Top Results for Paranoia

"The Conversation" is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The plot centers on Harry Caul, a paranoid surveillance expert in San Francisco who becomes morally conflicted after recording a potentially violent conversation. Starring Gene...

Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 American horror novel about Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who moves into a Manhattan apartment with her husband and becomes suspicious of the people around her pregnancy. The novel combines domestic realism with supernatural horror, using isolation, manipula...

Michael Clayton is a 2007 legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney as a 'fixer' at a prestigious New York law firm. The film follows Clayton as he deals with a crisis involving a senior litigator (Tom Wilkinson) who suffers a breakdown while defending a contro...

The Wailing is a 2016 South Korean film directed by Na Hong-jin. It follows Jong-goo, a police officer in a rural village, as he investigates a series of violent incidents and a mysterious illness that begins after the arrival of a stranger. The film combines police investigation, supernatural horro...

Caché (released in English as Hidden) is a 2005 French psychological thriller directed by Michael Haneke and starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. The film follows a bourgeois Parisian family that receives anonymous surveillance tapes documenting their home, a campaign that gradually exposes...

'Blow Out' is a 1981 thriller directed by Brian De Palma, starring John Travolta as Jack Terry, a sound effects technician who accidentally records audio evidence of what appears to be a political assassination while gathering sounds for a low-budget horror film. The film co-stars Nancy Allen as Sal...

The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 postmodern novella by American author Thomas Pynchon. The plot centers on Oedipa Maas, a woman in California who is named co-executor of her ex-lover's estate. As she investigates his assets, she uncovers a centuries-old underground postal conspiracy known as the Trist...

The X-Files is an American science-fiction television series created by Chris Carter and first broadcast in 1993. FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, who believes in extraterrestrial and paranormal phenomena, investigates unsolved cases known as X-Files with Dana Scully, a physician and skeptical FBI agen...

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic psychological thriller film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who died shortly before its release. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a married couple, the narrative follows a doctor's nocturnal explorations after learning of his wife's fantasies. The fi...

John Carpenter's *The Thing* is a masterclass in paranoia and practical effects. Set in a remote Antarctic research station, the film follows a group of scientists who encounter a shape-shifting alien that can perfectly mimic any living organism. The films relentless suspense, fueled by the uncertai...

The Witch (stylized as The VVitch) is a 2015 period psychological horror film and the directorial debut of Robert Eggers. Set in 1630s New England, it follows a Puritan family banished to the edge of a wilderness, where isolated suspicions, religious fervor, and supernatural occurrences destroy them...

Philip K. Dick’s Ubik explores themes of altered perception and existential dread through a narrative set in a decaying future. The novel depicts a corporation’s desperate attempts to maintain control amidst escalating reality distortions. It is notable for its intricate plotting and challenging exp...

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty as a journalist investigating a secretive corporation. The film explores a vast conspiracy surrounding political assassinations, reflecting the profound paranoia and institutional skepticism...

"Take Shelter" is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Jeff Nichols, starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The plot follows a young father who experiences terrifying apocalyptic visions and obsessively builds a storm shelter to protect his family. It is intend...

The Stepford Wives is a 1972 novel by American writer Ira Levin that combines suburban satire with psychological suspense and horror. Joanna Eberhart moves with her husband and children to Stepford, Connecticut, where she becomes suspicious of the town's unusually compliant wives and of the men who...

It Follows is a 2014 American psychological horror film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. The film follows a young woman, played by Maika Monroe, who is pursued by a relentless, supernatural entity transmitted through intimate encounters. Distinguished by its eerie electronic score and...

"Three Days of the Condor" is a 1975 American political thriller directed by Sydney Pollack and based on James Grady's novel "Six Days of the Condor." The film stars Robert Redford as Joe Turner, a CIA intelligence researcher who returns from lunch to discover his entire station has been assassinate...

The Tenant is a 1976 psychological horror film directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with a screenplay by Polanski and Gérard Brach based on Roland Topor's novel Le Locataire chimérique. Polanski plays Trelkovsky, a man who rents an apartment in Paris and becomes fixated on its previous tenant, w...

'Pi' is the 1998 directorial debut of Darren Aronofsky, an American psychological thriller shot in high-contrast black-and-white. The film follows Max Cohen, a paranoid mathematician obsessed with finding patterns in numbers, particularly in the stock market and the mathematical constant π. It won t...

The Game is a 1997 American psychological thriller directed by David Fincher. The narrative follows Nicholas Van Orton, a wealthy and emotionally distant San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday gift from his estranged brother: participation in a mysterious, personalized live...

Cutter's Way is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller directed by Ivan Passer, based on Newton Thornburg's novel Cutter and Bone. The film stars Jeff Bridges as a cynical yacht salesman and John Heard as a volatile, embittered Vietnam War veteran who become convinced that a local tycoon committed a murd...

Enemy is a 2013 psychological drama thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve, loosely adapted from the José Saramago novel The Double. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a complex dual role as a mild-mannered history professor and his exact physical double, a struggling actor. As the professor tracks do...

The Push is a psychological thriller novel written by Ashley Audrain and published in 2020. The narrative follows a woman named Blythe Connor as she navigates motherhood and grapples with the suspicion that her young daughter exhibits disturbing, dangerous behavior. The book employs an unreliable na...

The Invitation is a 2015 American psychological thriller film directed by Karyn Kusama. The plot centers on a man attending a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new husband in the Hollywood Hills, where he gradually becomes convinced that the hosts have sinister intentions for their guests....

The Puppet Masters is a science fiction novel written by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1951. The narrative follows a secret American government agency tasked with combating slug-like, parasitic aliens who attach themselves to human hosts to control their minds. The book is an early example...

The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller directed by Sydney Pollack, based on the 1991 bestselling novel by John Grisham. The film stars Tom Cruise as Mitchell McDeere, a young Harvard Law School graduate recruited by a prestigious Memphis law firm that is secretly controlled by a Chicago crime fa...

Before I Go to Sleep is the debut novel by British author S.J. Watson, published in 2011. The story follows Christine Lucas, a woman who suffers from profound amnesia that erases her memories each time she sleeps, leaving her to reconstruct her life daily with the help of a journal and her doctor. T...

Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film marking the feature debut of writer-director Rose Glass. It stars Morfydd Clark as Maud, a hospice nurse whose intense Catholic devotion leads her to believe she must save the soul of her terminally ill patient. The film was distributed by A24 a...

Rojo is a 2018 Argentine drama and political thriller film written and directed by Benjamín Naishtat. Set in an Argentine province during the period leading up to the 1976 military coup d'état, the narrative follows a prominent lawyer whose life unravels after a violent encounter with a stranger. Th...