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Psychological horror films, 1990s and 2000s

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The Machinist

The Machinist (2004) is a psychological thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Scott Kosar, starring Christian Bale as insomniac machinist Trevor Reznik; Bale lost 63 pounds for the role, filmed in Barcelona, grossed $8.2M.

The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, adapted from Thomas Harris's novel; it swept the 1992 Big Five Oscars and is the only horror film to win Best Picture.

The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment as a child psychologist and a boy who sees dead people.

The Uninvited (2009 film)

The Uninvited (2009) is an American psychological horror thriller directed by Charles and Thomas Guard, a remake of Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters, starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, and David Strathairn; released January 30, 2009, grossing $28.6M.

Thesis (1996 film)

Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish thriller, Alejandro Amenábar's debut feature, starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, and Eduardo Noriega; a film student finds a snuff movie and wins seven Goyas.

Three: Going Home

Three: Going Home (三更之回家) is Peter Chan's 2002 Hong Kong segment of the pan-Asian horror anthology Three, in which Leon Lai's herbalist preserves his dead wife's body for three years; it won Golden Horse Best Actor and HKFA Best New Performer.

Triangle (2009 British film)

Triangle is a 2009 British-Australian psychological horror film directed by Christopher Smith, in which Melissa George and friends board a ship and become trapped in a time loop.

Trouble Every Day

Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis's 2001 French horror-romance film (also a France-Japan-Germany co-production), premiered out of competition at Cannes 2001, stars Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, and Tricia Vessey, with music by Tindersticks.

Yavarum Nalam (யாவரும் நலம்)

Yavarum Nalam (யாவரும் நலம்), aka 13B: Fear Has a New Address, is a 2009 Tamil-Hindi bilingual horror thriller by Vikram K. Kumar starring R. Madhavan, about a TV serial mirroring a family's life.