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List of mind game movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mind game, office, workplace intrigue, manipulation, workplace, workplace situations, job seeking, rivalry, career, uninhibited rivalry, rise to the top, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2005
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style:
scary, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, torture, murder, group of friends, mind game, psycho killer, trap, trapped, female nudity, game of death, friendship, confined ...
Time:
21st century
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35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, twists and turns, infidelity, husband wife relationship, cheating wife, revenge, justice, blackmail, police investigation, mind game, manipulation, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, suspense, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
master villain, organized crime, mind game, twists and turns, master criminal, secret identity, society, moral dilemma, aristocracy, anarchist, rivalry, police ...
Time:
victorian era
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, enigmatic, twist ending, mysterious ...
Plot:
psychic, supernatural, mind game, supernatural ability, nightmare, uncover truth, surveillance, paranormal, clairvoyance, levitation, obsession, partner ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, columbus ohio, seattle
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
mathematics, isolation, locked in a room, riddles and clues, puzzle, logic, science, game of death, mind game, trapped, survival, genius ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a death note which changes his life. The death note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, anime ...
Plot:
mind game, vigilante, arrogance, investigation, supernatural, showdown, fighting crime, moral dilemma, student, rivalry, deity, murder ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot:
group of strangers, trapped, mysterious place, confined, captivity, twists and turns, riddles and clues, mind game, experiment, isolation, manipulation, dark past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
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1.1M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Style:
clever, detective, witty, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sherlock holmes, investigation, murder mystery, private detective, genius, friendship, mastermind, deduction, murder, british, mind game, riddles and clues ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, wales, afghanistan, scotland yard ...
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124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, tense, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
claustrophobia, mind game, race against time, memory loss, death, escape room, trapped, manhunt, missing person, trap, rivalry, undercover ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, antarctica, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
mind game, isolation, found footage, video surveillance, observation, danger, suspicion, winter, trapped, food, survival, trap ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
canada
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29K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Style:
captivating, brutal, neo noir, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal gang, gang war, gang leader, mole, gangster, moral dilemma, working undercover, mafia, organized crime, undercover cop, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, east asia, korea, seoul
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286K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, action thriller, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, airplane, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, danger, resourceful, terrorist, mind game, aviation, save the day ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, iceland, london
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298K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, captivating, clever ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
fbi, investigation, unlikely partners, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, intrigue, secret, terrorism, mind game, outsmarting, murder investigation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, washington d.c.
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276K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, memory loss, investigation, uncover truth, conspiracy, amnesia, assassin, secret service, danger, disorder, chase, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Story:
An injured woman trapped in a deep well must outsmart a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a terrifying ordeal.
Style:
neo noir, minimal cast, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hidden truth, cat and mouse, strong female character, psychological manipulation, female hero, tough girl, strong female lead, female warrior, self delusion, trapped, dark past ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, retro, captivating ...
Plot:
mind game, greek island, tarot card, magician, female nudity, redemption, mental illness, riddles and clues, teachers and students, danger, chase, doctor patient relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 1910s, year 1943, year 1914
Place:
greece
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66K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot:
hacker, hacking, computer, computer hacker, cybercrime, computers and web, computer cracker, gang, plot twist, technology, split personality, magic trick ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A psychologist falls for a world-class chess player suspected of odd murders linked to his game.
Style:
tense, detective, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, chess, sex scene, murder, childhood trauma, revenge, psychopath, mind game, murder suspect, framed for murder, police officer, murder mystery ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, clever, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, yacht, murder, closeted homosexual, manipulation, mind game, game, paranoia, puzzle, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
south of france, mediterranean sea, france, california
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112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
role playing, mind game, escapades, woman in danger, danger, woods, viking, missing girl, folk horror, attempted rape, magic realism, pagan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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990
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
Style:
sensual, erotic, sexual, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, obsession, mind game, mental illness, doctor, infidelity, manipulation, doctors and patients, psychiatrist, fatal attraction, medical, woman seduces a man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
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310K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller, scary, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, mind game, investigation, fbi agent, murder, psycho killer, profiler, split personality, killer, cruelty ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, birmingham alabama, florida, washington d.c., chicago ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, teen, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
high school, violence, teenager, brainwashing, paranoia, insanity, twists and turns, bullying, small town, mind control, mind game, making love ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Haunted by terrible acts the Nazis forced him to participate in, the disenchanted Father Lankester Merrin focuses his energies on helping with an archaeological dig in the northern part of Kenya. There, the crew uncovers a church that predates ...
Style:
demonic, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
church, demonic possession, good versus evil, supernatural, mind game, nazi, redemption, archeological dig, exorcism, transformation, war crime, missionary ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1947, year 1944
Place:
africa, kenya
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32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological thriller, saga, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, multiple suspects, female partner, mind game, antisocial behavior, private investigator, unrequited love, detective agency, amputee, war veteran, danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
england, united kingdom, oxford university, london, britain
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2K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mysterious woman (Simone Signoret) in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers (James Caan, Katharine Ross) and helps one trick the other.
Style:
suspense, mind bending, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mind game, psychic, conspiracy, poison, seduction, deception, tarot card, woman in danger, plot twist, gambler, virus, hagsploitation ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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