Five exciting psychological thrillers: what to watch this weekend

Anxious anticipation, uncertainty, excitement, fear, twisted plots and fantastic acting - all this awaits fans of psychological thrillers. UNN offers a selection of movies to watch this weekend.

Nocturnal Animals 2016 - the film unfolds like a novel within a novel, a story about a woman named Susan who receives a manuscript of a book from her ex-husband, whom she divorced 20 years ago. He would like to meet her, but first he asks her to read his new novel. Susan does not realize that as soon as she opens the manuscript, she will return to a past she has kept well hidden.

- Genre: Movie, Drama, Thriller

- Country: USA

- Director: Tom Ford

- Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney.

The Joker 2019 - the events in the film revolve around a failed stand-up comedian Arthur Fleck, who lives with his sick mother Penny Fleck and suffers from a rare mental illness that causes him to have bouts of uncontrollable laughter. When the host of a popular talk show, Murray Franklin, publicly mocks Fleck on television and his mother is hospitalized, the comedian no longer wants to make people laugh with his performances. Putting on ugly face makeup and adopting the pseudonym The Joker, he sets himself the main goal of making everyone around him suffer.

- Genre: Film, Drama, Thriller, Crime

- Country: USA, Canada

- Director: Todd Phillips

- Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Francis Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shay Wickham, Bill Camp, Glenn Flescher, Lee Hill, Josh Pace, Rocco Luna.

Anatomy of a Fall 2023 - according to the plot of the film, visually impaired 11-year-old Daniel finds the dead body of his father Samuel in the snow. The investigation leads to the conclusion of a "suspicious death": it is impossible to say for sure whether the man committed suicide or was murdered. The main suspect in the man's murder is his wife and Daniel's mother, a successful German writer Sandra. Daniel is forced to attend his mother's trial, which reveals not only details about Samuel and Sandra's family life, but also explores social prejudice.

- Genre: Film, Drama, Thriller, Crime

- Country: France

- Director: Justine Troyes

- Cast: Sandra Güller, Swann Arlo, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jenny Beth, Saadia Bentayeb, Camille Rutherford.

Fresh 2022 - A young girl Noah is pathologically unlucky in relationships, desperate to find a suitable partner. Until one day in the grocery store, Noa meets the attractive Steve and decides to give him her phone number. After their first date, she's smitten and accepts Steve's invitation for a romantic weekend getaway, only to discover that her new lover harbors some unusual tendencies.

- Genre: Movie, Horror, Thriller

- Country: USA

- Director: Mimi Cave

- Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi, Charlotte Le Bon, Brett Dyer, Alina Maris, William Bello.

The Illusion of Safety (Leave the World Behind) 2023 - A couple with two children rents a luxury house with a swimming pool on the coast near New York City for the weekend. Their pleasant pastime is suddenly interrupted by strange occurrences. First, the television signal goes out, then the cell phone and Internet service are disconnected. And in the middle of the night, the owner of the house with his daughter appears on the doorstep and asks to let them spend the night, as there was a massive power outage in New York due to a mysterious cyberattack. Obviously, something is going on, but no one understands what it is.

- Genre: Movie, Drama, Thriller

- Country: USA

- Director: Sam Esmail

- Cast: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Maiga'la Herrold, Farrah McKenzie, Charlie Evans, Kevin Bacon, Alexis Ray Forlenza.