The 10 Best International Psychological Thrillers, Ranked

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. IMDb RATING 8.0/10 

Perfect Blue' (1997) 

'The Lives of Others' (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.  IMDb RATING 8.4/10

'Caché' (2006)

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. IMDb RATING 7.3/10

'Funny Games' (1997)

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. IMDb RATING 7.5/10 

I Saw the Devil (1997)

A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases. IMDb RATING 7.8/10  

'Cure' (1997)

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.  IMDb RATING 7.5/10 

The Vanishing (1988)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor. IMDb RATING 7.7/10  

'Diabolique' (1955)

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plans to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.  IMDb RATING 8.1/10  

'Oldboy' (2003)

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.  IMDb RATING 8.3/10 

'Parasite' (2019)

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.  IMDb RATING 8.5/10