12 Mind-Boggling Psychological Thriller Movies And TV Shows On Netflix And HBO GO
Some will keep you on the edge of your seat and some will leave you speechless.
By Ammar Bakhtiar — 08 Apr 2021, 05:15 PM
1. The Call
Synopsis: Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman's past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Main Cast: Park Shin-hye, Jun Jong-seo, and Kim Sung-ryoung
Watch it on Netflix.
2. The Devil All The Time
Synopsis: Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a post-war backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
Main Cast: Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, and Riley Keough
Watch it on Netflix.
3. Inception
Synopsis: Cobb steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. Saito offers to wipe clean Cobb's criminal history as payment for performing an inception on his sick competitor's son.
Main Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Cillian Murphy
Watch it on HBO GO.
4. Split
Synopsis: A man with multiple identities abducts three teenage girls, who must find a way to escape before his newest, most dangerous personality takes over.
Main Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley
Watch it on Netflix.
5. Panic Room
Synopsis: A woman and her daughter are caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with burglars in their New York City home and are forced to retreat inside a vault.
Main Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, and Forest Whitaker
Watch it on Netflix.
6. House At The End Of The Street
Synopsis: Moving to a new town proves even more stressful for a teenager when she learns that the house next door was the site of a double murder.
Main Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, and Gil Bellows
Watch it on Netflix.
7. Sharp Objects
Synopsis: After treating her mental illness, crime reporter returns to her hometown to solve the murder of two young girls. However, she is forced to face and deal with her own demons too.
Main Cast: Amy Adams, Eliza Scanlen, and Patricia Clarkson
Watch it on HBO GO.
8. The Third Day
Synopsis: A man and a woman have their work cut out for them as they make separate journeys to a mysterious island off of the British coast.
Main Cast: Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, and Emily Watson
Watch it on HBO GO.
9. Secret Obsession
Synopsis: When Jennifer wakes up with amnesia after a traumatic attack, her doting husband cares for her. But she soon realises the danger is far from over.
Main Cast: Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, and Dennis Haysbert
Watch it on Netflix.
10. The Head
Synopsis: In the middle of the winter, a small group of scientists in charge of an international base in the Antarctica during the long polar nights stops communicating with the outside world.
Main Cast: Alvaro Morte, Katharine O'Donnely, and Alexandre Willaume
Watch it on HBO GO.
11. Behind Her Eyes
Synopsis: A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
Main Cast: Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, and Tom Bateman
Watch it on Netflix.
12. You (Season 1 & 2)
Synopsis: A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.
Main Cast: Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, and Victoria Pedretti
Watch it on Netflix.
