In the modern world, the words “psychopath” and “sociopath”, which means an antisocial personality, sound quite often. Crazies call everyone whose behavior seems "weird." However, often those who are considered psychos are not. Psychopathy is a diagnosis, people with it tend to feel like they are the center of the universe, they have high (and completely unjustified) self-esteem, and they are also brazenly lying. They lie and do not blush. But from them excellent serial killers turn out.
This collection contains for you the 10 best films about psychopaths - they are interesting to watch and reflect on the behavior of the characters.
10. Basic Instinct (1992)
Cinema Search: 7.7
IMDb: 7
Genre: thriller, detective, drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Producer: Paul Verhoeven
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Duration: 127 minutes
The beautiful and sexy Sharon Stone was ideally suited for this role. During the film “Basic Instinct” you understand that the beauty of the main character is aggressive and attacking. But maybe this is its main advantage? For 127 minutes you will watch a dangerous woman, and along the way admire the aesthetic side of the film: beautiful clothes, cottages and cool cars.
There was a sexual assassination, so law enforcement officers do not sleep. Detective Nick Carren is investigating. The suspect is the writer Katherine - the girlfriend of the murdered. In her novel, she described the details of a similar murder. But can a detective get to the truth? After all, the charming Katherine knows how to manipulate men, awakening the basic instinct in them.
9. Lollipop (2005)
Cinema Search: 6.9
IMDb: 7.1
Genre: drama thriller
Country: USA
Producer: David slade
Music: Molly Nyman, Harry Escott
Duration: 103 minutes
David Slade made a fascinating thriller “Lollipop” about revenge to prove that crazy people are quite nice and even very young people. Somewhere in the middle of the film, you begin to wonder which of the heroes is the victim and who is the executioner. In fact, two people who find themselves together in a closed room, as it turns out, have a lot in common ...
She is a well-read teenage girl of 14 years old. He is a successful photographer. Once they meet ... Haley enters an Internet cafe and chatting with 32-year-old photographer Jeff. Suspecting him of pedophilia, Haley accepts his offer to meet. The man does not even know how this meeting will end ...
8. Blue Velvet (1986)
Cinema Search: 7.5
IMDb: 7.8
Genre: drama, detective, thriller
Country: USA
Producer: David lynch
Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration: 120 minutes
Many film critics consider Blue Velvet the best work of the brilliant and extravagant David Lynch, and the American Institute of Motion Picture Arts has included him in the list of greatest thrillers and detectives. One of the most iconic and rich films of the 80s uses noir aesthetics to tell a fascinating detective story.
Young people - Sandy and Jeffrey, fall into a terrible relationship between a crazy kidnapper and a cabaret singer. Dorothy is completely subordinate to the psychopath - she has no other choice, because he holds her husband and son hostage. A dangerous adventure begins when Jeffrey finds a man’s cut-off ear.
7. A cook, a thief, his wife and her lover (1989)
Cinema Search: 7.7
IMDb: 7.6
Genre: drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Producer: Peter Greenway
Music: Michael Nyman
Duration: 124 minutes
Greenway was widely known for his film "The Chef, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Why is the picture so good? The actions taking place on the screen resemble a theatrical performance. His characters are bright personalities who have learned their roles by heart. Each frame is filled with indescribable beauty, gracefully combined with disturbing music. After watching the movie, the song “Memorial” will spin in your head for a long time.
The leader of the criminal group spends his evenings the same way - with his wife and his accomplices, he comes to dinner in his own French restaurant. Tired of the mockery and humiliation of his spouse, Georgina finds herself a lover in the face of a slender book reader, modestly sitting at the next table ...
6. American Psycho (2000)
Cinema Search: 7.1
IMDb: 7.6
Genre: drama thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Producer: Mary harron
Music: John cale
Duration: 101 minutes
The film "American Psycho" is dynamic from the first minutes, until the last frame it looks in one go. Completely immersed in what is happening on the screen, losing the passage of time. At some stage, you stop evaluating the actions of the protagonist (Patrick), but you just watch with enthusiasm for his craziness and ingenuity.
Successful young man Patrick is difficult to distinguish from others in the crowd. He is brought up, educated, lives a luxurious life that everyone dreams of. It is unlikely that he has problems - others think, but they have, and some more ... The main character is full of hatred and wants to be perfect, which leads him to psychopathy.
5. Who are you, Mr. Brooks? (2007)
Cinema Search: 7.2
IMDb: 7.3
Genre: thriller drama
Country: USA
Producer: Bruce A. Evans
Music: Ramin Javadi
Duration: 120 minutes
The thriller "Who are you, Mr. Brooks" can be put next to such films as "Constantine" and "Observer". The film tells you a story about how a successful man and the head of the family can hide a cruel maniac. To the question: “Who are you, Mr. Brooks?” everyone will answer for himself.
Mr. Brooks is a man with skeletons in a closet. Behind the facade of a caring family man is hiding a cruel maniac. For a long time, two different personalities coexist in one body, and none of them can hold the upper hand. Victims are growing, and the killer is roaming free ... Mr. Brooks thought he should only be afraid of the police, but he was not “caught” by the police at all, but by one photographer who begins to blackmail him. The photographer has no purpose to get money for silence, he wants something completely different ...
4. Something is wrong with Kevin (2011)
Cinema Search: 7.2
IMDb: 7.5
Genre: thriller, detective, drama
Country: USA, UK
Producer: Lynn Ramsey
Music: Johnny greenwood
Duration: 112 minutes
Often in films they touch on the theme of "an unloved child." As a rule, unloved children grow up with complexes that interfere with their life. But as for Kevin - it seems that he has no complexes, but only rage. The movie "Something's Wrong with Kevin" was shot based on Lionel Shriver's book, The Price of Dislike.
Putting aside all his personal concerns, Eve decides to devote herself to raising her son. The boy is handsome, and even attracts eyes, lives in a beautiful house, his family is well off, but something is wrong ... Kevin is cold and full of mysteries. Eve torments herself with questions: "How much is she to blame for the behavior of her son?" “Does she love him enough?” In these matters, Lynn Ramsey offers the audience to understand.
3. Child of Darkness (2009)
Cinema Search: 6.9
IMDb: 6.9
Genre: thriller, horror, detective, drama
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Producer: Jaume Colette Serra
Music: John Ottman
Duration: 123 minutes
The theme of “devilish children” has been retold more than once, but the film “Child of Darkness” is not about a child at all ... The ending is shocking, which is rare today. For 123 minutes, you will watch a strange girl adopted by a married couple. The thriller is suitable for those who like to properly pat their nerves.
The couple survived a great tragedy - the loss of an unborn child, so they decide to take the child from the shelter. Kate and her husband liked the brilliant girl Esther, and they take her home. She knows how to play the piano, draws, is quick-witted beyond her years, but for some reason the girl has no friends. Over time, Esther's behavior begins to cause goosebumps ... What would it be connected with?
2. The Joker (2019)
Cinema Search: 8
IMDb: 8.5
Genre: thriller drama
Country: USA, Canada
Producer: Todd Phillips
Music: Hildur Goodnadouttir
Duration: 122 minutes
The picture is filled with a vivid plot - the film tells the story of a man crushed by society. By the way, the theme is relevant at all times. First, the protagonist of the movie "Joker" asks the question: "Do I exist?" And then, imperceptibly, he creates something like an anarchist cult that worships him. In the beginning, he only wanted to be noticeable, happy and delight others ...
The plot will take you to the 80s. Comedian Arthur Fleck lives with his mother. In life, he seeks to go with a smile and bring joy to people. However, the world around is too cruel and confronts the sensitive Arthur head-on with injustice. Then he decides not just to join this criminal chaos, but to become its head, turning into an evil Joker.
1. Ceremony (1995)
Cinema Search: 7.2
IMDb: 7.6
Genre: thriller, drama, detective
Country: Germany, France
Producer: Claude Chabrol
Music: Mathieu Chabrol
Duration: 112 minutes
“Ceremony” is a film with a simple plot, but something in it touches so much that I want to return to it more than once and “digest” what I saw. These are not horrors, but still one of the scariest films you have ever seen. The thriller turned out, as is characteristic of French cinema, tense. This tension rises against a completely safe background.
At the station of San Malo, Madame Lellievre meets his housekeeper Sophie. The woman copes with her duties perfectly, but her coldness and closeness inspire suspicion ... But Jeanne is a postman, sees Sophie as an ideal accomplice. She decides that with her help she will infiltrate the house of Lelievre. Soon, a common cause brings these two women together.
