| Saw (2004) | 7.6 | |
| Liar Game (2007) | 8.0 | |
| Hannibal (2001) | 6.8 | |
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | 7.4 | |
| Elementary (2012) | 7.9 |
Mind game movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mind game movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense and psychological thriller films and TV shows about / with mind game, murder, rivalry, police investigation, twists and turns, plot twist, manipulation, dialogue, serial killer and psychology plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mind game: Exam (2009), Liar Game (2007), The Game (1997), Death Note (2006), Gone Girl (2014), Now You See Me (2013), Phone Booth (2002), Fracture (2007), Focus (2015), Poker Night (2014).
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134K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mind game, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, puzzle, survival, surveillance, manipulation, confinement indoors, group of strangers, psychologist, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2009, future
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story:
The Liar Game is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mind game, betrayal, genius, gambling, game, scam, deception, lie, psychology, greed, con men, revenge ...
Place:
japan
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466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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467K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and ...
Style:
anime, manga, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
mind game, anti hero, secret identity, law enforcement, rivals, heart attack, battle of wits, fighting crime, supernatural, vigilante, serial killer, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style:
surprise ending, clever, entertaining, twist ending, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, teamwork, fbi, outsmarting, scheme, perfect crime, twists and turns, con artists, stage magic, bank robbery, cons and scams, magician ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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300K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, psychopath, sniper, dishonesty, mind game, trapped, cell phone, hopes, plot twist, secret relationship, lone hero, sin ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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234K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, adultery, investigation, murder mystery, manipulation, mind game, courtroom, trial, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, california, usa
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293K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years ...
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, entertaining, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
heist, cons and scams, con artists, fall in love, twists and turns, mind game, interracial love, sex scene, femme fatale, manipulation, female thief, gambling ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
peru, argentina, usa, south america, new orleans ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mind game, abduction, police detective, poker, psychopath, confined, missing person, kidnapping, isolation, twists and turns, serial killer, gambling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, fbi, mind game, serial murder, murderer, victim, criminal, murder, investigation, killing, religions or cults ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, mind game, survival, deathtrap, murder, group of strangers, captivity, characters killed one by one, trapped, sole survivor, psychological torture, game of death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
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42K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A bright but meek salesman, drowning in debt as he's about to get married, receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
game, mind game, psychology, twists and turns, graphic violence, money, plot twist, greed, manipulation, brutality, mysterious character, on the run ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
game of death, survival, group of strangers, danger, torture, game, deathtrap, mind game, psychopath, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, plot twist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
305K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, cannibalism, mind game, murder, psychiatrist, death, manipulation, graphic violence, mental patient, fbi ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, mind game, island, trap, violence, investigation, killing spree, profiler, psycho killer, fbi, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, mind game, policewoman, police, murder investigation, death, twists and turns, murder mystery, race against time ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, persia, grand central station manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Style:
clever, entertaining, action thriller, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
sherlock holmes, steampunk, intelligence, riddles and clues, detective inspector, hotshot, private detective, twists and turns, hotshot hero, mind game, conspiracy, buddies ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2011, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, paris france, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
murder, mind game, sociopath, perfect crime, serial killer, murder mystery, murder investigation, murderous pair, psychopath, violence against women, police investigation, strangulation ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
persia, usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, multiple suspects, murder, murder investigation, cop, police detective, twists and turns, partners against crime, mind game, riddles and clues, heroine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, detective, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, obsession, sex, nudity, manipulation, seduction, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, fatal attraction, strong sexual content ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, persia, oakland california, california ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style:
clever, captivating, serious, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, court, courtroom drama, legal, murder, twists and turns, trial, legal investigation, mind game, hotshot lawyer, arrest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, peru, san francisco, las vegas ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, justice, prison, vigilante, revenge, master criminal, lawyer, retribution, fighting the system, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Is relevant?
2.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective, bad ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, psychology, mind game, police investigation, police, police detective, sin, maniac, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, usa, persia, iran, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style:
suspense, witty, disturbing, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
writers, teacher, obsession, high school, privacy invasion, mind game, student, stalking, direction and purpose, art, desire, high school life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, mind game, human nature, danger, psychopath, race against time, mad scientist, trapped, law enforcement, kidnapped, survival, locked in a room ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
michigan
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, friendship, hacker, mind game, teenage life, bullying, self harm, manipulation, social network, computers and web, friends, buddies ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 21st century
Is relevant?
709K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
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