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10 Best Movies like Shutter Island

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Hey, fans welcome back. This post is for you if you love Shutter Island. Enthusiasts who like a psychological thriller will love this list definitely.

Shutter Island makes one guessing till the end and leaves in shock and surprise with its plot.

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

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Memento (2000)

The film’s script was based on a pitch by Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the 2001 story “Memento Mori” from the concept. Guy Pearce suffers from a man who, anterograde amnesia and has short-term memory loss almost every fifteen minutes. He is rummaging for the people who attacked him and killed his wife, using Polaroid photographs and tattoos to trail evidence he cannot remember.

Prestige (2006)

This mystery and thriller combo is quite dire and alarming. Check the plot to know more.

Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry, they make sacrifices that bring them fame but with terrible consequences.

Fight Club (1999)

Get ready to fight!! An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.

The Fountain (2006)

The Foundation combines many genres like fantasy, romance, science, and history. Jackman and Weisz playsets of characters bonded by love across time and space and a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, and a traveler immersed in a universal journey alongside aspects of his lost love.

Inception (2010)

Leonardo Di Caprio fans will love this. science fiction action film was written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas.

Cobb steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. Saito offers to wipe clean Cobb’s criminal history as payment for performing inception on his sick competitor’s son.

Source Code (2011)

Story with all the elements like mystery, action, murder, sci-fi and drama at one place.

A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body and discovers he’s part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

The Game (1997)

The Game was well received by critics like Roger Ebert and major periodicals like The New York Times

After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality.

Donnie Darko (2001)

The psychological thriller deals with teenage troubles and verve.

Donnie Darko, an awkward teenager, befriends Frank, a figure in a bunny costume only he can see, who informs Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.

An American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.

Primer (2004)

A power-packed combination of drama, thriller and mystery.

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there’s something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they’ve built, wrestle over their new invention.


Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

A psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starringg Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiello.

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

eXistenZ (1999)

The plot of the film follows a game designer named Allegra Geller, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, who finds herself targeted by assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her creation. 

American Psycho (2000)

American Psycho is adapted from a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. Fasten your seat belts for this thrilling and dramatical ride.

A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

Black Swan (2010)

Black Swan is a horror cum thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky.

The plot goes like this, Nina, a ballerina, gets the chance to play the White Swan, Princess Odette. But she finds herself slipping into madness when Thomas, the artistic director, decides that Lily might fit the role better.