Sadistic psychopath movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sadistic psychopath movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological and slasher films and TV shows about / with sadistic psychopath, violence, psychopath, murder, blood, death, serial killer, brutality, gore and psycho killer plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Denmark and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sadistic psychopath: Bloodlines (2007), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996), Incision (2020), The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), Who's Watching Oliver (2017), The House That Jack Built (2018), Border (2018), White Slaves of K-Town (2017), Mai-chan's Daily Life (2014), Longlegs (2024).
Best films
New films
| Terrifier 3 (2024) | 6.4 | |
| Brute 1976 (2025) | 4.2 | |
| Stare (2019) | 4.9 | |
| No Such Thing As Monsters (2019) | 4.0 | |
| The Batman (2022) | 7.8 |
List of sadistic psychopath movies
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The the backwoods of Kentucky, a demented family begin the process of cleaning up their "bloodline." Their family is led by Billy Bob Hackford, who in his madness abducts unsuspecting young women. As a sadistic sport, the family forces the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
inbreeding, pregnant from rape, fight to the death, held captive, sadistic psychopath, incest, kidnapping, captive, captivity, kidnapper, redneck, sadistic killer ...
Place:
kentucky, southern usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, florence
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham. A deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
sadistic psychopath, abuse, locked in a room, captivity, survival horror, playing god, extreme violence, evil doctor, sadistic horror, mad doctor, fear, killing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, violence, blood, sadistic psychopath, psychopath, psycho killer, stranger, murder, masked killer, disturbed individual, unknown killer ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a ...
Style:
bleak, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
rape, violence, serial killer, murder, killing spree, emotional abuse, sadistic psychopath, sex maniac, mental illness, male rape victim, dead body, rape victim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sadism, cruelty, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, maniac, disturbed individual, murder, extreme violence, photograph, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, washington d.c.
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37K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Style:
art house, surreal, rough, neurotic, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
customs officer, sadistic psychopath, father daughter relationship, troll, sex scene, sexuality, childhood trauma, border guard, norse mythology, supernatural horror, body horror, forest ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, central europe, finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A diabolical woman runs a dangerous brothel for missing girls.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, disturbing, bleak, suspense
Plot:
kidnapping, sexploitation, missing girl, exploitation, brothel, missing person, kidnapped, violence, drug, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, sadistic, anime, controversial ...
Plot:
maid, violence, punishment, abuse, torture, sadistic horror, sadistic violence, sadistic psychopath, teenage girl, sexual abuse, body horror, sadism ...
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218K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of connections to occult practices, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless ...
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, dread, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, occult, sociopath, sadistic psychopath, fbi, satanism, black magic, devil worship, supernatural horror, murder, female investigator, crime spree ...
Time:
year 1974, 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1995 ...
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six college kids find internet stardom when they make "Truth or Dare" videos with a violent twist. It is all fun and games until their number one fan decides he wants to play by his own rules.
Style:
splatter, scary, psychotronic, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
obsessed fan, serial killer, sick, isolated house, torture, faked death, psychopath, revenge, murder, brutality, characters in danger, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A knife-wielding sexual deviant targets two beautiful sisters.He begins frantic night of abuse and humiliation with the older one after she getting back home.The innocent older sister doesn't know that he had broken into their apartment and had ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, terrifying, bloody
Plot:
home invasion, confined, japanese woman, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, violence, sexualized violence, graphic violence, stalker, mentally unstable, extreme, serial killer ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
slasher, creepy, suspense, visually stunning, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, nude girl, female nudity, torture, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, evil man, masked villain ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mona Lisa, a young woman with psychokinetic powers, breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she slips easily into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
sadistic psychopath, superpower, female protagonist, escape, female psychopath, mentally unstable, socially awkward, supernatural power, psycho, on the lam, mental illness, psychopath ...
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
woods, psychopath, rape and revenge, dark humor, serial killer, rape, murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, redneck, backwoods, revenge ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, chicago, new york, beverly hills
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who ...
Style:
psychological, tension, mysterious, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
psychological abuse, call center, trapped in a building, fear, sadistic psychopath, sadist, trauma, insane, sexual humiliation, sexual torture, terror, torture ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a poor countryside in the Southwest region in the 1990s, That Son Tam Linh tells the story in which the central character is a scholar with an ambitious and cruel ambition. Mindful of possessing mysterious powers, he did not hesitate to hand ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
sex maniac, serial killer, sadistic psychopath, murder victim, crime spree, society, murder investigation, violence, cold blooded murder, vengeance, mystery killer, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam
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203K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
religious cult, religious leader, female protagonist, community, forest, cult leader, brutality, teenage sexuality, polygamy, woman, menstruation, coming of age ...
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43K
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, scary, sadistic, bloody ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, obsession, murder, mental illness, violence, insanity, sadism, brutality, childhood trauma, torture, violence spree ...
Time:
80s, year 2012, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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687K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style:
scary, suspense, spooky, horrifying, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, coming of age, fear, small town, monster, evil clown, stephen king, villain, missing person, murderer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1988, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
maine
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144K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, group of friends, torture, murder, violence, small town, gory, brutality, ghost town, wax museum, masked man ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, florida, louisiana, new york, paris france
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style:
psychological, bleak, rough, serious, sadistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sadism, murder, sexual abuse, rape victim, sexual perversion, rape, teenage rape, maniac, hostage, sexual torture, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 1829, Claire, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named ...
Style:
suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, controversial, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
revenge, aborigine, female protagonist, rape, murder, brutality, racial prejudice, racism, manhunt, wife raped, colonization, turning the tables ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2019, 1820s, georgian era
Place:
australia, tasmania, ireland, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
disturbing, bloody, dark, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, adult
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, violent, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, murderer, brutality ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary, humorous, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, brutality, macabre, rape, violent, found footage, gory, satire, sadistic psychopath, visceral, art, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four American best friends decide to take the back roads travelling to a wedding in England, on their way a deadly secret forces the girls to be...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
road trip, masked killer, wedding dress, possessed, friendship, murder, travel, revenge, death, serial killer, blood, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, erotica, strangulation, interracial lesbian sex, voyeur, strangled to death, murder, voyeurism, male nudity, bisexual, threesome ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, 70s, year 1972
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A young girl is kidnapped by a mysterious figure, and then taken to a cabin in the forest. The kidnapper, his face hidden under a hood, then pushes the girl to escape. He catches up, however, after a few hours fixes her up before letting her escape ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
teenage girl, manhunt, trap, japanese schoolgirl, brutality, violence, female victim, homicidal maniac, sadistic killer, murderer, chase, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
Style:
medical horror, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
psycho killer, medical, psychopath, voyeurism, dentist, voyeur, murder, infidelity, serial killer, graphic violence, adultery, victim ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, beverly hills
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