Every psychological thriller movie streaming on MUBI in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against MUBI’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MUBI US
Directed by Lars von Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDogville's relentless moral degradation unfolds through theatrical staging, forcing viewers to witness complicity without visual escape.
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMonster constructs unreliable perspective through contradictory testimonies, questioning whether maternal instinct blinds or clarifies truth.
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Beasts weaponizes rural isolation and class resentment, building dread through slow-burn inevitability of civilized facades crumbling.
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRamsay's fractured chronology forces maternal gaslighting upon viewers, making memory unreliable as culpability.
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBurning's glacial pacing and narrative ambiguity transform obsession into a philosophical minefield about projection and masculine certainty.
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.
Directed by Park Chan-wook
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDetective's romantic obsession contaminates investigation; subjective desire corrupts objective truth-seeking.
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.
Directed by Christian Petzold
✦ MovieMuse AI takePhoenix's identity-swap twist operates as cruel psychological anatomy—exploring how recognition and desire can weaponize trauma.
German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.
Directed by Coralie Fargeat
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Substance splits consciousness across bodies, visualizing vanity's psychological dissociation through body horror as metaphor.
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Directed by Víctor Erice
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClose Your Eyes blurs investigation with performance, questioning whether reconstructed memory is truth or collaborative fiction.
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYannick fractures reality through metatheatrical disruption, collapsing performer and performance until psychology becomes indistinguishable from art.
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Directed by Joachim Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film conflates neurological malfunction with supernatural manifestation, leaving viewers unable to trust clinical diagnosis or supernatural explanation.
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
Directed by Jennifer Kent
✦ MovieMuse AI takeManifestation ambiguity: grief-spawned entity or maternal psychosis? Ambiguity IS the terror.
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Holy Girl braids sexuality and spirituality into psychological vertigo, where faith becomes apparatus for repressed desire.
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
Directed by Sebastián Silva
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRotting in the Sun anatomizes creative parasitism through escalating manipulation, exposing ego's vulnerability to seduction.
A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.
Directed by Alex Russell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLurker traces parasocial delusion with precision, showing obsession calcify from admiration into predatory boundary dissolution.
When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
Directed by Lars von Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Element of Crime employs dreamlike expressionism to interrogate detective psychology—truth dissolves under surreal interrogation.
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
Directed by Ira Sachs
✦ MovieMuse AI takePassages weaponizes infidelity as psychological archaeology, exposing how identity shatters under sudden erotic reorientation.
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
Directed by Piotr Szulkin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGolem's amnesia-interrogation structure weaponizes unreliable memory itself, making the witness as guilty as the accused.
Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven.
Directed by Lars von Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAntichrist weaponizes grief and isolation to manifest psychological destruction as literal natural horror.
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
✦ MovieMuse AI takePica becomes visual manifestation of control, each swallowed object a rebellion that horrifies more than violence ever could.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Directed by Magnus von Horn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSweat examines social-media celebrity through unblinking surveillance, dissecting performance addiction and its psychological toll.
Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, whose presence on social media has made her a celebrity. Although she has hundreds of thousands of followers, is surrounded by loyal employees and admired by acquaintances, she is looking for true intimacy.
Directed by Vincent Grashaw
✦ MovieMuse AI takeColdwater's institutional lens reveals how trauma fractures identity within systems designed to contain rather than heal.
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Directed by Curtis Harrington
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNight Tide sustains ambiguity through uncanny doubt—is she supernatural or is he projecting psychological obsession onto mystery?
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.
Directed by Christopher Andrews
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBring Them Down escalates rural grievance into psychological warfare, where economic anxiety breeds irrational vendetta.
When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.
Directed by Mathieu Amalric
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Blue Room traps lovers in escalating paranoia, collapsing seduction and murder into psychological inevitability.
In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?
Directed by Josephine Decker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMadeline's Madeline explores predatory mentorship through physical theater, visualizing psychological manipulation as artistic absorption.
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Directed by Sean Durkin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Nest chronicles masculine ego's slow collapse, weaponizing class anxiety and financial pressure into psychological unraveling.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Directed by Gaspar Noé
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLux Æterna collapses fiction and reality through fractured production, making meta-chaos the thriller's actual subject.
Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.
Directed by Antoine Barraud
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMadeleine Collins' dual-life architecture builds dread through compartmentalization's inevitable psychological collapse and self-betrayal.
Judith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance, made up of lies, secrets and back and forth, cracks dangerously. Trapped, Judith chooses to head forward, at the risk of losing everything.
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnvironmental idealism metastasizes into shared psychosis—moral certainty dissolves into mutual psychological collapse.
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
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