Psychological Horror Films on Netflix

When a larcenous real estate clerk goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel.

Year: 1960
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 879522 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Jack Torrance descends into madness -- terrorizing his wife and young son -- after living at a deserted and eerie hotel during its off season.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:59:38
Netflix ID: 959008 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a former criminal psychiatrist discovers that a patient holds a secret that threatens his family, he must resort to extreme measures to save them.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.3
Runtime: 02:10:24
Netflix ID: 81254866 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman is thrilled to find out she's pregnant. But as her belly grows, the more certain she becomes that her unborn child is in serious danger.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:16:44
Netflix ID: 60002403 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Keanu Reeves stars as a young attorney recruited to the firm of a charismatic lawyer, whose strange behavior gradually reveals a sinister intent.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:23:51
Netflix ID: 1181732 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detective Takabe struggles to solve a group of unexplained murders, and so far, the only link that seems to exist among the crimes involves a wound in the shape of an X on the throats of all victims.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:51:19
Netflix ID: 60033773 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Clueless as to how they got there or why they were chosen, six people are caught in a maze of interlocking cubes with no apparent way out.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:30:23
Netflix ID: 60027486 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Former FBI agent Will Graham must turn to his old enemy, the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, to help him catch a new serial killer.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:04:24
Netflix ID: 60024908 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mother struggles against mysterious forces threatening her young daughter. But the greatest danger may be the terrible truth.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:21:25
Netflix ID: 81411281 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A grieving woman accompanies her boyfriend and his grad-school colleagues to a remote Swedish village that isn't the idyllic commune it appears to be.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 02:26:56
Netflix ID: 81071055 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sam's frequent tantrums turn sinister when a creepy children's book mysteriously appears in his room, and he asks his mother, 'Do you want to die?'

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:33:46
Netflix ID: 70300205 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Ahead of her wedding, Kübra is possessed by demons. When an examination reveals more horror, her friend, a psychiatrist, tries to perform an exorcism.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 02:14:43
Netflix ID: 81043541 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On an island, a fisherman's family faces horrors and dark truths when an ominous force begins killing the wildlife and puts their own lives in danger.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:39:02
Netflix ID: 81354464 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An international search for a rare copy of a book brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 02:13:14
Netflix ID: 60000200 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Following their mother's death, four siblings band together to guard the family's secrets and fight the malevolent spirit looking to separate them.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:50:32
Netflix ID: 80209994 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Desiring freedom after years of isolated medical care, teenager Chloe suspects her mother might be holding her back — and harboring sinister secrets.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:29:59
Netflix ID: 81157374 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seiji Hasumi is a popular teacher who has a gift for dealing with students' problems, but beneath that facade lies a sociopathic killer.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:09:02
Netflix ID: 70285592 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The private life of a poet and his wife ruptures at the seams when uninvited strangers begin to visit their tranquil, isolated home.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:01:17
Netflix ID: 80185763 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:56:04
Netflix ID: 81179841 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Now young adults, sibs Tim and Kaylie are still trying to recover from -- and get to the bottom of -- their parents' deaths more than a decade ago.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:44:04
Netflix ID: 70293316 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A reporter is plunged into a world of terror when he arrives in a town plagued by a mysterious winged shape that sows nightmares and fevered visions.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:58:47
Netflix ID: 60022262 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Years after a brutal assault, a horror author reunites with her mother and sister at the house where it occurred. Then the nightmare really begins.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:31:14
Netflix ID: 81004676 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After serving a decades-long prison sentence, Mi-hee returns to the home where her husband died and her son vanished 25 years ago.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:39:38
Netflix ID: 80201299 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Six strangers use their wits to survive a series of deadly mystery rooms that cater to their worst fears -- or die trying.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:39:36
Netflix ID: 81001691 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detective Bowden must save five people trapped in an elevator and he has to do it fast, because one of them is the devil.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:20:18
Netflix ID: 70142822 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Director Peter Webber takes on the myth of Hannibal Lecter in this terrifying prequel that traces the murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:01:11
Netflix ID: 70035195 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his wife begins to exhibit alarming behavior, a husband tries to find whether she suffers from a personality disorder or something more sinister.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6
Runtime: 01:59:08
Netflix ID: 81035107 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A misfit teenager gets back at the classmates who've bullied her by unleashing her newfound supernatural powers and creating havoc at the prom.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:39:40
Netflix ID: 70251537 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An injured office worker is befriended by a kind nurse who becomes her roommate, but the nurse's behavior quickly becomes strange, then deadly.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:50:12
Netflix ID: 80065330 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hoping to find answers to her estranged father's mysterious illness, a young woman visits his old villa and uncovers a horrifying truth from the past.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:50:32
Netflix ID: 81030893 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of twentysomethings are pulled into a lethal online game after logging onto a stolen laptop.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:32:53
Netflix ID: 80998510 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:45:17
Netflix ID: 80109295 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman realizes the love letters she's been receiving in error are addressed to a stalking victim whose killer has never been caught.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:34:12
Netflix ID: 80196371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A loner working in an animal shelter kidnaps and cages the woman he's obsessed with, but she's far from the docile pet he hoped she'd be.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:33:54
Netflix ID: 80105186 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After joining the cast of an acclaimed director's new experimental project in an abandoned asylum, actress Bianca begins having terrifying visions.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:46:08
Netflix ID: 80205435 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teen's eerie visions become increasingly frequent and terrifying after her longtime friend gets a girlfriend and his abusive dad is strangely killed.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 4.8
Runtime: 01:27:32
Netflix ID: 80239629 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a student's suicide rattles an all-girls Catholic school, a clairvoyant guidance counselor leans on a ghost to uncover the convent's abusive past.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 4.7
Runtime: 01:40:06
Netflix ID: 81028404 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this remake of the 1960s classic, Marion Crane stops at the Bates Motel, only to encounter Norman Bates, a man with a lot of secrets to hide.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 4.6
Runtime: 01:43:37
Netflix ID: 18170356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three college students move into an off-campus house and discover they've unwittingly unleashed a supernatural killer known as the Bye Bye Man.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 4.2
Runtime: 01:35:59
Netflix ID: 80103336 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters a sinister guest and romances a mysterious waitress.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 2.4
Runtime: 01:21:09
Netflix ID: 80990348 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Trapped in an empty building, nine people are forced to play a lethal game. All their movements will be recorded, and only one player can survive.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:30:59
Netflix ID: 81021832 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb