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Rebecca is a Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938 by Victor Gollancz. The story follows an unnamed young woman who marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his Cornish estate, Manderley, where she contends with the pervasive influence of his deceased first wife, Rebec...

Rebecca is a 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier that combines Gothic atmosphere with psychological suspense. Its unnamed narrator marries the widower Maxim de Winter and moves to Manderley, where the memory of his deceased first wife, Rebecca, continues to shape the household and the narrator's underst...

Donna Tartt's 1992 debut novel is a psychological thriller detailing the murder of a classics student by his peers at an elite New England college. The narrative unfolds in reverse, revealing the events that led to the crime and the psychological unraveling of the perpetrators. The book was a commer...

Misery is a psychological horror novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking in 1987. The story centers on Paul Sheldon, a bestselling romance author who is rescued from a car crash and subsequently held captive by Annie Wilkes, a deeply disturbed nurse obsessed with his literary wor...

Misery is Stephen King's 1987 psychological-thriller novel about Paul Sheldon, a successful novelist who is injured in a car accident and rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who says she is his greatest fan. Annie takes him to her isolated home, controls his access to medical care, and forces hi...

Directed by Darren Aronofsky and released in 2010, Black Swan is a psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers, a New York City ballet dancer pursuing the lead role in a production of Swan Lake. Portman won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The film received...

The Secret in Their Eyes is a 2009 Argentine psychological thriller directed by Juan José Campanella and based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri. Starring Ricardo Darín, the film follows a retired legal counselor who decides to write a novel about an unresolved homicide case from decades prior. The na...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a historical psychological thriller novel written by German author Patrick Süskind and published in 1985. The narrative follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan in 18th-century France who possesses an extraordinary, superhuman sense of smell but lacks any perso...

Papyrus is a 2017 Saturday Night Live digital short featuring actor Ryan Gosling as a man tormented by the typography of the Avatar movie logo. The sketch centers on his inability to accept that director James Cameron utilized the widely available, default Papyrus font for a major science fiction bl...

Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1950. Its plot begins when Guy Haines meets Bruno Antony, who proposes that each man kill a person the other wishes to remove, creating a dangerous exchange of motives and obligations. The novel examines...

"Strangers on a Train" is a psychological thriller novel written by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1950. The plot centers on two strangers who meet on a train and propose a theoretical exchange of murders to avoid detection, an idea that ultimately leads to obsession and danger. The book was...

"Decision to Leave" (헤어질 결심) is a 2022 South Korean romantic mystery film directed by Park Chan-wook, starring Park Hae-il as a detective and Tang Wei as a suspect in a murder case. The film blends elements of noir with a nuanced exploration of attraction and obsession. It earned Park the Best...

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama directed by Sam Mendes from a screenplay by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a disaffected suburban father whose midlife rebellion exposes tensions involving sexuality, status, family resentment, and appearances within two neighboring households....

Sunset Boulevard is a 2003 Broadway musical drama based on Billy Wilder’s film of the same name. The production explores themes of fading fame and obsessive devotion through the story of Norma Desmond, a forgotten silent movie star. It features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and a book by Don Black an...

Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker Prize-winning novel about a retired theatre director whose retreat to the seaside becomes an exercise in delusion and obsession, widely read as an exploration of renunciation and self-knowledge.

“The Fourth Man is a 1983 Dutch film exploring themes of obsession and guilt through a chilling narrative. Director Paul Verhoeven’s work combines elements of psychological thriller with surreal imagery rooted in religious symbolism. The story centers on a man's escalating fixation following a tragi...

Pearl is a 2022 American psychological horror film directed by Ti West, serving as a prequel to his film X. The movie stars Mia Goth, who also co-wrote the screenplay, in the title role of a young woman living on an isolated Texas farm in 1918. It explores the character's gradual descent into violen...

Lurker is a psychological thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Alex Russell, scheduled for release in 2025. The film centers on a retail employee who successfully infiltrates the inner circle of a rising pop musician. As the protagonist becomes embedded in the celebrity's entourage, the...

'Pi' is the 1998 directorial debut of Darren Aronofsky, an American psychological thriller shot in high-contrast black-and-white. The film follows Max Cohen, a paranoid mathematician obsessed with finding patterns in numbers, particularly in the stock market and the mathematical constant π. It won t...

Fool for Love is a one-act play by American dramatist Sam Shepard, first produced in 1983. Set in a motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, it centers on Eddie and May, former lovers whose recurring attraction is bound to anger, abandonment, and a concealed family connection. The tightly confin...

"The Orchid Thief" is a 1998 nonfiction book by journalist Susan Orlean, expanded from her 1995 article in "The New Yorker." The narrative centers on John Laroche, a Florida plant dealer who was arrested in 1994 for poaching rare orchids, including the Ghost Orchid, from the Fakahatchee Strand State...

The Secretary is a 1990s erotic thriller following a young office professional who becomes entangled in her employer's illicit activities. The film belongs to the wave of direct-to-video erotic thrillers produced during that decade, combining workplace settings with suspense and romantic elements. I...

Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film written and directed by Rose Glass in her feature directorial debut. The narrative follows a devoutly religious hospice nurse, played by Morfydd Clark, who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient, a former dancer p...

You is a psychological thriller novel written by Caroline Kepnes and published in 2014. The narrative follows Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager in New York City who becomes dangerously obsessed with an aspiring writer named Guinevere Beck. The story is distinguished by its unsettling second-person p...

You is an American psychological thriller television series developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, based on the 2014 novel by Caroline Kepnes. The narrative follows Joe Goldberg, a charismatic bookstore manager in New York City who becomes dangerously obsessed with an aspiring writer named Guin...

The Girl on the Train is a 2015 psychological thriller by Paula Hawkins. Its narrator, Rachel Watson, rides a commuter train past a suburban house and becomes fixated on a couple she observes from the window; after seeing something alarming, she becomes involved in the investigation surrounding the...

The Girls is a 2016 debut novel by American writer Emma Cline, loosely inspired by the Manson Family murders of the late 1960s. It follows Evie Boyd, a vulnerable suburban teenager who becomes drawn into a California cult led by a charismatic musician. The novel examines female adolescence, manipula...

Stir of Echoes is a 1999 American supernatural psychological thriller directed by David Koepp, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1958 novel. The film stars Kevin Bacon as Tom Witzky, a working-class Chicago resident who develops psychic abilities after being hypnotized at a neighborhood party. He beco...

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological thriller directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. The film follows a married New York attorney whose brief extramarital affair with a book editor spirals into a dangerous case of obsessive stalking. Upon its release, the mov...