, it's suddenly a nightmare. Based on Stephen King's book, this film starring Carla Gugino from The Haunting of Hill House brings the psychological warfare in spades.

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The 2018 Netflix original film Cam tells the story of a cam girl who logs into her account only to find that some dopplegänger has stolen her identity and her fan base. It's an intrusive look at what the industry has done to our sense of self, and it is sure to shake you to your core.

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A math genius discovers a pattern of deaths at a local gas station and uses his knowledge to warn the next victim - a 10-year-old who knows his life is in danger, even though no one seems to believe him.

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Netflix original film Hold the Dark stars Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies), and James Badge Dale. When a local boy is killed in the Alaskan woods, a naturalist is tasked with finding the wolf responsible. But, the woods hold secrets far scarier than wolves.

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Released in 2018, this Netflix original film will take hiking off your list of favorite activities for at least a few months. Four friends decide to brave the Swedish wilderness in honor of their murdered friend. But, their trip doesn't end up being the Cheryl Strayed experience they were hoping for.

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Former Disney Channel darling Brenda Song stars in this psychological thriller as Jennifer, a young woman who suffers from amnesia following a violent attack, and as her memories start to come back, she finds that she no longer knows who to trust.

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Sandra Bullock needs to be around us in any crisis, because her character in Bird Box kicks serious butt. When the world sinks into a terrifying, supernatural chaos, the only way to stay alive is to remain blindfolded and keep noises to a minimum. It's terrifying and will make you question the safety of the world around you. We apologize in advance
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After being released from a psychiatric hospital, a man (Topher Grace) inherits his parents' estate following their death. Unfortunately, it looks like their sprawling home might come with a few unwanted guests, if you catch my drift.

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In this Spanish sci-fi thriller, a happily married mother named Vera learns that there is a possibility of saving the life of a boy who lived in her home 25 years earlier, but this good deed provokes a chain reaction, and Vera wakes up in a new reality where her daughter has never been born and her husband does not even know her.

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TAU is about a woman who is kidnapped by an inventor and used as a test subject to perfect his robotic AI. She tries to escape her prison, even though it's high-tech and not going to be easy to break out of.

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At the surface, It Comes at Night is about two families who uneasily come together during an apocalypse. But as the movie builds, the threat emerges from within, and we get a psychological framework for the family dynamics that unravel between the survivors.

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Starring Rami Malek, this 2016 surreal mystery film has all the twists and turns you could ask for. Buster was once a family man, until a strange turn of events leads him to be all alone on a mountaintop hiding from authorities.

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This 2016 thriller follows two long-lost college friends, one who is a suburban father (Kyle) and another who just started a self-actualization program (Zack). When Kyle goes on a weekend-long retreat with the program, he immediately falls down a hole that involves everything from seduction to violence.

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Allison Williams stars in this intense thriller as a cello prodigy who is forced to abandon music after a family tragedy, only to return to performing years later with the help of a rising new star (and an insanely freaky reunion).

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When a troubled teen comes into a cardiovascular surgeon's life, his picture-perfect world is quickly turned upside down.

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Netflix original film Calibre focuses on two lifelong friends who take a hunting trip to Scotland. Things get out of control and the two find their morals and commitment to the friendship called into question.

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In this 2019 mystery movie, a man wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea who he is or why he's there. He soon learns that the police are suspecting him to be a serial killer, and he must figure out how he got here before he is accused.

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In this Argentinian thriller, a 50-year-old painter named Lorenzo attempts to rebuild his life after falling on hard times while he anxiously awaits the arrival of his first son. While he does so, his pregnant new wife unexpectedly succumbs to increasingly aggressive and obsessive behavior, which threatens their relationship, as well as his relationship with his future son.

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In this thriller, Sam Worthington plays Ray, a father who rushes his daughter to the hospital after she breaks her arm during a road trip, only to wake up in the waiting room (where he is sleeping while his daughter and his wife, Lily Rabe, complete the girl's MRI) to find that no one in the hospital has any recollection of his family ever having checked in.

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This wild thriller tells the story of a child psychologist who helped to convict a young boy of murder years back. When they happen to meet again, each of their lives takes a turn for the worse.

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This psychological thriller - which stars Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael C. Hall - takes place in 1988 Philadelphia, following a police officer as he struggles with his lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer, whose crimes are just as bizarre as they are gruesome. Anyone else getting some Dexter vibes?

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The 2017 Netflix original film Clinical follows a psychiatrist grappling with the after effects of her terrifying attack, as she must also help a patient who was disfigured in an accident. Also, get ready to fangirl, because it stars Vinessa Shaw from Hocus Pocus as the psychiatrist.

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In this 2016 thriller, a photographer suffers bad memory loss after an accident. After looking back through her photos, she learns that she might have been the reason none of her family is alive.

Watch Lavender on Netflix now.

The producers of Black Mirror created a mind-bending, interactive film allowing audience members to decide the fate of main character Stefan Butler with a simple touch of the remote. He may either succeed in adapting his favorite dark novel into a video game or lose his sense of reality while doing so - you decide.

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Based on the bestselling novel, Amy Adams plays a psychologist suffering from agoraphobia who witnesses a brutal crime from her window. While working to investigate the truth, she begins to confuse her phobia with reality.

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Ellie Warren is trying to keep her family afloat after her husband suffers injuries from a car accident. After rekindling a flame with an ex-lover from college, she learns from a friend he is more dangerous than he appears.

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A family camping trip comes to a halt when the daughter suddenly goes missing. While working with the police to find her, they find an even bigger revelation.

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After Kim Seo-yeon loses her cell phone, she dials on another old phone and comes in contact with a woman claiming she lives in the same house as her, but in 1999. The two work together to save Kim from a serial killer.

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This Bollywood adaptation shows a young divorcee who becomes fixated on a perfect couple living nearby, until a fatal turn of events causes her to investigate the truth.

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A reporter becomes entangled in the story she's working on after helping her father broker an arms deal in another country.

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A novelist suffering from writer's block hires a seemingly perfect nanny. However, her trouble to differentiate reality from fiction makes her question the intentions of who she hired.

Watch Deadly Illusions on Netflix now.

Two soldiers from the Gulf War return home to realize they've been brainwashed to kill their own platoon.

Watch The Manchurian Candidate on Netflix now.