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There’s nothing like a good psychological thriller.

Many directors helm movies that don’t get nearly the same attention as Hitchcock classics.

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But maybe it’s time we change that.

Here are 32 underrated psychological thrillers you gotta check out.

After the group figures out they can control who dies, the room splits over ideologies.

Play Misty for Me

The Cell predates other dreamlike wonders like Paprika and Inception but teems with its own sense of otherworldly evil.

But in Searching, Cho has grown into a father looking for his 16-year-old daughter (Michelle La).

A white-knuckle thriller for the virtual age, Profile cannot be missed.

One Hour Photo

It’s a movie that will make you think twice about turning on your lights at night.

The Gift

Year:2015Director:Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton directs and stars in this deceptively great psychological thriller from 2015.

Death Game

Year:1977Director:Peter S. Traynor

Temptation means death for Seymour Cassel in Death Game.

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Sure enough, things spiral out of control with disastrous consequences.

Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson star as neighbors in unhappy marriages who begin an affair.

Todd Field’s Little Children is a simmering portrait of the secrets and resentment we keep behind appearances.

The Cell

Since its release, Cube has enjoyed cult status for its ingenious premise and razor-sharp execution.

However, despite its remake, the original Cube is still one of thebest thriller moviesever made.

But Cesar hides a secret: He delights in wreaking havoc on their daily lives.

Strange Darling

However, as the movie progresses, Cesar’s obsession with Clara soon becomes his undoing.

You never know who’s been in your home.

But not all is what it seems.

Starry Eyes

When Phoenix starred in Joker just a few years later, comparisons to Taxi Driver were prominent.

Even if it’s just words on a page, the story still cuts deep.

But are these visions prophetic, or are they the work of inherited paranoid schizophrenia?

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However, things take a turn after Hae-mi suddenly disappears, and Jong-su struggles to get answers from Ben.

It’s one of thebest drama moviesof the 2010s and is a film you’ll undoubtedly rewatch again.

The Strangers

The Gift

Death Game

Obsession

The One I Love

Hard Candy

Dead Ringers

Green Room

Fraility

The Vanishing

The Experiment

Little Children

Cube

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Manhunter

Sleep Tight

You Were Never Really Here

Nocturnal Animals

I Saw the Devil

Insomnia

Prisoners

Take Shelter

The Invitation

Burning

Leonardo DiCaprio as Trooper William "Billy" Costigan Jr. undercover and sneaking next to a wall during a scene in The Departed.

Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx, and John Boyega in They Cloned Tyrone

Clerks

Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters.

Tom Hardy as Walker in Havoc, plus a police officer.

The 30 best horror movies of all time: pictures from The Wicker Man, The Shining, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Hereditary.

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The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

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David Harbour as Red Guardian in Thunderbolts

Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefanie in Final Destination Bloodlines

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Days Gone Remastered protagonist Deacon running from hundreds of zombies in the rain

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 screenshot of the Paintress painting the number 33 onto a distant pillar while Gustave and Sophie watch from the harbor port, framed by a circle of light

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Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan and the rest of the cast of Thunderbolts*

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Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2