Paranoia movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant paranoia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, psychological thriller, weird, dark, mindfuck and intense films and TV shows about / with paranoia, twists and turns, storytelling, psychology, plot twist, insanity, obsession, paranoid, macabre and blood plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Japan, Hungary and other countries.
paranoia movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as paranoia: Woodshock (2017), Coherence (2013), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Taxi Driver (1976), Disturbia (2007), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Get Out (2017), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Proof (2005), Mr. Robot (2015).

List of paranoia movies

 4.2
 3K
Woodshock (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: paranoia, depression, mental illness, death of mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, guilt, drug, mental disorder, woman, blonde, murderer ...
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 7.2
 170K
Coherence (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style: psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, cerebral, confusing ...
Plot: twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel world, parallel universe, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, friends, paranoia, paradox, isolation, dinner party ...
Time: near future, year 2013, future, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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 8.0
 676K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot: time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
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 8.2
 1.0M
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 6.8
 273K
Disturbia (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style: suspense, psychological, teen, intense, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, murder, neighbor, paranoia, house arrest, voyeurism, homicidal maniac, loneliness, death, investigation, kidnapping, voyeur ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.4
 128K
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style: twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time: year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.8
 804K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: twist ending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, brainwashing, interracial romance, kidnapping, paranoia, survival, female villain, african american, revenge, african american protagonist, neurosurgeon ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, southern usa, indiana, new york
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.6
 48K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, sexy, serious ...
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, prodigy, insanity, paranoia, university, notebook, campus, illness, schizophrenia, manic, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin, london
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 8.5
 461K
Mr. Robot (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computers and web, conspiracy, psychotherapy, fighting the system, conspiracy theory, split personality, secret society, introvert, hallucination ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, indiana
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 6.1
 33K
Open Grave (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: woods, suspicion, losing-it hero, life turned upside down, murder mystery, corpse, zombie, infection, paranoia, virus, lost in the woods, cabin in the woods ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada
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 8.0
 882K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 8.2
 520K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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 6.5
 53K
Time Lapse (2014)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Style: twist ending, psychological, cerebral, intellectual, confusing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, parallel universe, time loop, twists and turns, murder, paranoia, blackmail, time, party ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2014, near future
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 7.7
 665K
Zodiac (2007)
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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 7.3
 192K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 8.0
 256K
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style: psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
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 7.3
 115K
Take Shelter (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style: psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place: ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
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 6.5
 220K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot: psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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 7.6
 439K
The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, persia, los angeles
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 7.1
 328K
Don't Breathe (2016)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, twist ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, trapped, kidnapping, blind man, murder, breaking and entering, twists and turns, survival, blindness, psychopath, violence, paranoia ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, california, detroit
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 8.2
 1.6M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place: iran, persia, america, boston
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 7.3
 615K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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 7.6
 219K
The Birds (1963)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. ...
Style: classic horror, dark, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: bird, bird attack, disaster, paranoia, animal attack, killer animal, small town, lawyer, unsolved mystery, seagull, teacher, creature feature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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 6.9
 236K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 7.5
 51K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, creepy ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, nightmare, satire, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, apartment building, loner, dream, landlord tenant relationship, mental illness ...
Time: year 1976, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.1
 40K
Bug (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style: psychological, cult classic, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: insanity, paranoia, obsession, losing-it hero, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, conspiracy theory, addiction, schizophrenia, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa, louisiana
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 8.2
 1.4M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, video surveillance, alternate reality, fictional reality show, dystopia, freedom, hidden camera, utopia, paranoia, consciousness, loneliness ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa, los angeles
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