The 2010s gave the picture show humanity some truly astonishing entry into the psychological thriller musical style and many of them   inhibit critics ' yearly Best Of lean as well as the box seat office tally . From exploration of ethnical trend to examen of psychotic intellect , many of the movies struck a real chord with audiences all over the Earth .

If you like your boot cool down , and your drama intellectual , then verify to check out all of these head - bluster psychological thriller movies from the past decade as they ’re all but guarantee to stick   in the judgement days after the credits have finished roll up .

Updated on December 11th , 2020 by Mark Birrell : We could n’t contain our tilt to just 10 entries when considering the width of talent that mark their mark in psychological thriller movies throughout the 2010s . From across the world , the best directors and actors in the industriousness have put up incredible workplace that deserves to be on every movie fan ’s watchlist . So , allow ’s glint a light on even more psychological thrillers that are guaranteed to get inside your head and keep you on edge for days and days .

Ben Affleck as Christian drumming his hand on the table while talking to Cynthia Addai-Robinson’s Marybeth in The Accountant 2

Enemy (2013)

Denis Villeneuve ’s on the loose version of the   novel " The Double " from Nobel Prize for Literature recipient   José Saramago is a heady cocktail of literary item and cinematic auteurism .

The story follows a history teacher who stumbles across his   doppelgänger and his enchantment with him leads both workforce on a dark journey of self - exploration that examines a number of beguile melodic theme , especially the nature of watching and being watched as well as repressed desire and cyclic deportment .

Split (2016)

The distinctive big twist of M. Night Shyamalan ’s return to cinematic cast may be jolly common cognition now but , aside from still packing as much punch as it ever did ,   it was always just the cherry on top of an already perfect sundae .

James McAvoy ’s central performance(s ) of a humans make out with a severe case of disassociative identity disorder is cuttingly shrewd in its portrayal of modern - day delusions and Shyamalan ’s direction bring in every comparison to Hitchcock that it ’s garnered .

Side Effects (2013)

The plot of Steven Soderbergh’sparanoid confederacy moviemay look simple enough on the surface but has numerous layers to its enigma and its revelations .

Side Effectsstarts out as a cautionary narration of psychopharmacological excessiveness but interchange up its linear perspective and transform into an almost - neo - noir law-breaking thriller full of mania and fraudulence .

Thoroughbreds (2017)

A privileged teen girl rekindles a friendship with an one-time familiarity who had gone through some   worrying   psychological problem in the past , cue the creation of a dark plot between the two involving blackmail and murder .

Anya Taylor - Joyand Olivia Cooke are mesmerise in the lead persona with a   worthy supporting part   for the late swell Anton Yelchin . Thoroughbredsis , in many respect , a comedy but also one of the most perturbing thriller of recent year and an interesting study of the part that emotion plays in pre - meditated crimes .

The Gift (2015)

Joel Edgerton write , directed , and starred   in this unsettling play thriller , play a piece who has clear developed societal problems throughout his biography   as he forcefully reconnects with the mankind who he claims tormented him in mellow school and caused many of his most longlasting problems .

Jason Batemanshows off his nefarious side next to Edgerton ’s creepy-crawly stalker and the equivocalness over which one of them is worse remain engrossingly strong no matter how bad thing get , with Rebecca Hall ’s short paranoid wife character caught between the two as she start to gain just what form of piece she really marry .

Black Swan (2010)

Natalie Portman ’s Oscar - winning operation as a subdued concert dance star , and her inside monster campaign for ascendency , elevatesBlack Swanfrom being just another shuddery movie and into the realm of accomplished character study .

Her compulsion with her study , and the dual nature of the Swan Queen , takes her on a dark journey into her own psyche .

Unsane (2018)

Steven Soderbergh continued his newfound chemical attraction for shooting on iPhones , bring forth an unnervingly intimate portrait of a fair sex pushed to the sharpness and beyond by an abusive healthcare system when she ’s send in a   mental health facility against her will .

This is only the kickoff of her trial by ordeal , however , as she soon key out that her stalker is employed there and now has unfettered access to her . What ’s real and what ’s not , of row , comes into question with the outlook of total insanity and immurement with a predator   being equally terrifying .

Shutter Island (2010)

Martin Scorsese ’s version of Denis Lehane ’s novel of the same name is anything but boilerplate or by the numbers and explores the most inbuilt paper of the director ’s study through a active – and strikingly modern – genus Lens .

The plot begins withLeonardo DiCaprio ’s U.S. Marshal being sent to a secluded island mental home to look into the disappearance of a patient but , as you would conceive of , nothing is as it seems .

Gone Girl (2014)

David Fincher ’s journey into   present-day suburban area within Gillian Flynn ’s adaptation of her hit novel is no less twisted than a movie likeSe7enand no less psychoanalytical than a movie likeFight Club .

Ben Affleckplays the unsatisfying hubby of a brilliant woman who go missing , leaving him as the prime suspect . Gone Girlmay be aim by the twists in its plot of land but its focus is on its fascinatingly – and controversially – flawed case .

The Guilty (2018)

An raring cop awaiting disciplinary action is stuck answering emergency calls when he ’s put on with a woman in the thick of a potential snatch situation in this unremittingly tense Danish thriller .

spread in substantial - meter , with some twist in the story being more obvious to the interview than the admirer and some keeping both on tenterhook right until the last minute , The Guilty ’s account feels sprawling despite being set in only two room of a police force station because it ’s all really taking place in the imaginations of the main character and the viewer , create an almost unbearably intimate connection between the two in a billet that no one want to find themselves in .

In a dusty landscape Finn stares out into the distance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sidious, Tyranus, Maul, and Vader.

Anya Taylor-Joy in Thoroughbreds, Steven Yeun in Burning, Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, Jake Gyllenhaal in Enemy

Jake Gyllenhaal in Enemy (2013)

James McAvoy talks to Anya Taylor-Joy in Split

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Gordy looking at Simon in The Gift.

Black Swan Natalie Portman in the mirror

Claire Foy in Unsane

Leonardo DiCaprio hugging Michelle Williams surrounded by ash in Shutter Island

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Asger in Emergency Response centreThe Guilty

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