20 movies like Psycho, ordered by similarity : Mother(2009), The Stranger Within(1990), The Boy Who Cried Bitch(1991), The Clovehitch Killer(2018), Us(2019), Barracuda(2017), King of the Hill(2007), Coyote Lake(2019), Pretty Poison(1968), Psycho(1960), Funny Games(1997), Beast(2017) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1998
109 Minutes
Vince Vaughn Anne Heche Julianne Moore Viggo Mortensen William H. Macy Robert Forster Philip Baker Hall Anne Haney Chad Everett Rance Howard Rita Wilson
norman bates detective mother young woman boyfriend sister shocking brutal frightening creepy bates motel road car dealership office family home arizona serial murders unlikely criminal multiple personalities murder investigation
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2009
128 Minutes
Kim Hye-ja Won Bin Ku Jin Je-mun Yun Mi-Seon Jeon Byoung-Soon Kim
mother widow son suspect police detective defense attorney dark emotional gripping small town south korea shop family home mother/son relationship murder investigation incarceration framed vigilantism love
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Mystery & Thriller
Czechoslovakia
1990
96 Minutes
mother fiancé impostor police officer chilling dark shocking lake hospital minnesota small town reunion manipulation dark secrets mother/son relationship kidnapping murder mystery rivalry 1990s
This movie tells a story of the dark side of communism, corruption in everyday life through the eyes of an ordinary man working as a new engineer in a factory.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1991
101 Minutes
Harley Cross Karen Young Jesse Bradford J.D. Daniels Gene Canfield Moira Kelly Adrien Brody Dennis Boutsikaris Reathel Bean John Rothman Samuel Wright
mother brother abused boy psychiatrist psychopath patient dark creepy frightening shocking psychiatrist's office mental institution house abuse mental illness violence mother/son relationship family wretched excess growing up
A psychotic 12 year old makes life hell for his emotionally frail mother.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Dylan McDermott Charlie Plummer Samantha Mathis Madisen Beaty Brenna Sherman Lance Chantiles-Wertz Kat Pérez Jonathan Riggs
family father son murder suspect killer chilling creepy dark disturbing eerie engaging frightful gripping intense shocking suspenseful thrilling tense uneasy america
A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Japan|USA
2019
116 Minutes
Lupita Nyong'o Winston Duke Elisabeth Moss Tim Heidecker Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Anna Diop Evan Alex Shahadi Wright Joseph Madison Curry Cali Sheldon Noelle Sheldon
husband son daughter masked man stranger uneasy frightening creepy gory brutal chilling beach beach house car woods bedroom living room home invasion survival family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Poland
2017
100 Minutes
Allison Tolman Julia Halperin Sophie Reid JoBeth Williams Luis Bordonada Larry Jack Dotson Angelo Dylen Tanner Beard Monique Straw
sister father singer husband mother boy brooding eerie dark creepy disturbing thrilling texas house yard lake cemetery bar long-lost relatives sister relationship
A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another.
Mystery & Thriller
2007
88 Minutes
Leonardo Sbaraglia María Valverde Thomas Riordan Andrés Juste Francisco Olmo
man woman young boy police officers brutal suspenseful creepy spain forest country road chases murder survival youth mystery pursuit 2000s
Two strangers (Leonardo Sbaraglia, María Valverde) struggle to survive as a sniper pursues them through the wilderness.
Mystery & Thriller
2019
93 Minutes
Adriana Barraza Camila Mendes Charlie Weber Manny Perez Andrés Vélez Neil Sandilands Tyler Silva
mother daughter guest young man criminal creepy dark disturbing gripping intense guest house border united states secrets murder unexplained deaths family unlikely allies escape growing up
Two unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1968
89 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Tuesday Weld Beverly Garland John Randolph Dick O'Neill Clarice Blackburn Joseph Bova Ken Kercheval Don Fellows Parker Fennelly
worker teenager guard mother probation officer chilling uneasy creepy dark new england factory household courtroom paranoia murder sabotage manipulation mother/daughter relationship trial fall
When a mentally disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him, and murder and mayhem ensue.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Simon Oakland John Anderson Frank Albertson Patricia Hitchcock
secretary norman bates police officer boyfriend mother creative creepy thrilling motel california highway phoenix office theft mental illness mystery 1960s
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Mystery & Thriller
Austria
1997
108 Minutes
Susanne Lothar Ulrich Mühe Frank Giering Arno Frisch Stefan Clapczynski Doris Kunstmann Christoph Bantzer Wolfgang Glück Susanne Meneghel Monika Zallinger
father mother son prisoner thug accomplice bleak brutal chilling creepy austria lake cabin boat murder home invasion torture survival humiliation hostage situation
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
UK|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Jessie Buckley Geraldine James Johnny Flynn Charley Palmer Rothwell Hattie Gotobed Shannon Tarbet Emily Taaffe Olwen Fouere Oliver Maltman Trystan Gravelle Tim Woodward
tour guide poacher police detective sister golfer uneasy tense suspenseful shocking intense gripping disturbing creepy island great britain murder murder accusation family sister relationship misfits
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1997
110 Minutes
Koji Yakusho Tsuyoshi Ujiki Anna Nakagawa Masato Hagiwara
detective killer police officer victim creepy chilling frightening tokyo police station murder investigation justice pursuit mystery 1990s
A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2009
101 Minutes
Dylan Walsh Sela Ward Penn Badgley Amber Heard Jon Tenney Sherry Stringfield Paige Turco Nancy Linehan Charles Marcuis Harris Braeden Lemasters Deirdre Lovejoy
son boyfriend mother ex-husband serial killer girlfriend dark suspenseful thrilling bathroom grocery store basement roof attic family home suspicion murder survival family investigation
Michael Harding (Penn Badgely) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
actress opera singer opera director murderer macbeth detective bleak brutal creepy dark intense frightening opera house stage apartment opera murder serial murders terror sadism
A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1968
108 Minutes
Rod Steiger George Segal Lee Remick Eileen Heckart Murray Hamilton Michael Dunn Barbara Baxley Ruth White Doris Roberts David Doyle
serial killer psychopath overbearing parent police detective mother victim suspenseful amusing dark new york city apartment household bedroom serial murders mother/son relationship mental illness investigation mind games police work pursuit
A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
64 Minutes
criminologist patient police detective astrologer woman father dark dense doctor's office street police station apartment carnival abandoned house psychiatry murder investigation sister relationship multiple personalities amnesia
The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1995
125 Minutes
Brad Pitt Morgan Freeman Gwyneth Paltrow R. Lee Ermey Richard Roundtree John C. McGinley Julie Araskog Mark Boone Junior John Cassini Reg E. Cathey Peter Crombie
police officer detective serial killer wife police chief dark suspenseful tense disturbing shocking intricate city police station desert murder violence morality torture wretched excess mystery
A meticulous detective (Morgan Freeman) and the young officer (Brad Pitt) about to replace the veteran probe serial murders based on the seven deadly sins.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2015
88 Minutes
Kevin Bacon James Freedson-Jackson Hays Wellford Camryn Manheim Shea Whigham Sean Hartley Kyra Sedgwick Sit Lenh
young boy friend sheriff mysterious man woman hostage brutal disturbing gory intense suspenseful tense united states field road car woods country road rebellion mystery
A small-town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
France
2003
83 Minutes
Ray Wise Fabrice Canepa Alexandra Holden Lin Shaye Mick Cain Billy Asher Amber Smith Steve Valentine Clement Blake Jimmy Skaggs Ivan Kraljevic
father daughter wife son boyfriend woman dark chilling tense california road car road trip death accident ghosts hitchhiker christmas mystery escape
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.